The "1 Drop Rule" explained and how it's tied to AfroAmerican identity
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As I said before, there were fair skinned but "Black/Afram" identified people long before an official One Drop rule existed (1910-1930s)
Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 – April 15, 1898)
was an African-American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, educated at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in Philadelphia. In 1833 he helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society there and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1845-1850 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and also traveled to England to gain support for the movement.
Colorism will be in any society where the people aren't homogenous. People native to Africa practice forms of colorism based on their own standards of beauty. This has nothing to do with One Dop/American colorline.
As I said before, there were fair skinned but "Black/Afram" identified people long before an official One Drop rule existed (1910-1930s)
Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 – April 15, 1898)
was an African-American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, educated at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in Philadelphia. In 1833 he helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society there and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1845-1850 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and also traveled to England to gain support for the movement.
Colorism will be in any society where the people aren't homogenous. People native to Africa practice forms of colorism based on their own standards of beauty. This has nothing to do with One Dop/American colorline.
These are white people...I don't give a damn that tgey fought for the rights of blacks. And you are silly for falling for the okey doke.
He can very well have black lineage but I don't see this man as a black man. Perhaps? I don't know where he's black ancestry begin but that man is not black...that's fact. I am not taking away all the things he has done for blacks. But there is a serious problem where aa see that their historical figures are mainly white men or white women with minute black ancestry because of one drop rule.
IllmaticDelta
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You just going to cut out the rest of what I said to make a false-point, huh?I never said that, but I did say you can view him as you see fit.
Cool, but being mixed doesn't mean she's not African American, does it?
And maybe you didn't see the pic of Ms. Corinealdi, who's also mixed, but I doubt you or anyone else would say that she's not African American, would you?
A mojority of the people IllmaticDelta delta posted looked like white people but they're technically mixed
using your own Argument shouldn't they be considered white b/c they look much more white than black to me
Good question.
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Your problem not mine
Im not falling for anything. The were/are of African descent born in America...exactly what Aframs are by definition
Actually the problem is more so yours than mine. You got white folks who are supposedly acclaimed black figures, that blacks are supposed to look up to. What kind of psychological twist does it do to the average impressionable black american youth. That's why y'all call actual blacks darskinned when it is the average skin tone of a black person. Not surprising when you are using whites as a base of skin tone variability.
Anyway, as an African I have actual black historical figures and the odd biracial person to look up to. Not white people.
Henry Louis Gates is black. He even took an ancestry test which traced his roots to the Yoruba Peoples
The man is mixed/biracial with phenotypical black features. But I can understand calling him black vs that Powell guy or the abolitionist.
I made no argument in that post, I simply asked you questions. And as far as IllmaticDelta?
Take that up with him, not me. As I said to him, I don't agree with or even understand everything he's posting.
But rather than ask me questions pertaining his posts, why don't you answer the questions I asked you first?
IllmaticDelta
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No because the Black American group is a new world ethnicity born out of slavery to become an AfroEuropean genetic group with a common bond that came to include a wide ranges of AfroEuropean and sometimes triracial phenotypes. "Blackness" became more of a concept of being of African descent than being solely based on phenotype. The white american group is based on ideas of "pureness" or "whiteness" that can't exist if they're admixed.
Black americans are no longer enslaved they can delineate their in group.
MikeyC
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Yoooo, I think I found Da'hell's great great grandpappy Da'hellington. The resemblance is uncanny
