3 times the Supreme Court defined “White”(compilation)

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Dive into the heart of American identity and the judicial quest to define 'whiteness' with our compilation video on three landmark Supreme Court cases. Discover how Kartozian, Ozawa, and Thind fought for recognition within the complex tapestry of race and rights, challenging the legal boundaries of their era. These cases - Kartozian v. United States for Armenians, Takao Ozawa v. United States for Japanese, and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind for Indians - offer a compelling glimpse into the struggles faced by immigrants as they sought to navigate the turbulent waters of American racial classifications.
Watch my individual DEEP DIVES on each topic!
Indians fighting to be White in America:
• Why Indians Fought to ...
Japanese fighting to be White in America:
• A Japanese immigrant f...
Armenians fighting to be White in America:
• How Armenians became W...
Germans are too swarthy: Ben Franklin's letter:
• German Immigrants: not...
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[@nytn]

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[@atomictraveller]

oj was a cover for MK child r4pe verdict. w3st p4pua, 63 years unreported g3n0cide for u.s. gold mining. "your government" is the same folks at club 33, try to focus folks.

[@ReshonBryant]

I think you qualify for the "white passing" label. Although, you could easily be mistaken for Native American and Hispanic.

[@lindaward3156]

When I was a child, I recall my parents remarking how Italians weren't White. That wasn't *that* long ago.

[@bookerwellsviews-nq1xr]

As a legacy African American, I absolutely love your content. You are doing an authentic historical analysis of the racial dynamics in the U.S. This is something that's lost in all "CRT hysteria" and denial of our past culture sins.

[@HaileyWatson]

Hey, sorry if this is too personal, but I'm not familiar with the term legacy African American and my Google searches don't really define it. Just curious and wanting to learn more ♥️ a neighbour from the north

[@bookerwellsviews-nq1xr]

@@HaileyWatson a "legacy African American" is someone whose family traces their lineage through slavery, Jim Crowe, and the Civil rights movement. This is different from a family of recent African immigrants, or from other countries in the diaspora, or someone like Barrak Obama, who is of African descent, but whose family is outside of those historical milestones.

[@77mudvayne]

This should be taught in schools too. History sucks and we need to look forward and do better. White slavery (also white slave trade or white slave trafficking) refers to the slavery of Europeans, whether by non-Europeans (such as West Asians and North Africans). Slaves of European origin were present in ancient Rome and in the Islamic world, such as the Arab slave trade, the Barbary slave trade, the Black Sea slave trade and the Ottoman Empire. During the era of the Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171), the majority of slaves were Europeans taken along European beaches and during conflicts.Similarly, the Ottoman slave trade that included European captives was often fueled by raids into European territories or were taken as children in the form of a blood tax from the families of citizens of conquered territories to serve the empire for a variety of functions.In the mid-19th century, the term 'white slavery' was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade. the slavery of Christians throughout the Barbary States and primarily in Algiers, the capital of Ottoman Algeria. It also encompassed many forms of slavery, including the European concubines (Cariye) often found in Turkish harems. route. From there they were sent into Islamic Spain and other Muslim-ruled regions especially North Africa. Slave markets flourished on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, in what is modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya, between the 15th and middle of the 19th century. The North African slave markets traded in European slaves which were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to Spain, Portugal, France, England, the Netherlands, and as far afield as the Turkish Abductions in Iceland. Men, women, and children were captured to such a devastating extent that vast numbers of sea coast towns were abandoned. Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 15th and 19th centuries.However, to extrapolate his numbers, the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates was constant for a 250-year period. From bases on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, Spain, France, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates. Attractive women or boys could be used as sex slaves. 16th- and 17th-century customs statistics suggest that Istanbul's additional slave import from the Black Sea may have totaled around 2.5 million from 1450 to 1700. During the Al-Andalus (also known as Islamic Iberia), the Moors controlled much of the peninsula. Muslim Spain imported Christian slaves from the 8th century until the Reconquista in the late 15th century. Slavery was a legal and a significant part of the Ottoman Empire's economy and society.The main sources of white slaves were Ottoman wars into Europe and organized enslavement expeditions in Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, the Balkans, Circassia and Georgia in the Caucasus. It has been reported that the selling price of slaves fell after large military operations. Even after several measures to ban slavery in the late 19th century, the practice continued largely unabated into the early 20th century. As late as 1908, female slaves were still sold in the Ottoman Empire.Sexual slavery was a central part of the Ottoman slave system throughout the history of the institution In Anglophone countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the phrase "white slavery" was used to refer to sexual enslavement of white women. It was particularly associated with accounts of women enslaved in Middle Eastern harems, such as the so-called Circassian beauties,which was a slave trade that was still ongoing in the early 20th-century.The phrase gradually came to be used as a euphemism for prostitution.The phrase was especially common in the context of the exploitation of minors, with the implication that children and young women in such circumstances were not free to decide their own fates. Though Barbary privateers began to seize North American colonists as early as 1625, Barbary captivity narratives did not begin to flourish until after the American Revolution. During these years, stories of Barbary captivity forced the U.S. government to pay humiliating tributes to African rulers, stimulated the drive to create the U.S. Navy, and brought on America’s first post-revolutionary war.

[@alphaomega203]

This series of yours has been educational and a joy. This is an element of history few people, even scholars, are fully aware of and understand.

[@nytn]

What a generous compliment, thank you so much.

[@artbashmakian9217]

Love your videos. I’ve been arguing for years to get rid of the racial categories that we currently apply for job applications, school enrollment, surveys , etc. To illustrate the absurdity of the categories I bring the example of the Pashtun people. The Pashtun’s homeland stretches from Afghanistan to Pakistan. According to the current legal US racial categories, a Pashtun from Afghanistan is White but a Pashtun from Pakistan is Asian because Afghanistan and countries to its west are considered White but starting with Pakistan and moving east people from those countries are considered Asian. There are other examples that show the absurdity of the racial categories.

