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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by zozbot234 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:47PM (#27384875)
Whether African immigrants qualify as "truly" Black is actually a very contentious point within Black culture itself, and that's despite widespread solidarity with Africa and Pan-African ideals. This makes 100% sense if you regard this U.S. notion of "race" as a pure social construct, something not dependent on any fixed set of physical traits or purported ancestry.
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Re:Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post... by throwaway894345 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:10PM (#27385178)
Within American culture, it’s not contentious that dark-skinned African people are “black”, certainly no less so when they immigrate to the US. But that’s race.

There is also a distinct notion of “black culture” which is a subset of American culture (people who identify with black culture also tend to be racially black, but not every racially black American identifies with black culture). That there is a “black culture” doesn’t mean that the American notion of race is incorrect.

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