The one drop rule actually the thing that kept all of us together in this country.
Whereas in Brazil or South America you have mixed people acting like they’re their own shyt and look down on their black side. Serving as a buffer class to solidify white supremacy and muddy the struggles of black people.
At least here in this country - you will get humbled, you black. We in this shyt together no matter how “light” you are. No avoiding the struggle.
Hell, someone like Malcom X wouldn’t exist in South America - he’d be a Moreno hanging out in circles on the outliers of whiteness.