[@marinarehren7076]

This seems to me a good example which shows how little sense the categories make

[@johannaverplank4858]

In the 1920’s, my great grandmother used to scrub my grandmother’s skin with lemon juice because she got so dark in the summer. She was afraid people would think they had African or Mexican ancestry. My sister is very dark while I have porcelain skin. Skin color varies among all “races”. It really doesn’t and shouldn’t matter.

[@gagoomt4076]

Geez!

[@robertmarley8852]

But it does matter 👀....we all have a choice to make ...let's hope it's a good one

[@LostNFoundASMR]

Omgoodness thank you sooo much for doing this video. Me and my mother have gone back and forth about this for years every time I try to explain to her that Armenia is in west Asia also called “the Middle East” or just the “East”. My dna came back as West Asian and Caucasian ( and for those who do not know: Caucasian does not mean European or white, it’s an actual geographical group of people who live around the Caucasus mountain in west Asia). Also, you would be amazed how this has our community torn to this day about our own identities. Our elders mostly say they are white, while some of them say middle eastern, and some are so brain washed they say they are European! I have a group for our community on Facebook and we have had this convo more than once and it’s always ended in arguments and no one able to agree. The fact remains: Armenia is and always has been in West Asia. And our dna shows this too. So we had to “be white” for a long time due to assimilation - but we don’t have to do that now and should embrace our true identities. ❤

[@haroldharris2236]

Amazing scholarship. I identify as Afro-Indigenous. My birth certificate identifies me as Negro. My elementary school years were filled with racial discussions that sought to define Colored vs Negro. "Black" was synonymous to today's "N" word. The "paper bag test" determined ones status within the community. Complexions that are darker than a paper bag were excluded from "high social events" as Negroes mimicked White society. From skin bleaching to hair straightening (men and women) we did everything humanly possible to gain acceptance by the dominant culture. Your deep dive has helped to illuminate an (United States of) American conundrum. Thank you for pioneering this well of knowledge.

[@stephenjames2690]

"Race" in the US is historically synonymous to "freedom" and "rights." As you say, the actual existence of those categories is suspect because whatever the gov't gives, it can't easily take away.

[@r.j.mayers529]

The topics and stories you cover in American History with such depth, thoroughness, and eloquence could never, ever; be covered in any high school, or college in America today! It’s not for the lack of its importance - but, we’ve never laid the foundation of a required national reckoning with our racialist past , but; BUT the current state of our nation regarding the subject of race is not at that place, if you will; of centuries overdue, and necessary historical racial reconciliation” to face up to its intrinsic roots of racism that persist to this day.

[@nytn]

I am truly interested in this. Not because I hate "white" people (sometimes the fear is that studying history with a critical eye will lead to that...) but the origin story to our issues here is available to anyone who wants to find it. Healing comes after acknowledgement and forgiveness. Can't really skip the first step though.

[@YouB3anz]

These vids are great. I never really realized how codified into U.S. law racism was until now. Learning about all of these absurd lawsuits really helps paint scene for me too.

[@rebeccamd7903]

Well that was scary! My dad and I have olive complexions that range from goth white to brown. My dad is Melungeon and looks darker than this guy. It’s messed up to think we wouldn’t have been eligible for citizenship in the country our ancestors fought for. That’s why we have to fight to protect the “least of us”. Equal rights for all or equal rights for none!

[@RickyMaveety]

Scary for me as well, and I’m the whitest cracker you ever saw!

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

Don't feel too bad, they hated the Irish at one time...and they are about as "white' as you get as far as actual skin tone goes....I guess they were too white...lol

[@HandOfDoom007]

Aren’t Melungeons Portuguese?

[@gagoomt4076]

@@HandOfDoom007they are a mixture of black and mostly Irish.

[@Nightbird1914]

@@HandOfDoom007A mixture of White, African American, and Native American

[@joltjolt5060]

Make sense of "Hispanic" who many think is a race, but can't understand why so many "look white" but Spain is in Europe.

[@FionaAdoreRose]

I mentioned in a comment months ago that Spain is Hispanic somebody tried to call me out saying they are white.

[@rroadmap]

My husband considers himself to be Hispanic. Some of his great grandparents were from Mexico and one was a Spanish priest. But most Mexicans are a mixture of Spanish and Indigenous people with some African and German mixed in there sometimes. Many other Spanish-speaking countries are the same. This is why they are grouped as Hispanics--they have Spanish heritage. His DNA actually shows 60% European even though he has dark hair and tan skin. His grand aunts actually had blond hair and blue eyes.

[@sexcorpio6976]

​@@FionaAdoreRoseWhat a dickhead that person was. He/She couldn't even distinguish between race (adaptative human variety) and ethnicity (cultural system group)

[@Medina0205]

I’m Hispanic and very light skinned I’m half European ancestry mostly Spanish , my daughter is blonde with blue eyes everyone always asks me if her father is Irish he is also Hispanic like me with half European ancestry mostly Spanish and Portuguese

[@sjacks3281]

hispanic is a BROAD pan-ethnicity. hispanic means related to spain or spanish speaking countries. but Latino means Latin American plenty of people don't think hispanic is a race plenty of people know that many latinos are of indigenous, European and african descent so much so, that some people want latinos to have their own racial category I think it should be the other way around. Instead of changing a pan ethnic category into a racial one racial categories should be changed into pan-ethnic ones but even that has issues, because pan ethnicity groups people who are too diverse to be categorized together people should be able to identify by their ethnicity, their ancestral country of origin, or their nationality

[@toddsmith59]

Danielle, You’re a good storyteller, and her-storian. I live in Fresno, CA, which has a large Armenian community. Some of the most prominent, philanthropic people in our community are Armenian. William Saroyan, Kirk Kirkorian, and Jerry Tarkanian are among the more famous, and notable Armenians who come from Fresno. Note: One of the articles that was part of your presentation referred to Armenians as “Fresno Indians”. The Armenians have had a significant role in developing Fresno and the surrounding area. We are proud of our Armenian friends, and family. The first notable case that you presented concerning the citizenship of Tatos Cartozian had life or death consequences. If Mr. Cartozian had been denied citizenship, where would he have been sent? Turkey began to systematically kill Armenians in a genocide that began in 1915. By the end of 1920 the Armenian Republic had ceased to exist as an independent state, with its territory either seized by Turkey or established as the Armenian Soviet Republic, which subsequently joined the Soviet Union. Thank you Danielle for promoting critical thinking 🙏🏼🫶

[@cattymajiv]

My skin is as white as it gets, but it doesn't define me! The concept sickens me! We're on stolen land anyway, so this is crazy!

