One Drop Rule: How Should We Define Being Black In America
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You didn’t answer my initial question, but let’s say joe Biden had a black ancestor can he join the black caucus? Or lead the naacp?If I had a grandmother who was white I don't qualify. What about a great grandparent? What's the cutoff?
Does the cutoff point change depending on the last nonblack member of both families calculated together?
Whose fault is that?
What percentage of African DNA should ados blacks have at the minimum?100% African DNA doesn't not equal black
I don't know honestly. I'm trying to figure out your guys opinion
I rather have it explained by a well studied militant
Kindly and concisely explain what 'look Black' means exactly..
People love to toss that around as if its some profound fact.
How many generations will it take for a mulatto family to become "black" again if all the descendents marry strictly black people.
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That's because WHITE PEOPLE DICTATE THAT.
we had no say in the matter, that's white supremacy.
That's one of the blocks of white supremacy that's been torn down..
I don't like the disingenuous nature of the conversation from darker skin Black Americans and Africans online about this because it is generally in bad faith.
It is a veiled resentment about and attack on lighter skinned Black people and biracials and the perceived and real associated advantages economically, psychologically, and socially of being lighter complexioned.
It is a lazy reckless form of colorism.
And it doesn't account for the disadvantages that non dark skin Black Americans also endure even if not to the same degree as darker skinned Black people. And even that is debatable in certain regards imo.
In America Blackness is also political identity with political and social consequences/outcomes not just a skin tone
It is a veiled resentment about and attack on lighter skinned Black people and biracials and the perceived and real associated advantages economically, psychologically, and socially of being lighter complexioned.
It is a lazy reckless form of colorism.
And it doesn't account for the disadvantages that non dark skin Black Americans also endure even if not to the same degree as darker skinned Black people. And even that is debatable in certain regards imo.
In America Blackness is also political identity with political and social consequences/outcomes not just a skin tone
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The black man is always targeted.
Never worked tho for the reason I just mentioned. They threw a wrench in their own cog
No...I'm not so you just waisted time typing some shyt based on lack of comprehension.
I'm in america, I'm talking about African Americans, yes we have admixture of cac blood in the 10-30% range..just like Mexicans have admixture, east africans...ect.
Just cause we have CAC admixture doesnt mean every biracial should get pushed to the black box.
Infact most biracials in america are majority white due to our cac admixture most biracials are 60-70% white which is why you can mariah carey and megan markle looking biracials but you wanna call them black..
Like I said African Americans=asos were a people group, not a experience, not a racism test, were we have lineage, blood, ancestors who were slaves here for hundreds of years and if you dont have specific history on both sides meaning having 2 black parents you are not one of us
Yes they accepted biracials back in the day because we had too, we had no choice, most of them created via rape, and we raised them. Abd they put in work during civil right era.
But that day is not today, and shyt is different, everything changes. However AA's= asos IN AMERICA determines who is black.
Lets go mad slow
How do we get admixture
Without biracials?
I mean.
Like Obama. According to you he's not Black
But Michelle is?
So are Obamas kids Black?
If they are, how does a non Black
Obama
Make Black kids. And. His kids, being non Black - lets just roll with that for this thought experiment - cannot create Black people
But your model means that non Black people can somehow get folded back into the Black population to create future generations of Black people
Cause I would say MOST of us - African American ADOS FBA - are not 100% African. So MOST of us have non Black biracial ancestors. And actual white ancestors. Native American mixed in.
So if the convo about Obama being able to make Black children sounds like gibberish...
Its because it is.
But that's your "model" at work. But you never think that far.
What percentage of African DNA should ados blacks have at the minimum?
I have no idea what they consider black in Africa. We don't go by percentages. You know this and I know this. Biracials identifying as black isn't something that we came up with as a minority in this country but it's something that stuck with as a country.
2 black parents is where I'm at. You're asking the wrong person these questions. Half black mother/ father and a white mother/ father isn't black. That person is just a product of the tainted one drop rule. 2 biracial parents doesn't make you black.
Didn’t work because slavery was forcefully ended and that the their money was gone.
100% African does not equal black.
do u think economically there is a difference between black & mixed people in america?