That was highly lucrative. OTOH, there were some slaveowners who prized those children and even did well by them (sometimes sending them north to school...which is the origin of some HBCUs). I wonder if there was some kind of distinction between the kinds of plantations where mixed-race slaves were bred purposefully for sale and those where the slaveholder had feelings for the children he created. Size of the operation, perhaps.
@@rdkirk3834It was probably only a system in place in states like Louisiana. Some slave master’s Black children grew up in the slave quarters within his home where the female slave that tended the house and his kitchen was available to him because she lived in the same house and the kids she had with him although somewhat secretly was known by adult members of the household. Sometimes it was hard for some slave owners to ignore that his black offspring still looked like him and members of his extended white family so they tended to give them unwritten privileges.
I was reading Maya Angelou first book and She talks about Her other Grandmother in St Lious who was a "quadroon" thats literally what She said, and I realized that because of racism in America mixed people have always been a part of the black community in America. Mixed people were not allowed to be a part of the white community or embrace the white part of their culture for hundreds of years. I think that still shapes things today.
What can they embrace regarding "white culture?" It's always been nothing but pure EVIL!!! There's nothing to embrace, that's why they have to LIE about their history.
None of my people wanted to be part of the "white community." Malcolm X never wanted to embrace his racist, racist "white part." How is the rape of black women by white men part of our culture (you sound like a 1950's white supremacist)? Why, how could you type something as tone deaf as you just typed!!!!
There were Black people who lived in our community who were for all intents and purposes white. However, somewhere in their lineage there must must have been a Black ancestor because they were considered to be colored/Negro/Black.
The one drop rule is nuts because if it’s true then the other mix somone has couod be claimed and be a one drop rule as well Such a dumb man made rule All are mixed with the Same things From Adam / Eve to the present 😊
@@LindaOliver-e8q "they were considered" or they considered themselves! That makes all the difference in the world. My relatives were the Romare Bearden, Freddie Washington, Walter White, Chestnutt, Malcolm X Negroes who were proud to call themselves "Negro." None of us even referred to ourselves as "mixed." Have you ever heard Malcolm refer to himself as "mixed"?
Johnny Cash was attacked because his first wife looked black . He said she was Italian . Years later his daughter Rosand took the DNA test and found out the mother did have African ancestry . Her grandmother was black .
It's crucial to understand that the one drop rule was developed to ensure that whiteness stayed free and clear of blackness. Blackness being free of whiteness was never a consideration. The result is that historically blackness has been more of a set of shared heritage and experiences and has had little to do with phenotype.
That's true. It wasn't about blackness being free of whiteness, it was about whiteness being free of blackness. And it was also about keeping black separated from everything else in a number of states. There were states with laws that allowed white men to mix with whatever they wanted...except black...and also prevented blacks from mixing with anything else. The point was to keep black segregated from everything else.
I bet the one drop rule didny apply then lol Thsie test are false anyway but no matter if they get tested or not they are all still mixed with black from Adam and Eve to all after them to the present
I bet the one drop rule didny apply then lol Thsie test are false anyway but no matter if they get tested or not they are all still mixed with black from Adam and Eve to all after them to the present
@@cs8906The real _must read_ is *'The Law Of Manu'* . This is kinda like the "bible" of caste systems. Although it was written around 1100 BCE it explains the importance of _soul food; pants sagging, anti-intellectualism, Sport& entertainment over STEM and the dependence on the government in "black" culture" .
It is said that if you don't learn from your history, you are doomed to repeat it. And that's what we have going on today. Ppl are trying to suppress and erase our history. This is leaving ppl open to repeat the blatant ignorance of years passed. I'm glad I came across your channel. I'm glad you are speaking facts and educating others.
@@reneemcmillan2724 Can't be black and proud yet don't want to reproduce black babies. Can't be black and proud while wearing the hair of Asian corpses.
The 1 drop was outlawed in 1967. No sense…resurrecting slavery. Loving vs Virginia outlawed 1 drop and miscegenation. Many blacks hold onto slavery 1 drop because they see being mixed as better and improvement in their race. Self hate is why they support 1 drop..many strive to live vicariously through mixed race people. It’s sad and true. They don’t see blackness as attractive, they prefer people mixed with white.
This was another way to keep the common Black man poor and so-called without easy access to wealth. America kept the Africans out of economic fundamentals. Justice
Frankly, what's happening now with "biracial" is closer to the South African system. Before the 1980s, the "one drop rule" meant that biracial people were considered black and treated as such. Since the 1980s, White people have been considering "biracial" to be a separate white-adjacent race of its own and giving them a special set of "biracial privileges." It's not a matter of objective skin tone, except by visual accident. It's a matter of whether they actually have a white parent that they can get "biracial privilege."
So true. I am mixed with many ethnicities and honestly I will never choose one over the other to identify with. I'm forced to choose one by society for legal reasons. But outside of that my identity is Christ.
What a terrible and ignorant time in our history. And to think we still have people trying to reimplement or retain this way of life. It breaks my heart such cruelty still exists.
In Haiti 🇭🇹, one drop of black make you black too. Not just the USA. That's the reason all the population in Haiti is recognised as BLACK regardless of the skin color. You will never find a haitian mullatoe, light skin identify as other than BLACK.
It just makes me sad that we have such colorism within our own community today, still propagated by the African American media. (Light skin, long hair, save her, vs. dark skin curly hair, she ain't sh__). If we don't value ourselves, how can we expect others to?
Indeed it was a Caste system as beautifully illustrated by the book, Caste (and movie by the same name) by Isabel Wilkerson. It is a must read and see event. Do it immediately!!!
Thanks! "Origin is a 2023 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Over the course of the film, Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history."
@@SparkleInYourEyes2024 No disrespect but you missed my point,YES DRAKE IS BLACK,but culturally NO..... do the knowledge and research his background and you will find out the reason to my statement......keep the emotions out of it
@ Ssoaup, It is so not true that 'basically all black people are mixed". There are more than can be calculated black people who 'thankfully' have no white blood as evidenced by my own family and many others. I think people who say this most likely are mixed (or wish they were), but I reject that 'tint' being put on my family.
White woman in the house that agrees 100%! Only reason I’m White, is because my tribe went North. I lost my melanin because of that choice. Sadly, at least in the States and I suspect Europe, my country Canada as well don’t either know about this…or refuse to accept that we are all born out of Africa! Plain and simple. This should be taught in all Schools. White people have been stealing/ taking credit from almost everything Black people make. Arts, culture, music, astronomy and astrology. How about the myth of Christopher Columbus. There is evidence that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus. If we all accepted this fact I believe the racial harmony could be achieved. As Jane Elliott says…there is only one race…The human race.❤❤❤❤🙋🏼♀️🇨🇦☮️💐🌺
@@hopesprings4967 Canada is a beautiful country. I heard there was a hailstorm in southern Alberta a week ago. Lots of damage to some houses. Heard there was a lot of flooding in southern Quebec from the latest tropical storm.
@@RonaldCosten-ct3vpomg dude you need to chill out I seen you on the other girls pose the girl that's mixed talking about you don't see how people can lay with them but you're talking to people who are biracial like, I understand what you're saying but it's awkward to say that to somebody who has one white parent like you're like... I was actually looking for that post because I wanted to tell you that I have to agree with you but if you sleep with anybody for any shallow reason all of that shows low self-esteem. If you recreate with somebody because you want your kids to be light skin that is weak, insane and trifling. Historically, what white people did was trifling and they still owe us some money for stealing all the patents to our inventions. But I won't say I don't see how people can lay with them, because there are plenty of black women that have went through trauma with black men like and not this is not saying black men are the root of all evil or nothing but it's just being real like you're saying you don't understand how; all it has to be is a black woman that got her heart broken too many times by a man that was the same race as her and she's kind of looking at her options. But when people reproduce with them and then talk bad about their own race that's the problem. Whether is a black man or woman if they're like teaching their biracial kid all this b******* that come from slavery then that is a problem
This a very touchy topic. I have long said that biracial people don't exclusively belong to either race so they are not blaque/yt. The reason why Rachel Dolezal( a yt woman) could pass as blaque is because literally anyone can be accepted as a blaque person. I personally believe that biracial people should be able to identify however they want. However I do notice that blaque people tend to get upset when biracial people say "they aren't blaque ".
This is so skewed. My dad was Irish and black. When I tell someone that I'm they look at me and say no way. However, there are many black Irish people.
Well, considering that most Black Americans have white ancestry, maybe you should reconsider your position? Are you really going to say that Frederick Douglas, Booker T Washington and many others weren't really Black? Are you going to say that Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell, et al weren't Black? Racial purity is a tool of white supremacy. It has zero historical significance in the lives of Black American people who walked the lands of these United States. Seriously, do yo think the lives of the white passing slaves who lived their lives in terror don't deserve recognition? Do you know that light-skinned girls called fancy girls were sold into sexual slavery? What about the Black Seminoles? The escaped slaves who were accepted into Native American communities? They intermarried. They fought for their freedom until they were finally conquered. Are those people not sufficiently Black? It's shocking how little thought and understanding modern Black Americans have for the lives of their ancestors and the many kinds of people who made up the Black community. People like Alonzo Herndon, a white passing former slave who built one of the first and most successful insurance companies, Atlanta Life, and funneled profits back into the Black community and the Civil Rights community. People need to grasp that it was because there was a large, diverse and inclusive Black identity that Black Americans were able to achieve the success that marks it as the most uniquely successful Black diaspora community in the Americas. Compare Black Americans to Brazil's Black-descendant population who were rewarded for denying their Blackness. Black Brazilians are decades behind American Blacks in political, economic, and social power because, ironically, there was no One Drop Rule to force a unified identity.
We rejected the " one-drop rule" a long time ago, understanding the reasoning for its existence. As self-determining people, we have the right to define ourselves and are not limited to that very peculiar American made ideal...
@@AustinSydney-s4v Stop mixing the best solution 😊 😜 I'm brown 🤎 and proud. That I'm mixed crap is to cause division ➗ and a ploy they don't want to be the majority. We're Indians anyway, imo.
There is a clear and obvious distinction between Black person and a Mixed race person which is a natural division through observation of phenotype and genotype ( invisible to the naked eyes).
Black American culture is different than cultures in Africa. In Some African countries you aren't black if you are mixed, not in America. In America we are mixed up and still consider ourselves black, we were forced to stick together and out of that created our own heritage and culture. I'm speaking of FBA or descendants of Freedmen who's lineage and heritage goes back over 500yrs on the American soil. If I'm in Africa or Caribbean I will act accordingly to their culture as long as they do the same when a guest in my culture.
Exactly. That's why most Black Americans don't like the term African American. A lot of our families are so mixed. We claim anyone who identifies as Black in America. Amber Rose is dropped herself from the list and we could careless.
