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[–]just_lesbian_things 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

it comes down to your Asian friend, where does she live and I bet I'll get it right.

San Francisco, California. Tell me. Show me how much you love diversity.

But what do you know about me? Besides for the fact I have black running through my veins. What country am I from; my parents are from? What's my first language?

About as much as you know about me?

This should be easy since all black people in America have the same, not really diverse history.

Not exactly what I said, but I'll take a shot.

Statistically, if you're in North America it's likely that your first language is English, followed by Spanish then French. In order of descending likelihood, your black parent either descended from African slaves brought to the US, then central america then south America. There's a chance that your black parent is an immigrant, and a chance that you're an immigrant yourself, but it's slim. If you're an immigrant yourself, your place of origin by order of descending likelihood is central america, south America, Africa, then Europe.

Since you're asking me this at all, I'm guessing the truth isn't the most statistically likely. If I were a betting woman, I'd say you have a parent from central America, I'll bet Haiti or Dominican Republic, and you might've been raised bilingual with English and either French or Spanish. I don't know the other half, but since you're not bragging about it, it's probably white American, German or Irish or British or something.

[–]SailorMoon2020[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Actually my post history does show I do in fact brag about my white site which is Danish. I was born in Denmark. My mom who is black(Afro Latin) is from Puerto Rico where I lived after moving from Denmark prior to coming to the states.

The reason I didn't bring up my biracial-ness nor the fact my ethnicity is Latin in this post is because I wanted to specifically talk about the black experience when it comes to POC solidarity.

Me being biracial, counter plays into issues such as colorism within both the black and Latin community that I didn't want the topic to stray to those issues.

[–]just_lesbian_things 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

I didn't check your post history. But go on, tell me about my Asian friend like you said you would. Hold up your end of the bargain, why don't you?

[–]SailorMoon2020[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd say Korean or Chinese.

[–]just_lesbian_things 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

No, she's Tamil. Her parents left Sri Lanka during the genocide, but she doesn't really talk about that. She was born and grew up in Canada. She moved to America to further her career as a software developer.