A Japanese immigrant fought to be White

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Unveiling the paradox of white skin without White American identity, we delve into the Supreme Court case Ozawa vs The United States, where a Japanese immigrant argued that skin color was enough to determines one's racial identity. He was wrong.Who counts as "white" ?
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[@t.nelson9345]

One thing I love about your channel. You can throw some boomerangs.

[@gazoontight]

Please continue to make these videos. My take on this: The USA was founded by people of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Dutch, and Swedish ancestry. They only wanted people like themselves in this country. As time went on, they needed people for jobs that required hard labor and long hours, so they allowed Slavic, Italian, Greek, Jewish, and Lebanese people to immigrate, but there was a cost - an often-brutal process of "Americanization" whereby the people were essentially remade. At least the men were; when I was a child, I personally knew some families where the mother never learned to speak English and did nothing but cook, clean, and do laundry all of her life. Nowadays you can press 2 for a different language when you call a government agency. It is no longer common for a family to change their name because the father was not hired simply because of his last name. The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant made the rules and decided who was who. Some peoples could be "whitened" enough to join the club (but at a lower membership tier) whereas other peoples just weren't eligible for membership.

[@Ariapeithes_]

Yeah it's called assimilation.

[@mysteriouslady9772]

Where did u learn this lie? How could the USA be founded by all these white people when there were dark skin Natives, and blacks already here in this land? You need to do some research, you've been fed whitewashed lies

[@satyakisil9711]

Except they could have at least made it explicit instead of dealing with needless dialectics and jargon.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

Basically the way it worked is you had the "definitely white" anglos, the definitely not white African americans and natives, and a bunch of ethnicities that didn't comfortably fall into either and could over time become "white" such as the Jews, the Italians, the Greeks, the Polish, the Russians, Armenians, Arabs etc. Asians were originally legally people of color in the US unlike the other groups who were (except for some sicilians) legally white on paper, but even Asians have been whitened to some degree. Really, there's a certain degree of racial privilege anyone who isn't black has. If you're not black, you can become accepted in society eventually. But if you're black, you'll always be the underdog until society finally stops caring about race.

[@rroadmap]

@@jimmyalfonda3536 I don't see that Blacks are still the underdog. We elected a Black president twice. Almost every police chief in every major city is Black. The same for mayor's and DA's. They are much more likely to get a position as a college professor than a White man these days. And they have a leg up on getting hired or promoted in any position opening in the government or any company who does business with the government. There are many college scholarships available for them. If they stop seeing themselves as victims and realize they can succeed at anything they put the effort into, they can be anything they want to be. The change has to happen within the Black family and community. Parents have to start marrying and staying together to provide a better financial situation and stability for their children. They need fathers in the home so they don't look for father figures and families in gangs. They have to value education and teach their children to value it. They have to teach their children to behave and respect authority so the teachers can actually get some teaching done in the classroom rather than dealing with behavior issues most of the time. They need to start cooperating with police to get the drugs and criminals put in prison and out of their neighborhoods. Look at Ben Carson. He had a mother who taught him right and demanded excellence. He became a neurosurgeon and his brother became an aeronautical engineer. Write your own destiny!

[@rhondalight70]

Keep on informing and educating us! I don't know as much as I would like on my mom's side, because that side of the family pretty much just kept everything hush hush, and what bits and pieces I do know are from when I did research on Ancestry, and from little things here and there that I remember mom and my aunt and uncles talking about when I was a kid. The Melungeons, Brass Ankles, Turks of South Carolina, and the Redbones of Louisiana are all associated to some degree, with mixed heritage and having to hide it in order to survive and thrive. At the end of the day we are all just human beings trying to live our best lives, and that is what is important, not being shoved into a neat little box.

[@davidhopson5742]

The only thing im noticing is the difference between when a black person vs a white person is viewed as when they talk about history even when its in the same tone. If a black gave out this same information the way you presented it the comment section would have a vastly different tone. Crazy

[@StirUpYourPurpose]

Another great insight, the more I listen to this, the more I am glad that I dissociated myself from those social construct “labels” that was setup by some “smart” alecs to build a caste system and perpetuate the dastardly “chattel” slavery system/institution. I am glad I listened to my intuition, few years ago, after moving to North America to reject those labels for I saw through all the nonsense and of recent I now see channels like this confirming the bold statements I made a few years ago just based off the inner directions. Let’s get this there are no “whites” or “blacks” go find your ancestry and lead with those findings…it’s ether you are indigenous to the Americas, or you are of European heritage, African or from the landmass called Asia or of mixed heritage but there would be one prevailing identify in the mix and I do believe soon very soon all these labels would fall like a pack of cards, for it is nothing more than a lie and any structure built on lies sooner or later crumble in time and space. Enjoy those boxes whist they last if you identify by them.

[@lindyashford7744]

Interesting statement. I have a question though. How long does it take for people to be consider or not considered indigenous? Because we most certainly cannot give legitimacy of i habitation only by the old notions of being indigenous, many people globally would not belong to the places they inhabit. In a modern world with migration being something quite normal to the times doesn’t it have to be rethought? Or maybe at least our individual and original birthplaces need to be at least as important as some perceived ties from the past. I mean where do third and fourth or even longer duration of migration start to feel the land they inhabit is where they belong? In my country I know of third generation who are not yet accepted, but they have never known anything else, everything they are has been made from the place they are in no matter that there are other influences. So your post is interesting to say the least.

