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Originally Posted by Krimson X
You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word 'Negro' is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown.
~ Langston Hughes
‘One-drop rule’ persists | Harvard Gazette |
Interesting article. Indeed, there are and will continue to be more "mixed race" or "biracial" people as time goes on and perhaps as racial biases weaken. At some point there will be many people with virtually undiscernible racial classification.
The one part about a one-quarter Asian is more likely to be considered "white" over a one-quarter black person is interesting and that 50/50 mixes of Asian/white or black/white were almost never identified as white. My observation about Obama is that he is universally regarded as black with no mention of his mother's genetic heritage. It's just very interesting.