[@sarahMuahahaha]

Yes, definitely do slavic/Polish. My great grandparents on my moms side fled Poland to come to America and went through Ellis Island, changed their last name to be more "American' and didn't openly speak Polish and basically dropped all traditional habits with my grandfather... he didn't pass anything to my mom (in a traditional way).

[@nytn]

I did one on the Polish experience! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJWTp36XftWAbKM

[@sarahMuahahaha]

@@nytn thanks 😊

[@sarahMuahahaha]

@QueerdoLoc 😊 it is. Thanks. I bet they were thankful in more ways than one. They didn't have to deal with the Nazis/Hitler that invaded Poland. He was a first-generation American and my mom is second-generation American (my grandmother on my moms side was born in Canada 😂. Most of my dad's side of the family has been here as early as the 1600s.

[@arinetwork4886]

Please hit the thumbs-up 👍👍👍👍👍👍a few times to help her with the algorithm.

[@johnbeaubien8826]

10:41 FRANZ BOAS!! Super, super important figurehead in scientific anti-racism! Founder of Cultural Anthropology as a scientific endeavor. He was incredibly important on solving the issue of racial hierarchies as well as debunking the myths of the negative effects of "race mixing". There is a huge section written about him in Robert Wal Sussman's classic: THE MYTH OF RACE. Have read all of Boas books as well. He was also the founder of The American Association of Anthropologists at Columbia University. His book: Mind Of Primitive Man was a good read as well. He was the first to take a serious look at culture vs ethnicity. The guy was a scientific anti-racism super-hero. He worked as a scientist within the system, often sent on missions like defending current immigration policy based on racialized IQ testing, or again, the dangers of "race mixing", only to debunk them. He was all facts, no feelings. He just cared what the data said. And there you go.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

Well put.

[@adampr5242]

Hi, I am Italian, meaning born and raised in Italy. Now... we are racist in Europe, please don't misunderstanding. But this type of absurd perspective, even the very discussion of ethnicity along these lines, is laughed at (if not triggering) in Europe. This is so specifically American. It's weird. I mean I know where this comes from, but it never stops shocking me. Guys, do you realise that you still have the same framework of pre World War 2 Europeans? :D

[@nytn]

Such a good comment

[@helgaioannidis9365]

I couldn't agree more. I'm German and we're racists, but our racism is based on ethnicity, not on colour. E.g. black Americans get a very different treatment than black Africans in Germany. Black Africans will be labelled as "poor", "refugee", "uneducated", black Americans will be labelled as "tourist", "educated", "GI", "wealthy". Growing up in the 80ies in Western Germany the most discrimination was towards Turks, but when my parents were young, back in the 60ies, it was the Italians that were seen as "poor, uneducated, uncivilised, violent, etc". When I was living in Italy in the 90ies Albanians were the group Italians looked down on, while other immigrants like Peruvians were socially accepted. Now I live in Greece and Albanians are being discriminated against as well, while black people are associated with tourism from the UK and the USA.

[@marciamartins1992]

Yes it's a Hitlerish way of viewing people, and it's annoying as hell.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@helgaioannidis9365 Discrimination based on ethnicity and not race isn't racism, it's xenophobia.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

@@octavianpopescu4776 given that there's just one human race it would be extremely difficult to be racist if the definition was exclusively related to race. In fact racism is also discrimination based on ethnicity and religion.

[@ross23233]

After seeing many of your videos, the image of a little girl who was not very accepted as white often comes to mind. She always felt that something was missing because of it. As you grew older, you still carried this discomfort, and through this KZbin channel, you found a way to reach others who feel the same way and make something interesting out of that trauma. For me, I think you look, more like a typical very pretty Argentinean woman from Buenos Aires. They have a very important percentage of Italian mixed with other ethnicities that make them look unique. I think in the end, it's all about acceptance and how we perceive the value others place on us. In Roman times, your identity would have not been questioned. Back then, the Germanic tribes or Celts (referred to as "whites" today) were viewed as outsiders, while those with brown, olive, or dark complexions were considered royalty and emperors.

[@gazoontight]

Please keep making these videos.

[@i_luv_hecklefish]

Holy 💩! So scary. Thank you for shedding light on this. 😢

[@mixinitupNY]

Brilliant content, thank you!

[@theultimateartist4153]

You should look into the code noir which was pushed into the Caribbean colonies

[@davidmolina7543]

Thank you for your insightful, and cogent research in race and race relation topics.

[@johnnyearp52]

I grew up and live in NM. The main groups are Hispanics, Native Americans, Mexicans and Anglos (whites). Black people are less than 5%. But my mom grew up in Indiana where white and Black people were the usual choices.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

1870 doesn’t push everything out of the window. The admission of Africans allowed a group who in their minds realistically could not pass nor interfere with white progress. Since Africans were already discriminated against in America, any newly arriving African would be neatly segregated away from the mainstream population with other Black people. I’m unaware of any Africans coming here from the continent to settle. However I descend from aa man who came from Jamaica in the late 19th history. A grandfather.

[@FishNHistory]

My grandfather could have probably passed as Portuguese despite both of his parents having English ancestry as far back as I can track. I live in an area in Toronto with a lot of Italians. A woman I work for occasionally was certain I was Italian. My grandfather's father might have come from an area of Kent county that has an usual very old ethnicity that is unique but it almost doesn't come up on DNA tests at all. His mother had it a little bit too and I used my x chromosome to find my unknown illegitimate 4th great grandfather using matches through it.

