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In reply to the discussion: Dear White America: Its time to get the message [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)It's something that people of *all* ethnicities need to realize(yes, us so-called "white" folks more than anyone, but everyone else too).
I myself have a pretty light skin tone.....but then again, it used to be that Italians, Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Romanians, and even the Irish to an extent, were considered to be "not-white" even as late as the first decade or so of the 20th Century.....even though quite a few of them were as fair-toned as the average WASPie; and yet, ironically enough, there were some people who had Native, Chicano and even African ancestry who were able to pass themselves off as white(to the horror of the more reactionary elements of society, especially in the South).
So yeah, it really, truly doesn't make any logical sense when you think about it. But unfortunately, it does remain somewhat ingrained into the psyche of American culture even today.