> White folks
I just want to mention that one of the worst aspects of all this is trying to sort people according to (here apparently a binary) label. There is not really such thing as either of these categories - it's stereotyping of the worst kind, and takes us back many generations
Also white is a color and white people are not even white, but pink [1].
After living and working with asians for decades in the Bay area, I have yet to meet a yellow one. To my eye, they're on the same white(pink)-brown-black spectrum as the rest of humanity.
White people are pale to darkly tanned
Natives Americans are brown, not red
Black people are brown, not black, some not even very brown
Indian people are shades of brown too, and yet can be far darker than "black" people.
Japanese people are brown, not yellow
None of the colloquial color terms for races are accurate when you sit down and think about it.
The one time it might have been accurate is redheads are often pale enough to be white, so of course we call them gingers/redheads.
It's all a bit silly.
I think that's a huge and extremely valuable lesson.
That's because there is no such thing as "white" ethnicity. It is a word used to categorize us vs other. This is not my theory, afaik it's a fact. A fact which seems to upset a lot people. Based on previous conversations, it appears to be the most controversial knowledge which I posses.
The generally accepted "white" ethnic groups have changed over time. Irish people were once not "white" in the USA. Neither were Slavic people. These two groups have the some of the lightest colored skin known to man.
No one is white. Some people pass for white.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?psid=85&...
> What is perhaps most striking about Franklin's essay today is his sophisticated use of "social science" data to convince the British ministry to alter its colonial policies. Particularly jarring, however, is Franklin's plea that America be maintained as an entirely Anglo-Saxon society.
*This was probably a few centuries before one would use the word “white” in this context. Too many pale folk who don’t qualify. It was more about calling out ethnicities directly as people still do in Europe.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-da...
"While the distinctions can be complicated, the information is readily available for anyone willing to seek it out. That means reading and having meaningful conversations with people of different races."
Asia is half of earths population, so “Asian” cannot possibly mean anything.
TFA I linked to explicitly addresses this.
Instead of simply saying the reason is 'X' or even providing a link to a resource that explains why. You have linked to an article that can be fairly summarized as "Educate yourself".
This is possible even less helpful than LMGTFY link.
And crucially, provides a reading list for doing so. I posted this understanding that anyone not interested in educating themselves is not going to find prescriptive recommendations for doing so useful.
Give it another decade, and I promise you that BIPOC will be a racial slur. I've just ditched it ahead of time, so I won't have to write apologies about how I "didn't know better back then."