how can you be a colour?

Question

i don't understand the term,

'you act black' or 'you act white' to me this sounds silly, you can't be a colour. do you lot think the term sounds right?

let me make myself a bit clear, by giving you an example; when a white person for example, braids their hair and listens to hip hop they get called a 'wigar' or other people ask why she trys to be black and same applies to a black person acting white, if a black person is posh and doesn't listen to 'black music' they get called a bounty, black on the outside and white in the inside.

and what am trying to say is, why cant a person be what they want without being called these things.

Answer 1

I'm not a colour, I'm a number, 42736 in fact.

Answer 2

Yes, that's makes me red with rage though I am white like an asparagus when I see a black tornado just out of the blue but there is a silver lining on a grey cloud and the gold sun will shine again. That's makes me green with envy you know! All these white goose questions..

Answer 3

I think those terms in 'additional details' are funny ha ha. What does Michael Jackson get called? There was a very black guy in the US who was officially white for immigration, cos he had a Danish passport. A white guy in South Africa who was officially black for the neighbours, who reported him visiting a woman. Check, he was just mediterranean with a tan. What a laugh and load of bollocks. Remember YA : Sex Pistols allowed bollocks on record sleeve after court case.

Answer 4

I think the use of such terms ignores the real person and is demeaning and illogical.
Anyway the term is foolish because neither white or black is a colour but a tone.
One can tell none of them people who use such terms studied Art or humanity. .

Answer 5

its not to hard to understand ..unfortunately if we were all the same we would be number ... we are all different white is white black is black with different Hewe's in between ...would rather have a colour than a number any day ...if your white you behave in a certain way and if your black likewise and if your in between interesting .....anyway mother earth is stirring and eventually we will all be the same just its taking for ever my no is only kidding .... all the best in 2007

Answer 6

The colours black and white have come to be words synonymous with African people (or people with obvious African heritage) and European people. It may sound silly but its easier than saying the full versions of what people are. C'mon there's nothing wrong with the terminology.

Answer 7

Every time I'm asked to fill out a form for one thing or another, they always want to know my ethnic background, whats up with that? I always put Human Being, because that's what I am, not an ethnic choice.

Answer 8

you can. you just have to leave groups. find a group of people that you like to hang around, and remove yourself from the others. then you won't have people calling you names.

and remember "it's not what they call you, it's what you answer to". I've had people tell me i was "acting white" for using words like "illumination". (because illumination was a "white word") needless to say, i don't hang around those people.

Answer 9

Because society has already labled them. You can be whomever you choose to be; not everyone will see it the same way though.

Answer 10

black is not only a race its also a colur with a lot of heritage nad culture.