Is There Anything Wrong With Passing for Black?

I encountered this with a associate of mine explains often that she is Panamanian but no one knows or cares when you are sitting amongst a group of black people many might assume it but why feel need to say something???
So know people ask her if she doesn't like people and she doesn't understand WHY.

Alias_Avi wrote: I wonder if Rachel Roy passed for Black

Oh my. I thought she was black without a doubt.

this is a non issue for me...

As long as she's not ratchet, I'm ok with it. If u look black, u r black in my book. Likewise if u look white, u r white.

I dont think she knows her roots.


one of my friends had no idea she had an Asian background. She would tell people she was half asian and half black but both her parents were black. She had the chinky eyes and the silky hair but her skin was dark. Her father was in and out of her life so she never got to meet his side of the family.  Years later he passed and when she went to his funeral  it was nothing but asians there. Turns out his mother is Cambodian. Her father was the only one with a black father, the rest of her aunts and uncles were full Cambodian.