@@andreroy8141 Facts, I got family who look like Amber Rose and they some ridahs, they swear they blacker than anyone on earth. But nobody cares what Amber is doing it's just a money grab in my opinion, we know the play. She gotta stay over there now.
@@joye5761 Rightfully so in your culture. What works for your culture doesn't work for ours. No disrespect, but Black Americans could never accept a name given to us by a white woman. But that's the preference of your culture, so it works for you.
I’m glad this is being explained. I’m of a very light complexion. When I say I’m black, I’m always questioned for it and people want to know what I’m mixed with. The thing is, both of my parents, born in Louisiana in 1960, have “Colored” listed as the race of both parents. In simple terms, all four of my grandparents were listed as “Colored” therefore making my parents “Colored” as well. I cannot identify as biracial or mixed race because I literally cannot say which of my parents or grandparents are of a different race. My mom is a light as I am but she was not allowed in Whites Only facilities. She didn’t go to an integrated school until she was 9 years old. Same with my dad.
Sounds like one of my best friends from college… ALL of her maternal family is fair complexion like Tiny/Faith Evans/Alicia Keys. They say that they are BLACK, and I don’t blame them because like you, no one is solely white or native or anything else. Everyone looks the same, “colored” so now they just say black because no one says “colored” in 2024😂
Colored didn’t mean Negro only. Colored meant non-white. I looked into this when I saw a comment saying colored means black people. I understand how someone from a region only knowing of white and black people would think that.
@@nonino1644 Oh that I’m aware of! But in my situation and in my family’s situation, it meant and means black. The main thing I’m pointing out is that I can’t really identify as anything else, despite my complexion, because I don’t know what that other identity is. I can’t say what it is I’m mixed with because none of my predecessors were identified as something other than colored/black. So it comes down to two choices really. Say I’m mixed but can’t securely and confidently say with what and potentially end up “passing” for something that I’m not. Or, identify with the race and culture I know to be true for me and my family. I’m gonna choose the latter every single time!
@@tariqlopes4238 He who has the gold makes the rules. The white racists in America make the rules and create the laws, whether we like it or agree with it or not.
Idk, as a Gen Xer born and raised in the 7th ward of New Orleans, we were raised with a creole identity that I feel is lost today, as we no longer speak of our mixed heritage as much.
Using terms like black and white to describe yourself reduces who you are. Black and white was termed in 1600's people always described themself by either nationality or tribe. This country was specifically erected by Anglo Saxson rulership. In other words English monarchy.
Let's be real, MOST Black people who were born in America have mixed heritage because the female slaves weren't just slaves they were sex slaves to their owners,and the free Blacks mixed with the other races that were here.That's why Black people can be light, bright,and damn near white, dark chocolate, and everything in between! My DNA test says that I am 60.7% Sub-Saharan African, 30.5% Eastern European, with small percentages of Native American and Asian ancestry,but I'm Black. If we have to be 100% Black to identify as Black then there aren't very many who can make that claim.
This is why I do not get the ignorance of our history why many are not getting even today as we take DNA test the slave master DNA still shows up in large numbers . This regardless of how dark we are, how throwbacks genes still pop up most black families. This is displayed within their families,the array of skintones, hair textures ,certain features despite most black people dating,marrying each other since after slavery . I am lighter in skintone with hazel eyed , eyes unlike my siblings ,had a looser longer hair texture is in my 60s now but know for hundred of years my family was black ,great grandma born in 1894 who was alive when I was 20 her parents were black and so was their’s . Again we were enslaved, massa did whatever he wanted to us his property and did and this did not end after slavery where R wording us was not seen as this .
Im going to keep it a buck with you. Culturally, you may be black but based on your genetics I can guarantee you are not phenotypically black. This however does not not make you black American however given our history. Most of our people range between medium brown , dark brown and Jet black. Medium brown black folk would expect to have some where between 70%-82% African DNA. Dark brown black folk will almost always range from 80%-92%. Jet black folks will typically range from 88% -100% African. Phenotypically speaking there is no such thing as a white skinned black person or light skin black person with all due respect. Moat African Americans are between 72%-75% african. But I suspect this number to be this low due to the fact they include mixed people who almost always range between 59%-69% African dna.
@@lifeinlife24 You basically said the same thing that I said. Most African Americans have mixed heritage, but we identify as Black,and society identifies us as Black.
This is/was a much needed discussion.. There is so much discord over "blackness" because so many people lack context, knowledge and understanding of the history.
No matter what I have mixed parentage, but I've lived and will continue to live my life as a black woman. I was never called the n word because of my European ancestors. When you look at me, you don't see a white woman.
I think not being called the n-word Has to do with where you grew up and where you went to school. I've even noticed even if you're not mixed there are some people who have never gone through discrimination in a face-to-face way or somebody is like insulting them as a person verbally. If you went to school in the deep south, you may have still heard that. And I'm saying this because of people like Dorothy dandridge and people like Rosa Parks because to be honest Rosa Parks look almost Hispanic like to me if Rosa Parks was alive and these days people will be arguing with her about whether she was black...she was still black enough
The black phenotype is a prominent phenotype. You can mix black with any race and you’re gonna always see that black phenotype coming through. This is why mix race people cannot claim to be white for example or Asian because that blackness comes through and that’s what the world sees you as. Yes mix race People can have an ambiguous look, but the dominant feature tends to be the Black features.
@@marellamofonot at all. Biracial and mixed-race people never look fully Black. I have seen biracial and mixed-race people who are half White and half Black or mixed with White and Black and come out White passing. Black genes are not that dominate as you're making them out to be. Biracial and mixed-race people who are mixed with Black never look fully Black.
Great video and lets you know in this society the power of Black Blood and its effects....This still goes on today especially in the South. Still many one drop and half-breeds there considered full Black....This places is something else...Peace
Thank you for educating people on this trauma. It is always presented, one drop rule topic, as if we as people of African descent approve and encouraged this. But the evil intent of it's origins is silenced.
They don't care, we are the only ones who have not received some kind of reparations! The Japanese, Holocaust survivors etc. None of them were instrumental in building this country BUT us!
HAHAHA! Truth is, only the "TRUE" Blacks--those who are 100% African, and the Mulattoes and Quadroons--those who are half Black/Half White, and/or 75% White/25% Black would qualify for reparations because they were the ONLY ONES who were slaves. The 75%, 80%, 90% Blacks nowadays DID NOT EXIST DURING SLAVERY! They are a result of the "TRUE" Blacks and the Mulattoes and Quadroons mixing together. Very few of you would qualify to get reparations, because you didn't exist yet.
@@high_maintenance that’s all I’m saying. Some mixed ppl are black in my eyes but it’s not right that just cuz you have 5% black you can claim blackness because that’s not accurate and shouldn’t be this way. We gone have yt ppl claim they black due to that. I think you should have 25% or over to claim reparations. It should be a percentage
@@high_maintenance Agreed. Last thing we need is a bunch of wahyte folk who claim 1\64 "black" claiming all those funds. It'd be 40 Acres and a Mule all over again. That was suppose to be the reparations, instead, it went into the hands of slave owners.
Speaking as a 100% African (AncestryDNA test backs me up), I have never and will never follow that idiotic rule. Neither will I accept anyone else’s blind following of it. If we still want to categorise races, which is also idiotic, we should acknowledge that many people are made up of different races, ethnicities and nationalities. Why aren’t they allowed to embrace every aspect of themselves?
If you have a full two liter bottle of Dr Pepper and a full can of Pepsi, you open the can of Pepsi pour all of it then take the top off the Dr Pepper and put a drop of Pepsi in it if pour some of that Dr Pepper into a cup and drink it there’s no way that you’re going to taste Pepsi in that Dr Pepper. The “one drop” rule 💩 is 🧢 all day everyday.
@bossplayermfs5972 it's crazy how some of you call people who are 50% Black, "one drop." You can clearly see Black heritage in the majority of Black biracials.
@BronzeSista Mulattoes are still not Black! Do u know in many Sub-Saharan African countries Mulattoes are seen as White and that's the land of Black people.
I would like to see ALL applications for everything eliminate the question of race. I wish we could all just look at each other as human beings rather than a color first.
Go to the racial caste system of Latin America where ppl keep forgetting that Latino is not a race and that you have light skin mixed race black people in Latin America that happen to speak spanish. There are more black people in Latin America than any other region on the planet outside of Africa. Only 3 percent of slave trade went to America and 97 percent went to Latin America.
The issue is some people who look black who think they are black are only 50% African. So yes we could say anyone with a fully Asian or white parent along with a black parent is mixed but so are some black Americans but they may not know it. Where do we draw the line?
Black Americans with mixed ancestry are still black. They have fully black parents. Anyone with a black experience should be considered FBA. Mixed ppl are not fully black so that’s still completely different than a Black American with mixed ancestry. If they’re family is black they’re black
That's why they created the one-drop rule because, in their eyes, anyone visibly black or with black ancestry was deemed black. They didn't care if they were 50 white or 95 percent, they were viewed as black. Quadroon and octaroons are visibly white but at a certain time in history, they were viewed as black
Excellent 👍🏾 post. Very informative and well thought out. However, I think it goes a little bit deeper. One of the biggest reasons leading up to the institution of the "One Drop Rule." In addition to ideals of "racial purity," I believe another reason of even greater import was property rights. Due to the pervasive (and quiet as kept encouraged) practice of bedding slaves (whether for pleasure or a show of power), the ensuing generations of children born of these unions bled out much the obvious melanin making it harder and harder to differentiate pure wyt children from their half siblings. And since DNA was millennia off and people didn't live as long as they do now, it would eventually become almost impossible to say which children had first right of property (which usually went to the first born male child). It would almost be a fait accompli that a set of white parents would die leaving their property to their children. But imagine the horror of having to uphold that all property would go to the first born mixed race child the father had with one of his bed slaves!! Not to mention, this became a much more frequent issue as young white men would be married off to women outside his family or even across the state. It wouldn't take long for them to either be paired with or perhaps fall in love with a mixed race girl. And imagine the horror when their first born child comes out darker than what is expected (genetics has a really funny way of showing up around those with recessive genes...just saying). This to protect themselves, their wealth and their ridiculous ideals of "racial purity" (which would be simple enough...keep your filthy genitals out of the slave quarters) they instituted this pseudoscientific system of racial barriers to uphold white "purity."
FYI, white (or "whyte" lol) people have melanin. Literally .....everyone does. Every race does. Well, unless someone is literally an albino. Which comes in every race. So ...... just sayin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thank you for this well explained and well researched topic....it gives an even deeper and more tragic understanding about racism and segregation.....a white european person ( of spanish, german and ukranian origin)
I will never accept the one drop rule because 1) it's like saying 1+ any other number other than 0 =1 and 2) it says that black blood is poisonous, which from what I have heard is the real origin of it. If you drop one drop of poison into a pint of clean water, that water becomes poisonous even though the poison that you dropped is only 0.01% of the liquid. So back in the old days, if a person had any black in them no matter how little, they were black (aka contaminated and poisonous). Yet so many blacks today still accept such a thing.
