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I think the reason some Black people , (not all, certainly not me) get upset if a biracial Black person refers to themselves as biracial is due to the fact that these men and women see them as trying to distance themselves from their Blackness.. I think that many times they are paying acknowledgment to both parents, their relatives, both side s of their heritage etc... It is certainly their right to do so!

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Written by Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

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