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The "One Drop" Rule

Posted 08-01-2012 at 08:16 PM by yogini_g

What I don't understand is how a bi-racial person can be lily white, but because they have that "one drop" of black blood, somehow that trumps their white blood (this, almost always stated, with great pleasure, by black people) Yet these "one drop" black people are usually never accepted as truly black, among blacks with brown skin????? Then, a thread starts about bi-racial people being "confused"....ah yeah, if black people are not going to allow them to claim their...
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When White People Stop Identifying Themselves As White, I'll Drop African American.

Posted 08-01-2012 at 05:53 PM by yogini_g
Updated 08-02-2012 at 07:26 AM by yogini_g (duplicate)

What I don't understand (and I'm not being sarcastic here) is how a bi-racial person can be lily white, but because they have that "one drop" of black blood somehow that trumps their white blood (this, almost always stated, with great pleasure, by black people) Yet these "one drop" black people are usually never accepted as truly black, among blacks with brown skin????? Then a thread starts about bi-racial people being "confused"....ah yeah, if black people are not...
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