[@etruscancivilization]

@@lindyashford7744 Very interesting point, and well taken in regards to what is indigenous since there are been many waves of different people who has sat foot on the Americas that dates back more than 14Kya with female "Luzia" skeletal remains found and classified in Brazil, as well as another female name "NAIA" discovered in MEXICO, and both has been identified as being 100% Negroid phenotype. There are also numerous Black OLMEC statues which are credited as being the FIRST Mexican civilization, and there are little MONGOLOID almond shaped eye people with straight dark hair which proves that different migrations to the Americas truly does consist of multi-racial, cultural, and ethnic groups on a timeline of several millenniums..

[@elmabrooks7417]

@@topsecretproductionsllc Yes I have negativity, so I am Black, my skin is not Black, I am not White nor yellow, so my choice is Black and I was forced and taken from my (heritage country, African, land of Black People). Do not attempt to take my Blackness, I have suffered too much for being Black. Black is my choice.

[@johnnyearp52]

Just because you fit in a box doesn't mean that you enjoy it.

[@nasticanasta]

@@lindyashford7744 I was born here, therefore indigenous, no one sprouted in America..they all came from somewhere else, American indians did not sprout here, they migrated from Asia over the Aleutian Islands

[@coreylevine8095]

Do one on Arabs Americans

[@Cedricbennettjr]

What is an Arab???

[@coreylevine8095]

@@Cedricbennettjr Middle Eastern

[@tiredoftrolls2629]

@coreylevine8095 I vote yes as well!

[@tiredoftrolls2629]

​@@coreylevine8095I vote yes as as well!

[@Cedricbennettjr]

@@coreylevine8095 What does middle eastern actually mean? I'm not trolling, just trying to understand what that actually means. Especially when there is no middle north, south and west.

[@stanleywalden6177]

I really enjoy watching your video content. Is very educational, informative and phenomenal.

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

I've seen very tanned Japanese-American Men and Women living in the Southwestern cities, who work out in the field or love the sunny weather. I've seen KZbin videos about Japanese Women in Mexico who operate street vendors, and they are very tanned in that climate down there. I bet many Japanese-Americans or Japanese Immigrants avoided getting tans, they probably worked indoors. They probably wanted to fit or blend in with White America, at least with skin-tone. The strict immigration requirements and segregation was insane back then. Watching some of your videos covering U.S. Citizenship requirements, It's obvious why America became majority Western/Nordic White European.

[@nytn]

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[@jcortese3300]

Honestly, no. The word means nothing anymore. I'm always reminded of bell hooks' comments about whiteness, that it just creeps outward and ends up meaningless in the end.

[@standforhumanitariancauses4756]

Japanese are East Asians, nothing about their facial features resembles caucasians Absolutely nothing. They're closer to Chinese, and Koreans. The eyes, nose, facial bone structures, have nothing in common with any caucasian groups. I've traveled to Japan, and only way I could tell the difference between an average Chinese, Japanese or Koreans is by their language. They have far more commonality with each other , than anyone else with them. For example a caucasian could have olive skin complexion, but they're still caucasians. For Japanese to consider themselves white , it would like an Eskimo claims to be Sub Saharan African.

[@sr2291]

​@saracolon2677Isn't Caucasian more like Eurasian?

[@Mojoman1]

The white-black paradigm is a sham. Probably wasnt the author's intention, but thats what I got out of reading The History of White People.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

Nah, because most of them aren't the color white.

[@brianclark4040]

I think the people petitioning for citizenship were selecting “white” not just because choosing “African” would be an obvious non-starter. “White” designation would confer more status and perks and none of that pesky segregation and second-class citizenship. The Sikh man could have tried to argue “blackness” or adjacency to Africa by complexion or other mental gymnastics. Non-African descended people who were dark often lived in segregated communities and attended segregated schools alongside their black neighbors. They were visibly non-white by the unspoken guidelines used in the US. People of African descent have a multitude of complexions and features-even within sub Saharan Africa. In the Americas even more so especially with intermixing with other populations. People who have African heritage and could pass as white did so because it was an advantage. But why would anyone in their right mind select to be “black” or claim African ancestry at that time in history to become a U.S. citizen? Were there any North African people who claimed African heritage to vie for citizenship? Or if Arab did they try to become designated as white?

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

I imagine north africans were legally white for the purposes of immigration. Maybe not socially white, but legally white.

[@brianclark4040]

@@davruck1 Race is a BS, non-scientific social construct meant for class control. That said, can you explain what you mean by no sub Saharan Africans? I’m not sure I understand your comment. As I understand , in the U.S. we have adopted norms that are commonly followed for classifying people. When we refer to black Americans, we tend to refer to people who can trace some or most of the ancestry from people who were forcibly taken from cultures that lived primarily south of the Sahara and within or south of the Sahel usually in western or central Africa (in current nation states like Nigeria, Angola, Benin, Ghana, Senegal). People from this region tend to have features that differ from people who have ancestry from Northern Africa (e.g., Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt). All are African by ancestry from a continent. But by the race game, the darker skinned folks have been called black no matter how nonsensical that is or where they were actually born and raised.

