Happy Day

Three cheers for the release of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll!! She said that her people were really cool and fed her Oreos and played Twister. It doesn't seem that they were ever planning on chopping her head off, luckily.

But you know I have to have a problem with something, so here it is:

Again, I'm talking about race. I was recently listening in on a conversation between a black woman and a black guy who dated a Cuban female. She wanted to know if he thought she was Black or White. If he saw dating her as dating in his race or outside. He tried to say that everyone of African descent is black to him. He didn't speak specifically to the female in question, but put it out there. Totally fair, but she kept pressing and wasn't satisfied with the answer.

My problem with this line of questioning is that it's just ignorant and narrow minded. Why does everyone have to be black or white? Can't there be others and can't culture count for something? And the point is that this woman was trying to back him into a corner, where he'd lose either way. If you says she's Black to you-sistas will be angry. If you say she's white to you then you're wrong wrong wrong, now you're dating a white woman (in your mind!). Anyone who forces us to put people in one of two categories is setting society back.