Post by Radrook Admin on Mar 23, 2023 21:39:03 GMT -5
The One Drop Rule
The one-drop rule is a rule which was instituted by white supremacist racists in order to keep mixed individual's from gaining political power in the USA.
Neither is it universal since other cultures determine a person's race by physical appearance and not by ancestry. In short, in the rest of the world, if your appearance is of a white person, then you are considered white.
Most Americans believe that this rule has always been a part of USA culture. But that is not true. Below is a short article explaining how this rule was instituted.
The one-drop rule is a rule which was instituted by white supremacist racists in order to keep mixed individual's from gaining political power in the USA.
Neither is it universal since other cultures determine a person's race by physical appearance and not by ancestry. In short, in the rest of the world, if your appearance is of a white person, then you are considered white.
Most Americans believe that this rule has always been a part of USA culture. But that is not true. Below is a short article explaining how this rule was instituted.
THE ONE DROP RULE: Who is Black? White? and Who is Not.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even after the adoption of legalized segregation in the late 19th century, individuals who were as much as one quarter Black were classified as white. According to George Tillman a delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention in 1895.
It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of. . . colored blood. The pure-blooded white has needed and received a certain infusion of darker blood to give him readiness and purpose. It would be a cruel injustice and the source of endless litigation, of scandal, horror, feud, and bloodshed to undertake to annul or forbid marriage for a remote, perhaps obsolete trace of Negro blood.
The so-called “one drop rule,” mandating that anyone with any Black ancestry no matter how insignificant be viewed as Black, did not become widespread until decades later. It was only adopted when white reactionary rule felt threatened by the “New Negro” stalwarts, the Black veterans of WWI who fought back against the lynch mobs. If given the “one drop” litmus test today how many “whites” would pass muster?
Story by Staff • Aug 21, 2022
(ThyBlackMan.com) Even after the adoption of legalized segregation in the late 19th century, individuals who were as much as one quarter Black were classified as white. According to George Tillman a delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention in 1895.
It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of. . . colored blood. The pure-blooded white has needed and received a certain infusion of darker blood to give him readiness and purpose. It would be a cruel injustice and the source of endless litigation, of scandal, horror, feud, and bloodshed to undertake to annul or forbid marriage for a remote, perhaps obsolete trace of Negro blood.
The so-called “one drop rule,” mandating that anyone with any Black ancestry no matter how insignificant be viewed as Black, did not become widespread until decades later. It was only adopted when white reactionary rule felt threatened by the “New Negro” stalwarts, the Black veterans of WWI who fought back against the lynch mobs. If given the “one drop” litmus test today how many “whites” would pass muster?