Meanwhile in France , the son of a French white gentleman and of a former slave, Marie Cessette Dumas, could become a famous general during the Revolution and Napoleon wars, and the grand-son of Marie Cessette one our most famous author in our litterature : Alexandre Dumas (The three musketeers, The count of Monte Cristo....). This is one of the many examples of famous people in France and Europe with African ancestry before the XX century (which does not mean we had not slavery and racism issues). Interesting that the US one drop rule was a model for nazi racial laws.
Plecker was a special kind of evil. He went around in Melungeon households and forced them to mark "Free Person of Color" on the census. That's how I found part of my Black heritage in an ancestor who later marked 'white' on the census when I guess Plecker died or moved on. (Melungeons = a Black, white & Native American "tri-racial" isolate group from the Appalachias).
Jefferson Davis - The President of the Confederate States , was married to a Black woman. I found this out during my many visits to the Confederate museum in New Orleans. I’m a Democrat, proud, Black man and make sure I visit that museum when I visit N.O. It’s an excellent museum. It was well known at the time she was Black. History is amazing isn’t it.
That is not true. Historians have studied her lineage in depth and the findings are inconclusive. There are pics galore of her. She is fair skinned with straight hair and European features. A word of advice. Have some cultural pride. Don’t claim people who don’t acknowledge you. In college sitting with friends, a guy comes over and speaks to me in Spanish. Some black girl l barely knew or even spoke to yells over everyone, “she’s black!” I looked at her and spoke to him in Spanish. We all laughed and left her stupid behind looking foolish. Never claim folks who aren’t claiming YOU!
A child from two of the same is the same. A child from two different race parents is bi-racial. Other than that it is mockery, disrespectful, and inconsiderate. Experiences shape perception! Ignore that and you get informed. 2024😎
Well im half black and white. I look a hell lot more black than my other side. Very tight coarse hair, wide nose, and a light Brown completion. Ive always claimed to be biracial, but people say "no such thing" "thats not a race". Especially growing up in rural Utah, a more than majority white state, ive never been seen as both sides. Only my black side, and even bullied and called slurs like the hard R, constantly while in school by white students, even tho im not even fully black. My black ancestors came from west Africa, and were enslaved and held in Mississippi plantations. And my white side is from Italy, as well as Ireland. This is a very confusing topic for most people, including myself. Ive also seen "black leaders" like Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Huey P Newtown, and Jackson P Johnathan, be called "Black" even tho they are also biracial as well. I have no clue what to "claim" for my race and ethnicity on applications, and so forth, so I just end up marking black, since that's what I physically look like most. May peace be upon my fellow biracial children. I know its hell and back growing up biracial. Identity crissis and shit. Never claimed by both parties... But just know, to never hate yourself for who your are✊🏽💯
I'm not sure why this piece conflates the American Negro experience with the current climate regarding Kamala Harris. The One-drop rule has nothing to do with her lineage. She is not an American Negro. Two different ethnicities, two different experiences, customs, and traditions.
Kamala Harris' father is a black Jamaican. Like other black Jamaicans, he is the descendant of African slaves, brought to the Americas. It's splitting hairs to suggest that Harris is not a black American because she is descended from the "wrong" set of slaves. Especially since she was born in America. Culturally she is more American than anything else.
One Drop Rule is alive and kicking 2024... Does not matter where you are from. Not sure why folks from the African Diaspora think this is an African American issue when many have "tone of skin issues and ""nice hair" issues..this "colorization" issue is throughout ALL from the Tree of Africa....thanks to colonization..stop with the ignorant remarks! And the African American separatist.. it is truly off their backs --any person of color and particularly from the African Diaspora....unite not separate!!
One of America's worst problems is racism. God created all of us; God loves each and every person. He is our heavenly father, and we are His children. If we show prejudice against anyone, God knows this and only He is the ultimate judge.
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They should just give mixed people their own category to clear up the confusion ,with the caveat that black people will be even more of a minority .
THATS THE PROBLEM, PEOPLE WHO ARE HATEFULLY JEALOUSE OF MIXED PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SET THEM APART, BECUZ IT WOULD MAKE THEM FEEL LIKE THE MIXED PERSON IS BETTER THEN THEM.......ALL THAT'S SPEAKS TO SELF ESTEEM...
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@@vashtikelly6837 yea thats the problem isnt it ? They hate mixed but would hate even more if we left the group and did our own thing .
@@vashtikelly6837That's true. A lot of Black Americans want mixed people to be Black to feel better about themselves. However Black Americans are waking up especially with Kamala calling herself a Black woman and she's not
@@SparkleInYourEyes2024because they made the rule because they wanted more slaves. So now they want to change the rules to suit them when it’s convenient? One drop rule it is. They made the rule, let them enjoy it. A biracial person by THEIR DEFINITION AND LAW, is BLACK. The black people did not make the rule, the white did.
Excellent video. For anyone who still is not clear about what one drop means, this refers to Black ancestry that may include at least one black relative even from many generations ago. But even if Kamala was Green with Purple polka dots I still would vote for her instead of Trump!
I’d vote for a rat over Trump. I’m thrilled that the candidate opposing Trump is also a candidate I can support on her platform and qualifications instead of just being the candidate who isn’t Trump.
Kamala has qualifications, lol. You might want to listen to Judge Joe Brown's opinion of her. I dare you. You must enjoy her talent of taking on different accents depending on who she's talking to. Hillary used to do that too. Lol. Kooky dems.
I recently viewed a video where a Nigerian father had issues with his daughter marrying a Nigerian man that came from a group in Nigeria that were once slaves to them. Cast systems can take many generations to erase from the status quo.
Biologically speaking, A person is not black..but biracial. Unfortunately our community includes everyone, with a drop. A person is no more white than they are black or whatever the mixture is, when 1 parent is non black. You can identify as you please and phenotypically we include who "looks" like us. There are biracials and such who have black mothers and non black fathers , does that make them whatever the father is ? Or do we associate them with what they phenotype resembles? I've seen both and latter more so than the other, depending on who the person in question is.
@@catherinesterling1685….from Louisiana and have three nonblack grandparents and one ADOS grandmama. I should take a DNA but the grandmama genes might dominate and l couldn’t stand her. She didn’t like us. Now that l’m older l realize she was a hypocrite. My grandpapa (her husband) was fair skin yellow with straight black hair. She had 9 lightskin sons and 2 high yellow daughters for him. So what the hell was her problem? 😂😂😂😂
I wish people were not so obsessed with skin color. It causes so much hatred in people who are unbalanced. God created us all as humans and no matter what color we are, we are not more important than someone else who has a different skin color.
technically, doesn't everyone on earth have one drop or two in their blood at least? the level of obsession feels so excessive it feels clinically abnormal.
McDonnel-Douglas (now Boeing) in St. Louis still has the "colored " bathroom signs that had to be painted over after President Kennedy toured the plant. He threatened MD with loss of government contracts for fighter planes if they didn't!
I sure am glad I had the experience of meeting my grandmother born in 1914 who passed in 2001. I am in my thirties, and my mother was born in 41 and my father in 31. All these people are from the era of calling themselves negro and colored. Moms side from Louisiana, father abroad the south. No one from those times spewed this jargon of your not black if you are light skin. We are divided and forgot what it meant, and now trying to change its entire context because of feelings. A lot of folk feel a way, don’t make it true.
The United States!! The German Nazis found our Caste system useful when they wanted to subjugate Jews. They actually sent Germans to the United States to study it before they implemented it.
Whiteness and Blackness are artificial. Prior to the 17th Century, neither existed. They were fictions required to justify slavery. Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in the American British colonies that saw English and African working classes rebel against British rule. The British authorities put down the uprising and instituted new laws. That established that the children of enslaved Black women were automatically enslaved. Slavery was also for life. Interracial sex was banned. Whiteness and Blackness, therefore was a political and economic tool to divide and conquer. Poor whites gained the privileges and rights of whiteness. They could stand a rung or two above the permanently enslaved Blacks who became inherently inferior. There was also the Arab slave trade of Africans. That system was also cruel and required the invention of race to justify its evil.
they made the rule because they wanted more slaves. So now they want to change the rules to suit them when it’s convenient? One drop rule it is. They made the rule, let them enjoy it. A biracial person by THEIR DEFINITION AND LAW, is BLACK. The black people did not make the rule, the white did.
The Most High did! Daniel and Revelations along with Job and other books described “God”, JC, Job, King Solomon, Moses and many more chosen saints as Black! Cain and Esau and all their predestined descendants were cursed with pale skin not able to stand the natural Sun. This is basic Bible.
So many people on this thread are obsessed with distancing themselves from blackness. Black, in the U.S., isn't your skin color, it's a term used to described a community of people who descend from American slaves. Some darker skinned Blacks actually have more non-black blood than some lighter skinned blacks, so where do you draw the line you all are trying to create? Fact: Until the 1960s, all people with known "sub-Saharan" African blood were defined as "Colored" and forced, by law, throughout the South to drink out of "Colored" water fountains, attend "Colored" schools and sit on the back of the bus. If you are in the group that was treated this way, why do you think suddenly saying that you aren't a part of it changes anything? You empower yourselves by embracing, not rejecting, the part of you that others believe makes you inferior.
also a good point to mention appearance doesnt necisserily reflects genetics, a notion that must ve confused and still is confusing a lot of people today...Heritage ( genetic or social/cultural) isnt always written on the face therefore its even more vuable to try to mot judge a book by its cover.
Honey, we all didn’t share the same lived experiences you’re reciting here. My papa was a multigenerational born New Orleans French Creole tracing his heritage to France. I grew up in the historic 7th Ward, home to the original Creoles. We attended our own Catholic schools and churches, open-air market, and associated with our own kind. Forced integration caused many of us to move away. Those who remained have been bullied into silence and accepting a color as their heritage. Case in point was a woman crying on social media because blacks didn’t accept her lightskin Creole self as one of them. I thought she was crazy but that’s the indoctrination she’s been reared under in the States. The true Africans don’t play these mind games. That’s why l respect them and their cultures.
Sally Hemings was described by someone who knew her as “pretty near white, with long black hair down her back.” Her children could pass as white (some did after they were freed). I imagine they looked like the children of Megan Markel and Prince Harry (who is a redhead like Jefferson). An interesting book on the subject is “One Drop - My Father’s Hidden Life” by Bliss Broyard. Her father was literary critic Anatole Broyard, who had been born in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
@@kathleenking47 No. No. No. That's utterly ridiculous. It's lineage and culture. Are you going to say that Rosa Parks wasn't Black because she didn't have straight hair?
