Talk:Black people
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Black, White Or Both
This may sound stupid but I have crossed countless people who have called themselves black althought they physically look white. So that made me ask: Can a person who looks white but has black people in their bloodline be labeled “black?” 80.200.150.84 (talk) 11:16, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
- As our article makes entirely clear, 'Blackness' is ultimately a social construct. What constitutes 'looking black' (or 'looking white') varies from place to place, and time to time. It is routinely contested. Attempts to divide humanity with its complex patterns of diversity into simplistic binary categories are rooted in the realms of politics, not science. And to be more specific with regards to your question, there have been contexts where having any 'black people in your bloodline' made you 'black' in the eyes of (white) social norms, regardless of appearance, and regardless of any own personal identification: see the so-called one-drop rule in the United States. 'Appearance' is but a small part of what society constructs its arbitrary racial categories from. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:05, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
- What's the difference of black people and African people 2601:2C3:C77E:F3D0:645C:7CEC:508:FBE9 (talk) 23:58, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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Black also includes the Indigenous people of India as Well as The original Dravidian speakers of india. This is non inclusive and must be changed immediately.
Also need to add the Indigenous People of India and Dravidian people onto the page Under South Asia 2600:1702:3C80:9850:D1AB:E63E:8D0C:454 (talk) 16:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 17:08, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Black as a Social class in South Africa
In 1950, the Apartheid government of South Africa introduced the Population Registration Act No.30 which effectively forced the Xhosa people and other nations organic to the land to be registered under the National Socialist system into either one of four categories, Black, White, Colored and Asian.
This Act effectively alienated the Xhosa people from their collective identity as a nation unto themselves and forced the label "Black African" on them as a social and legal status.
This Act not only alienated the Xhosa from their collective identity but also from their resources and property as well with the implementation of the Black Codes from the 1913 Black's land Act and Groups Areas Act.
This has been the cause of cultural erosion in this community and has prevented the redressing of many injustices that were committed against the Xhosa people. Benjamin knox (talk) 23:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)