The history of the "one drop" rule and how it impacts Americans today

The new book "One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race," by author and activist Yaba Blay, Ph.D, explores racial identity and the constructs that were created in the United States. Blay joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero to explain the history of the rule and its impact today.
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[@spliced7383]

THIS is an example of American culture. No other country did this bs

[@Msladyrae92]

because it was derived from the effects of chattel slavery.

[@jojosaylor8996]

India Brazil Philippines South Africa deals with the same problems

[@spliced7383]

@@jojosaylor8996 All the countries occupied by Great Britain at one point in time

[@kidakvls2305]

@@spliced7383 not Brazil

[@callejonmisterio7208]

@@jojosaylor8996 Interracial marriages were illegal as well?

[@lyndacarter5090]

US government used the percentage that an individual was of Native heritage to determine if they had ‘enough’ to belong to/be counted as a member of a tribe.

[@chuckstockford2338]

I believe the tribes did that didn’t they? I know here at the Chippewa Reservation that’s how it was done.

[@Billhatestheinternet]

That is so that the white man doesn't have to give them money. Whites hate parting with money for other people. Written by: A white man. (this is not how I believe, it is simply how it is)

[@kateherman2254]

@@chuckstockford2338the Cherokee Nation determined their own rules at the beginning of the 20th century by having people within the Nation decide whether to be included or not in the Dawes Rolls, which became the determining factor of belonging to the tribe or not. To belong to the tribe and have citizenship within the Nation, one has to be able to prove an ancestor was included in the Rolls. White men had nothing to do with it.

[@Sky-ez5wp]

unless both your parents are black not a mix, then you are not black simple.

[@lisacox3750]

Many people don't take socialization into account. I have friends who are ethnically black but raised by people who are "white". She was socialized white because that's all her parents knew to raise her despite her being ethnically black. So, she has experiences as a person not raised by black parents that I will never relate to. That's what happened with the one-drop rule. Because of that rule...it didn't matter if people were ethnically mixed...they were socialized as black. They had no more privilege than any other black person. So, I feel like if you are of a certain age and you say you are "black" then that's what you were. I would never argue with an 80-year-old over their "blackness". As in many black families, I grew up with older family members that had white fathers that they never knew because their black mothers were raped by them or whatever. Either way...there was no relationship there. They were raised by their black mothers, grew up with their black relatives, and socialized black. I'm not arguing with them and telling them they aren't really black. That's very different than this young generation with the Zendayas and Yara Shahidi's.

[@spliced7383]

That’s so stupid and it’s why both wyte and blck Americans constantly have some existential crisis.

[@MissDeenaB94]

@@lisacox3750 socialization???? Ma’am … 🤦🏾‍♀️ Lord 🤣🤣🤣🤣 smfh

[@jaxthewolf4572]

@@lisacox3750 there is behaving like a black person and actually being black. If you aren't brown skinned as a result of African DNA, you are not black

[@Rbcmani]

You keep pushing away your mixed brothers and sisters and see where it gets you family 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Rbcmani]

Can’t lie I’m 50% Nigerian, 30% Germanic, 20% Filipino and I have to fight to be accepted by my black brothers and sisters… so now a days it’s quite the opposite.. caramel complexion with curly hair, but still not black enough for blacks and definitely not white enough for whites… my thing is if Black people are so oppressed still why do our darker counterparts push us away when we’d be stronger together.. smh like JayZ said light skin brown skin or dark skinn still N*gga 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@rredcrush]

I'm dealing with the same issue and even lightskinned people who are 100% black still have to fight for their blackness. We should have a 3rd category for people who LOOK mixed to solve the problem. White, Black, Mixed.

[@deshawnjenkins530]

I believe this is still part of the oppression response. It's as if, "if I can so easily move up, then others can't so easily move in." It's as if there is an effort to protect an unprotected status in order to exert some control. It's an unfortunate remnant of white supremacy.

[@beasley1232]

I am 50% Black American, and unfortunately more than 40% Germanic (25%+ German 😒) and the rest is French.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Btw, can we start talking to mixed people instead of people who aren't mixed. Can we tell our own stories and history please?? Because no matter what, it's not being told correctly. It would be like me as a mixed woman trying to explain what black women feel about anything. I don't know. And black women don't know what it's like to be a biracial woman, especially one with a Quadroon child. I do what it's like. As do a lot of mixed people. Let us tell you what we go through.

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

I’m quite sure someone who uses an offensive word like “quadroon” to casually refer to their own children isnt the one to be heard from.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

@@rainbeauxunicorn5237 The difference between me and you, I know my history. I also know which terms were offensive and the ones who weren't. You're OPINION means absolutely nothing to me. Have a great life.