Psychology is the architecture of existence. This was so deep seated and manipulative. On top of that, you have refactor naming conventions for certain groups that came about naturally as we humans use schemas to quickly categorize (and ultimately survive) in order to maneuver through our surroundings.
This law was not made by melaninated people therefore we're not obligated to accept it. Therefore truth trumps law. To be black you need two melaninated people. Otherwise you have a new bloodline and are other.
Agreed 100%~ I feel it’s so simple that we all know even if it’s on a subconscious level it’s very black and white and then the mix which the Bible say not to do and now they’re trying to justify a lifetime of evil as nothing major, we all the same it’s a lie, and everybody’s gone soon find out
Im black/white mixed race and diceded to (drop) the 1( drop)rule in the trash years ago,labells and definitions dont difine who i am,if i treat you with respect,then i expect respect back,whoever you are,male/female/white or black,if i disrespect you,you have the right to tell me about myself,my flawed character,not my skin colour,my character should even shock you or amaze you,my skin colour should be irelavent,thats exactly how i view others,to me,your character defines who you are,it will ether save you or condem you
The reason lightskinned/mulatto people were house slaves and not often field slaves, was because they were family to the white master. They were either his children, or his daughter’s, brother’s or son’s children. Why would they be sent to the fields when they were born and raised in that house with their family?
This is a law that was overturned and we shouldn’t abide by unjust laws to define black. Black is an American construct to delineate light from dark that passed to other nations when slavery was envogue. Black is as important as any other minority description and we should protect it as such. Customs, traditions, and mores (pronounced MOR-ay) need to be solidified so the culture does not die from assimilation or gentrification. As long as we value money over everything we will never succeed in protecting our heritage. First things first…our mores need to be aligned. After that everything else falls into place. Hope it happens before we become extinct.
@@andreroy8141 right ... prove it? Let me know what you have studies. the most high said study to show yourself approved. So what does it mean when the most high said worship me in SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH... what does that mean? Tell me... so show me where the most high said sleep with whomever you want there is no spiritual side. you reply is weak... You don't have proof. I will not entertain your response.
Right, the one drop rule was one of the best things that happened to black Americans. It marked out all of that buffer class, I'm not black talk and pushed us towards unification, and I'm black and proud.
'black'' is a description NOT a monolithic group of people nor is it a ''Lineage,'' it doesn't work like that. Where your Great Great Great Grandparents are from originally, that's your ''origin'': the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived, and Lineage.
Race is constructed differently in Latin America that did not have the One Drop Rule. The goal of Latin American racism eventually became the destruction of any kind of Black identity to greatly reduce the number of people who saw themselves as "Black." This inspired loyalty with the white ruling classes. Black Americans don't understand that the One Drop Rule turned out to be one of the key factors in achieving more economic and political power than any other African-descendant bloc in the Americas. Simply compare "Blacks" in Brazil vs the US. It's day vs night in terms of the social, political, and economic mobility and power that Black folks have in the US vs Brazil. The One Drop Rule greatly expanded the number of people who considered themselves Black and had the need to fight for equality. Sadly, many modern Black Americans have lost a cohesive understanding of their people and history. You see it in the ridiculous "Not Like Us" attack on Drake's Blackness. I can only imagine in the not-too-distant future, similar foolishness will expel Malcolm X from Blackness because of his light skin and ginger hair. People are often dumb, foolish, and hopelessly self-destructive.
The racist One Drop Rule does not exist today and is no longer applicable. People in the U.S.A. today willingly choose to date and marry inter-racially. Any children born from these pairings are bi-racial. Regardless of whether the father or mother is Black, the children are NOT Black, they are bi-racial. People can love who they love, but only a Black man and a Black woman can produce a Black child. It’s very simple. Note: A light skinned Black person with two Black parents is not the same as a bi-racial person.
This way, evil slave owners could sell their own children after raping the black women who were held as slaves.😢
That was highly lucrative. OTOH, there were some slaveowners who prized those children and even did well by them (sometimes sending them north to school...which is the origin of some HBCUs). I wonder if there was some kind of distinction between the kinds of plantations where mixed-race slaves were bred purposefully for sale and those where the slaveholder had feelings for the children he created. Size of the operation, perhaps.
@@rdkirk3834 I wonder if some of these 'slave' buyers knew they were purchasing their own kings and gave them the respect every Hebrew deserves...
@@rdkirk3834It was probably only a system in place in states like Louisiana. Some slave master’s Black children grew up in the slave quarters within his home where the female slave that tended the house and his kitchen was available to him because she lived in the same house and the kids she had with him although somewhat secretly was known by adult members of the household. Sometimes it was hard for some slave owners to ignore that his black offspring still looked like him and members of his extended white family so they tended to give them unwritten privileges.
People , you must remember who we are, the indigenous to America
@@patriciagriffith7402explain how they got here and where they originated.
I was reading Maya Angelou first book and She talks about Her other Grandmother in St Lious who was a "quadroon" thats literally what She said, and I realized that because of racism in America mixed people have always been a part of the black community in America. Mixed people were not allowed to be a part of the white community or embrace the white part of their culture for hundreds of years. I think that still shapes things today.
What can they embrace regarding "white culture?" It's always been nothing but pure EVIL!!! There's nothing to embrace, that's why they have to LIE about their history.
None of my people wanted to be part of the "white community." Malcolm X never wanted to embrace his racist, racist "white part." How is the rape of black women by white men part of our culture (you sound like a 1950's white supremacist)? Why, how could you type something as tone deaf as you just typed!!!!
There were Black people who lived in our community who were for all intents and purposes white. However, somewhere in their lineage there must must have been a Black ancestor because they were considered to be colored/Negro/Black.
The one drop rule is nuts because if it’s true then the other mix somone has couod be claimed and be a one drop rule as well
Such a dumb man made rule
All are mixed with the Same things
From
Adam / Eve to the present 😊
@@LindaOliver-e8q "they were considered" or they considered themselves! That makes all the difference in the world. My relatives were the Romare Bearden, Freddie Washington, Walter White, Chestnutt, Malcolm X Negroes who were proud to call themselves "Negro." None of us even referred to ourselves as "mixed." Have you ever heard Malcolm refer to himself as "mixed"?
Johnny Cash was attacked because his first wife looked black . He said she was Italian . Years later his daughter Rosand took the DNA test and found out the mother did have African ancestry . Her grandmother was black .
wow, i didnt know that. I like the music of Johnny cash
@@hetedeleambacht6608 Johnny Cash also had African blood on his side according to Roseanne's DNA. I watched the show.
White passing people all got absorbed, the "One drop rule" is nothing more than Black Mens love for light skin.
I remember that. It was on PBS Finding Your Roots. She looked relieved to finally know her family's history
Ok, so what's the problem?.
It's crucial to understand that the one drop rule was developed to ensure that whiteness stayed free and clear of blackness. Blackness being free of whiteness was never a consideration. The result is that historically blackness has been more of a set of shared heritage and experiences and has had little to do with phenotype.
That's true. It wasn't about blackness being free of whiteness, it was about whiteness being free of blackness. And it was also about keeping black separated from everything else in a number of states. There were states with laws that allowed white men to mix with whatever they wanted...except black...and also prevented blacks from mixing with anything else. The point was to keep black segregated from everything else.
@@rdkirk3834 Hispanics were given White status in states like TEXAS
Exactly!! Black people were never allowed to be exclusive or exclusionary, only preyed upon and excluded
Exactly!! Black people were never allowed to be exclusive or exclusionary, only preyed upon and excluded
I'm Black and I'm proud.
Here comes DNA. How many white Americans discovered one drop after getting their DNA results?😅
I am sure many of them.
I bet the one drop rule didny apply then lol
Thsie test are false anyway but no matter if they get tested or not they are all still mixed with black from Adam and Eve to all after them to the present
I bet the one drop rule didny apply then lol
Thsie test are false anyway but no matter if they get tested or not they are all still mixed with black from Adam and Eve to all after them to the present
It was never about one drop!! Passing still happened!🤪🤯🤡
10% of Southern white Americans have West/Central African ancestry
Just use the terms "caste system" and "eugenics." These terms will better describe what was and still is going on.
Agreed
Absolutely!
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A must read. CASTE by Isobel Wilkerson, visceral, compelling.
@@cs8906The real _must read_ is *'The Law Of Manu'* .
This is kinda like the "bible" of caste systems. Although it was written around 1100 BCE it explains the importance of _soul food; pants sagging, anti-intellectualism, Sport& entertainment over STEM and the dependence on the government in "black" culture" .
It is said that if you don't learn from your history, you are doomed to repeat it.
And that's what we have going on today. Ppl are trying to suppress and erase our history. This is leaving ppl open to repeat the blatant ignorance of years passed. I'm glad I came across your channel. I'm glad you are speaking facts and educating others.
Psalm 37:29
Isaiah 65:21
Tell all the ppl who are so fond of IR couples and who preach the"love who you love" idiocy just to betray their own race
Naaaaw, betraying your race entails OTHER aspects to existence.....
What is your history outside of the US diaspora? What is the race outside of that?
YOU ARE RIGHT SIS ! WHEN I TELL MY PEOPLE ABOUT THE EUROPEAN THEY GET MAD WITH ME!!! LIKE THEY LOVE THE SLAVE MASTER!!!! HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE?????
SAY IT LOUD 📢 I'm Black 🖤 and I'm PROUD! Mr Brown 🤎 recorded that August 7th 1968 Praise God 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
*Proud to be the designated loser caste* .
If that ain't Stockholm syndrome I don't know what is.
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@@reneemcmillan2724 Can't be black and proud yet don't want to reproduce black babies.
Can't be black and proud while wearing the hair of Asian corpses.
I was born in 1968✊🏾👊🏾🪮❤💚🖤
The 1 drop was outlawed in 1967. No sense…resurrecting slavery. Loving vs Virginia outlawed 1 drop and miscegenation. Many blacks hold onto slavery 1 drop because they see being mixed as better and improvement in their race. Self hate is why they support 1 drop..many strive to live vicariously through mixed race people. It’s sad and true. They don’t see blackness as attractive, they prefer people mixed with white.
This was the development of the US Caste with the one drop blood rule.
I know whites with the "one dtop"
Its possible...it started with
Sickle cell traits, and morphed to "class"
This was another way to keep the common Black man poor and so-called without easy access to wealth. America kept the Africans out of economic fundamentals.
Justice
And legalized aparthied in America
Lol
Frankly, what's happening now with "biracial" is closer to the South African system. Before the 1980s, the "one drop rule" meant that biracial people were considered black and treated as such. Since the 1980s, White people have been considering "biracial" to be a separate white-adjacent race of its own and giving them a special set of "biracial privileges." It's not a matter of objective skin tone, except by visual accident. It's a matter of whether they actually have a white parent that they can get "biracial privilege."