[@FishNHistory]

I have relatives from that Kentish coast background who can get various different ethnicities in about the same amount. I got 10% Spanish from Family tree DNA which is really high. My heritage says I am 3% middle eastern. My 1st cousin once removed is North African in the same and a 2nd cousin is Italian and Greek in about the same amount. There must be connections between people genetically that haven been discovered yet.

[@FishNHistory]

If it isn't obvious I think the whole idea of people needing to be white was wrong from the beginning but so was the whole idea of manifest destiny, which it was the fulfillment of.

[@silverharloe]

Only one race: the human race.

[@JaneAtwellRobinson1825NY]

I have some distant cousins who were the Piekarskis and they later were called "Baker". Piekarski is Polish for "Baker". Maybe it would just be helpful to identify as "Baker" if you're in the bread business because your local Anglo won't think to go to the Piekarskery :)

[@ricardomarin6492]

What is funny is that Puertoricans even many are of european decent, were given the American Citizen ship in 1917. Puerto Ricans are a blend like many other groups, from people of African decent, Indian native, European on all flavors and the mixed ones. USA invaded Puerto Rico and Hawaii and makes me wonder did they give the American citizenship based on attempting to look ok in front of the world and not imperialist colonizers? Or were Puertorican given the citizenship back in 1917 to add more troops for WW1? I’ll have to say both are good reasons. To these days some don’t have the knowledge. PR a US territory governed by all US laws mmmm. The kept secret of all the Big $$$ avoiding taxes on capital gains.

[@454FatJack]

UK= New England heritage . Supress all other’s. Up stair’s and worker by chimney, nanny, and Horse driver ( taxi) for master 😂

[@FishNHistory]

There is man who is Indigenous to somewhere in Canada. He was adopted out in the 60s scoop to some family in Texas near the Mexican border. Now he worries that homeland security or whatever could pick him up one day because the way he looks and he will find himself dumped south of the border somewhere.

[@leonjones6082]

Awesome channel. Love your content.

[@nytn]

that is so kind!

[@chaostheoryrulz6080]

Great research!

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

Imagine Dua watching this video. Many celebrities probably end up watching this channel by chance

[@monsutades9999]

Dua Lipa is Albanian not Armenian but Albanians would probably have been treated similarly as they are a Muslim majority nation that although European have a big link with West Asian/Arab culture

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

@@monsutades9999 Ikr. She is adorable and humble. I like her a lot

[@edgzta]

​@@monsutades9999a significant minority of Albanians are also Christian, which is 30% of the population.

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

Ohhh .... I have to finish this in parts, I have a migraine again, and the logic, or lack of logic and science of "who was white" is wearing on the efficacy of the ibuprofen I took. Your word about being judged in summer or winter ... makes me think of my grandfather, he had curly dark hair and tanned a lot in summer, he was also definitely Swedish for generations back, as far as traceable, well maybe some Danish too, and the Swedish Churchbooks are very good. In winter he was just as pale as the rest of us. I have a BIL who was almost the same, no curls, and now his hair is grey, but he has been mistaken for an "immigrant". Both are/were typical "type iii" skin, with light eyes and dark hair. Both might have had a problem proving their "Nordic whiteness " after a long sunny summer.

[@johnnyearp52]

My German descent dad got very dark in the summer.

[@jerometurner8759]

How about racism from within your own ethnic community. As a kid I lived in both the US and spend time in Europe in the village. While overseas kids called me nasty names since I'm American, but eventually that stopped and they accepted me as one of them since I truly wasn't any different or better. They realized I looked like them, spoke like them, ate the same food, etc. While in America, I never had problems with people of other ethnicities ... but within my own group I wasn't accepted. Maybe they were jealous? I'm not Italian, but let's use Italian as my hypothetical ethnic ancestry. They'd say things like "You're not Italian enough " or "I'm more Italian than you". Even though I spoke my ethnic language extremely considering I spent years in "Italy" and attended school there, they'd claim my speaking ability was horrible. People who never stepped foot in our ancestral land called me out claiming I speak horrible "Italian". Truth is, my "Italian" wasn't horrible ... I am able to speak the proper modern way which schools teach ... but I'm also able to use the regional language (which the old country has many of). Those within my community in American aren't very familiar with those regional dialects since they're mostly second/third generation Americans. Along with that, I come from another part of the old country than they do. 99% of them are from region A, but I'm from father out aka region B. Thus, they're all familiar with the typical language they hear daily at home or at relatives/friends houses which also comes from region A. As a result, they'd claim they're better or more "Italian" than I. They'd say the part of "Italy" they come from is better, more beautiful, and that their region is home to "cleaner Italians" (whatever that means). A lot of their comments were very nasty over the years and they'd call me a fake and a wanna be. They'd claim they're more "Italian" culturally, linguistically, genetically, etc. Ridiculous. Then they took things to another level by calling me Albanian even though I have nothing to do with Albania. They used Albania to mock me because it was once a poor communists nation. Then they mocked my clothing, my car, my physical appearance, my family, etc. It was very disappointing so I barely hang out with people of my own ethnicity. Looking back, I really believe they were jealous because I have a wonderful family, a great support system, I did well in school, and was a nice looking kid. Others came from broken homes and they didn't like that I had something more even though we were not rich or anything like that. They didn't like that I had something they didn't have, so they bad mouthed me and spread rumors which other people of my own age within our ethnic community heard and also used against me well. Anyone else face similar issues?

[@DissentOrConcur]

Abolish skin tone definitions of humans.

[@conniepayne4425]

I appreciate your work!

[@nytn]

That’s so kind of you!

[@yemakapu8816]

Very interesting thank you for Sharing.

[@lordvonmanor6915]

If you read a book titled "De Witte Slaaf" the white slave you'd see they were actually Blacks. His mother was a beautiful dark black italian and his father was his slave master was a light skinned Dutch.👍

[@pauljames21]

omg yes. Thank you🙏

[@lindacoleman4657]

I am a Black American, this video is very thought provoking. The bottom line is, a person of color does not stand a chance.

