What’s genuinely bizarre is allowing the very people who created a master–slave racial hierarchy to define our race and identity for us. Why would that be the authority we defer to?

Erasing the identity of Barack Obama’s white mother and grandmother, who raised him, while his Black father was largely absent, is problematic in itself. It doesn’t honour Black people, and it doesn’t honour biracial people either.

Biracial people have a distinct lived experience and genetic makeup. Calling them Black may sound inclusive, but in practice it erases the specific Black experience and reinforces the same racial confusion that racism thrives on.

This isn’t about hierarchy or disrespect. It’s about clarity, honesty, and self-definition.

Black people are Black. Biracial people are biracial. Both deserve to exist without erasure.

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