[Rance]

I’m okay with being called black, not so much ‘coffee-‘ or ‘chocolate-colored.’ Race, for obvious reasons, is something that must be looked at in the context of American history. The fact that black people are dark which also describes dirt, tar and other objects with negative connotations has been justification for black people being thought of and treated as inferior to white people. The idea of being covered or colored with something lessens the importance of my skin color. The immediate classification of black babies to a specific hue when they were born comes from the association of white (and therefore light) as good, which comes from slavery. This is evident in the experiment when young black girls preferred white dolls to black dolls. A black male (or female) may object to being identified as black because he is surrounded by white people and it triggers some discomfort he already felt. I say you should be prepared to make exceptions.

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Name : Rance, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Deist, Age : 17, City : Lawrence, State : KS, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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