[@chulo6561]

You know what's interesting was when I had to cold call people during covid to survey them. One question asked about race. What suprised me was even among people today many do not define themselves the way others do. With that being said I wouldn't be surprised if our census records on this may be easy off due to self reporting. I think some groups especially African Americans may be undercounted. The real numbers may be much higher. Many groups may not be reflected in data either and being mixed isn't really addressed but fairly common in the US.

[@HueroVat]

Great show.

[@sexcorpio6976]

If there is something I can understand less even than how inept politicians are to have any accurate antropologic clue before making legal registrations about, is why channels like this one are so under-supported

[@lancesudberry209]

It blows my mind on 2 box to check black / white i always checked other on work application

[@krono5el]

Europeans need to categorize people of the world a bit better, when you say Indian it can be from two whole separate halves of the planet. they can either be from Baharat or Indigenous American but its always confusing : P

[@helgaioannidis9365]

The majority of Europeans don't speak English. In our native languages we distinguish. E.g. in German someone from Baharat would be an "Inder" while a Navaho would be an "Indianer". In Greek it's "Ινδός" and "Ινδιάνος". Europeans are linguistically and culturally diverse. We're not one monolithic block and we're definitely not British.

[@sjacks3281]

or, europeans need to mind their own business and let people categorize themselves

[@tpuppy4224]

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[@abaneyone]

My mother's mother could definitely pass as white without any doubt, but she chose not to. I know that's a completely different story and topic.

[@dalyahgreenberg2688]

Ben Franklin complained about allowing dark Germans called Huguenots to come over to America as they could not change their complexion. Dark skinned Moors were considered white and able to immigrate under the 1790 naturalization act as they were from Europe historically.. Also all of the original peoples of Europe such as the Celts, Iberians were originally included in the 1790 naturalization act regardless of skin color. Race categories, post the civil war, seemed to have changed. Most people of color not living on a reservation and who were native indigenous, found themselves being recategorized by the government from the nationality of their American indian tribe name to Negro and then called eventually ‘African’, which is a misnomer.

[@Kwameking1]

Excellent Excellent Excellent

[@k-dwanks2481]

I think , from the start Those who claimed to have found america and ruled it Had nothing but strategy's on how to divide and rule . Thats why they came up with such term and even had to define it 3 times And what about the one drop rule ? Notwithstanding We have animals of various types , with different colors , doesn't that tell us humans a thing? We are all humans that demand respect of who we are and our choices, Equal rights and equity

[@zedmak]

Indians too.. United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

[@meb777]

White was a class structure for Europeans both Black and White when they came to America. It changed later to mean pale skin of European descent.

[@trollinmartin7260]

Yall got to show me these olives. Do like the paper bag test with these special olives yall talking about.I remember you did a paper bag test. When I use the term olive complexion I am talking about Black olives you can see that complexion on people like the Nuba and other parts of Africa.

[@bluetinsel7099]

I get what you are saying as olives come in black and green and even the more red ones are still considered to be black olives and still much darker than the “olive” color people.

[@trollinmartin7260]

​@@bluetinsel7099 yes I am saying they are changing the term olive because many of the ancient writers described ancient people in certain civilizations as having olive complexion. So these modern revisionist (racist) use imaginary olives to describe a complexion. This revionist movment was by people like Ezra pound and others before him with this "make it new" movment they had a revised veiw of reality.

[@bluetinsel7099]

@@trollinmartin7260 Yes, when modern people speak of olive complexion it automatically comes off as mixed and mixed would be illegitimate as they need an original or primary to create the mix. So when looking at colors to say olive is almost as if they are trying to put Green, Orange or Purple ahead of Blue, Red and Yellow when the secondary colors don’t exists without the primary colors. To go around speaking of olive skin makes it come off as they mean green olives and hence they mean mixed.

[@trollinmartin7260]

@@bluetinsel7099 she did a paper bag bag test I would like to see an olive test to see what type of olives they talking about. I don't even try to make sense of it I think White people lost they mind long time ago.

[@JaneAtwellRobinson1825NY]

Just as an aside, I was going to say that a white olive would be a scary thing to behold! But then I googled and apparently they exist. And they are indeed scary to behold lol

[@bluetinsel7099]