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

@@iwanttobelieve5970...🤣🤣🤣 You know nothing about me to make such a statement. And the fact that your miffed about it means I hit the nail on the head. If you didn’t care, as you claim you don’t, you wouldn’t have bothered to respond. The word “quadroon” is offensive just like the N word. You using it in referring to your own children is chilling. Don’t waste your good wishes on me. Hope your children have great lives because, based on your statement, they’re likely to have some issues. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

BTW... no one is stopping you from saying your “biracial” peace. You on here begging to be heard is quite ridiculous.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

@@rainbeauxunicorn5237 Btw, Biracial is a modern term. And it also doesn't accurately describe someone who is 75% white and 25% black or 87% white or 12.5% black. Quadroon and Octaroon are the correct terms that describes that. You be as offended as you want to be. My QUADROON daughter and OCTAROON granddaughter, know who they are. They know/will know their history. They know Mixed History in this country, the Caribbeans, all of North America, Mexico, Central and South America where Mixed People populated. They know about the Casta Racisl Categories. These categories were descriptions of these NEW racial mixtures that had never ever existed before. And the Casta Racial Categories accurately described these new racial mixtures. A Biracial person can be any 50/50 mixture. A multiracial person can be all kinds of things. BUT, the only one that accurately describes a person who is 75% White and 25% Black is Quadroon. And again, these terms were used on the Census Rolls. And it is in no way equivalent to any negative terms. Next time you try to come after someone, take a minute to actually learn the history first. So again, Have a good Day.

[@shebelieves9650]

My husband and I been together for almost 30 years. He keeps reminding me that he's black and how he's oppressed. He has a well paying job, is a supervisor for one of the nation's largest employer, has received many awards, and is well respected both at work and in our community. We own a nice house, Have several cars. And I don't have to work as I'm a stay at home mom to several children. I'm hoping one day he will realize as an immigrant who came to this country looking for The American Dream that he has the American Dream. However he's addicted to The MSM who keeps reminding him and telling him he's a victim. So even though he's successful he believes he's a victim and of some sort of lower class in his head. I myself am multi racial with Hispanic, Native American and of African descent. However I am very pale and thanks to The MSM not only does he keep reminding me that he's black he also constantly tells me that I'm white. I pray to God that he will top drinking The Kool Aid of The Left and realize we're just all people. After all we all came from Adam and Eve.

[@user-vs6ep9hg5l]

How could you be married to someone who says that about you. Ridiculous.

[@deshawnjenkins530]

The unfortunate truth is that some people will still view him as a n-word, with a well paying job, supervisor, award-winning, etc. you can name all the accomplishments here. As intelligent and accomplished as he is, he will in many cases continue to have his intelligence second guessed and assumptions that he is in his position because of some DEI program. This is in spite of him knowing otherwise. One could easily say that what others say about you is none of your business, but when you have to exist in a certain state of surrealism, i.e. showing up to do and be your best in spite of obstacles and or haters, it can be hard to forget and take a toll on you. Hope this helps.

[@shebelieves9650]

For sure his job and position is not DEI related as he’s had this job for decades and literally worked his way up the ladder one step at a time with different positions. So nothing was handed for him.

[@callejonmisterio7208]

No surprise why you people have a really hard time understanding why us latinos do not identify as black when we are brown...

[@gordonhaire9206]

I worked with a black man who, like me, attended segregated schools in the deep south in 1950s. He was very black, and faced prejudice in his school, where teachers assumed lighter skinned students were more intelligent than darker skinned.

[@bluesand8466]

That’s called racism

[@gratefuldead3750]

That's what they were taught.

[@watson6956]

Absolutely ridiculous logic

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

I think the lady who wrote this book has something personal against bi racial or lighter skinned people of African descent which is sad. She comes of first as someone trying to raise the subject from the perspective of biracial people being denied their Identity and then ends as saying biracial people have long used their lighter skin as a way to get ahead of darker skinned people of African descent. Go tell that to Miss Rosa Parks and Malcolm X all of them were victims of the same racism all people of African descent faced in the pre civil rights movement days.

[@superamanda]

She’s VERY bigoted. And how da fck would she understand multi racial identity? Read Eugenics Rebooted on Medium!

[@Rbcmani]

🙏🙏thank you

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

@@user-vs6ep9hg5l alot of issues need to be discussed and focused on, number one being the black nation and it's growth. By growth I mean economic, technological and cultural. Black women all over the world should stop wearing the hair of other races, be proud with what God gave you. Secondly, Africa needs to break free from it's poverty and ignorance to harness it's almost unfathomable natural resources to be used to develop that continent in technology and commerce for the betterment and advancement of the lives of black people all over the world. Only when Africa, the mother continent moves forward will black people world over gain their sense of pride and dignity. We are a shamed people because of our many failings but each day brings an opportunity to start again.

[@victorias5986]

Can’t wait to read this book! No matter your opinion, it sounds like it might highlight some very important historical issues for otherwise unaware/ignorant people.

[@fragranceplace4844]

MEGAN IS NOT EVEN BLACK HER FATHER IS SO CALLED "WHITE"

[@pohkeee]

We’re you even listening?

[@fragranceplace4844]

@@pohkeee we're YOU listening?

