The strange but true story of Anthony Lennon. The man that was born to two white Irish parents, but he looks like a mixed race man. We also discuss Sandra Laing the South African born Black woman, also born to two white patents. Is Anthony Lennon mixed race, Black, white, transracial, a throwback or just confused?
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Using the term “throw-back” I already find improper. By the way, the same can happen the other way, round, that a child of black parents turns out white, without being an albino.
The question is, does it really matter if we can’t group Anthony? Who comes up with these strange groupings? I am all for doing away with this box thinking, assorting people by whatever criteria. This just separates us! We are all people – that’s it! No mention of race in the passports either, please! (In Denmark and Germany they don’t.)
Sorry, this seems to have been on my mind right now …
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I totally agree. Race is a construct but culture matters to people, and they often confuse the two. As far as I know we here in Britain don’t have overt ethnic classification in our passports, yet…
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You don’t? I was reading a discussion on another blog about the “race classifications” in their passports. I thought it was a British blog, maybe I am mistaken. Maybe it was American then. One girl was complaining because she was called African-Asian in her passport, when in reality she was Asian-African. She really lost me there … it is plain wrong to mention race in the passport. Or religion.
You are right about culture. That is something that grows in different ways in different places.
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And is usually a hybrid…
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