panaghiotis223:

timseriladashmimeni:

i’m gonna type up a quick rant on ‘white Jews’ here.

this is a picture of me. most of you have seen me before. the majority of you also know that i’m a Mizrahi-Maghrebi Jew, meaning i find my roots* both in the Jews of the Mashriq and the Jews of the Maghreb. more specifically, i’m ethnically from both Iraq and Morocco. so if i’m Middle Eastern and North African, why is my skin so light?

the short, angry answer is that Jews aren’t white and white people don’t have lighter features patented. maybe you guys haven’t been clued in, but white as a concept does not mean light skin.

have any of you ever seen Laila Mourad? she was a Mizrahi (Iraqi) Jew who was probably even lighter than i am.

i guess Laila is white too, huh?

do you know where my coloring comes from? if you say Europe or white people, then you’re wrong. my coloring comes from Morocco—specifically my Amazigh ancestry. Amazigh is usually called ‘Berber’ in English (i don’t like that word in the least) and it’s basically indigenous people of North Africa. here are some pictures of Imazighen: 

we are diverse in facial features and coloring—but at the end of the day, we aren’t white. we aren’t even TREATED white by any of you—so why should we force ourselves to identify as white?

you don’t own my light skin. you don’t own my blue eyes. you don’t own my brown hair. you sure as heck don’t want to own my clearly Jewish nose or my Jewish facial structure—so what makes you think you can own the coloring passed down to me via the Imazighen who’ve lived in Africa forever? 

you don’t get to colonize our identities and features too.

*all Jews find their ultimate roots in the Middle East, ‘even’ Ashkenazi Jews. 

also this is a really poorly written post, i’m just annoyed at goyim ugh

Yeahh, PoC are capable of producing light pigmentation ‘cause pigmentation is a genetic thing!!! *gasp* Some populations have a more centralized phenotype but people are genetically diverse so different pigmentations pop up everywhere!