Glad to be educated about this.
Lol
If you take two crayons or more, you come out with a different color. The color don’t go back to being the same. Makes no sense.
Hi, New Scriber. Good video.
That's why it's not about ''color,'' it's about Lineage.
So true. I am mixed with many ethnicities and honestly I will never choose one over the other to identify with. I'm forced to choose one by society for legal reasons. But outside of that my identity is Christ.
@@FABRIC8TIONUNLIMITE1if you don't have the same color, you don't have the same lineage.
Except they are people not crayons
What a terrible and ignorant time in our history. And to think we still have people trying to reimplement or retain this way of life. It breaks my heart such cruelty still exists.
Yes we should remain our American Freedman and slave ancestor identity. I take great pride in knowing I can outwork most humans.
It’s still goes on
In Haiti 🇭🇹, one drop of black make you black too. Not just the USA.
That's the reason all the population in Haiti is recognised as BLACK regardless of the skin color.
You will never find a haitian mullatoe, light skin identify as other than BLACK.
Yup! Racism is a deadly disease 😷
Mind your business, let people be them... foh
It just makes me sad that we have such colorism within our own community today, still propagated by the African American media. (Light skin, long hair, save her, vs. dark skin curly hair, she ain't sh__).
If we don't value ourselves, how can we expect others to?
Maybe stop upholding the one drop rule and start the cultural humanization of majority/pure blooded black people.
Indeed it was a Caste system as beautifully illustrated by the book, Caste (and movie by the same name) by Isabel Wilkerson. It is a must read and see event. Do it immediately!!!
Thanks! "Origin is a 2023 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Over the course of the film, Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history."
Actually the movie based on Caste is called Origin. You are so right to recommend this book!
What a great and interesting video. I'm a Quadroon myself. It's awesome having someone shed some light on this subject.
Rappers today, who are feuding right now need to watch this.
Culture was in question not his skin tone
@@mattavelibeats9986How is Kamala, a Jamaican Indian, Black but Drake isn't?
@@SparkleInYourEyes2024 No disrespect but you missed my point,YES DRAKE IS BLACK,but culturally NO..... do the knowledge and research his background and you will find out the reason to my statement......keep the emotions out of it
@@mattavelibeats9986 he didn’t grow up in the hood I’m assuming that’s what your referring to? Every black person didn’t grow up in the hood btw.
@@SparkleInYourEyes2024
Drake is halfkanzi ✡(ashkanzi)️
Amazing video, Basically all African American is mixed except isolated groups like Gullah in the Carolina’s
@ Ssoaup, It is so not true that 'basically all black people are
mixed". There are
more than can be calculated black people who 'thankfully' have no white blood as evidenced by my own family and many others. I think people who say this most likely are mixed (or wish they were), but I reject that 'tint' being put on my family.
@@judiththomas7431 well my ancestry says 18 percent and most African Americans have 15 so I’m just guessing that we all have some type of admixture
Black is original. First in the universe, no beginning, no ending, Jamaica in de house.
White woman in the house that agrees 100%! Only reason I’m White, is because my tribe went North. I lost my melanin because of that choice. Sadly, at least in the States and I suspect Europe, my country Canada as well don’t either know about this…or refuse to accept that we are all born out of Africa! Plain and simple. This should be taught in all Schools. White people have been stealing/ taking credit from almost everything Black people make. Arts, culture, music, astronomy and astrology. How about the myth of Christopher Columbus. There is evidence that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus. If we all accepted this fact I believe the racial harmony could be achieved. As Jane Elliott says…there is only one race…The human race.❤❤❤❤🙋🏼♀️🇨🇦☮️💐🌺
@@hopesprings4967 Canada is a beautiful country. I heard there was a hailstorm in southern Alberta a week ago. Lots of damage to some houses. Heard there was a lot of flooding in southern Quebec from the latest tropical storm.
And Jesus' tribe is Black.
So I guess "Out Of Many" is out of fashion these days ?
Out of Africa , thats where we all hail from.
You know the saying! If You Yellow, You're Mellow, If You Brown Stick Around and If You're Black Get Back!
Well said
THATS WHY I DONT SEE HOW OUR PEOPLE CAN LAY WITH THEM!!!!!!!!!!
@@RonaldCosten-ct3vpomg dude you need to chill out I seen you on the other girls pose the girl that's mixed talking about you don't see how people can lay with them but you're talking to people who are biracial like, I understand what you're saying but it's awkward to say that to somebody who has one white parent like you're like...
I was actually looking for that post because I wanted to tell you that I have to agree with you but if you sleep with anybody for any shallow reason all of that shows low self-esteem. If you recreate with somebody because you want your kids to be light skin that is weak, insane and trifling. Historically, what white people did was trifling and they still owe us some money for stealing all the patents to our inventions. But I won't say I don't see how people can lay with them, because there are plenty of black women that have went through trauma with black men like and not this is not saying black men are the root of all evil or nothing but it's just being real like you're saying you don't understand how; all it has to be is a black woman that got her heart broken too many times by a man that was the same race as her and she's kind of looking at her options. But when people reproduce with them and then talk bad about their own race that's the problem. Whether is a black man or woman if they're like teaching their biracial kid all this b******* that come from slavery then that is a problem
Yep if you white you right if your brown stay around if you Black step back .
@@irisshaw51 Yes, I left them out! Lol
This a very touchy topic. I have long said that biracial people don't exclusively belong to either race so they are not blaque/yt. The reason why Rachel Dolezal( a yt woman) could pass as blaque is because literally anyone can be accepted as a blaque person. I personally believe that biracial people should be able to identify however they want. However I do notice that blaque people tend to get upset when biracial people say "they aren't blaque ".
AGREE
This is so skewed. My dad was Irish and black. When I tell someone that I'm they look at me and say no way. However, there are many black Irish people.
@@ramonakearns2101 isn't being Iris a nationality not a race? You could be Asian and be Iris, the same way you can be yt and be Chinese.
@@vashtikelly6837 thanks
Well, considering that most Black Americans have white ancestry, maybe you should reconsider your position? Are you really going to say that Frederick Douglas, Booker T Washington and many others weren't really Black? Are you going to say that Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell, et al weren't Black?
Racial purity is a tool of white supremacy. It has zero historical significance in the lives of Black American people who walked the lands of these United States. Seriously, do yo think the lives of the white passing slaves who lived their lives in terror don't deserve recognition? Do you know that light-skinned girls called fancy girls were sold into sexual slavery?
What about the Black Seminoles? The escaped slaves who were accepted into Native American communities? They intermarried. They fought for their freedom until they were finally conquered. Are those people not sufficiently Black?
It's shocking how little thought and understanding modern Black Americans have for the lives of their ancestors and the many kinds of people who made up the Black community. People like Alonzo Herndon, a white passing former slave who built one of the first and most successful insurance companies, Atlanta Life, and funneled profits back into the Black community and the Civil Rights community.
People need to grasp that it was because there was a large, diverse and inclusive Black identity that Black Americans were able to achieve the success that marks it as the most uniquely successful Black diaspora community in the Americas. Compare Black Americans to Brazil's Black-descendant population who were rewarded for denying their Blackness. Black Brazilians are decades behind American Blacks in political, economic, and social power because, ironically, there was no One Drop Rule to force a unified identity.
Also the birth of colorism, caste in USA.......
I would say colorism probably started in India with the Hindu caste system more then 4,000 years ago.
@@HappyRoach1 yes, but as for black Americans, no
We rejected the " one-drop rule" a long time ago, understanding the reasoning for its existence. As self-determining people, we have the right to define ourselves and are not limited to that very peculiar American made ideal...
Lol.. won't matter, still exists..(one drop, deal with it)
Try joining the kkk or state militia and get back at me!😂
Deal with it? I' think not, it's ignorant and outdated,and has no place in this day and time
@@LisaEllis-rt3xh AGREE, YOU BE PROUD AND RESPRESENT BOTH YOUR PARENTS NOT JUST YOUR BLACK ONE....
@@AustinSydney-s4v Stop mixing the best solution 😊 😜 I'm brown 🤎 and proud. That I'm mixed crap is to cause division ➗ and a ploy they don't want to be the majority. We're Indians anyway, imo.
The one drop rule was and is bs imo. They just wanted to keep blackness as far away from themselvesbas possible. Mixed is mixed
Exactly. But sadly, black people still uphold it today
For our creator didn’t see us as so called black, white, or whatever. Why should we?
@@pb9695then what did he see us as?
@@TyeArtisik THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CREATED THIS RULE.
@@belleame4671If your identity is in Christ, God will abolish all your idols. Race is an idol.
Their rules to keep us divided
No we keep ourselves divided.
There is a clear and obvious distinction between Black person and a Mixed race person which is a natural division through observation of phenotype and genotype ( invisible to the naked eyes).
@@el-Cu9432 go back to sleep
@@patriciagriffith7402 WAIT UNTIL DON THE CON IS IN OFFICE AGAIN!!
@@celticmulato2609 PISSS!THEIR NO SUCH THING AS A BLACK PERSON!!NEWS FLASH THAT'S WHAT THE EUROPEAN TOLD YOU!!!!!
Black American culture is different than cultures in Africa. In Some African countries you aren't black if you are mixed, not in America. In America we are mixed up and still consider ourselves black, we were forced to stick together and out of that created our own heritage and culture. I'm speaking of FBA or descendants of Freedmen who's lineage and heritage goes back over 500yrs on the American soil. If I'm in Africa or Caribbean I will act accordingly to their culture as long as they do the same when a guest in my culture.
Exactly. That's why most Black Americans don't like the term African American. A lot of our families are so mixed. We claim anyone who identifies as Black in America. Amber Rose is dropped herself from the list and we could careless.
@@andreroy8141 Facts, I got family who look like Amber Rose and they some ridahs, they swear they blacker than anyone on earth. But nobody cares what Amber is doing it's just a money grab in my opinion, we know the play. She gotta stay over there now.
In Nigeria you are black but “mixed black” , as both races are ALWAYS acknowledged and rightfully so.
@@joye5761 Rightfully so in your culture. What works for your culture doesn't work for ours. No disrespect, but Black Americans could never accept a name given to us by a white woman. But that's the preference of your culture, so it works for you.
Don't be dumb. Relevant though
I’m glad this is being explained. I’m of a very light complexion. When I say I’m black, I’m always questioned for it and people want to know what I’m mixed with. The thing is, both of my parents, born in Louisiana in 1960, have “Colored” listed as the race of both parents. In simple terms, all four of my grandparents were listed as “Colored” therefore making my parents “Colored” as well. I cannot identify as biracial or mixed race because I literally cannot say which of my parents or grandparents are of a different race. My mom is a light as I am but she was not allowed in Whites Only facilities. She didn’t go to an integrated school until she was 9 years old. Same with my dad.
