There's no such thing as "Transracial"

[MrScorpio]

123. "I was born a black person in a white body…"

Said by whom now?

What are we going to have to start doing, changing people's racial identity through a process of racial reassignment surgery? How does resolving this so called "Transracialism (Racial Dysphoria / Ethnic Identity Disorder) work? How will black and brown people who believe in all their hearts that they're actually lily white folks get to make that transformation as well? Does that mean that we will actually account for all of those fat white kids who believe that they were born as skinny KPop idols too?

Hmmm… Is this the thing that will finally destroy white supremacy, or is it what I suspect and is just more of the same?

It's dishonest because there is not a parallel between "racial dysphoria" and gender dysphoria. Gender Dysphoria is a real process, with clearly identifiable physiological symptoms and treatments. A person's assigned gender is not based on the genders of their biological parents, in the way that one's own racial make up is based upon the ethnicity of their own parents. People are white, black, brown or multi-racial because their parents are white, black, brown or multi-racial.

But none of this means that it's necessary for a lily white person, whose entire ancestry was lily white, to try was and change the texture of their hair and their skin color in order to approximate the appearance of a black person. Straight hair and white skin was the card that was dealt from their parents.

Look at it this way: Suppose, for a moment that such a white person was born in an all-white society, with absolutely no knowledge of anyone other than other white people. All of this person's ancestors have been white as are all of their offspring. Inside of this isolated scenario, how can this white person claim that they were born a black person in a white body?

White supremacy in this country is a one way street, otherizing those who are not outwardly looking white… In that case, it allows those who were born to non-white parents, but are outwardly looking white to pass AS white people (The highest, most desirable status in this country) and relegates even white people who appear to have ethnically non-white features to be classified as "other than."

The case of Johnny Otis, if anything, is nothing more than another indictment of racial politics in this country. Because, as long as white people have started making a buck from it, they've tried to separate blackness from black people. From the black face minstrel shows of the 19th century, Vaudeville of the 20th, all the way to Otis, whites have appropriated supposed black culture, for the entertainment of other whites and for their own aggrandizement and financial gain.