I am profoundly tired of the whole race thing. Now I admit I am an old fart and remember the civil rights effort - which my parents and my father's parents were heavily involved in (I was in school at the time) . But I work in tech and lived in neighborhoods with very high levels of educated immigrants. There are a lot of South Indian immigrants who are a lot darker than many 'black' US born individuals. And some of the African immigrants make many 'black" Americans look 'white' in comparison. My niece's husband is more Mexican than black, and my sub-sarahan ancestor is 10 generations back (says 23 and me, along with a bunch remote admixtures), so my preferred description of my ancestry is American mongrel, although I am well with the population physical norm for Norway.
We are rapidly heading into a more mixed environment, with the Asian subpopulation mixing with the 'white' population particularily rapidly.
Class / education is increasingly a much more valuable classifier.
I am profoundly tired of the whole race thing. Now I admit I am an old fart and remember the civil rights effort - which my parents and my father's parents were heavily involved in (I was in school at the time) . But I work in tech and lived in neighborhoods with very high levels of educated immigrants. There are a lot of South Indian immigrants who are a lot darker than many 'black' US born individuals. And some of the African immigrants make many 'black" Americans look 'white' in comparison. My niece's husband is more Mexican than black, and my sub-sarahan ancestor is 10 generations back (says 23 and me, along with a bunch remote admixtures), so my preferred description of my ancestry is American mongrel, although I am well with the population physical norm for Norway.
We are rapidly heading into a more mixed environment, with the Asian subpopulation mixing with the 'white' population particularily rapidly.
Class / education is increasingly a much more valuable classifier.
"Profoundly tired of the whole race thing."
Completely & absolutely correct.
The real question might be: who isn't?