i just sat through a discussion where a child with 3 white grandparents and 1 black gp had to be called mixed race, and 3 black gps and 1 white gp was black. this was within a social services meeting. i thought it was bordering on mind control
2007-07-19 10:05:48 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
my boyfriend is 3/4 black but I cal him just Johny, and the mostt important we like sex
2007-07-20 00:17:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
It stems from the old South's 1/8 rule, where if you were as little as 1/8 black you could still be made a slave. Noticeable black blood automatically made you black (even though a 1/8 black person probably wouldn't even look black anymore). From early on Americans did not recognize seperate categories for mixed and black, the thinking was there was white and there was black and if you weren't white you were automatically black.
This thinking is still in many ways with us today. This is why today you get people claiming white is a genetically recessive trait to black, even though all you have to do is look at a child of mixed parentage to tell that's BS (if it was true those people would be indistinguishable from pure-blooded blacks, hello they aren't).
2007-07-19 11:56:13 · answer #2 · answered by Somes J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Ian Johnson -- a very light skinned Afro/Am football player -- proposed to a white cheerleader in front of a stadium full of people and many people responded online --on the Trojan blog for one -- with hostile, racist, comments against it. He is so light it is sometimes hard to tell whether or not he is black. But, certain whites -- following that old one drop rule -- did not accept him as white. This rejection is the main reason why many light mixed people became "black."
2016-05-17 21:24:50 · answer #3 · answered by arminda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. I've wondered about the mixed race situation. Some mixed race public figures - e.g Obama, H. Berry, etc. self-identify as black. Adults should have this option.
In my opinion, third party officials should not be making these kinds of decisions for minors. The parents should be allowed to classify their minor children as they see fit.
2007-07-19 10:18:45 · answer #4 · answered by hsrch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah...you're right. It's "THE MAN"...basically...the more black you are, the worse off you are socially....you are just BLACK, even if you have some other race in you. If you are MOSTLY some other race, but a little black, you are either MIXED or just WHITE. It IS mind control...it's just one of the simple things the goverment does to make blacks feel inferior. Good for you for seeing that.
2007-07-19 10:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by danzr31585 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Gabrielle Reese is white and she's 1/4 black.
So social services was deciding how to classify them?
Ask social services if they adhere to the belief of pure race domination, if they don't, then the first child is white unless her parents choose to call her otherwise.
Its scary the racial...thing...with America.
2007-07-19 10:13:39 · answer #6 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black, mixed race. Black is an all-inclusive term indicating an individual is of African descent. Clearly, people with African in their blood can be mixed with other backgrounds. Throughout history within the African Diaspora, there were various individuals of African descent who identified as Black. (Excluding the "one drop" rule in the Western hemisphere which resulted from enslavement, many individuals identified culturally as Black.)
2007-07-19 10:24:59 · answer #7 · answered by GiGi (Shi Ge Tei) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's social services for you - perhaps if they spent less time discussing such ridiculous matters they could start getting out there and protecting children from abuse.
Well, that makes me mixed race then - I have one American Indian grandparent two Welsh and one English - how utterly ridiculous!
2007-07-19 10:16:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
personally i think all of the human race is mixed,no matter where you come from,because there's been mixes since the start of times, i don't really see why so much label sticking, even culture has benn developed through many races.
i just hate the ethnical list they give you on statistic questionnaires,i never answer it.
ONE LOVE PEOPLE
2007-07-20 21:54:35 · answer #9 · answered by rasclattini 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is all getting too crazy!
I just look past colour/race and judge a person as an individual.
I make a point of not answering the black / white / chinese etc questions on forms. I find it racial in itself! What difference would it make to my work/ insurance/ finance etc, if I was blue?!
2007-07-19 10:10:45 · answer #10 · answered by noggintrude 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The kid was mixed. Even if it had more white, having some black in him would still maked him of mixed races.
2007-07-19 10:09:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