[@LawrenceDaniels-so9zv]

Most blacks think whites are GOOFY book smart, but know common sense 😅

[@LawrenceDaniels-so9zv]

Most trans are white😮

[@LawrenceDaniels-so9zv]

You racist idiot, some blacks immigranted to America, & didn't want to be white.....White people are Asians. Arabs, Indonesians😮😮 because of "low birth rates😅

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

I continue to sit with mouth agape listening to you "peel back the layers of the onion" that defines "whiteness" in America. Sometimes it seems like the judgements in the past had no real basis in reality and were arbitrary in some instances. Keep on "peeling" and I'll keep on following the journey. 😉Thanks, Danielle. ❤

[@MasontheMarxistDog]

i will never use the term 'Caucasian' to refer to anything other than the peoples of the Caucasus

[@MarenaPetersdorfHerrera]

Eventually you will step into the Roma or Romani, Romany, controversy where a "Monoracially white and black" American person, sometimes gets a here say story of a "Gypsy fortune teller" in their family tree, kind of the similar thing when people say Cherokee. or they say they have a "Bohemian", grandparent. it is possible, because a lot of Roma's did become settlers and marry outsiders back then to pass, and consanguineously marry cousins, to preserve cultures. or question who counts as Romani vs Romany, might come up.

[@Skiskiski]

Mein Frau's Schwester wurde auch als Baby von einem Zigeuner entführt. OH! Sie ist Afroamerikanerin.

[@greendro6410]

How about America just use the term European-American than White

[@jcortese3300]

That won't work, it'll just become the new way of saying "white." And it'd leave everyone outside of Europe out again, no different than before.

[@Ama94947]

for me it really give me the feeling that they just used WHITE to describe privilage in US.. its a sad history.

[@sr2291]

Because that wouldn't denote superiority.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

Because what would we call a blonde haired blue eyed Kabyle berber?

[@sr2291]

@@jimmyalfonda3536 Berber? North African? Kabyle?

[@jbrown8601]

"if you white, you alright. If you brown, stick around. If you black, get back!" - my grandpa 🤣

[@azhariarif]

based grandpa

[@saltwatertaffy7020]

That's an old common expression.

[@cheryljackson5659]

I remember hearing something similar regarding Filipino immigrants and their descendants in Louisiana petitioning to be deemed White by the court system.

[@colinchampollion4420]

Filipinos far from being White😂

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@colinchampollion4420, “white” is a made up and ambiguous category. It could apply to anyone or no one.

[@darrellpasion8925]

​@colinchampollion4420 even Mexicans are far from being white. Senor blanco. Lol.

[@Ariapeithes_]

​@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 It's not a made category nor is it ambiguous.

[@colinchampollion4420]

@@darrellpasion8925 then WHY m y USA birth certificate states that I am White and we are counted as White in the USA Census? MEXICAN BOXER ○ Canelo has red hair and he his White as well as Sofia Verdarga she is White and a Natural blonde like me and I am Mexican🤓😈! Have y ou been to Mexico?

[@jcortese3300]

I'm reminded of Malcolm X's snide remarks toward Italian Americans when he said things like, "Where did your dark, curly hair come from?" We know exactly where it came from -- and it wasn't our idea to shoehorn ourselves into whiteness, nor were we as so many people accuse us, instantly "white on arrival." It's very much in the interests of the powerful on both the left and the right to act like the binary is all that exists. In reality, the whole machine that runs this country and maintains the binary exists in the undefined space full of people between the two extremes. And no one wants that machine to really be recognized, seen, or heaven forbid, understood. If it's ever understood, we might be able to finally tear it down, and no one wants that.

[@brian_Austin27]

Exactly same with the Irish and religion of the European jews all of them are based on us

[@nicoparise-jc5fs]

We’re the first Latinos, Malcolm x is a rotting corpse. Who cares what he thinks. Our dark features come from being the first Latino people.

[@marcellocolona4980]

I’m Mexican, Sicilian and a smattering of French-German. We always referred to non-Mexicans or non-Italians as “white” or “‘merican”, we never thought of ourselves as “white,” that was for people like English, Irish, German, French, etc., even northern Italians. Oddly my Mexican mother looks very “white,” but I take after my dad’s Sicilian family. I have dark olive-brown skin, dark brown eyes, black wiry hair. Everyone assumes I’m Middle Eastern. My DNA showed a lot of African blood. I married a Nigerian woman and both our daughters look 100% African, you’d never know they had any “white” blood. This whole concept of “white” is a social construct unique to the USA. In the end, we are all cousins.

[@shay5839]

Huh? You know Ron DeSantis, John Travolta, the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond and Anthony Fauci, etc., are Italians? They are all white.

[@shyphyre]

Yet you all benefit from being white, and all come here and pick up a WS attitude and anti-black racism towards African Americans and Latinos.

[@jorgegonzales9815]

You have the right combination. You have to have white skin, white facial/body features, and have European based culture, language, religion, and history. Ben Franklin believed only English and some Saxons were white. The rest of Europe was swarthy (Germans) and not white.

[@MsMaureen1975]

Great video, you always bring the facts that highlight how nonsensical all of this stuff is. I think it would be interesting to do a video on Pacific Islanders and how they are categorized in this country; they're such a diverse group.

[@nytn]

What a great suggestion. Do you have any tips for that topic?

[@MsMaureen1975]

@@nytn I don't know if this is a tip, but I wonder if there are any court cases in this country involving the racial classification of a person from that region? Especially if they were darker with an afro but they are not of African descent.

[@nemomarcus5784]

In South Africa of the 1970s, the Japanese were "honorary White."

[@nemomarcus5784]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_whites

[@nytn]

What a term

[@Precisionetica]

Due to their high sense of creative aesthetics /High IQ. Which builds society’s worth living in.

