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Beyonce goes out of her way to look Whiter all the time in real life and even on any material that advertises her and she never says shit about how it's edited to make her look lighter and have softer features than she actually has. She clearly isn't 100% Black anyway given it's a no brainer non-African ancestry is in her family. The only Africans that will resemble her are the ones with Arab and European ancestry.

Black America is hypocritial about what they consider Black anyway as it's all about what agenda they need to push. They'll consider Obama Black when it suits them but then someone like Vanessa Williams isn't Black enough to represent Black people in beauty contests and is just used to tell people "real" Black women ugly or lesser.

They'll complain about mixed race Black people snubbing their Black side and conforming to Blackness being inferiority unless, they look like Sofia Ritchie, in which case she's just trying to benefit from her Black side and is disrespecting Black people by acknowledging her Blackness.

Fact is, Blacks outside Africa have absolutely ZERO authority on what is considered Black or not and are the Whitest people culturally save actual White people. They speak a White language mostly exclusive, have White names, raised in and consume White culture daily, live in primarily White countries, wear primarily if not exclusively White clothing, primarily eat and cook foods in ways associated with Whites. Many are even mixed with White DNA at this point and look NOTICEABLY different from most Africans.

So, what about them is actually African save genetic links and do they know about being African? Little to nothing and most are never going to move there and assimilate to the culture, pick up on any of it let alone make it their primary one anywhere they are. Meanwhile there are PLENTY of White Africans that lack the genetic links but everything else about them is as African as it gets. Fact is, they're "more Black" than Blacks outside of Africa.

It's the same with Whites outside Europe claiming all of this ancestry despite having no links to these places besides genetic. Primarily, you are what you are raised of and in American, that means American. That's why people in those countries snub, discredit and often mock people that go to their "homelands" and claim they're one of them because they know genetics alone doesn't make you one of them and that you ultimately identify with the culture that you were raised in.

Tl;dr Black people's opinions about Blackness are irrelevant if not raised in Africa, same as everyone else not raised in Africa. You're what you were raised as culturally and culture > race.
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