The Lie That Dictated Who Was REALLY Black

This is how the 'One Drop Rule.' a principle that stated that person with known even a drop of African ancestry makes that person Black, and how its legacy continues to affect us today.

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[lilyflower]

I was reading Maya Angelou first book and She talks about Her other Grandmother in St Lious who was a "quadroon" thats literally what She said, and I realized that because of racism in America mixed people have always been a part of the black community in America. Mixed people were not allowed to be a part of the white community or embrace the white part of their culture for hundreds of years. I think that still shapes things today.

[sterlingferguson]

This was the development of the US Caste with the one drop blood rule.

[kbbk]

I see where Bpb Marley idea was coming from when he recorded the song "One Drop". Powerful information, brother. 👊🏾🙏🏾✌🏿❤️🖤💚

[Conmezzo]

Here comes DNA. How many white Americans discovered one drop after getting their DNA results?😅

[fooohousie]

I’m glad you’re here to tell the story sir. I appreciate you

[vernonharley]

The one drop rule was and is bs imo. They just wanted to keep blackness as far away from themselvesbas possible. Mixed is mixed

[neverettebrakensiek]

I would like to see ALL applications for everything eliminate the question of race. I wish we could all just look at each other as human beings rather than a color first.

[PlanetMibos]

Appreciate the research. So many of us were taught lies. This helps us unlearn.

[mariokendle]

My brother, tell me why the rush!( You've successfully completed the " one drop rule" ect. however it was over so quickly! ( Very good JOB, you were able to get out this crucial important information) Im very greatful, I guess I wish the video was longer, probably in all actuality.

[jeremyhodge]

That's why I don't follow The One Drop Rule 😒

[talpark]

hardly just an american methodology. 'it's'' a common cultural-'rational' worldwide, through the ages.

[patrisio]

I will never accept the one drop rule because 1) it's like saying 1+ any other number other than 0 =1 and 2) it says that black blood is poisonous, which from what I have heard is the real origin of it. If you drop one drop of poison into a pint of clean water, that water becomes poisonous even though the poison that you dropped is only 0.01% of the liquid. So back in the old days, if a person had any black in them no matter how little, they were black (aka contaminated and poisonous). Yet so many blacks today still accept such a thing.

[marshellcanney]

I just got the chills, the women in the opening is my 4 time great grandmother.I only found out about her last year.Her name is Dorothy Dot Dolly Martin Flythe.She was French Creole freed slave, Her mother was from Antigua/Barbuda.She came to the colonials in the 1700s.

[MiraculusOnly]

Psychology is the architecture of existence. This was so deep seated and manipulative. On top of that, you have refactor naming conventions for certain groups that came about naturally as we humans use schemas to quickly categorize (and ultimately survive) in order to maneuver through our surroundings.

[NIGHTFALLDROP]

Excellent 👍🏾 post. Very informative and well thought out. However, I think it goes a little bit deeper. One of the biggest reasons leading up to the institution of the "One Drop Rule." In addition to ideals of "racial purity, " I believe another reason of even greater import was property rights. Due to the pervasive (and quiet as kept encouraged) practice of bedding slaves (whether for pleasure or a show of power), the ensuing generations of children born of these unions bled out much the obvious melanin making it harder and harder to differentiate pure wyt children from their half siblings. And since DNA was millennia off and people didn't live as long as they do now, it would eventually become almost impossible to say which children had first right of property (which usually went to the first born male child). It would almost be a fait accompli that a set of white parents would die leaving their property to their children. But imagine the horror of having to uphold that all property would go to the first born mixed race child the father had with one of his bed slaves!! Not to mention, this became a much more frequent issue as young white men would be married off to women outside his family or even across the state. It wouldn't take long for them to either be paired with or perhaps fall in love with a mixed race girl. And imagine the horror when their first born child comes out darker than what is expected (genetics has a really funny way of showing up around those with recessive genes...just saying). This to protect themselves, their wealth and their ridiculous ideals of "racial purity" (which would be simple enough...keep your filthy genitals out of the slave quarters) they instituted this pseudoscientific system of racial barriers to uphold white "purity."

[PoeCommunicateATL]

So many people on this thread are obsessed with distancing themselves from blackness.
Black, in the U.S., isn't your skin color, it's a term used to described a community of people who descend from American slaves. Some darker skinned Blacks actually have more non-black blood than some lighter skinned blacks, so where do you draw the line you all are trying to create?
Fact: Until the 1960s, all people with known "sub-Saharan" African blood were defined as "Colored" and forced, by law, throughout the South to drink out of "Colored" water fountains, attend "Colored" schools and sit on the back of the bus. If you are in the group that was treated this way, why do you think suddenly saying that you aren't a part of it changes anything?
You empower yourselves by embracing, not rejecting, the part of you that others believe makes you inferior.

[crismcdonough]

I had family in NC. I remember the old timers whispering that so and so "had a touch of the tar brush" 😮

[Ntivegurl]

I'm multiracial (Cherokee/Powhatan and European mother. My father is a dark skinned black man. I've always hated the term mulatto and mix breed. I often thought we didn't have a side.

[mead]

I always see the women mixed but not the men. There were lots of them back in the day ww2 when most of the black men where enlisted deliberately.

[Montasia]

This law was not made by melaninated people therefore we're not obligated to accept it. Therefore truth trumps law. To be black you need two melaninated people. Otherwise you have a new bloodline and are other.