[@shyphyre]

Thanks for showing your character.@@Precisionetica

[@Precisionetica]

@@davruck1 That’s cap

[@raselbx]

People from The Dominican Republic but through the lens of their government policies on colorism/race, and how that has affected some/many Dominicans from identifying and claiming their ‘African’ culture. I’m interested to see if you find some better details than I have. Peace.

[@gabrielmcdonnell8699]

Yup. In MY experience, Afro-Latinos love the Latino part; the Afro part, not so much. _YET_ ... these Afro-Latinos look black (all the hues) and have a 4C look most Negroes but they still insist they have no African ancestry. Sigh. Like it or not, DR, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama, Honduras etc, y’all are *BLACK* countries. 🖤

[@jojohns1949]

You need to teach this in college classes This is so interesting

[@mauricejones6193]

Why are people fighting to be something their not,you have to live and be yourself and vibe with your real ancestors and believe in yourself and your heritage, no one is better than the next,its all paperwork sone by the evil of the world ,there's nothing wrong with bonding with your ancbut when you hate on another race for color then that's the Devil to me sister 😢

[@brianclark4040]

That sounds great. But I don’t think you realize how aggressively racist the U.S. was prior to the 1980s. It’s hard to vibe with who you are when society is deciding for you where you can live, study, work, and with whom you can interact. My parents were born in the 1940s in Virginia. The stories they told me about their experiences with segregation and the experiences of their elders is hard to listen to.

[@trulyblessed5254]

@@brianclark4040 Basically ppl have willingly accepted their role and place in society without questioning authority despite the hardships, injustices and sufferings. Regardless of the region of the world that we live, there's going to be arrogance and ppl that are indifferent for whatever reason but it's not a spirit that should be internalized because once that happens the adversary has the greater hold on ppl who don't know thyself or their rightful place in this world. The adversary knows who to mess with and who not to.

[@brianclark4040]

@@trulyblessed5254 I love what you wrote. I appreciate the optimism to dare to transcend over prevailing currents when they are flowing the wrong way. Compared to where we are now (in attitudes about race) there has been progress. I would like to believe that my children or future grandchildren (if I have any) will live in a country where one’s race or ethnicity will just be a quirky feature that has no greater importance than some people have brown hair and some people have black hair and some people are short and some are tall. When I go out in the morning I am just me. It never occurs to me that someone will see me and think “there’s a black guy.” But it will take time to get to the point where we want to be because we are still wrestling with a past that was traumatic.

[@donvaughn5ify]

I'mma tell you what blows my mind all these minority groups who wants to be white European it baffles me when you have the audacity to think you better than a brother or sister when you don't even love thyself

[@milascave2]

maurice: I agree. But during the era she talked about here, people wanted to be classified as white for a very specific reason: those were the only people permitted to migrate to the USA.

[@mrlunatic4816]

Why does the thumbnail of this video keep changing?

[@darrellm9915]

Magic.

[@nytn]

I have A/B testing set up.

[@cheesusclark2926]

I’m an African American war veteran and I’m very familiar with some of the lesser known and hardly ever discussed facts on American history involving immigration and U.S. citizenship. From slavery thru post slavery reconstruction all the way thru the civil rights era. Everyone likes to separate the subject of American citizenship from these other very difficult situations. With that being said, while listening to the back and forth deliberations on who can be defined as a “free white citizen” from pre civil war up until the present times. If you’re trying to become an American citizen why would anyone on that journey argue to become a citizen of African decent if there’s any other options and why is that the case? Maybe that’s another conversation for another time.

[@nasticanasta]

For all the privileged crying the race card.. let's remember the white politicians who claimed to be another race...all democrats too

[@ehbrownj]

I would like to know about what qualifies a person to be called an indigenous American based on their ancestral lineage of the percentage of blood quantum

[@leonardodipartlow8295]

It makes so much sense why there's a high degree of racism and bigotry that is running rampant through the Asian community.

[@arrow1414]

I think it is probably more than American classification standards that caused that. The only way to know is to examine historical Asian attitudes toward color and ethnicity even before the 19th century to get that story.

[@mariejane1567]

@@arrow1414no they bleach their skin in Asia and never been to America

[@Galidorquest]

And self-loathing.

[@arrow1414]

@@Galidorquest I doubt that since they are from civilizations that had existed as long as Europe if not longer. Again, I think we have to examine if color prejudice existed in Asia before European contact. Ethnic prejudice certainly did, as it does everywhere.

[@Galidorquest]

@@arrow1414 To be more specifIc, I meant that there are a lot of Asians who lighten their skin, and many Asian women want to marry a Caucasian man so their kids would look less Asian.

[@vblake530530]

Teach, I’m giving you a Thumbs Up for saying “All intents and purposes “. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@nytn]

Lol! Yah I hate seeing “intensive purposes” 😫😤😤

[@yamayama6083]

Great work you're doing. You have a unique channel that focuses on the historic compelxities of race. A lot of people don't know much about this history and how it continues to affect them. So you digging these past historic events is educating us a lot and helping those that come across your content and still learning about their racial identities in america. Great work.

[@darrellm9915]

Race-baiting is good work? 🤔

[@nytn]

I can’t race bait if I disagree with the fundamentals of white v black. I’m against that very concept

[@darrellm9915]

​@@nytn That's like saying you can't be racist because race is a social construct, or that you can't promote animal cruelty because you disagree with the concept of harming animals. Your intentions might be positive, but you're still fueling a toxic and divisive perspective on certain groups of people, all because of what went down in the past.

