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Originally Posted by MGMgrande

I think it all depends on what works for you culturally, socially & mentally. The decision is ultimately yours.
Your location is important also. Look at the people around you. Do the "black" people you see look like you? If not, you may have a hard time passing for black.

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Originally Posted by ShannonRicardo
Society tends to try and one drop you and it messes with your mind. I think most people will judge you by your phenotype regardless of the what you identify as. Most people don't see me as black unless I tell them. The vast majority of people finger me as spanish or white. I have yet to receive a traffic ticket that says anything other than white. I spent a night in jail once (for something stupid) when I was 24 in FL and they put an ID wrist label on me labeling me as white.

When I was in highschool I used to wear 100% black man shirts and tried hard to identify as black but to no avail, the white girls called me a wigger and said I wasn't black so stop acting like it. When I was younger I always wished I was more black looking and used to sun tan ALL DAY long to get darker but I would get sun burned red lol.

I have a friend in CO that doesn't know I'm half black to this day. I never said anything and he has made some jokes about black people so I know he doesn't know. I'm at a point now where I just don't care anymore and just let people assume all they want.

I met my ex fiancee off the net and she kept asking me if me if my hair was kinky (b/c I kept it cut low in the pics) before we met in person. When she met me she was like "Oh your hair is like mine[wavy])." It was like I was instantly accepted b/c half blackness didn't show up as much and she figured she could pass me off as something other than being part black b/c she knew her parents were prejudiced.

I should write a book about this sh*t lol.