Men lie, women lie, colors don't? | @obabalu (Ep. 93)

This week’s podcast was recorded at the KBOO 90.7FM radio station in Portland, OR with my @obabalu. Oba has his own show on KBOO called Effabl Radio and it airs live every 2nd and 4th Thursday. Oba and I had a high-spirited, extremely passionate discussion that started around colorism in the black community, but quickly veered into the validity of racial classification. First things first, let me double back to colorism topic. Oba hits us with the audacious claim that Erykah Badu and Maya Angelou are light-skinned according to black American colorism standards. I vehemently disagreed, and that exchange was the precursor to the rest of the conversation, because once we got into our race bag we couldn’t have been any further apart on the level of validity we give to the idea of anything constructive coming from racial classification in this world. I am of the mindset that race is a social construct that was created to serve the white supremacist. I believe that there is no biological testing that can prove what race you are, because the way that race is setup in society you can’t be more than one race. You are forced to choose one, even if your DNA says otherwise. Oba believes in the efficacy of the racial classification. He believes race is biological, it can be scientifically proven, and helps to give someone a general understanding of someone based upon their phenotype. Please chime in on the discussion, fact check, and fill in the gaps of our lack of knowledge, to helps us all be better informed