[@nytn]

Do you think we should stop studying history? Abolish "history" as a subject? Get rid of the Library of Congress that houses so many primary sources? My intentions are neutral, to be honest. Im just researching and sharing what I find. What I am finding is breaking my heart. @@darrellm9915

[@darrellm9915]

@@nytn Obviously I'm not suggesting we get rid of History or trying to boss you around. I just think it's a bit one-sided when certain "white people" are always the perpetual "bad guys," the ones doing all the oppressing and victimizing of other people without acknowledging that this has happened with all races throughout human history. Notably, the Barbary Slave Trade is a topic I'd highly recommended you look into, if you're interested in something different for a change.

[@japeri171]

Certain people have to understand that people are not originally from just 2 places on this planet(Africa and Europe).And that, even on these two continents,people are very different from each other.

[@LeccareNewHandle]

Group of Mongols moved to west from their lands in the 17th century and unfortunately arrived to Russia. As the surroundings were too uncivilized many Kalmyks moved to the USA, and after a court case, they they won their whiteness.

[@selinaBARMAR2565]

Japan has a rich culture. No need trying to be white in America. Yes, some Asians are very light-skinned, some of the lightest are in Siberia. The U.S. identity categories I feel are truly off balance, weak and really irrelevant for explaining the human race. I had a great boss a while back who was a Jewish man born in South Africa; he looked white based on Americans standards for sure. But really he was a true African American. lol

[@Ariapeithes_]

Jews are Caucasian, but they belong to a different branch of the Caucasian race, and they are of Anglo-Celtic heritage.

[@babyboy562]

@@Ariapeithes_yeah Ashkenazi Jews only 🤦🏾‍♂️ there’s no J in Hebrew these Albion’s are converts and not true Hebrews……indigenous Europeans were not pink recessive Albion’s. Indigenous Europeans would be described as “Blacks” today in America even though they are Brown like so called African American who are indigenous to America. Get your knowledge up Neanderthal ✊🏾🏹🪶🗿💪🏾

[@selinaBARMAR2565]

@@Ariapeithes_ Yes. I'm aware of these matters regarding Jews, some. Jews are also linked to the Southern Levant. But the slight humor here is my boss and us used to say how technically he is African American because he's from Africa and now lives in America. A person from Algeria living in America would also be from Africa and let's say a second generation person. Ethically not African American as it's defined in the U.S. but Africa is a huge continent which are times in the USA seems like it's described as one's race or ethnicity. Africa is not one's race but in the US it sometimes seem that way. Thanks for the insights.

[@selinaBARMAR2565]

@Allah_Loves_Forgives_and_Saves I know that's obvious. But what's a white feature exactly? Even European don't share one then of feature, in fact not even Mongoloids do. To me for example, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans don't all look alike. And from my experience and history with these populations they don't appreciate being told that or they are just the same as Mongoloids. But when you begin to mix Mongoloids with those in Asia Minor such as Turkey and Eastern Europeans then it's no longer just Mongoloid but becomes what is often referred to as Turks. The Mongolian Emperor had so many wives of different backgrounds that many have Mongolian ancestry in those regions. I'm just saying there is more to culture than adopting what is considered white culture in America. Japan has a rich culture that I noticed that Americans at a time where interested in especially how they do food. Give me sushi any day over meat and potatoes. Thanks for sharing.

[@stacyfrederick9183]

This is interesting. When I was in elementary school the deciding factor was hair texture. Yes hair texture. You got that right. Not skin color, not eye color, not the shape of the nose or lips or jaw or cheekbones. Enough to drive you to drink.

[@johnnyearp52]

Where did you go to school?

[@mariejane1567]

As a Foundational Black American the level of ignorance around this topic is astounding..... I wonder if people actually listen to people give them this information based on race.

[@nytn]

You didnt point out anything non-factual?

[@batya7]

Fascinating dive into the American mythos. Thank you for bringing this to the forefront. The inconsistencies in Justice Sutherland's decisions baffle me. Those jurists on the Supreme Court are supposed to uphold the highest ideals. Instead, we see that he /they had no idea what the ideals were!

[@EyeOfTheWatcher]

Highest ideals based on what really, as if you look at the history of supreme court it is based on what the people put them in power wants.

[@ivyd5485]

But white is based on skin color - as long as your skin is light enough it doesn’t matter your ethnicity you can “pass” or even be deemed to be white- that includes blk ppl who pass for white. I should wait until I’ve watched the entire vid to comment.

[@antoniocledesma1446]

Nope not even close there are very tanned olive white people who are ethnically white with the facial features and physical traits. Skin color means nothing it is dna ancestry and phenotype. Many Northern Europeans don't even consider some Southern Europeans white. You think a light skinned black person is white ?? Haha there are many hispanic mestizos that are lighter than any black person or mulatto but they're still not considered truly ethnically white but mixed

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

To some degree yes, but it's still not the same level of whiteness as a definitely white person. My mom is a fair skinned Hispanic. She looks whiter than someone like George Lopez, but still has a more Mediterranean type appearence, and I imagine if she told someone where our family was from, we might face certain stereotypes that a typical Anglo wouldn't.