Sounds like one of my best friends from college… ALL of her maternal family is fair complexion like Tiny/Faith Evans/Alicia Keys. They say that they are BLACK, and I don’t blame them because like you, no one is solely white or native or anything else.
Everyone looks the same, “colored” so now they just say black because no one says “colored” in 2024😂
@@SheIsFearfullyWonderfullyMade Amen!!! 🙏
@@SheIsFearfullyWonderfullyMadesounds like she’s mixed. Like many louisianan’s, or, Caribbean peoples.
Colored didn’t mean Negro only. Colored meant non-white. I looked into this when I saw a comment saying colored means black people. I understand how someone from a region only knowing of white and black people would think that.
@@nonino1644 Oh that I’m aware of! But in my situation and in my family’s situation, it meant and means black. The main thing I’m pointing out is that I can’t really identify as anything else, despite my complexion, because I don’t know what that other identity is. I can’t say what it is I’m mixed with because none of my predecessors were identified as something other than colored/black. So it comes down to two choices really. Say I’m mixed but can’t securely and confidently say with what and potentially end up “passing” for something that I’m not. Or, identify with the race and culture I know to be true for me and my family. I’m gonna choose the latter every single time!
That's why I don't follow The One Drop Rule 😒
Fr Kamala not black
@@tariqlopes4238 are you paying attention? Apparently not!
@shonastar42 yeah and the one drop rule came from rascist so why I gotta agree with them on who's black
@@tariqlopes4238 yes, she is.
@@tariqlopes4238 He who has the gold makes the rules. The white racists in America make the rules and create the laws, whether we like it or agree with it or not.
Well done young man👏🏽
Louisiana here...we absolutely STILL cling to the racial distinctions in this state, especially Southern Louisiana. ⚜️ Great video💯
We have the same problem in Central and Northern Louisiana. It's the entire state.
It ain't no clinging. That's that foreign black talk. This shit is just encoded into our culture at this point.
Idk, as a Gen Xer born and raised in the 7th ward of New Orleans, we were raised with a creole identity that I feel is lost today, as we no longer speak of our mixed heritage as much.
You from Tallulah or something?
@@alyssiamelangeThere's no such thing as mixed. That's ignorance. You are who your father is NUMBERS 1:18
I’m glad you’re here to tell the story sir. I appreciate you
Using terms like black and white to describe yourself reduces who you are. Black and white was termed in 1600's people always described themself by either nationality or tribe. This country was specifically erected by Anglo Saxson rulership. In other words English monarchy.
Let's be real, MOST Black people who were born in America have mixed heritage because the female slaves weren't just slaves they were sex slaves to their owners,and the free Blacks mixed with the other races that were here.That's why Black people can be light, bright,and damn near white, dark chocolate, and everything in between! My DNA test says that I am 60.7% Sub-Saharan African, 30.5% Eastern European, with small percentages of Native American and Asian ancestry,but I'm Black. If we have to be 100% Black to identify as Black then there aren't very many who can make that claim.
This is why I do not get the ignorance of our history why many are not getting even today as we take DNA test the slave master DNA still shows up in large numbers . This regardless of how dark we are, how throwbacks genes still pop up most black families. This is displayed within their families,the array of skintones, hair textures ,certain features despite most black people dating,marrying each other since after slavery . I am lighter in skintone with hazel eyed , eyes unlike my siblings ,had a looser longer hair texture is in my 60s now but know for hundred of years my family was black ,great grandma born in 1894 who was alive when I was 20 her parents were black and so was their’s . Again we were enslaved, massa did whatever he wanted to us his property and did and this did not end after slavery where R wording us was not seen as this .
Im going to keep it a buck with you. Culturally, you may be black but based on your genetics I can guarantee you are not phenotypically black. This however does not not make you black American however given our history. Most of our people range between medium brown , dark brown and Jet black. Medium brown black folk would expect to have some where between 70%-82% African DNA. Dark brown black folk will almost always range from 80%-92%. Jet black folks will typically range from 88% -100% African. Phenotypically speaking there is no such thing as a white skinned black person or light skin black person with all due respect. Moat African Americans are between 72%-75% african. But I suspect this number to be this low due to the fact they include mixed people who almost always range between 59%-69% African dna.
@@lifeinlife24 You basically said the same thing that I said. Most African Americans have mixed heritage, but we identify as Black,and society identifies us as Black.
I'm 42% African and 37% French along with other nationalities. Considering myself black, not taking votes. 😊
@@edithhilt6290 That's right, nobody can tell you how to identify yourself! Most people don't even know what's in their family tree!
This is/was a much needed discussion.. There is so much discord over "blackness" because so many people lack context, knowledge and understanding of the history.
The women in the thumbnail are gorgeous!
No matter what I have mixed parentage, but I've lived and will continue to live my life as a black woman. I was never called the n word because of my European ancestors. When you look at me, you don't see a white woman.
THEY CALLED OUR SISTERS BEDWARMERS!!!!!! GO FIGURE ! HOW CAN OUR PEOPLE LAY WITH THEM ? LOW SELFESTEEM
I think not being called the n-word Has to do with where you grew up and where you went to school. I've even noticed even if you're not mixed there are some people who have never gone through discrimination in a face-to-face way or somebody is like insulting them as a person verbally. If you went to school in the deep south, you may have still heard that. And I'm saying this because of people like Dorothy dandridge and people like Rosa Parks because to be honest Rosa Parks look almost Hispanic like to me if Rosa Parks was alive and these days people will be arguing with her about whether she was black...she was still black enough
The black phenotype is a prominent phenotype. You can mix black with any race and you’re gonna always see that black phenotype coming through. This is why mix race people cannot claim to be white for example or Asian because that blackness comes through and that’s what the world sees you as. Yes mix race People can have an ambiguous look, but the dominant feature tends to be the Black features.
@@marellamofonot at all. Biracial and mixed-race people never look fully Black. I have seen biracial and mixed-race people who are half White and half Black or mixed with White and Black and come out White passing. Black genes are not that dominate as you're making them out to be. Biracial and mixed-race people who are mixed with Black never look fully Black.
@@OrganicAluminationRosa Parks was Black and Amerindian same as the wife in the Loving case.
Great video and lets you know in this society the power of Black Blood and its effects....This still goes on today especially in the South. Still many one drop and half-breeds there considered full Black....This places is something else...Peace
You are who your father is. NUMBERS 1:18
Isaiah 65:21
Psalm 37:29
@@alphonsojohnson8695Fairytale science. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
USA federal law doesn’t define Blackness based upon biblical interpretation.
Shut up don't say half breed.
Thank you for your voice. I’m happy I’m just seeing your videos. Thank you so much
Great Job Sir!!!!
Thank you for educating people on this trauma. It is always presented, one drop rule topic, as if we as people of African descent approve and encouraged this.
But the evil intent of it's origins is silenced.
@AnnW.-vj8yh THE EUROPEAN DON'T WANT US TO KNOW ANYTHING!THEY ARE THE BIGGEST LIARS IN THE WORLD AND 🌎 THAT'S THE TRUTH
We need to renegotiate these terms so we can properly vet who deserves reparations 😅
They don't care, we are the only ones who have not received some kind of reparations! The Japanese, Holocaust survivors etc. None of them were instrumental in building this country BUT us!
HAHAHA!
Truth is, only the "TRUE" Blacks--those who are 100% African, and the Mulattoes
and Quadroons--those who are half Black/Half White, and/or 75% White/25% Black
would qualify for reparations because they were the ONLY ONES who were slaves.
The 75%, 80%, 90% Blacks nowadays DID NOT EXIST DURING SLAVERY!
They are a result of the "TRUE" Blacks and the Mulattoes and Quadroons mixing together.
Very few of you would qualify to get reparations, because you didn't exist yet.
@@high_maintenance that’s all I’m saying. Some mixed ppl are black in my eyes but it’s not right that just cuz you have 5% black you can claim blackness because that’s not accurate and shouldn’t be this way. We gone have yt ppl claim they black due to that. I think you should have 25% or over to claim reparations. It should be a percentage
@@KaylaL830 ''You need ONE parent that has ties to American Chattel
Slavery.'' That's the Rule, period, it's not about ''color.''
@@high_maintenance Agreed. Last thing we need is a bunch of wahyte folk who claim 1\64 "black" claiming all those funds. It'd be 40 Acres and a Mule all over again. That was suppose to be the reparations, instead, it went into the hands of slave owners.
Speaking as a 100% African (AncestryDNA test backs me up), I have never and will never follow that idiotic rule.
Neither will I accept anyone else’s blind following of it.
If we still want to categorise races, which is also idiotic, we should acknowledge that many people are made up of different races, ethnicities and nationalities.
Why aren’t they allowed to embrace every aspect of themselves?
100% African from the USA!? I did not know there were some left...
If you have a full two liter bottle of Dr Pepper and a full can of Pepsi, you open the can of Pepsi pour all of it then take the top off the Dr Pepper and put a drop of Pepsi in it if pour some of that Dr Pepper into a cup and drink it there’s no way that you’re going to taste Pepsi in that Dr Pepper. The “one drop” rule 💩 is 🧢 all day everyday.
@bossplayermfs5972 it's crazy how some of you call people who are 50% Black, "one drop." You can clearly see Black heritage in the majority of Black biracials.
@@BronzeSistaExactly and if it was truely one drop, everyone is black given where humans originated from.
@BronzeSista Mulattoes are still not Black! Do u know in many Sub-Saharan African countries Mulattoes are seen as White and that's the land of Black people.
I'm creole and proud 👠❤️
hardly just an american methodology. 'it's'' a common cultural-'rational' worldwide, through the ages.
9:41 "one drop rule not unique to the United States..."
@@ivyteacherwilson As was ''Chattel'' Slavery.
@@ivyteacherwilsonwell it is ALIEN to Nigeria and several African countries I know of factually.
Not where I common from, it’s an “American” thing.
I am a black man. God bless my skin color.
My dad grew up in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era. My grandmom was Black. And having a White/Native American father was irrelevant.
You are who your father is. NUMBERS 1:18
@@alphonsojohnson8695no you are who your mother is the mitochondrial dna never changes.
@@alphonsojohnson8695 biology class should have taught you this.
I was the 1st bi racial male in my town in NC in 83 & was hell as neither accepts us
No such thing as a WM indigenous native American.
Thank God we're not on national TV..I would ask you please, don't be a weirdo.
Thank you!!!
