The "1 Drop Rule" explained and how it's tied to AfroAmerican identity
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You have views only on topics concerning your countrymen? There's big difference between mixed with up to 30% Euro admixture vs 30% black admixture. The average aa is not so ambiguous looking that they got to claim whites with extremely removed black lineage. Or else, just drop the african in african american and just call yourselves american.
The experience of these men that have been posted will not be likened to the experience of Oprah, Denzel, etc...It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
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to answer your questions
1. I guess we will agree to disagree. To me being mixed = being half of each. Who they choose to identify with more is up to them
2. Again well just have to agree to disagree. But like I said there are mixed people who favor one side over the other but IMO they are still mixed
Y'all can do what you want but I see this being your undoing as an already very marginalized group. I can see how that will bite y'all in the ass for all the one drop rule worshippers. I see more dolezals in y'all future.
Only having money will not save blacks from themselves. There's lack of self awareness and lack of genuine pride. Not that fake militant/ concious/hotep BS.
And I disagree...blacks all around the world lack management skills.
IllmaticDelta
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It shouldn't have any considering the avg Afram would/should have exposure to seeing light/fair skinned blacks in their family tree or historically. You think Prodigy from Mobb Deep questions his blackness or thinks negative of his fair skinned Great-Great-Great-Grandfather who help Found Morehouse College?
@ 1:11http://kollegekidd.com/news/mobb-de...-great-grandfather-founded-morehouse-college/
White, William Jefferson (1832-1913): Born to a white planter and mulatto slave, William Jefferson White was a cabinetmaker by trade and minister by vocation. Born in Elbert County, Georgia, he was taken to South Carolina as a child and returned to Augusta as an adult. He trained in carpentry at the Goodrich Lumber Company and later worked as a cabinet and coffin maker for the Platt Brothers, a furniture and undertaking firm. He also worked construction and helped build several churches and schools in the area. Light skinned and blue eyed, White could have easily "passed" but chose to live as a black man. During the 1850s he he organized clandestine schools for slaves and free blacks, earning him the title of "Father of Negro Education" in the Augusta area. In the days following the Civil War, he became an important figure in the early civil rights movement. He worked hard to forge close associations with the white citizenry, started the Harmony Baptist Church, championed Republican Party causes, and sat on the Board of Trustees for Spelman Seminary. In 1867 he founded the Augusta Institute, which is now Morehouse College
http://home.comcast.net/~michigaloot/blacks.html
No...there is a big difference between medium brown and dark skinned w/o comparing it to white skin
as an Afram I have black historical figures to look up to who come in various shades and none of them are white
IllmaticDelta
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It shouldn't have any considering the avg Afram would/should have exposure to seeing light/fair skinned blacks in their family tree or historically. You think Prodigy from Mobb Deep questions his blackness or thinks negative of his fair skinned Great-Great-Great-Grandfather who help Found Morehouse College?
http://kollegekidd.com/news/mobb-de...-great-grandfather-founded-morehouse-college/
White, William Jefferson (1832-1913): Born to a white planter and mulatto slave, William Jefferson White was a cabinetmaker by trade and minister by vocation. Born in Elbert County, Georgia, he was taken to South Carolina as a child and returned to Augusta as an adult. He trained in carpentry at the Goodrich Lumber Company and later worked as a cabinet and coffin maker for the Platt Brothers, a furniture and undertaking firm. He also worked construction and helped build several churches and schools in the area. Light skinned and blue eyed, White could have easily "passed" but chose to live as a black man. During the 1850s he he organized clandestine schools for slaves and free blacks, earning him the title of "Father of Negro Education" in the Augusta area. In the days following the Civil War, he became an important figure in the early civil rights movement. He worked hard to forge close associations with the white citizenry, started the Harmony Baptist Church, championed Republican Party causes, and sat on the Board of Trustees for Spelman Seminary. In 1867 he founded the Augusta Institute, which is now Morehouse College
http://home.comcast.net/~michigaloot/blacks.html
No...there is a big difference between medium brown and dark skinned w/o comparing it to white skin
as an Afram I have black historical figures to look up to who come in various shades and none of them are white
Keep deluding yourself. Perhsps if you say it 100 times you may convince yourself. I am not impressed by whites calling themselves black.
Dzali OG
Dz Ali OG...Pay me like you owe me!
This thread has me 
Opened a thought process I never considered. Perhaps we do need to.....for our own tribe or race?
Lemme see if I can break it down...
Take dog breeds, one we're familiar with, pit bull terriers. They were made from mostly bulldogs and terrier mix. Does a APBT have the right to call itself a bulldog? Will it ever be a bulldog again?
Just chew on that for a minute if it doesn't fly over your head...
Is this how Africans view us...
If we for a new race, that's how mulatto incorporate with us, since according to heritage we're all mulatto. This is humbling!
Of course this only applies if we're as mixed as claimed!
Also, are our genes so dominant that it takes as little as 51% for us to be black?
Opened a thought process I never considered. Perhaps we do need to.....for our own tribe or race?
Lemme see if I can break it down...
Take dog breeds, one we're familiar with, pit bull terriers. They were made from mostly bulldogs and terrier mix. Does a APBT have the right to call itself a bulldog? Will it ever be a bulldog again?
Just chew on that for a minute if it doesn't fly over your head...
Is this how Africans view us...
If we for a new race, that's how mulatto incorporate with us, since according to heritage we're all mulatto. This is humbling!
Of course this only applies if we're as mixed as claimed!
Also, are our genes so dominant that it takes as little as 51% for us to be black?
GreatestLaker
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Oh really? What other "black" people follow the one drop rule? Tell me where outside of America is Wentworth Miller considered a black man by black people?