[@darrellm9915]

@@jimmyalfonda3536 Mediterraneans from Southern Europe are white, and people all over Europe can look Mediterranean. There are plenty of dark-looking British, Irish, Germans, and French people too. Look at Henry Cavill, Russell Brand, David Gandy, Colin Farrell, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rowan Atkinson, Victoria Beckham, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. They all look Mediterranean, even though they are British and Irish. Being "white" doesn't mean you have blonde hair and blue eyes with strictly Anglo-Saxon origins. Most whites don't even have blonde hair either. It's all peroxide, lol. Also "Hispanic" is not a race, since they come from all different backgrounds. Many of them have Southern European ancestry, which is why they look similar.

[@azhariarif]

That's a retarded take my guy. My mom believe it or not, have snow white skin and she's Malaysian. Is she white?

[@Galidorquest]

"as long as your skin is light enough it doesn’t matter your ethnicity you can “pass”". Bingo. Exactly. It's about what you look like.

[@phoenixr6811]

Wow interesting 🤔 should the term white be used in this country can be answered by those who identify as white .They are the only ones who can answer question for themselves 😊

[@KA-hr3cn]

I have to say, Danielle,my mind is blown by your history lessons on this channel. 🤯 I've been telling all my friends to watch. There are so many thoughts I have, but can't put it into words. Mostly, I just question how something as destructive and pernicious as racism (which is 1000% real) can persist when it is apparent that the concept of race itself is completely fabricated?

[@nytn]

I really appreciate your sending videos to people. What we need more of are conversations, and people like you and me willing to say “I don’t have a solution, but let’s talk about it anyway”. I wish politicians were as honest.

[@KA-hr3cn]

@@nytn I appreciate you for offering a platform which uncovers unknown chapters of American history and allows for a discussion regarding such a complex topic.

[@desertdetroiter428]

Lol…white Americans guard whiteness with extreme rigor and discernment. African Americans have always known this. Other groups have often deluded themselves. Sadly.

[@lindyashford7744]

I think the race was on for people to claim citizenship on the basis of not-blackness, because there was effectively no way to become a citizen if you were black. If the only way you could come in was by being white then obviously everyone who wanted to come here had to be white. The fact they could exclude the educated Sikh gentleman with such arguments tells you what you need to know. The whole project of populating America was about duplicating and expanding a specific European population and was segregationist at core. Thankfully it has evolved a little since then, but there are some who still support those long held notions.

[@LawrenceDaniels-so9zv]

White people gotta take any group because of low "birth rates" Asian Arab, Eskimo, so on😆

[@rroadmap]

Obviously we have fixed these errors, since we have immigrants from all over the world. My husband had two grandfathers who were naturalized American citizens from Mexico and my grandchildren's other grandmother is from Japan. I would like to hear more about when and how those changes were made. It appears from reading the Supreme Court brief from this case, that Congress had to change the law. That would be a good topic for a video in my opinion.

[@robertvazquez2964]

All I know is that when I stand before God one day I don’t want to be asked why do you hate what I created?

[@nytn]

you and me both

[@yo2trader539]

This interesting piece of American history.

[@TheRealZarp]

Not all africans are Black. Just wanted to throw that out there. Also, "whiteness" has also been an issue with biracial black people. During slavery, whites debated whether someone who was a "quadroon" (a person who is 1/4 black) is white, because for all intents and purposes they certainly appear what they would accept as white.

[@rhondae8222]

@@davruck1 You must be a Black man who's trying to be something other than Black. However, most people in the African Continent are Black. This is the truth whether you accept it or not.

[@elleanna5869]

@@davruck1 as an African who happen to be "melanated" I can confirm that Africaness and blackness are not the same thing. Also , what's "black" and what's "white" according to US people is not that "carved in stone " as they tend to think.

[@chenzenzo]

It's based on money and land. Io sugnu sicilianu è Napulitan. Many Italians have no concept of our own diaspora.

[@chenzenzo]

Te parlata nmano lingua bbuono. 'ca ta su parisi la miu bedda lingua.

[@OfficiallymeSaS1221]

I’ve seen white snow ,bears ,rabbit ,foxes and other animals but never seen white peoples 😳👀🤔😂

[@user-ff1dn3rg7c]

​@Allah_Loves_Forgives_and_Savesthey're Africans.

[@trinityvttv]

.............CORRECT.............

[@lindyashford7744]

Seems to me there is still a wholly paternalistic notion right in the heart of what America is that determines how America is constituted. A sort of assumption of what ‘American’ means. I think actually it is far more than just ‘white’. Maybe more what kind of white. So there is a core than are wholly American in this paradigm and everyone else is arrayed around this pole in lesser or greater degrees of American worth. This supposes a powerful faction - that maybe crosses other boundaries - who are in the heart of power regarded as the ‘real’ Americans. This is how and why this weirdly sliding and increasingly slippery notion of colour, race and Americanness still persists. I hope you understand I do not agree with this at all! But it seems to me that it is very likely it exists as a persistent image that inhabits the notion of Americaness. Even your use of ‘as American as apple pie’ is indicatively of a certain image. The whole thing in the 21st century is nuts, I know. How many actual living Americans would fit into this notion anyway? How many have no evidence whatsoever of being of mixed heritance? The whole thing needs such an upheaval of the established notions to get to reality, I have no idea how this could be done!

