Among other reasons, the One Drop Rule was created so that white slaves with African ancestry could "lawfully" be slave. But nowadays, if someone is say 95% white, can people truthfully claim they're not white? I guess my question is, will their future kids and grandkids all be "black" just because of one black relative?
I know a girl who is blonde and blue eyed, and paler probably than any other caucasian I've ever met. It'd be more truthful to say she's white, rather than black, right? (Forget scholarships and benefits for people of certain races right now, please.) Can anyone truthfully say that that she's black, and all her future children and grandchildren are black, and can never call themselves white? If anyone were to stand by that, they'd have to be equally willing to state that someone who's caucasian, with a chinese grandfather is chinese, and all their grandchildren will forever be so, or otherwise be contradicting themself.
Please answer intelligently.
2006-07-29
21:29:29
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