Too White for the Black Kids, Too Black for the White Kids

Surely this video has been passed around HU in the past two weeks it was posted. But it is also a very good chance that a lot of my new classmates have had to face the same questions. Just watch. What do you think?

1. Is it fair just to say that because of our skin color, we should just up an embrace it? OF. COURSE. Why? Because whether we'd like to accept it our not, and whether we feel ourselves that we're black enough or not, other races will just see us as another black person. So why not own it?
2. "But I'm biracial, I don't really own either..." What did I just say? Whether you like it or not, outwardly you are viewed as just another black person. Regardless of the fact that you may be 49% black or 51% black, you are being grouped.
3. "Well I wasn't accepted by my own race, why should I own it?" Being black is so beautiful. Please own it. Haven't you noticed how Mariah Carey or Derek Jeter only own being black when it works for them? But when some "catastrophe" (for lack of a better word) rocks the black community, they instantly and solely become "color-blind" or "multiracial"...

These are just opinions, and they may be dead wrong. But it's just based on observation too. Let's be proud of the great things we can do and have done, and not just dwell in the ignorant muck that's raked upon us.