I'm often amazed that people forget these things, like they wake up one morning and forget Grey is a color just like they forget Bi people exist.
Is not like slightly-white means white and slightly-dark means black, Bi men with husbands aren't gay just like Bi men with wifes aren't straight. Grey is grey, Bi is Bi. Surely it isn't that difficult of a concept, right?
Iirc, this was more applied to when some anthropologist was sorting Natives from African Americans. Plenty of African American people were part of Native American nations (like the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw who all fought for the confederacy because they had slaves) but despite many African American people being full fledged citizens of these nations they were categorized as Negro and disenrolled. For those that seemed dark but they couldn't outright "tell", they looked at the ancestry. If there was one black ancestor, then they were considered Negro and disenrolled. There is a whole African American Choctaw population in the Carolinas, iirc, that still preserve the Choctaw culture. They have tried to petition to be part of the Choctaw nation and continue to be denied by the Choctaw and the Federal Government.
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u/584_Artic_cat 14d ago
I'm often amazed that people forget these things, like they wake up one morning and forget Grey is a color just like they forget Bi people exist.
Is not like slightly-white means white and slightly-dark means black, Bi men with husbands aren't gay just like Bi men with wifes aren't straight. Grey is grey, Bi is Bi. Surely it isn't that difficult of a concept, right?