Passing for White, and then passing back

For a very long time, in this country, people with a bit of Negro blood who appeared to be completely White attempted to conceal their Black ancestry and "pass" for White.  They wanted to take advantage of "White privilege," which is a phenomenon whereby White people had intrinsic social advantages because of their race.  This privilege has slowly been eroded since the Civil War, and it was eliminated completely in our time.  Really, by the Sixties.  Now, it's reversed, and we have absolutely no White privilege at all, but instead we have non-White privilege, whereby non-Whites get preference in education, hiring, acquiring mortgages, etc., and also have a special immunity to punishment for bad behavior, being held to a much lower standard than Whites are.

Even White liberals know, tho they'd rather attend NASCAR than admit it, that checking a minority box on an application for just about anything gives you a tremendous advantage.  On top of such official Affirmative Action, we have informal Affirmative Action, whereby individuals make decisions to give minorities, especially Blacks, special advantages wherever possible, and to let them get away with behavior they'd never put up with on the part of Whites.  Black flash mobs, for example, are now taken for granted, and cops are afraid to do anything about them because they could ruin their careers that way.

Anyhow, the point of all this is that while in the past it was an advantage to hide Black ancestry, it is now an advantage to flaunt it.  Harding, it was alleged, had Black ancestry, but of course had to hide it in order to be President.  Now, Obama wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the Presidency if he hadn't been part Black. That's actually his only advantage.  Whites voted for in in large part because it was an opportunity to prove how enlightened they were.  Let's hope most of them are over that by now.

For a history of the phenomenon of "passing," and developments since, check out THIS piece by Steve Sailer.  Be sure to read the comments.  Then go to Steve's own site and read the comments HERE.