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“You don't have to LOOK BLACK to BE BLACK”: The complex racial identity of THE ONE DROP RULE

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
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In the remote Ohio town of East Jackson, which sits in the Appalachian foothills, residents have for decades identified as black – despite the fact they appear white. Tom Silverstone and Francisco Navas visit a place where residents' racial lines have been blurred to invisibility.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 month ago

“I stand on BLACK” and yet she procreated with a white man to produce a white daughter. And then the white daughter continued the whitening process by procreating with another white man to produce more white children. And yet, she is adamant that her family is still BLACK.
The complexity of the ONE DROP RULE.

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T. Y. Adodo
T. Y. Adodo 30 days ago

Yeah "complexity" indeed lol

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T. Y. Adodo
T. Y. Adodo 30 days ago

On second thought - I think the one drop rule functions as a white indoctrination excuse for the halle berry syndrome and becky/chad chasing negroism

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 30 days ago

@T. Y. Adodo: Halle Berry, the standard of beauty for Black people.

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