barsoap , 14 days ago

YOU JUST FUCKING ASSERT THIS. FUCKING A PRIORI.

No. Case in point: I mentioned how Harris has lighter skin than many a Sicilian, and also very much has a temperate climate nose. These are not, in the slightest, phenotype traits typical of sub-saharan Africa mostly Nigeria thereabouts where most of the slaves trafficked during the Atlantic slave trade where from.

If you can’t see that then I suggest you visit an optometrist.

If you pass as white you are, for all intents and purposes, white.

Then why is Harris considered black? What does “passing” mean, here? Does it really have anything to do with phenotype, or is it cultural?

But some humans have different numbers of fingers! Some have four,

That’s a misexpression, the genome codes for five. And even then: Having six fingers is a physical, objective, trait. Harris being black isn’t, phenotypically she could just as well be Italian.