When looking at what is white, it depends if they are speaking of pigment, status or light. When getting more into white it could go back to scripture and the extra scripture books such as Enoch and various others. White in the extra scripture text would be of the fallen angels or lineage of Cain who may have also mixed with the fallen angels and later they mixed with some of the line of Japheth and Esau etc. so when “Aryan” is mentioned it’s more of blonde hair and blue eyes with white skin complexion and other features like pointy nose etc. at that time. Those with different features would have been examined. The issue is all over there are black, mixed and white peoples, so a person from Asia can also be black or mixed or white just a person from Europe or the Americas can be. In the scriptures there was always a place for mixed and it was known as Arab. Arab means mixed and depending on the mix, if it was the dad who mixed out with a nation of women different than his own, then the child would go by the nation of the mom and they would be known as an Arab-Mamzer by the dad’s people as they would be illegitimate from his line, as the nations go by the mom and the tribes go by the dad. Over time depending on certain factors the children could mix back in with the dads line and became legitimate after a number of generations depending on the mix. Seems they were using black, mixed and white and if you couldn’t fit into black or white then you would be mixed. When looking at the mixed you then go by the parents and more so the mom. So someone like Meghan Markel would be an Arab and Arab means mixed so she would be a mixed-black woman. Meghan is not mono-racially black, but she is also not mono-racially white. Her mom is black and her dad is white and Meghan especially being a female would be a mixed-black woman as would Tia and Tamara Mowrey. When looking at the artist Drake, he would be an Arab-Mamzer as his dad is black and his mom is white so he would be a mixed-black man because he is a male and his dad is black. Drake being an Arab-Mamzer shows that he is mixed and his dad mixed out with another nation of women different from his own, Drake being a mixed-black man also shows the same thing that he is mixed, his dad is black and that his mom would not be black because he is mixed. The same would also be for Barack Obama. If you take the artist Mariah Carey she would also be an Arab-Mamzer or a mixed-white woman as her mom is white and her dad is black and with her being a female she would be a mixed-white woman and the same goes for Lisa Bonet. Her mom and dad are from two different groups of people. Then you have the artist Lenny Kravitz who would be Arab or mixed as his mom is black and his dad is white. Lenny Kravitz would be a mixed-white man and Trevor Noah and Taj Mowrey would also be mixed-white men. Now when you get to the generationally mixed they are also considered Arab-Mamzer or illegitimate typically because of BQ. A peraon who is generationally mixed but a more recent or pure one should be Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz daughter Zoe Kravitz who has two parents that are 1st generation mixed and one is an Arab-Mamzer and the other Arab. So Zoe Kravitz would be a mixed-white woman as well. Her maternal line goes back to her moms which goes back to white women and her paternal maternal line goes back to black women so she is mixed just like her parents who both have one line white and one line black for their XX or XY lines. If Zoe were to have children with a white person then her children would become white although with BQ they would still be mixed-white as they would have two mixed grandparents and two white grandparents and that would come to about 3/4 white and 1/4 black which is where terms like quadroon come in. When it comes to Drake, his son would be a second generation Arab-Mamzer as his sons mom is white and his son paternally would have a black male lineage so he would also be a mixed-black boy, but he is more mixed with white than he is with black as he would have 3 white grandparents and one black grandparent, but on his XY lines he would have two different groups of people for his lineage. His X would go back to white women and his Y would go back to black men. That is where BQ would be applied to determine if a person was more black or white etc. If Drakes son were to grow up and continue to procreate with white women as his dad and granddad did then his child if female would become a white-woman with her female line having two white female grandmothers making her XX both from white women. If his son had a son, then that child would be predominantly white when looking at BQ, but would still be a white-mixed-black-male showing that he is predominantly white but from mixed lineage of a black male and he too would be an Arab-Mamzer based on his XY being from two different backgrounds. That is also where terms like octoroon come in showing that 1/8 mixed lineage being black and 7/8 being white. When it comes to the two Asian men in the video they would be considered mixed and they would not be “Aryan” as they have dark hair, dark eyes and look more mixed than anything. They are also Asian not African or European or even West Asian which look more like Europeans than East Asians. So people coming from the western part of the continent of AfroEurAsia would be more considered for citizenship than those from the eastern part of the same continent. Part of that could be because of the lineage. This could really go much deeper, but this is probably a good place to curtail this.

[@jazzmanonfire95]

It's interesting how when referring to your father'’s background, you say Italian, but with your Mom you say Louisiana.

[@jeromemckenna7102]

When I watched this video I realized how carelessly written our laws can be. For example black, white, Indian are not defined in the US Constitution. Even if Asiatics couldn't be naturalized based on some laws, their children if born in the US were automatically citizens.

[@richardgerome4897]

I don’t know 🤷‍♂️ why we all just can’t call all of us Human Beings from the planet Earth? Get rid of all the borders and flags and make us all equal and can go live wherever we want…? As the old saying goes “United We Stand and Divided We Fall”…

[@TMB62]

So let me see if I understand this completely, you can only be a citizen if you were white or Black. Most of the people that wanted to get citizenship at a certain time frame chose to argue to be white.

[@tiffanycotter9675]

Pleas do a history lesson on how Multese became white

[@helgaioannidis9365]

What a great idea. Considering Maltese are Semitic people in origin I would guess, them being Catholics helped them being mingled together with Italians and Spanish. Wondering if Christian Arabs also had an easier time to be accepted than Muslim Arabs.

[@nemomarcus5784]

I never assumed I was White.

[@southernafricanboy4148]

Economics my dear that's the answer Having said that America is a very weird place to most of us in Europe

[@Shadowz227]

I like that she exposes the hypocrisy of race in America

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

This story speaks for itself: the Anglo-Saxons and Nordics arrived to America first and almost eliminated the original inhabitants. Therefore, they considered themselves the only true men who were culturally developed and acceptable (also from a religious point of view). All the newcomers were considered a pain in the ass. The serious fact is that even today the census requires you to say which group you belong to. P.S. The color is clearly a pretext for considerations of cultural incompatibility and Nordic racial superiority. It's a shame that this feeling changes over time and space. The Italians of Italy, for example, do not believe that the Anglo-Saxons and Nordics are superior to them. Indeed, they wonder why Englishmen lived in huts for so many centuries, before copying real houses from other peoples. Higher intelligence must have developed a few centuries ago :-) Probably after the first models of mechanical looms were stolen from us.

[@nytn]

This was hilarious, I did not know about the huts. But on a more serious note, I DO think that people want to get along now more than we did a few centuries ago. But we have to acknowledge some origin stories first.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@nytn It's was a joke. They perfectioned an old italian invention.

[@drmodestoesq]

Finns are considered to be from the Nordic countries but are not Scandinavian. And Finns were not considered White.

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@drmodestoesq She has a video on the Finns.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@drmodestoesq they are not Germanics. For the germanic peoples you had to be germanic or you were nothing. That's the problem.

[@JaeSwift10JamellaSwift]

This is interesting given that the most famous Armenians, The Kardashians, love to appropriate Black culture, specifically Black men.

[@lancesudberry209]

I heard on Patrick Devine channel on Patriot & Robots saying either Maine i think stills states if your 4th gen American citizen you can apply under native Indian not indigenous like our American native Indian? This is so messed up its putting them down and at gripes with people to do this!

[@azborderlands]

Since leaving the USA, I realise that people back home are truly obsessed with categorising people through race, more than other places in the world. Not everything is black and white 🫶🏽

[@robertmarley8852]

Good for you .....the rest of us is trying survive this racial jungle

[@dirkdillary4925]

Also, who's name did they Take when they changed names?

