Critical Thinking - Black History Month Special - Who is Black & Why it matters? (Part 2)

<div> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Critical Thinking - Black History Month Special - Who is Black & Why it matters? </strong><em>(Part 2)</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Black Spy Podcast - Season 12, Episode 0002</em></p> <p> </p> <p>This week’s episode of the black spy podcast is a critical thinking episode for Black History Month, in which Carlton asks – who is it Black and why does it matter?</p> <p>Carlton looks at the politics of blackness including who has decided who is and isn't classed as “Black” through the centuries. Moreover, in terms of a phenotype, what do Black people look like.</p> <p>Carlton asks if its credible that Black people are only seen as one absolutely particular type of ethnic group with no variation of skin colour in nose shape, lip shape etc; whereas White people <em>(Caucasians)</em> can be of any hair colour blonde, dark, ginger to curly hair, to straight hair. They can have thin or thick lips, narrow, wide or hook noses and all forms of face shape. Moreover, the Europeans who ‘classified’ the as so called races, even allowed people with very white and very dark skin colour to be classified as White, because they were from a people perceived a capable in the 17th and 18th centuries. These unscientific discrepancies between phenotype classifications can clearly no longer stand?</p> <p>Therefore in this episode, Carlton seeks to challenge this one sided view, which by the way isn’t maintained when it suited the post 17th Century colonial elites, slaveholders, plantocracy and pseudo-scientists that proclaimed the inferiority of the so called Black <em>(Negro) ‘</em>race’, and the superiority of the obviously flawed White race classification.</p> <p>Hence, Carlton explains why this outdated concept can no longer stand and why Black historical figures and empires throughout the ages need to be reclaimed!</p> <p>Carlton explains how being Black has been defined in various countries particularly the United states and how, just one drop of black blood was perceived to