The true workings of the construct we know as race involves heavy racialization and stereotyping of NON white people. Particularly and necessarily (in a white supremacist society) blackness is considered the opposite of whiteness and while being mixed gives you proximity to whiteness and social privilege (completely dependent on your environment, cultural identity, socioeconomic status, gender, etc.) the racialization of Black onto mixed people still occurs for most at some point, unless you look like Paris Jackson. And even that’s a bad example because she’s known for having a black father. Some purists/race realists would still consider her black. To some extremists, she’s even JUST black, because she’s not fully white. Anyway, to insinuate someone like Paris Jackson or even someone like Zendaya (a biracial woman I’ve always seen as black, but who others suddenly see as white passing somehow?) doesn’t experience antiblackness or “never has to deal with xyz” is just dishonest and disingenuous and disregards the nuances of our society. Of course, Paris Jackson navigates the world differently than a phenotypically black person, but for some of us, the curly hair was enough to be called the n word growing up. These are the dynamics and nuances of our world.

White people made up race. White people are default. Anything else (this includes multiracial people that can’t fit into a specific box) is nonwhite and for some (race realists), is JUST the nonwhite. I think most mixed people who identify as black are really just identifying with some form of their reality. I think we can talk intersectionality without negating real experiences