How do you think it would play if someone put up a billboard defining white people?
Y’know, if I saw a billboard that said:
White people: belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction).
I would think, yep, that’s an accurate definition of “white people” and I would go about my day.
I might be curious enough as to why someone would pay for a billboard advertising such an obvious sentiment that I would google it.
If, after looking it up, I found out that there were some white people, who, despite being born white and raised in a white family, “identified” as black. And that these white people were justifying their “black identities” using the most blatant racists stereotypes of black people. And that, furthermore, these white people were demanding access to scholarships, programs, groups and spaces set up for black people to redress racial imbalance in a racists society. And that these white people were demanding that black civil rights groups center them in their activism, because they are more oppressed than people who were born with black skin. And that these white people were making violent threats against black people who pointed out that being dark-skinned in a racist society is an actual, lived, material condition that one cannot identify into and out of. And that some of these white people were attempting to silence black people talking about their experiences as dark-skinned people in a racist society, even going so far as physically assaulting a black person.
Well, I’d think those white people were pretty damned racist, and any political party championing the cause of white people identifying as black people pretty damned racist.
But that’s just me.