[@dannyboi4357]

Do African Americans next

[@rocketreindeer]

Oh, boy, if you keep up with all this research, some people's heads might explode. The whiteness concept can be summed up in a hilarious way for teaching purposes by the story, "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss. Every one of your videos keep bringing me back to my childhood memories of the Sneetches on beaches furiously running in and out of star-off and star-on machines to always have a group they could exclude.

[@nytn]

I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THAT STORY. I might have to do a video on it. What a kindred spirit!

[@rocketreindeer]

@@nytn Actually, you are so much like me in some ways, I wonder how close we are on the cousin chain. I also always remember the crook from that story, Sylvester McMonkey McBean.. ha ha! I think that was his name. He made so much money off the exclusion paradigm that he just laughed at how stupid they were. I mean, there are definitely Sylvester McMonkey McBeans operating in our world today. And they're not all content to just roll off with their dough like that cheesy cigar-smoking cartoon huckster, they try to make sure we never learn anything or grow up, so they can keep the cash flowing. "Or so it seems."

[@KA-hr3cn]

Too late. Mine already did 🤯

[@nytn]

I wonder how much copyright infringement I'll be dealing with if I read part of that book in a video...😬

[@rocketreindeer]

@@nytn If you're doing an analysis, you should be able to quote from it, right? Critics do that all the time. I know using music can get dicy, but not sure how it works with libros. I wonder if the publisher would have a contact publicist person you could ask. I've heard different views on Sneetches, about it having different meanings, but I think Occam's Razor and my past little kid brain align that it's clearly about the skin we're born in. I was barely in school and nobody had to tell me it was about racism. In the same book, there was another story about fearing differences called What Was I Scared Of? I was young enough that the empty pants seemed scary until I read the story. There were definitely foundational truths in it for me as a little kid.

[@moonbay2399]

You've done a story on what makes you white could you also do the same about what makes you black for instance people from North Africa like from Egypt Libya an Morocco they're African also how about people Papua New Guinea Samoa Aboriginal Australian what are they considered

[@eroktartonga4032]

Obviously For the goverments of England and Usa first class citizen means the Anglo-Saxon origin only; but also combined with Protestant Christianity and anti secularism.

[@geauxel]

Another complication to the subject of whiteness also rests with what Black’s Law Dictionary states on who were “Free White People.” According to Black’s Law 4th Edition, White Person mentions the Ozawa case. However if you look at “Free White Person” you get a very different understanding of the distinction…White Person and Free White Person are not equal according to Law. Personally, I have ancestry that fit the Free White Person category who immigrated from England in the 1700’s into North Carolina. Based on the family line, they weren’t “White” and too dark to be called so. Yet, not dark enough to be considered African or Black. This same line would be reclassified as Mulatto, then Colored, Negro, Black and now we are called African, though no history of being from Africa in records. Very interesting topic!

[@DoubeEdged7]

White Person of European descent. Period.

[@rhondae8222]

Except for the Spaniards in Spain.

[@DoubeEdged7]

@@rhondae8222 you mean the gypsies

[@darrellm9915]

​@@rhondae8222 Cut the bs.

[@antony5430]

Its always difficult to decide what race you are when you are mixed. If you look white than you are white. I am brown myself i love my brown tan.😘 Honestly if people like /love you they don't see color only you.

[@gabrielmcdonnell8699]

Black dad/Filipina mom. On the census, for example, I’ll check both, in general convo, I just say I’m black. Never had black folks question it but they did tease me that my house stunk bc of mama’s Pinoy cooking. Living in Manila was enlightening bc while the locals appreciated me embracing my Filipino side, they didn’t see me as one of theirs. Also, my mom is from a diff province where they have their own language, traditions so that was another factor in them seeing me differently. Respectfully, I don’t like the “don’t see color” mindset bc TO ME it means you don’t see that I’m not you. Those that endorse that mentality are basically saying that heritage is invisible which is unfortunate bc one’s roots matter.

[@darrellm9915]

If you're mixed race, but you look more like another, that still doesn't make sense calling yourself only black or white, because you're both. Think of it like a color. What is Turquoise? Blue? Green? or both?... the answer will always be obvious.

[@gabrielmcdonnell8699]

@@darrellm9915 You make an _excellent_ point. Unfortunately, the U.S. isn’t that kind of country. In my 51 yrs, I’ve seen very few half white ppl accepted as white. Zendaya, as beloved as she is esp with Gen Z, is still seen as black despite her complexion. Ditto for Drake, The Weeknd and Alicia Keys. On the flip side of that is someone like Halsey who is white-passing and I applaud her for acknowledging that fact bc the black community wouldn’t detect any Africa in her features.

[@Galidorquest]

@@gabrielmcdonnell8699 Drake and Alicia Keys could pass for white (or Hispanic or Middle Eastern at best) if they relaxed their hair straight at a salon. Mariah Carey though definitely looks white when she wears her hair blonde & straight. Even her kids could pass for white with straight hair.

[@rosemarie7705]

There are many Spanish people who are white, who’s family immigrated to Cuba, Puerto Rico or any countries in Latin America and yet they are not considered white, although their grandparents are of European descent. Thus country in my opinion is still racist and it’s deemed to still point out who is rioters and who is not.

[@vblake530530]

You hit the nail on the head Teach. White = Northwest European . Or really England France and Spain . OR REALLY, ENGLAND.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

Not even Spain. Especially now, because our country is full of dumbasses who think Spanish people are "a type of mexican."

[@lindyashford7744]

Really northern and Western European. Their aristocracies were all related. Thus their societies too.

