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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The One Drop Rule

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

I just wanted to know, when did this rule stop applying. Now everyone wants to say Barack Obama is bi-racial, *(Basically emplying that he is White too) but last time I checked, the One drop rule still applied. Lets give you some names for comparison purposes.

Halle Berry (Black until she won the Oscar)

Thurgood Marshall (Black)

Malcolm X (Black)

Lena Horne (Black)

Mariah Carey (White until she went Crazy then Black)

and I am sure there are more that I haven't thought of. If Barack Obama wasn't president and moved in to White Suburbia USA, would people think of him as bi-racial or would he be a black man with a black wife and black children?

posted by Neisha @ 5:25 AM  

2 Comments:

  • At 8:33 PM, Blogger pomegranatetears said…

    This is interesting and kind of sad to me as well. Let me explain. I'm half Cuban and half German and yet if I say that I'm 'American' or half Cuban/half German people always assume that I'm full Cuban. When I was younger I would get into arguments about this. Now, I just say I'm Cuban, it seems to be what everyone feels about me.

    It's sad that no one ever cared to wonder how I viewed myself culturally - because my mom is Cuban then I am - bottom line, no arguments allowed. Yet, personally, I celebrate both my Cuban and German heritage, I love that it has given me a window into both worlds - there are struggles trying to fit into both families - but it's well worth it.

    I wish people could stop labeling people on such a slim line. To me President Obama is who he feels he is and his worth is not tied up in the color of his skin, but in the integrity of his soul.

    Eh - I'm not a good with words sometimes - I hope you understand what I'm saying.

    :)

    Keep up the blogging.

     

  • At 7:45 PM, Blogger Dwana said…

    To be completely honest. You my girl...I don't see Obama as black and I never did. I saw him as bi racial as I did H.Berry. When a person is mixed they are automatically black. Why? Because another race didn't want them? Not exactly sure.
    Anyway, what the heck have YOU been up to?!?!? You see I'm on YouTube, now?

     

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