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Why aren't black people called brown people?
Bear with me. This isn't meant to incite a big race wars or nothing, this is just something that has been eating away at my soul lately; why are black people not called brown people, since they aren't actually black?
I can only assume it is because when the white settlers arrived in Africa they saw that the natives skin colour was very much in contrast with their own, and since black is pretty much the very opposite of white I suppose they went with that.
Oh yeah, white people aren't actually white neither, come to think about it. Well, I am but that's because I'm Scandinavian and I hate the sun...
WHY ARE WE ALL LIVING WITH THESE LIES?! :'(
Bear with me. This isn't meant to incite a big race wars or nothing, this is just something that has been eating away at my soul lately; why are black people not called brown people, since they aren't actually black?
I can only assume it is because when the white settlers arrived in Africa they saw that the natives skin colour was very much in contrast with their own, and since black is pretty much the very opposite of white I suppose they went with that.
Oh yeah, white people aren't actually white neither, come to think about it. Well, I am but that's because I'm Scandinavian and I hate the sun...
WHY ARE WE ALL LIVING WITH THESE LIES?! :'(