interracial: debunkingoreos. Are you f ing kidding m

inkonsistint (

inkonsistint) wrote in

interracial,
@ 2005-11-29 10:51:00

debunkingoreos. Are you f ing kidding me!! Is it really that bad someone created a community to degrade and ridicule people for being different? Some members in that community find it offensive because someone created a community for people that acknowledge being black and white. Now, that kind of shit is "tragic".

Why is it we deny being black because we acknowledge being both – black and white?

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	nshgrl 2005-11-29 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	I always thought that community wasn't about being mixed, but about not being the stereotypical black person. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	inkonsistint 2005-11-29 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	I read a post in there where someone was talking about another community that is for mixed people and they literally were offended by that community. WTF! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nshgrl 2005-11-29 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	people will find anything to be offended about. I try to ignore it. I mean, geez, there are communities for pro anorexia, pro pedophilia, pro suicide, blah blah blah. I just ignore it and go on with my life. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

arcady0
2005-11-29 07:13 pm UTC (link)

If I am not 'mixed', then what the [***] am I?

As a person who is 25% Chinese, 25% Amazonian Indian, 50% mix of [Portuguese, Cherokee, Crow, Irish, and Scandanavian] to call me anything but mixed would be a joke.

The single-race world view needs to stop trying to deny reality. 'Racial purity'... Not only a dangerous idea from a humanitariajn point of view, but it's a genetic dead end as well - lowering genetic diversity and increasing population vulnerability (If we must throw 'racism' into the mix, I can use the old 'Eugenics' ideology of 'racial purists' against them thanks to modern science). ;)

Give it a few generations, and we of mixed backgrounds will be the norm in many regions. I look around me on the streets of San Francisco and I see mixed couples everywhere - of all varieties of mixes.

Blacks have no more claim over inter-racial people than any other group, and it amazes me that their political leaders seem to be the ones working hardest to deny all of us exist - regardless of our various origins.

The notion in the black community of trying to claim the black-mixed population as theirs only serves to further uphold certain racist claims against them - it upholds the notion that 'blackness' is a stain, and as a stain, any amount of it ruins you from the 'superior' position of some other category.

By contrast of course - casting out people who are mixed indicates its own form of bias... and comparing these two is a different more complex topic.

There is this other notion that races must 'breed pure to preserve cultural identity' - only if you plan to return to 'the old country' and then lock the gates behind you... Otherwise it's a global world, and isolationist views on any aspect of your life are only going to weaken your status.

	inkonsistint 2005-11-29 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	I'm talking about a different post. Most of the people in oreos are teenagers. How is creating a community to ridicule them is helping? The post I'm talking about has nothing to do with being an oreo. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	prosefaces 2005-12-29 07:44 am UTC (link)
	Agreed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	marxis 2005-11-29 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	It's all about environment. (Reply to this)

	marxis 2005-11-29 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	I've always been amused and dismayed by many mixed people at times. Some claim one race over the other(Alicia Keyes comes to mind in a passing thought, no pun intended) or others have a semi-superiority complex due to their duality, as it were. The people who impress me are those who don't even recognize it. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nati_thoughts 2005-11-29 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	people are fucking crazy! thats the only answer (Reply to this)

	littleeva 2005-11-29 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	You know what? The older I get the more I believe that everybody's crazy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	marxis 2005-11-29 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say you're spot on. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	djpekky 2005-11-29 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	My feelings about that community are pretty much mixed. I mean, on one thing, I agree that there should be people who challenge the hating of a stereotype to avoid self-hatredness. There are some posts, however, that smack on too dramatical for my taste. My $0.02 Peace! Pekky (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Correction djpekky 2005-11-29 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	Meant to say "Self-hatred." Peace! Pekky (Reply to this) (Parent)

	inkonsistint 2005-11-29 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Most of those posts have nothing to do with someone being an "oreo". A lot of them are about mixed people. The info page describes someone who think being an "oreo" is better than "whoever". What does being an oreo has to do with being mixed? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	negatewriter 2005-11-30 09:38 am UTC (link)
	That reminds me when a few of them were making jest of me b/c I'm black and in the Goth scene :(. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	inkonsistint 2005-11-30 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	there have been like a thousand posts in there since this post of them trying to justify why that sad community exists and their twisted and sad behavior. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	socialkittn 2005-11-30 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	totally agree. They either call you white washed or an that you act white just because you mention you're mixed. I hate how on some applications you can only pick one, the way I see it...just saying I'm African would leave out my mom and her family completely. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Is it worth it? fatboytroy 2005-12-01 07:07 am UTC (link)
	I'm a white guy that's been reading all this. Maybe I shouldn't date black women, having mixed offspring isn't worth the headache- LOL (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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