Here in the South, there used to be pages and pages of very detailed laws relating to people of “mixed” heritage.
The consignment of these statutes to the ash-heap of history was viewed as a great stride forward during the Civil Rights struggle of the mid-20th Century.
Interesting that this line thinking is slowly re-emerging among those who so greatly deplored it not that long ago.
Democrats back then were obsessed with just having an ounce of "slave blood" and are still obsessed with that today!
let me explain to all on this thread why she sees her self as “black”. From the moment she walked out her front door she was identified as black, when she was in elementary school she was “black”, she was “black” in high school. Thousands of moments taught her who others thought she was. Her culture labeled her and she accepted/acknowledged/embraced the label. If she passed you in the grocery store you would think “wow, that is a beautiful black women”.
As far as her daughter, I would suppose like all mothers, she wants her child to be what she is.
I was astonished by that same fact. The laws that used to say ONE DROP of black blood made one black were struck down and considered racist. NOW people like Berry denounce half of their blood line and INSIST that a pale skinned, blonde haired child is black if there is any percentage of black blood? It would be funny if it were not so sad.
Why is she labeling her daughter? Will she consider the daughter a racist if, when she’s old enough to decide what she considers herself, she considers herself white?
Is there some unwritten rule that says she MUST be black if there is that ‘one drop’?
During the years of racial oppression in America there were various stereotypes of blacks: emotional, not able to think abstractly, impulsive and undisciplined, etc. These were used to keep blacks down.
Today various idiotic afrocentrists use exactly the same stereotypes, but claim they make blacks superior rather than inferior. The whole sun people vs. ice people nonsense.
black codes were hardly exclusive to Dixie...they had them up north too even though they had a tiny portion of blacks the south did
hence hardly the same political threat...but they had them anyhow