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mulatto diaries #60 who is black

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tiffany talks about race, the book "Who is Black?" by F. James Davis, the one drop rule and why it doesn't work for me any more.

Umm... i got kinda emotional. I didn't see that coming. Sorry!

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  • White Southerners fought against the one-drop rule until the 20th century because it might tarnish old-wealth Southern gentry. They eventually accepted and incorporated it into the Jim Crow system of state-sponsored anti-Black terrorism.

  • This law was then followed in hundreds of court cases without exception until U.S. slavery was ended by the 13th Amendment. The only identifiable U.S. group that consistently advocated the one-drop rule long before it was embraced nationwide, was the African-American ethnic community, first in the northeast, then in the south after Reconstruction.

  • During slavery days, racial membership was the opposite of the one-drop rule. A person of any visible European ancestry was presumed to be free. The court cases Gobu v. Gobu, 1802 North Carolina, Hudgins v. Wrights, 1806 Virginia, and Adelle v. Beauregard, 1810 Louisiana established the U.S. caselaw that if you had any discernible European ancestry you were presumed free, and the burden was on the alleged slave owner to prove that you were legally a slave through matrilineal descent.

  • In fact, the one-drop rule (that you are Black if you have any Black ancestor, no matter how distant) was a Jim Crow era phenomenon. It was first made law in 1910 Tennessee and spread nationwide over the next two decades.

  • Race had NOTHING to do with slavery. It was based on matrilineal lineage. If your mother was a slave then you were a slave. The one drop rule did not come about until 1930. So one drop rule has NOTHING to do with slavery either.

  • @chsn09 Sure enough.

  • @bananabebop Race has NOTHING to do with genetics, biology, or science. It is ALL a social construct.

  • @MsOla2011 You sound like a bitter ethnocentric one droppist racist POS! SMH at your IGNORANCE!

  • You know what I think? I think some black women are filled with self hate. And they WANT you to be able to identify with them because they can't choose.

  • Tiff, don't cry. The people out there will never know what it is like to be both. You are a good person, you are BEAUTIFUL. I love you I give you hugs.

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