[@rhondae8222]

Most White people do not consider the people of Spain as White. The people of Spain are considered to be Caucasian. TBT

[@rhondae8222]

@@lindyashford7744 Most White people do not consider the people of Spain as White. The people of Spain are considered to be Caucasian. TB

[@sheepbay3]

You and masaman should do a video together. He's another KZbinr that does race videos. 😐

[@Galidorquest]

And Kemet Queen. They even look kind of similar.

[@Billiepippen]

THERE WAS NEVER ANTI ASIAN SENTIMENT. WE DIDNT ALLOW THE TO BE CITIZENS JUST LIKE WE CANT BE CITIZENS THERE, EVEN NOW. WHAT ABOUT AMRICAN EXCLUSION IN CHINA AND JAPAN?

[@77mudvayne]

So is a dark skinned Arab Black? AnnArab would definitely tell you no.

[@andyreid6869]

Bloodline

[@Billdean25]

What about natives? The ONLY real americans

[@masterakbarrelyeshuaxxi7452]

They dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. Now he wants to be the race of his oppressor 😅

[@22Too]

White is a word that pertains to social status. That is all it means.

[@Galidorquest]

And skin color.

[@karolinakuc4783]

In USA yes. In Europe we stay with biological definition and it gives you no priviliges.

[@PatrickPlayingPiano]

Great video and channel but I think you're a little naïve on why groups strive for whiteness. Race is tied to class in capitalist structures therefore groups will tend to assimilate to the idea whiteness in order to succeed in America. This is why groups define themselves as distant from being black as possible and as close to being white as possible. Also the cultural hegemony of the world is white, so I always find it dubious when you see some Asians walk around with umbrellas in the sun or South Americans, Africans, Indians etc bleaching their skin and arguing that it's just their culture.

[@Galidorquest]

"tied to class in capitalist structures therefore groups will tend to assimilate to the idea whiteness in order to succeed in America." Bingo. Exactly. But it's mainly about skin color.

[@jobrien8974]

The Irish, Italians and the Japanese were darker skinned prior to the Eugenics movement.

[@jbrown8601]

They just stopped going outside

[@colinchampollion4420]

​@@jbrown8601exactly very well saif

[@CTH72]

Perhaps you can do a video on the benefits of being a negro…. Thanks for the content and continued success…..

[@nytn]

Great suggestion!

[@rhondae8222]

@@nytn I second his motion. Thank you.

[@Galidorquest]

What are the benefits besides stereotypes?...

[@Cocoflower528]

@@Galidorquestwhite men built America for white men to prosper. Black people are the only people who suffered, died and fought for everyone in America to prosper. If it wasn’t for us 🇺🇸 wouldn’t be a place where everyone has rights, access to opportunities and upward mobility. Others have only fought to claim white to become part of the problem not the solution.

[@romecottrell6444]

That's why I'm so proud to be myself 😁❤️🙏🌆.

[@markbrown375]

maybe to yellow?

[@vieblu53]

Why do we still want to define whiteness?

[@nytn]

I hope we can quit it

[@elmabrooks7417]

I am just learning that people of color are requesting to be White( slave master). I think all of you who request (white-slave master) should be given that choice. More people to pay reparations to us Blacks. Thank you!

[@rhondae8222]

What world have you been living in? Everybody wants to be White even many Black people. TBT

[@sheepbay3]

Because their Japanese. "Duh" 🙄

[@bettyjenkins2162]

No discovered America

[@w41duvernay]

It should be based on how much ypur Ancestors stole from others to establish your way of life.

[@nytn]

I don’t think any group would be smelling like a rose if we did that!:)

[@rhondae8222]

@@nytn As a Black woman, I totally agree.

[@kathyfugere6085]

Plus we are not the colour of Milk

[@darrellm9915]

Neither is "white wine" - it's a linguistic category.

[@BlackAboriginalAmerican]

People are desperate to sell their soul to the devil. Gain the world and FOREVER lose your souls. What’s more important permanent blessings from Jesus Christ and Jehovah God or temporary gifts from the devil. ⚖️

[@tommygamba170]

Asian people don't have white skin. They can have light skin but it's still olive-toned or yellow toned.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

No less white than your average southern European. Also there are some Koreans and Japanese who genuinely do have white skin.

[@colinchampollion4420]

​@@jimmyalfonda3536but there facial fe a tures are Monogolian! And if they spend time in the SUN they turn brown😮😂🎉

[@jessecortez9449]

​@@jimmyalfonda3536have you never seen the extents they will go to avoid direct sunlight? You'd think they were vampires. The Korean exchange students at my university went to rather drastic measures to avoid the Texas sun on our campus. Especially the girls, they'd have a guy hold an umbrella or if they didn't have that then a coat or towel over them as if they would burst into flame if the sun light touched them.

[@darrellm9915]

Lol not true. Many East-Asians actually do have naturally pale to porcelain skin, like some Europeans have. Not all have olive to yellow tones.

[@nicoparise-jc5fs]

Italians come in all skin colors, we’re not white, we’re Latino. The first Latinos of this world. No Latino without Italian. I’ll burn you with nothing but facts. So stay in your place.

[@nyyt854tufc]

I'm a black african racist and I love it my people above all 🖤🙂

[@zentimewithseth8418]

I'd rather die.

[@cal4207]

can't be broken down into this group or that group😂 what do you know about prison politics that might change your viewpoint

[@nytn]

LOL that's a great point actually...