Okay, I'm gonna need some help here.

[conuly]

It's like banging my head against a wall, but more painful. And if I'm going to keep wasting my time on this futile effort, I could at least get a little company there.

I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?

HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.

Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...

WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.

It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)

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[conuly]

I'm, uh, not black. I'm at least 50% guaranteed white (that's the first/second generation immigrant half) and the other 50% is I strongly doubt I have any African-American ancestry at all, and would be surprised to hear otherwise (that's the DAR half).

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

My apologies; I am not up on the current usage and don't mean to mislabel or disrespect you; also I'm not recalling if I've seen an actual picture of you, or if I've only seen pics of your nieces and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Aren't they considered 'black'? They're certainly what was considered 'black' in Brooklyn the last time I was there, but that was pretty long ago. It occurs to me now that their Dad is black but not their Mom?

Anyway, sorry; so-clueless me.

[conuly]

They're biracial, yes, their dad is black and their mom is not.

I'd assume most people would view them as black, but I don't go around conducting polls on the subject. And of course I don't know how they'll view themselves when they're grown.

And it's not being rude or disrespectful or anything, but I don't want to misrepresent myself. I'd be actually astonished to find out I had any non-white ancestry, you know? It's possible, I guess (although I know that the work of tracking down my father's family tree has already been done, if I care to look it up), but it seems extremely unlikely, and even if I did find out "Wow, I do have one non-white great great great great great great great...." I certainly wouldn't change how I identify myself. That'd be a little weird.