True American history ..... in all its gore
They did that to create unnecessary division. 🙄🙄🙄
@kkw-pal1178 WE SHOULD WANT TO STAY AWAY FROM THEM EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH 🌎 THEY DESTROYED IT WITH LIES HOMOSEXUALITY,DESESE AND CORRUPTION
I would like to see ALL applications for everything eliminate the question of race. I wish we could all just look at each other as human beings rather than a color first.
Go to the racial caste system of Latin America where ppl keep forgetting that Latino is not a race and that you have light skin mixed race black people in Latin America that happen to speak spanish. There are more black people in Latin America than any other region on the planet outside of Africa. Only 3 percent of slave trade went to America and 97 percent went to Latin America.
Thank you for making this documentary and sharing it with us. Very interesting.
The issue is some people who look black who think they are black are only 50% African. So yes we could say anyone with a fully Asian or white parent along with a black parent is mixed but so are some black Americans but they may not know it. Where do we draw the line?
It's simple and that is exactly how the wisdom of the early American forefathers shined through with the one drop rule.
Maybe, but we're still descendants of slaves.
Black Americans with mixed ancestry are still black. They have fully black parents. Anyone with a black experience should be considered FBA. Mixed ppl are not fully black so that’s still completely different than a Black American with mixed ancestry. If they’re family is black they’re black
That's why they created the one-drop rule because, in their eyes, anyone visibly black or with black ancestry was deemed black. They didn't care if they were 50 white or 95 percent, they were viewed as black. Quadroon and octaroons are visibly white but at a certain time in history, they were viewed as black
If you look Black....
Excellent video
Excellent 👍🏾 post. Very informative and well thought out. However, I think it goes a little bit deeper. One of the biggest reasons leading up to the institution of the "One Drop Rule." In addition to ideals of "racial purity," I believe another reason of even greater import was property rights. Due to the pervasive (and quiet as kept encouraged) practice of bedding slaves (whether for pleasure or a show of power), the ensuing generations of children born of these unions bled out much the obvious melanin making it harder and harder to differentiate pure wyt children from their half siblings. And since DNA was millennia off and people didn't live as long as they do now, it would eventually become almost impossible to say which children had first right of property (which usually went to the first born male child). It would almost be a fait accompli that a set of white parents would die leaving their property to their children. But imagine the horror of having to uphold that all property would go to the first born mixed race child the father had with one of his bed slaves!! Not to mention, this became a much more frequent issue as young white men would be married off to women outside his family or even across the state. It wouldn't take long for them to either be paired with or perhaps fall in love with a mixed race girl. And imagine the horror when their first born child comes out darker than what is expected (genetics has a really funny way of showing up around those with recessive genes...just saying). This to protect themselves, their wealth and their ridiculous ideals of "racial purity" (which would be simple enough...keep your filthy genitals out of the slave quarters) they instituted this pseudoscientific system of racial barriers to uphold white "purity."
FYI, white (or "whyte" lol) people have melanin. Literally .....everyone does. Every race does. Well, unless someone is literally an albino. Which comes in every race. So ...... just sayin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thank you for this well explained and well researched topic....it gives an even deeper and more tragic understanding about racism and segregation.....a white european person ( of spanish, german and ukranian origin)
I will never accept the one drop rule because 1) it's like saying 1+ any other number other than 0 =1 and 2) it says that black blood is poisonous, which from what I have heard is the real origin of it. If you drop one drop of poison into a pint of clean water, that water becomes poisonous even though the poison that you dropped is only 0.01% of the liquid. So back in the old days, if a person had any black in them no matter how little, they were black (aka contaminated and poisonous). Yet so many blacks today still accept such a thing.
Very informative. Thank you.
Meanwhile in France , the son of a French white gentleman and of a former slave, Marie Cessette Dumas, could become a famous general during the Revolution and Napoleon wars, and the grand-son of Marie Cessette one our most famous author in our litterature : Alexandre Dumas (The three musketeers, The count of Monte Cristo....). This is one of the many examples of famous people in France and Europe with African ancestry before the XX century (which does not mean we had not slavery and racism issues). Interesting that the US one drop rule was a model for nazi racial laws.
Thanks for this.
Plecker was a special kind of evil. He went around in Melungeon households and forced them to mark "Free Person of Color" on the census. That's how I found part of my Black heritage in an ancestor who later marked 'white' on the census when I guess Plecker died or moved on. (Melungeons = a Black, white & Native American "tri-racial" isolate group from the Appalachias).
Jefferson Davis - The President of the Confederate States , was married to a Black woman. I found this out during my many visits to the Confederate museum in New Orleans. I’m a Democrat, proud, Black man and make sure I visit that museum when I visit N.O. It’s an excellent museum. It was well known at the time she was Black. History is amazing isn’t it.
That is not true. Historians have studied her lineage in depth and the findings are inconclusive. There are pics galore of her. She is fair skinned with straight hair and European features. A word of advice. Have some cultural pride. Don’t claim people who don’t acknowledge you.
In college sitting with friends, a guy comes over and speaks to me in Spanish. Some black girl l barely knew or even spoke to yells over everyone, “she’s black!” I looked at her and spoke to him in Spanish. We all laughed and left her stupid behind looking foolish. Never claim folks who aren’t claiming YOU!
A child from two of the same is the same. A child from two different race parents is bi-racial. Other than that it is mockery, disrespectful, and inconsiderate. Experiences shape perception! Ignore that and you get informed. 2024😎
Well im half black and white. I look a hell lot more black than my other side. Very tight coarse hair, wide nose, and a light Brown completion. Ive always claimed to be biracial, but people say "no such thing" "thats not a race". Especially growing up in rural Utah, a more than majority white state, ive never been seen as both sides. Only my black side, and even bullied and called slurs like the hard R, constantly while in school by white students, even tho im not even fully black. My black ancestors came from west Africa, and were enslaved and held in Mississippi plantations. And my white side is from Italy, as well as Ireland. This is a very confusing topic for most people, including myself. Ive also seen "black leaders" like Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Huey P Newtown, and Jackson P Johnathan, be called "Black" even tho they are also biracial as well. I have no clue what to "claim" for my race and ethnicity on applications, and so forth, so I just end up marking black, since that's what I physically look like most. May peace be upon my fellow biracial children. I know its hell and back growing up biracial. Identity crissis and shit. Never claimed by both parties... But just know, to never hate yourself for who your are✊🏽💯
I'm not sure why this piece conflates the American Negro experience with the current climate regarding Kamala Harris. The One-drop rule has nothing to do with her lineage. She is not an American Negro. Two different ethnicities, two different experiences, customs, and traditions.
Kamala Harris' father is a black Jamaican. Like other black Jamaicans, he is the descendant of African slaves, brought to the Americas. It's splitting hairs to suggest that Harris is not a black American because she is descended from the "wrong" set of slaves.
Especially since she was born in America. Culturally she is more American than anything else.
She still treated as BLACK
One Drop Rule is alive and kicking 2024... Does not matter where you are from. Not sure why folks from the African Diaspora think this is an African American issue when many have "tone of skin issues and ""nice hair" issues..this "colorization" issue is throughout ALL from the Tree of Africa....thanks to colonization..stop with the ignorant remarks! And the African American separatist.. it is truly off their backs --any person of color and particularly from the African Diaspora....unite not separate!!
We’re not in Jamaica or India, we’re in the USA.
@@tesmith47 - Is she? Either way, she isn't an American Negro.
Excellent information
Well, get ready for a new entire Society.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯
One of America's worst problems is racism. God created all of us; God loves each and every person. He is our heavenly father, and we are His children. If we show prejudice against anyone, God knows this and only He is the ultimate judge.
They should just give mixed people their own category to clear up the confusion ,with the caveat that black people will be even more of a minority .
THATS THE PROBLEM,
PEOPLE WHO ARE HATEFULLY JEALOUSE OF MIXED PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SET THEM APART, BECUZ IT WOULD MAKE THEM FEEL LIKE THE MIXED PERSON IS BETTER THEN THEM.......ALL THAT'S SPEAKS TO SELF ESTEEM...
@@vashtikelly6837 yea thats the problem isnt it ? They hate mixed but would hate even more if we left the group and did our own thing .
@@vashtikelly6837That's true. A lot of Black Americans want mixed people to be Black to feel better about themselves. However Black Americans are waking up especially with Kamala calling herself a Black woman and she's not
@@SparkleInYourEyes2024because they made the rule because they wanted more slaves. So now they want to change the rules to suit them when it’s convenient? One drop rule it is. They made the rule, let them enjoy it. A biracial person by THEIR DEFINITION AND LAW, is BLACK. The black people did not make the rule, the white did.
@@vashtikelly6837why don't mixed race people separate? Are they afraid of words?
Excellent video. For anyone who still is not clear about what one drop means, this refers to Black ancestry that may include at least one black relative even from many generations ago.
But even if Kamala was Green with Purple polka dots I still would vote for her instead of Trump!
So you're voting for her policies, rite?
African ancestry put you at the lower Black caste!
@@byronevans1..yes, l am!!!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Kamala for President ❤
I’d vote for a rat over Trump. I’m thrilled that the candidate opposing Trump is also a candidate I can support on her platform and qualifications instead of just being the candidate who isn’t Trump.
Kamala has qualifications, lol. You might want to listen to Judge Joe Brown's opinion of her. I dare you. You must enjoy her talent of taking on different accents depending on who she's talking to. Hillary used to do that too. Lol. Kooky dems.
I always see the women mixed but not the men. There were lots of them back in the day ww2 when most of the black men where enlisted deliberately.
If you have the misfortune of being carried in the womb of a KKKaren or come from the balls of a KKKen, you are bi racial, male and female.
I recently viewed a video where a Nigerian father had issues with his daughter marrying a Nigerian man that came from a group in Nigeria that were once slaves to them. Cast systems can take many generations to erase from the status quo.
Biologically speaking, A person is not black..but biracial. Unfortunately our community includes everyone, with a drop. A person is no more white than they are black or whatever the mixture is, when 1 parent is non black. You can identify as you please and phenotypically we include who "looks" like us. There are biracials and such who have black mothers and non black fathers , does that make them whatever the father is ? Or do we associate them with what they phenotype resembles? I've seen both and latter more so than the other, depending on who the person in question is.
I could be "biracial" but i have 2 black parents with type 3-4 ish hair
@@kathleenking47your parents cannot be Black if you could be biracial.
All Black americans have atleast one whyte ancestor
@@catherinesterling1685 NO lol 😂
@@catherinesterling1685….from Louisiana and have three nonblack grandparents and one ADOS grandmama. I should take a DNA but the grandmama genes might dominate and l couldn’t stand her. She didn’t like us. Now that l’m older l realize she was a hypocrite. My grandpapa (her husband) was fair skin yellow with straight black hair. She had 9 lightskin sons and 2 high yellow daughters for him. So what the hell was her problem? 😂😂😂😂
I wish people were not so obsessed with skin color. It causes so much hatred in people who are unbalanced. God created us all as humans and no matter what color we are, we are not more important than someone else who has a different skin color.
