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Topic: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 10:36 Subject: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
Sag is in Bold:
I've got no patience or tolerance for posters who wish to bring their racial or ethnic grievances to this forum.
So get off then, since that's your business here as well.
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Topic: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Mon 20 Jul 2009 10:18 Subject: Re: THE ONE DROP RULE IS DYING FAST. |
But if a Biracial person is beaten up it's probably because the agressor was jealous or insecure and didn't like Biracials.
Yes, that is how MOST BLACKS ARE.
That is a pretty nasty generalization, ... |
Topic: Black parents with White kids |
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 21:24 Subject: Re: Can racial definitions solve our race problems? |
*sick*. Someone hand me a bag quick!
Wrong forum. As I told Hargrove, value judgement is restricted to the two political advocacy forums. Consider yourself warned.
I had a bodily r ... |
Topic: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 21:18 Subject: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
Blacks have supported the social denigration of multiracials since the 17th century, at least.
I have seen no evidence of this. As far as I can tell, ideas of ethnic solidarity arose only with the wi ... |
Topic: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 21:11 Subject: Re: THE ONE DROP RULE IS DYING FAST. |
But if a Biracial person is beaten up it's probably because the agressor was jealous or insecure and didn't like Biracials.
Yes, that is how MOST BLACKS ARE.
That is a pretty nasty generalization, ... |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 21:04 Subject: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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While I don't deny that blacks have sometimes misused the ODR, I still shrink from comparing the institutions of Jim Crow to contemporary black attitudes, particularly since I see t ... |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 20:59 Subject: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
The kids to which I was referring were white.
Oh okay. The White kids are even worse. |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 20:57 Subject: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
| The ODR was originally imposed by white society, not black. And I've known a lot of people from a lot of races who were confused about the specifics of race. Arguably, before the advent of DNA testing ... |
Topic: "Black people come in different colors".... |
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 20:52 Subject: Re: "Black people come in different colors".... |
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Those who claim that Obama and others are both "black" and "mixed race" never want to acknowledge that Americans can be 'white" and also "mixed-race. ... |
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 20:03 Subject: Re: Can racial definitions solve our race problems? |
| Your idea that all descendants of "the African diaspora" (however you define it) should have some common political and/or social identity is unrealistic and stigmatizing. Have you noticed t ... |
Topic: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 20:00 Subject: Re: THE ONE DROP RULE IS DYING FAST. |
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That corresponds to my impression, albeit I have the suspicion that the old assumptions aren't as dead as the polls suggest. Just look at the regularity with which reporters refer t ... |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 19:51 Subject: Contemporary Attitudes Towards the One Drop Rule |
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But at the same time, they continue to think of and refer to people who are part black as black.
That is flat out rediculous. Obama expressly expounds a PURE BLACK IDENTITY. He ... |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 19:32 Subject: Re: THE ONE DROP RULE IS DYING FAST. |
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This might have been your experience but I'm pretty sure most Biracials don't get beat up for claiming anything but Black.
What planet do you live on? More apologies for Bl ... |
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009 03:27 Subject: THE ONE DROP RULE IS DYING FAST. |
I will respond to Frank's comments but first let me say a few things:
* The ODR is dying rapidly. A study from 2007 on the perceived race of Barack Obama, shows that only 46% of White Americans bel ... |
Topic: "Black people come in different colors".... |
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 16 Jun 2009 05:33 Subject: Re: "Black people come in different colors".... |
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One might well "cringe" because the blacks and black-identified folks who do this are, in effect, validating an idea based on the assumption of t ... |
Topic: Debate over race and IQ (again) |
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Forum: Racialism in Science, including Craniofacial Anthropometry Posted: Tue 16 Jun 2009 05:04 Subject: Wait a second now... |
"the gap appears in every such test that has ever been devised."
- Frank
Why do you think that is? I don't think ANY of you have a pleasant answer you can honestly propose. Maybe it ... |
Topic: The U.S. Black/White Color Line |
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Sat 13 Sep 2008 06:40 Subject: The U.S. Black/White Color Line |
Fair enough. I certainly feel you've contributed!
You ought to be heralded as one of the greatest scholars on American Race relations. Sadly, the greatest genius and most wonderful insights are lar ... |
Topic: The U.S. Black/White Color Line |
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Tue 09 Sep 2008 03:10 Subject: The U.S. Black/White Color Line |
Excellent article Frank. Do you think you have largely solved the mystery?
I feel that you have though reading a few of your essays I am left with the impression that the answers are not alltogethe ... |
Topic: DOES RACE EXIST ACCORDING TO FST STRUCTURED GROUPING? |
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Tue 26 Aug 2008 06:17 Subject: DOES RACE EXIST ACCORDING TO FST STRUCTURED GROUPING? |
Hey Frank,
I wanted to continue. I recently lost a debate to someone regarding race because they showed me the rosenberg study and a few others which, I must admit, were much more powerfull then an ... |
Topic: As Racism Wanes, Colorism Persists |
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Mon 25 Aug 2008 17:18 Subject: As Racism Wanes, Colorism Persists |
Tell me about it.
So apparently Whites are supposed to disown their own offspring and the more physically obvious the resemblance the greater the rejection ought to be.  |
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