[@robertmarley8852]

I got a question if the civil war breaks out .....which side will you choose

[@nytn]

neither side will have me

[@ellaw356]

Most of us American citizens are a bunch of muts. Proud of all my fellow brothers and sisters! We all have such vast background stories. ❤

[@bekkatheman]

Imagine being from the region that the name causasian comes from and not being called 'white'

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

If you were African. You were a second class citizen. I get what you’re saying, however there was no “equity” between those two terms.

[@BronzeSista]

Wow, I didn'tknow the Armenias went through this.

[@Zikomo7]

Wasn’t there the case of an Egyptian man around my color who fought against (and lost) the us categorization of white?

[@lancesudberry209]

I caught a Uber driver from New Orleans on North shore shes was light preety red tone women i began speaking on my area as she was apart of it and im seeing her cheeks about to pop from grinning,she said i am a New Orleans teacher and i agree with you thats why i quit ! We laughed then i jumped on my great grandfather who immigrated to New Orleans and dut tut dut etc died millionaire and 32° freemason she said her great grandad was to she said im black but french to i said ah Creole i said how was he was he black or french she said black we both laughed again she said that off me mentioning KKK i then said we seen his oath after my grandmother passed i said it was against blacks that was a certain way to slay them down with swords she knew hers i didn't know mine she said it was what it was and they kept it same

[@MissTippiLu]

You’re such a pretty young lady. People spending lots of money to get your natural suntan. Thank you for exposing how ridiculous legal racial definitions and how they continue to influence us today.

[@dkjay22]

You better believe I will be staying completely out of the sun you say? 🤔

[@arlosmith2784]

This was because US immigration law was historically very racist. Originally only "White" people could be naturalized. After the civil war, those of "African" descent also became eligible for naturalization. However, the definition of "White" was held not to include Asians or even high caste lighter complected Indians. Court cases held that "white" was narrower than "Caucasian" - because many people from Indian subcontinent were classified by anthropologists as Caucasian, but were not considered White for immigration laws. Armenians probably succeeded in being classified as White because they were Christian. Present US immigration laws do not have any racial or national exclusions. BTW, had I been on the Supreme Court, I would have declared these race-based classifications as inconsistent with constitutional guarantees of equal protection. ⚖️👍

[@rroadmap]

First, let me say that I have nothing against any race or immigration. My husband's ancestors are from Mexico and my grandchildren's other grandmother is from Japan. But I do care about people's beliefs and behavior. I think these restrictions may have really been more about preserving "Western" values rather than skin color--which should have just been stated. That is still a concern today. I am not against immigration from other countries. But I do think we have to limit the numbers who come in a particular time period to give them time to assimilate into our culture, rather than turning our culture into the one from which they came. Only after they have integrated into our society should they be granted citizenship. For example, Muslims who push for Sharia law (which is antithetical to our constitution and Bill of Rights) should not be allowed citizenship. We see the results of letting them in today in the protests against Israel and for the terrorist group Hamas. The fact that people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib were elected as Representatives, is proof that many have not assimilated. They hate our values and want to turn our country into what they came from. They are influencing our culture for the worse. I don't want to live in a caste system or wear a hijab or have honor killings. So I welcome those who want to embrace our culture, but I want to be able to send them back if they don't.

[@johnnyearp52]

Muslims are 1% of the population in the USA. So not much. And most of them do not believe in Sharia Law.

[@ChristopherAdam42]

It’s based on how other races perceive you, you can say what you are but if other races don’t see you as that, good luck .

[@nytn]

That's what one of the Supreme Court justices argued as well!

[@rroadmap]

And not everybody will view a person the same way. I would guess Danielle is Hispanic or Indigenous American if I knew nothing about her. But I showed her to my husband and told him nothing about her and he thought she was a light-skinned Black. I guess in a way, we were both right. Whatever, she's beautiful! My grandchildren are some of those people who other people look at and wonder "What are they?" They have two White grandparents, one Japanese and one Mexican and they have a small percentage of African. Something looks a little different and people can't put their finger on it.

[@ChristopherAdam42]

My views unfortunately came from when I was in jail for a few months when I was young , if you want to find the most segregated, racist places on earth then look up a documentary about prisons or jails in America, all of them are segregated by race but California is the worst. I’m from Ohio but have had friends who did time in California. It’s a time capsule of forced racism, force by way of violence and murder.

[@outrageousaistories]

​@@rroadmapSame. When I first came across her videos, I saw a gorgeous mixed (African American & "Caucasian")/Hispanic woman. When she said that she was White, I was quite confused. Especially after her finding out that she is, indeed, Multiracial. Yet still clings to White. It seems as though she's having a difficult time coming to terms with this. Which is understandable if you've been raised to believe one thing, even though what you are seeing in the mirror tells a completely different story.

[@nytn]

I don't really see either when I look in the mirror but I love that people can see my ancestry.

[@blaq7892]

Eryone but Black's. Amerikkka is where the world comes to achieve Ytness. 😮

[@vivalaleta]

I have more arguments with back people claiming someone's not black enough.🎉

[@wandamercer6964]

The best thing the US Census has done is add the “check all that apply” box in the racial category question.

[@pebblebrookbooks4852]

Is there a paper bag involved?

[@yasminjaime9092]

Just asking; this is a question I’ve been thinking about a lot, why do we chase the concept of whiteness? Why can’t we just live with our ethnic ness?

[@nytn]

It'a a good question, I mentioned this to someone else but I think primarily it started with citizenship rights. You could not be a citizen here for a long time unless you were either "white" or "of African heritage". For instance, Armenians were fleeing the Armenian genocide. They couldnt say they were from African heritage....but they had a shot at "white"

[@yasminjaime9092]

@@nytn thank you for your response, my question pertains exactly to this; why do we need citizenship or approval from a white provider? where does the longing to be accepted by the white man come from?

