[quote=EconProf]I’m sorry Marion, but you are white.
I know because I saw your leg.
Looks predominately white to me. Assuming your heritage is over 50% white, then, IMHO you are white.
Of course, you can call yourself black, it is your choice. But, serious question now, at what point do you start to call yourself white: 1/2, 3/4, 7/8, 15/16?
Historically, the old dogma that “one drop of black blood makes that person black” was first espoused by the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War era. Maybe you buy into that; I chose not to. I suggest that anything 50% or more of one race puts that person into that category.
Our government is having a difficult time remaining politically correct and categorizing people by race as we are becoming (thankfully), a more mixed, polygot country. Their forms sometimes require us to name our race, and it is getting increasingly difficult. I long for a nation that is color-blind in word and deed, and policy.
Incidentally, nice leg, for a Mom of a teenager. You should be proud.[/quote]
I’ve asked her this before and her answer was that if you have any drop of black in you, you’re black. Her reason was that if you look black, you’re black, even if you’re only 1/10 black.
