On 6 Nov 2008, at 09:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The historical perception of "Black" comes from the Southern "One > Drop" rules: if you had one drop of Black blood in your heritage, > you were considered legally black.
"One drop" always made me wonder what it was they feared so much that a simple taint could render a child of theirs unclean. Times they have a-changed. -- Jared Earle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jearle.eu/ - http://blog.23x.net/ "So long, and thanks for all the SPORK" _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
