On 6-Nov-2008, at 03:01, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:
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.
They feared having a class of people who LOOKED like slaves, but weren't, because then it would be so much easier for ex-slaves to hide right out in the open.
Times they have a-changed.
Not as much as you might want to think. After all, Obama and Halle Berry (and Tiger Woods) are considered black by nearly eery American.
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