[@jdee3421]

@@yasminjaime9092 You do what you have to do in order to provide a better life for your family. Some benefits of citizenship: Voting. Priority in allowing family members to immigrate. Obtaining citizenship for children born overseas. Traveling with a U.S. Passport. Eligibility for federal jobs. Becoming an elected official. Source: www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/chapter2.pdf

[@drmodestoesq]

It comes from the idea that the "White man" used to have vast amounts of political, military and economic power. The idea that the "White man" gets to decide who is and who isn't White is going to have a tremendous impact on a person's life. And if you're not White, you're not going to be allowed to simply opt out of this power structure just because you don't like it. @@yasminjaime9092

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@yasminjaime9092 Citizenship gives people a lot of rights. If you are not a citizen you could be deported. If you were Armenian at that time you could be deported to an area where genocide was happening. Whatever you were fleeing you could be sent back to. Also, if you had family here you could be separated from them.

[@dominiqueubersfeld2282]

Who is legally blonde?

[@sjacks3281]

They pretty much said that you could be a citizen as long as you assimilated to anglo saxon culture. if you can erase all of your heritage, blend in, adopt protestant christianity, english as a language, and support "white supremacy", you're in.

[@sjacks3281]

I guess, now, it's easy to say that the government shouldn't be able to define who you are. but now, our citizenship isn't defined by their ideas of race as it was before 1965. So, sure we should do away with antiquated forms of identity. AND, ethnicity and ancestral origin still matters. but now, each person should be able to give those identifiers instead of having them imposed on them

[@sjacks3281]

I know that the naturalization after the 14th amendment gave people of African descent born in the U.S citizenship, but I don't know if that really applied to new immigrants from africa because didn't the U.S. essentially deny immigration from Africa after the transatlantic slave trade? meaning, only people of african descent who became citizens were the ones who were trafficked here any chart i've seen shows that immigration from africa was essentially zero before 1965

[@user-ne5ns7sd6x]

U R SO BEAUTIFUL 🤩

[@kingdom28]

Will love for you to explore the fact or ideas that Italians and Spaniards have black blood in them especially sicilians because of the Moors

[@angelmoreno6577]

Spaniards black blood? I'm pale and green eyes. North Italians are practically germans

[@Duquedecastro]

Less than 3-10% of Spaniards have any admixture

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@DuquedecastroGenetic tests only say the admixture from the last 500 years or so. Admixture before that doesn't necessarily show up.

[@Duquedecastro]

@@johnnyearp52 That makes no sense

[@Duquedecastro]

@@johnnyearp52 Then how do they find ancient admixture? There have been papers on it

[@mikedunham6260]

The definition of whiteness ranges form skin color to phenotype. Top tier whiteness are Nordic, Germanic and Alpine peoples. Lower tier white people usually involves southern Europeans who are olive toned and are apart of the Latin family. Below that are Slavic people. Honorary white people who are classified as white with darker skin are: Indians, Arabs, Asians, North Africans and horn Africans (Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Whiteness and both genetic and a type of social credit through honorary status.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

Greeks, Basque, Albanians, Georgians Turkish and Berber are just a few people that don't fit into any of those categories. As a European I find all those attempts to create categories based on skin tone extremely arbitrary and ridiculous. My Greek husband looks like a Bavarian in winter, but in summer he gets really dark and could pass as someone from North Africa. Being from Bavaria myself I'd also say, a lot of Bavarians look like Italians. Skin colour of most people varies according to how much they're exposed to UV radiation. So which of their different shades will be considered to define my "race"? We should define our ethnicity by culture and language.

[@mikedunham6260]

@@helgaioannidis9365 According to the US census, this is the case. And non of the demographics you mentioned are refuting it. Being identified as white and accepted by white people is the goal of 9/10 of the planet. Especially those who immigrate to Europe, North America and Australia.

[@OldFunkyBastard]

The category is the standard of power to define and redefine the realities of the Nonwhite/ living planet. I just left TN after 40+yrs, I'm on a "white allotted place" called a reservation, home of one of the biggest of 12 tribal nations here, they are powerless and are ignorant (confused) to the fact that they are regulated regardless of "treaties", by white federal oversight. the "government " is made up of a foundational operative collective that classifies themselves as WHITE, I would urge you to look at the materials of the ppl that put this conversation on the table, some are on their way out the door, because you're trying to make sense of a phenomenon whilst looking at the evidence without the science... make sense? Plus i will never claim any part of "our country" the reality is all white ppl are squatter on stolen land by reality and their own leagal definitions. White is a serious power equation that has devastated this planet sis, nothing silly about it... unless you've not been paying attention. Thanks for the evidence. Again: " if you do not understand white supremacy (racism) what it is and how it works, everything else you understand will only confuse you " - Neely Fuller jr

[@stacyfrederick9183]

Funny or should I say ironic that this happen to this Armenian fellow is the fact that Armenia is a traditional kingdom located in the Caucus mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas. By hence the term Caucasians referring to you guessed it: white people! So what is the status of all kingdoms in the Caucus mountains? In the middle east? Eastern European? So if you are not white? Are you instead black? Does that mean you are a slave? Or a second class citizen with Jim Crowe laws? Inquiring minds would like to know.

[@jboss1073]

21:28 - these two things don't contradict each other and there's nothing insane about it. Saying "whiteness only extends to the Caucasian race" is not the same as to say "whiteness extends to the whole Caucasian race", it simply means "whiteness affects only the Caucasian race" and hence, because the Japanese are Asiatic, they do not be considered.

[@leechumbley5440]

Let a 'white' person go into a paint shop and match their skin colour with the sample booklets. They will never match with white, but with various shades of pink.

[@komlat253]

Lol back when the US was actually color blind😂 . This is not hard to figure out nor does it matter

[@jujagthemag]

What does it mean to prove to be white. Proving your European is one thing but what is white?

[@janetdesmith8125]

Fortunately my family would rather play wiffle ball than talk about skin color.

[@nytn]

Good thing they weren’t trying to get us citizenship in the 1930s like some of our family members:)

[@janetdesmith8125]

@@nytn They were pretending they hadn't experience the anti-german sentiment.

[@genehammond7239]

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