California sets precedent by breaking down Black employee data by lineage

[Alben Barkley]

Absolutely idiotic. Most black people in the world are descendants of victims of slavery and/or colonialism, and more importantly racism still affecting black people in the US today is not limited by DNA. By that kind of logic, Obama wasn’t “really black” and thus his accomplishment means less  because his father was Kenyan and his mother white. This is unnecessarily further divisive and discriminatory nonsense. It helps nobody and accomplishes nothing, to say nothing of the logistical challenges of even recording accurate data.

[Alben Barkley]

This seems a way to say “These Blacks are the oppressed Blacks, the others aren’t”

Not really, just acknowledging our differences. Just like how not all White people are the same. A Serbian has very little in common with a White American, for example.

The only thing I will push back on is some of the rhetoric that SOME (not most or all) Black/African Americans will expose about Black immigrants. Some will say that Black immigrants are "leeches", "tethers", "aren't really Black", "ungrateful", etc. That's wrong and ignorant.

Of course, SOME (not most or all) Black people from Africa & the Caribbean will say stupid & ignorant stuff about Black/African Americans too. That's also unacceptable.

My ancestors were indentured servants, about as close to slaves as whites ever got in this country. Yet it would be absurd for me to get special privileges or anything today by recording this, which is why data is generally reported as just “white” for all white people. Racism today is based on people’s knee-jerk perceptions of skin color, not DNA tests.