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Friendly reminder: light skinned and mixed race are not synonymous 
I guarantee you know someone that is light skinned but not mixed race. Or vice versa. I know people with the same two parents who are completely different shades. Excuse the pun but, nuance!
You know why these convos get messy? Cos half of us use race to mean ethnicity and the other half mean skin colour. Catch up with the rest of the world I beg. Race as a word is so redundant unless you mean ethnicity, unless you agree that dark skin asian people are black 
Just to clarify I would, in an ideal world, solely identify as mixed ethnicity. I’m Jamaican, I’m Nigerian, I’m French, I’m English, I’m Polish, etc. It’s almost the whole world up in here. But I do tell people I’m Black. It’s easy and then I don’t have to explain my whole life.
What do people see me as? I’d argue a majority see black first, mixed second. But this obviously depends on who they are and the context of the situation.
I identify more with the Black Jamaican culture than any other side of my ancestry, but this is not due to my upbringing, which was balanced on both sides. It’s due to the fact that that’s the family I felt most at home with. The food, the chat, the culture. 
So if you think me identifying as Black is wrong then so be it, you’re fully entitled to your opinion. But this world struggles with letting people create their own boxes of identity and therefore I’ve just been going with what I can get and feels right to me.
Anyway, I’m open to discuss this. But what we’re not gonna do is tell people they can’t call themselves Black because a mixed black person calling themselves Black does not deny the existence of fully black people.
Me saying “I’m Black” can tell you details of my life right down to what diseases I might be more prone to as a person of Black heritage. You could argue that this is the same as me saying “I’m white” and I would agree with you there because I am.
I’m white AND black. Half nothing. Which is why I prefer to say I’m mixed. However, another reason I sometimes say I’m Black is because that sense of identity is important to the wellbeing of any human.
I often suffer racism at the hands of people who see me as black, I ride for the black community, I see black struggles as my own and I fight them accordingly. I am Black. I’m not “partially” anything.
I do not feel this sense of belonging when it comes to the white community because in society, as far as I know, I’ve never been read as white before. I’m Mixed/Black. That’s just my truth tbh.
GUYS PLEASE. I fully accept that racially I am not just Black. I am MIXED RACE. White and black mixed. Not fully 50/50 but I won’t tell you which half is less.
BUT. ETHNICALLY. CULTURALLY. I AM BLACK. AND WHITE. AND MIXED. YOU CANNOT BE 50% OF A COMMUNITY.
BUT. ETHNICALLY. CULTURALLY. I AM BLACK. AND WHITE. AND MIXED. YOU CANNOT BE 50% OF A COMMUNITY.