I have 1 percent black in me and I'm ivory white with blonde hair and blue eyes and a pointy nose. No one on God's green earth with call me black.
....or they must be colorblind! indeed
Good for you. Hear my applause?
You are right. If you have more than 85 % European ancestry, then you are white.
technically, doesn't everyone on earth have one drop or two in their blood at least?
the level of obsession feels so excessive it feels clinically abnormal.
Old Sportsman Park in St. Louis had segregated seating for baseball games. Sometimes families were separated on account of their appearances.
If you white go to the right
McDonnel-Douglas (now Boeing) in St. Louis still has the "colored " bathroom signs that had to be painted over after President Kennedy toured the plant. He threatened MD with loss of government contracts for fighter planes if they didn't!
I sure am glad I had the experience of meeting my grandmother born in 1914 who passed in 2001. I am in my thirties, and my mother was born in 41 and my father in 31. All these people are from the era of calling themselves negro and colored. Moms side from Louisiana, father abroad the south.
No one from those times spewed this jargon of your not black if you are light skin. We are divided and forgot what it meant, and now trying to change its entire context because of feelings. A lot of folk feel a way, don’t make it true.
Who created the classification of blackness in the first place, and why?
The United States!! The German Nazis found our Caste system useful when they wanted to subjugate Jews. They actually sent Germans to the United States to study it before they implemented it.
Whiteness and Blackness are artificial. Prior to the 17th Century, neither existed. They were fictions required to justify slavery. Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in the American British colonies that saw English and African working classes rebel against British rule. The British authorities put down the uprising and instituted new laws. That established that the children of enslaved Black women were automatically enslaved. Slavery was also for life. Interracial sex was banned. Whiteness and Blackness, therefore was a political and economic tool to divide and conquer. Poor whites gained the privileges and rights of whiteness. They could stand a rung or two above the permanently enslaved Blacks who became inherently inferior.
There was also the Arab slave trade of Africans. That system was also cruel and required the invention of race to justify its evil.
they made the rule because they wanted more slaves. So now they want to change the rules to suit them when it’s convenient? One drop rule it is. They made the rule, let them enjoy it. A biracial person by THEIR DEFINITION AND LAW, is BLACK. The black people did not make the rule, the white did.
The Most High did! Daniel and Revelations along with Job and other books described “God”, JC, Job, King Solomon, Moses and many more chosen saints as Black! Cain and Esau and all their predestined descendants were cursed with pale skin not able to stand the natural Sun. This is basic Bible.
@@kimakobi Bullshit. But you have a nlessed day anyway.
I had family in NC. I remember the old timers whispering that so and so "had a touch of the tar brush" 😮
So many people on this thread are obsessed with distancing themselves from blackness.
Black, in the U.S., isn't your skin color, it's a term used to described a community of people who descend from American slaves. Some darker skinned Blacks actually have more non-black blood than some lighter skinned blacks, so where do you draw the line you all are trying to create?
Fact: Until the 1960s, all people with known "sub-Saharan" African blood were defined as "Colored" and forced, by law, throughout the South to drink out of "Colored" water fountains, attend "Colored" schools and sit on the back of the bus. If you are in the group that was treated this way, why do you think suddenly saying that you aren't a part of it changes anything?
You empower yourselves by embracing, not rejecting, the part of you that others believe makes you inferior.
also a good point to mention appearance doesnt necisserily reflects genetics, a notion that must ve confused and still is confusing a lot of people today...Heritage ( genetic or social/cultural) isnt always written on the face therefore its even more vuable to try to mot judge a book by its cover.
Honey, we all didn’t share the same lived experiences you’re reciting here. My papa was a multigenerational born New Orleans French Creole tracing his heritage to France. I grew up in the historic 7th Ward, home to the original Creoles. We attended our own Catholic schools and churches, open-air market, and associated with our own kind. Forced integration caused many of us to move away. Those who remained have been bullied into silence and accepting a color as their heritage. Case in point was a woman crying on social media because blacks didn’t accept her lightskin Creole self as one of them. I thought she was crazy but that’s the indoctrination she’s been reared under in the States. The true Africans don’t play these mind games. That’s why l respect them and their cultures.
@@Mimi-ht6xr Louisiana is a special case in many ways that make it an outlier. Louisiana lawyers can't even practice law in other states.
@@rdkirk3834..no lawyer can practice law in other states but the ones he passed the Bar in 🙄😏
Sally Hemings was described by someone who knew her as “pretty near white, with long black hair down her back.” Her children could pass as white (some did after they were freed). I imagine they looked like the children of Megan Markel and Prince Harry (who is a redhead like Jefferson). An interesting book on the subject is “One Drop - My Father’s Hidden Life” by Bliss Broyard. Her father was literary critic Anatole Broyard, who had been born in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
What's wrong with being black or rather of African descent?
Black is many things
Howevet, what marks us mostly, is hair texture
Type 3-4
@kathleenking4love being black and my hair is so cool.7
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING ON THE LOSING TEAM.....
THAT'S WHY SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT THEY HATE BEING BLACK...
@@kathleenking47 No. No. No. That's utterly ridiculous. It's lineage and culture. Are you going to say that Rosa Parks wasn't Black because she didn't have straight hair?
Black is a color not all of us is the color black isn't even a race what are we missing here
Psychology is the architecture of existence. This was so deep seated and manipulative. On top of that, you have refactor naming conventions for certain groups that came about naturally as we humans use schemas to quickly categorize (and ultimately survive) in order to maneuver through our surroundings.
This law was not made by melaninated people therefore we're not obligated to accept it. Therefore truth trumps law. To be black you need two melaninated people. Otherwise you have a new bloodline and are other.
Agreed 100%~ I feel it’s so simple that we all know even if it’s on a subconscious level it’s very black and white and then the mix which the Bible say not to do and now they’re trying to justify a lifetime of evil as nothing major, we all the same it’s a lie, and everybody’s gone soon find out
The One Drop Rule STILL applies today in a post-colonial America!
Is the brown bag practice still used in La.😊
Jack and Jill
@@lemontadams3029what do you mean?
@@heyheytherethere that's a youth group organization for upwardly mobile Black people
It hasn’t been around in years. There no evidence of its use anywhere
Never existed. Pure b.s
Im black/white mixed race and diceded to (drop) the 1( drop)rule in the trash years ago,labells and definitions dont difine who i am,if i treat you with respect,then i expect respect back,whoever you are,male/female/white or black,if i disrespect you,you have the right to tell me about myself,my flawed character,not my skin colour,my character should even shock you or amaze you,my skin colour should be irelavent,thats exactly how i view others,to me,your character defines who you are,it will ether save you or condem you
please know that all humanity came out of africa. it's just a matter of how far from africa they got.
I'm black, white and East Indiana.
Let's see photos of lighter complexion in the fields it wasn't only the browner complexioned and some where farming our/their own lands 💥
The reason lightskinned/mulatto people were house slaves and not often field slaves, was because they were family to the white master. They were either his children, or his daughter’s, brother’s or son’s children. Why would they be sent to the fields when they were born and raised in that house with their family?
Imma come back to this… cause I be so scared of ppl fumbling this information
1 drop rule trash
Tell that to the klan😂
This is a law that was overturned and we shouldn’t abide by unjust laws to define black. Black is an American construct to delineate light from dark that passed to other nations when slavery was envogue. Black is as important as any other minority description and we should protect it as such. Customs, traditions, and mores (pronounced MOR-ay) need to be solidified so the culture does not die from assimilation or gentrification. As long as we value money over everything we will never succeed in protecting our heritage. First things first…our mores need to be aligned. After that everything else falls into place. Hope it happens before we become extinct.
wow now they are willingingly sleeping with enemy and a lot of black peple using this one drop right now, it never went away.
Don't matter who you sleep with, matters WHAT YOU DO!!!
@@tesmith47 lol 😂 okay whatever you say.. y don’t understand the spiritual side of it.. right. 😂 wait and see
@@tesmith47you don't make sense, it definitely does matter...
@@Lovebeautyrocks There is no spiritual side of it. Now you lying on God's Word!
@@andreroy8141 right ... prove it? Let me know what you have studies. the most high said study to show yourself approved. So what does it mean when the most high said worship me in SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH... what does that mean? Tell me... so show me where the most high said sleep with whomever you want there is no spiritual side. you reply is weak... You don't have proof. I will not entertain your response.
I would like to see a study on the Freemen ( not a lot of information on them).
Look at Brazil and Dominic Republic their policies.. You have Black people there talking about they're NOT Black😵🤔😯😰
Right, the one drop rule was one of the best things that happened to black Americans. It marked out all of that buffer class, I'm not black talk and pushed us towards unification, and I'm black and proud.
'black'' is a description NOT a monolithic group of people nor is it
a ''Lineage,'' it doesn't work like that. Where your Great Great Great
Grandparents are from originally, that's your ''origin'': the point or
place where something begins, arises, or is derived, and Lineage.
Race is constructed differently in Latin America that did not have the One Drop Rule. The goal of Latin American racism eventually became the destruction of any kind of Black identity to greatly reduce the number of people who saw themselves as "Black." This inspired loyalty with the white ruling classes.
Black Americans don't understand that the One Drop Rule turned out to be one of the key factors in achieving more economic and political power than any other African-descendant bloc in the Americas. Simply compare "Blacks" in Brazil vs the US. It's day vs night in terms of the social, political, and economic mobility and power that Black folks have in the US vs Brazil. The One Drop Rule greatly expanded the number of people who considered themselves Black and had the need to fight for equality.
Sadly, many modern Black Americans have lost a cohesive understanding of their people and history. You see it in the ridiculous "Not Like Us" attack on Drake's Blackness. I can only imagine in the not-too-distant future, similar foolishness will expel Malcolm X from Blackness because of his light skin and ginger hair.
People are often dumb, foolish, and hopelessly self-destructive.
Until they get pulled over or stay too long in a sundown town!🤣💯
And they look Blacker than me! it’s the audacity for me!
For my 70th birthday I had my DNA tested. I'm proud to say that I have 3% African blood - Senegal to be precise.
The racist One Drop Rule does not exist today and is no longer applicable. People in the U.S.A. today willingly choose to date and marry inter-racially. Any children born from these pairings are bi-racial. Regardless of whether the father or mother is Black, the children are NOT Black, they are bi-racial.
People can love who they love, but only a Black man and a Black woman can produce a Black child. It’s very simple. Note: A light skinned Black person with two Black parents is not the same as a bi-racial person.
You are aware you are race coded at birth, right? 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm 10% Ghanaian and people still ask me if I'm mixed. I always say it depends how rural the place I'm at is.