Tarik Sultan
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Actually Tarik, as an outsider I'm often surprised at people from the US who identify as black and I look and say what?? But with you, yeah, I guess you'll pass - your skin does look dusky and I'll take your word that you aren't Greek or something.![]()
All joking aside, yes our racial classification system is ridiculous and confuses the hell out of people in other parts of the world. In the States, if you have even one African ancestor, you are considered 100% black. That means You could look like a Scandinavian, but if your great great grand mother was a black woman, so are you. HOWEVER, if you are born in the Middle East, then no matter how black you are, you're classified white. There was a very controversial case of a Nubian man named Mustafa Henefy who sued because he was forced to categorize himself as white or face penalties. It seems he had applied for a job and, being a Nubian checked the box BLACK that asked for race. After he got the job, he was contacted by personnel that he misrepresented himself and was now facing penalties. Question I always ask: Why do we need such categories in the first place? And who is making the rules of what is what?