fine then,
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Mr_Ectoplasma — 10 years ago(October 10, 2015 09:37 PM)
She doesn't want to be LABELED, that's all. She's not ashamed of being black, but how would you like to go through life as the "black actress", or the "black co-host of the View", or "former gay child star" it's a matter of her wanting to be respected as a HUMAN BEING, without labels. People tend to get bent out of shape if they aren't able to "label" someone or put them in a specific box of what they think that person should be.
It's a double-edged sword though; her consistent foot-in-mouth statements come across as her wanting to disassociate herself from black culture, which understandably off-putting to a lot of black America. She seems to have a self-loathing, internalized racism that she's not even aware of.
This PC culture of "don't label me, I'm not a soup can" is ridiculous. I understand not wanting to have people use labels against you, but at the same time we are human beings, and we understand the world around us categorically and associatively. I'm a gay man and I don't have any issue with that label because it is a descriptor for my sexuality. I
own
that. For her to not own herself as a black woman, even in the slightest, has the backhanded effect of appearing as though she feels ashamed about it, which rubs people the wrong way.