Know This!

This video is AMAZING. I watched it and thought, 'Wow, that's my new year's resolution. Learn myself. That's powerful.'

And as I go through the comments, I see one that disturbed me BEYOND belief:

This woman is not a black woman! She is a biracial woman! Black and biracial are not the same thing! One has two black parents and the other doesn’t. With that said, can someone please let me know why she is talking about black women and on black issues??????

What. The. Existential. Hell.

Since when did being biracial mean that you can't speak for a group that makes up your genetic DNA? Since when did being 'half-black' make you a less credible person to speak for blacks as a whole? Let me know when that started, so I can let President Obama know that he's doing it all wrong.

Because just in case you forgot, he's biracial as well.

& I commented back to the girl saying:

@Astutechick the fact that she's biracial doesn't take away the truth that she's speaking in this video, nor does it take away her credibility to speak on behalf of black women. Did her message even sink into you or could you not get past the fact that she's only 'half-black'? If what she's saying is accurate and I can relate to it, then I don't care how 'black' she is. And if you couldn't hear her powerful message because you're too busy analyzing her race, then that's too bad for you.

Seriously. Why is her race more important than the message she's speaking? I don't particularly like the one-drop rule but when I watched this video, I immediately thought she was black because she looked black. I didn't think she's was interracial or anything. And now with this new knowledge of her race, it still doesn't change the message of the video. Or my opinion of the girl speaking. This idiotic belief of girls who are 'half-black' not being able to relate to girls who are 'fully black' is a bunch of BS. Though she is interracial, she is CLEARLY, in this video, identifying with her black side. She has every right to speak about black issues as any other black person, no matter how much 'black' they have in them.

The girl hasn't replied yet. Perhaps she never will. But I'll keep my eye on that video just in case.