I never noticed this before until now but...

I always noticed how white people will say a biracial person is biracial, ONLY when they do good, yet they are black any other time. Heck, they are still seen as black, even when they claim the biracial person to be "biracial. But there was something else that I just noticed, this time its done at the hands of black people.

I was looking up Hugh Jackman, and how he had adopted a biracial boy from America. Alot of black people commented on it. It wasn't the usual "white people shouldn't adopt black" comments. Although I will get back to that in a minute.

Some of the things black people had to say in the comments was "Why did he have to go and adopt a biracial kid? was a black not good enough?" and many variations of it. It sounded just like the comment a black girl made once, when she said that "when a white guy dates as biracial girl, its because he doesn't have enough soul and is too scared to go with a REAL black woman".

It made me think back to Obama, and many other biracials who have had major achievements, such as Halle Berry, Alicia Keys, etc. Black people have no qualms about calling them black, and taking credit for their achievements (I noticed whites and blacks love to measure achievements by the race you are born in).

But all of a sudden, in something such as adoptions, they see black and biracial differently. This is where the celebrity adopting black comes back in.

A commenter mentioned, in retaliation to the hater comments, that blacks had an outcry against Madonna and Angelina Jolie for adopting black, yet now they are giving Hugh hell for adopting biracial INSTEAD of black....

Although it seemed like there was an agreeable consensus though on the fact that everyone was more angry about adoptions of blacks by Americans happening outside of America, rather than inside of America (which I totally agree with, I think its silly to adopt outside the country, when those inside the country need homes too, you can't fix other countries' problems, when your country needs to fix itself first).

Yet, I never really noticed this though, but biracial people seem to be a "throw around" for both whites and blacks...they can be their greatest ally, and their greatest enemy...we seem to spark arguments and controversy within each race. Blacks seem to be all for the ODR, until an actual black suffers while the biracial person benefits, then all of a sudden, they hate biracials and want to differientate between the two...it seems like whites and blacks see biracials as something that should be "seen but not heard".