Transracial Identity: Choose Your Race?

Rachel Dolezal controversy sparks a national conversation about racial identity.

[perfectcustoms]

It’s kind of crazy that the same groups of people that are trying to deconstruct biological sex push back so hard at the idea of transracial-ness. As if race is more biological than sex

[getrekt]

Race is determined by your ancestry not what you want to be.

[Jahnu]

next is transspecies, I want to be a seagull!

[keynation]

Welcome to America where you can be anything you want as long as you believe

[wesleyedwards]

If you can be"transgender" I don't see why you can't be transracial too

[calliejet]

race and sex. both things you CANNOT change. sorry bout it

[occasionalcommentator]

The same arguments for trans-racial can be used for trans-gender.

[MsKekeChannel]

You know it's funny. Men can "become" women. Women can "become" men. But transracial, that's where everyone crosses the line. It's all a case of disturbed and/or confused people pretending to be something they are clearly not.
Update: Thank you for proving my point Dave Chapelle 😂

[blackink]

Being someone you're not or never can be, has always been a fantasy to some.
Looks like this is one of these case's

[deleteduser]

I am officially a chicken nugget I feel so free! Nobody can judge me for who I want to be! Don’t be afraid be who you want to be nobody can judge you 🤪

[hinaezuu]

Trans-racial is almost as ludicrous a concept as trans-species. I am just wondering how long it will be before it becomes classed as discriminatory to say to another human being that they are not, in fact, "elf-kin" or "wolf-kin".

[rou]

If u can pick ur gender then why can’t i identify as a Native American?

[jt]

choosing to be oppressed is so rad and cool

[shawnharris]

Life is literally becoming a south park episode.

[marcfaur]

I is black for three days now and I'm proud of my African heritage.

[octoman]

hmmm wonder why CNN wont report on transracial cases?

[QuadLoop]

Being transracial should be given the same acceptance and respect just as much as being transgender. They're very similar:
- It's an internal disagreement with what you were born with biologically/genetically (being born with a biological male/female body vs being born with black/white skin)
- You can experience the privilege of the other gender, much like the privilege of being a different race
- You can undergo surgical/cosmetic procedures to look more like the other gender/race
- Both gender and race, particularly the divisiveness it creates can be considered a human construct
- Both constructs have undergone oppression: Black people forced into slavery; women not having basic rights

[ag]

it literally makes just as much sense as being transgender it is literally the exact same thing

[Mattafang]

I spiritually feel a connection to a lego set, therefore I am a lego.

[Jaliyl]

"Are you black, -yes"
Me: (facepalm)