What Are You: Academically White or Academically Black?

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An individual, who distinguishes humans not by the colour of their skin but by the strength of their character, surfing the web to assess the evolution towards race will be confronted with the following:

“White people is a term referring to human beings characterised by the light pigmentation of their skin”...“Relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfil other social criteria of ‘whiteness’...”

“Black people are humans of a dark-skinned phenotype”...“Relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfil the social criteria for ‘blackness’ in a particular setting.”

First, I would like to thank Wikipedia for being the vehicle of such academic racist manure. But let’s take a close look at these wonderful theories:

White Vs Black People

If having light pigmentation is what it takes to be white then very light-skinned mulattoes, the Japanese, Koreans, some Chinese, some Indians, some Jews, Persians and some Arabs should naturally be classified as being white as well. If having dark pigmentation is what takes to be black then dark-skinned mulattoes, Sri-Lanka folks, Indians, Amerindians, Vietnamese, Indonesians, some Chinese, Mizrachi Jews, some Portuguese, some Italians, some Greeks, Gypsies, some Arabs etc, should naturally be classified as being black as well.

Comment: it is, in the 21st century, an absurd to hold on to definitions of white and black people (reducing, thus, human diversity to a boring dichotomy). The human canvas is much more colourful than this: it is rosy, brown, light-brown, red-brown, yellow, beige, golden, golden-red, pearl, pearly-brown, pearly-pink, ebony etc.
In my opinion, people should no longer be classified by the pigmentation of their skin, but by their geographic origin.

Whiteness Vs Blackness

By social criteria of “whiteness” scholars surely refer to the so-called “white behaviour”: living in a good neighbourhood, having both parents at home (who have never broken the law and actually have a job), dressing nicely and conducting themselves properly; having a college fund for the children; having health insurance; having a perfect house, a front lawn and being sexually restrained. By social criteria for “blackness” experts must be referring to the so-called “black behaviour”: living in dingy neighbourhoods or even ghettos, being raised by the mother (the father either took off or is doing time in jail), dressing and behaving like a gangster, depending on social security, being a criminal of some sort and being sexually promiscuous.

Comment: this whiteness Vs blackness concept is not only the most racist thing I have ever heard in 34 years of existence, but also the product of racist studies commissioned for political purposes.
If we’d fall into temptation to follow this line of thoughtlessness we could easily conclude that, for example, President Obama and his family are, in fact, white...

In an era when people are mixing themselves more & more and mixed individuals can have fairer skins than many of the so-called “white people” and, bear even lighter-skinned children (or children with skin tones harder to classify), it seems nonsensical to pursue classifying people by the amount of melanin in their skin. People, wake up and smell the coffee of the New World Order!