[@alanaatkinson551]

@Fragrance Place Yes, Megan is not black and she'll never be. What people don't understand that she doesn't have to be the same as you to sympathize with her.

[@tapped564]

Her mom is black

[@alanaatkinson551]

@@tapped564 If her father is white and her mother black then she's biracial. Oh, wait update. Someone told me that her mother is actually biracial and Megan is 75% white and 25% black. That means she's a white woman.

[@LoveMafae]

This woman try get money from her racist book.

[@bruceleemichaud6327]

Hell yeah ill love this, now i know who you are. I love when u guys expose yourself and give me the opinion of how you think. Thank you!! I thought i was going crazy for a sec. Im half and half, Im a mut......er mallato, i have lived through it and im old as fk lol. I have so many bad memories from ppl like you....

[@BaffinSailor]

US is a salad bowl not a melting pot.

[@victorias5986]

Sad, but true. But, adding a silver lining... At least there is salad dressing with lots of spices.

[@BaffinSailor]

@@victorias5986 If everything was the same you life would be terribly boring.

[@victorias5986]

@@BaffinSailor I think you and I are interpreting the metaphor differently. I thought you were implying “salad bowl “as that each ingredient of the salad (person of race) was separate or didn’t mix with the other ingredients. Hence, the idea of racism. My “salad dressing” (the ingredients/people of different races already getting along together)was a way of implying that not everyone was racist. Some ingredients do come together in harmony and try to make a difference in the rest of the salad (try to bring the rest of the US/world together without hate). That’s all I meant by it.

[@BaffinSailor]

@@victorias5986 You will always have racism. However we are all in the same bowl like it or not.

[@victorias5986]

@@BaffinSailor of course. I wasn’t disagreeing with you

[@MommyBunnyof3CoolKids]

The Loving couple says so much to the world. Love is Love 💕

[@huskernation1973]

I’m a technical person so to me love is love when it’s two consenting adults that doesn’t involve animals or children.

[@kwesimannabintenya8448]

Please read the book " Everyone Is African " by Daniel J. Fairbanks , the myth of race . It's all about the Money, and not about the Skin Color , Follow the Money and Treasure and you will truly understand White America ! .

[@saturncrush]

I shall. It sounds to me it was simply way to keep wealth for being past down, and growing.

[@phyllislawson3294]

Okay?

[@Prettyboi_Lele]

I just want to tell you guys by this rule the one drop rule all of Brazil would be considered black because even the white Brazilians are black African to some degree

[@wuyl660]

the south Europeans are mixed with Africans ,Arabs. Hlm

[@celticmulato2609]

Also Mexico and much of Latin America; apparently it never applied to racially ambiguous Latinos!

[@shaffy856]

This is why there is so much tension between Black Americans and the rest of the world. We are just as mixed but because of laws we were all Black. Then in the 1980s they tried to force us to identify as African despite the enslaved coming from the Carribean not Africa. All this can be confirmed through a simple Google search, that's the sad part.

[@celticmulato2609]

Also Mexico and the majority of Latin America. FYI. The old one drop rule never applied to Latinos; the military kept them seperate from Blacks and Whites and society never saw them as Black due to no discernible Sub Saharan African phenotype being dominant!

[@hunnybadger442]

My father is African American... But I was adopted and raised by white parents... My ancestors where slaves I happy to embrace my heritage... It's part of me... But Im fair skinned and I want to be able to have a candid conversation about race.... And I've faced system discrimination and prejudice that has hinder my whole life.... Just not because of the color of my skin but other factors... I've been denied housing, unjustly fired, dismissed by doctors, harassed by strangers, brutalized by cops, unfairly convicted, rejected by my family, denied education, and suffered years from depression, alcohol and addiction.... But I've had real push back from both blacks and whites when I try to express my solidarity and understanding of being oppressed.... They act like slavey was the only sin in Americas past and even trying to hold other stains from it's past up on the same level is blasphemy.... There's a plethora of skeletons in lady liberty's closet... Each is an outrage unto it's self.... Oppression is much more than racism.... And I want to join the conversation it's my past too.... I celebrate all that makes me unique and want all to know the sins and stains of this country we call home.... But my voice is often devalued, dismissed, or misunderstood when trying to learn and connect with all the parts of my lineage.... It's hard to be part of a conversation about race when you look like the oppressor even though it has granted you no privilege as you had many other hated traits that they could hold over your head and lay on your shoulders.... I want to be part of my parentage... And honor my bloodline... It's my history too... So please don't exclude me from owning all the things that lead to me.... And my wonderful dark skinned brothers if you let me in I will not disappoint you... Because I have always been proud of where and who i came from.... And everyone is family to me and I just want to be whole....

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

Your ancestors were ENSLAVED. Their blood line didn’t start with slavery and it isn’t ending with it either.

[@hunnybadger442]

@@rainbeauxunicorn5237 i know that i can trace my back to Morocco

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

@@hunnybadger442... I’m just addressing your third sentence as you misspoke. I’m not interested in the actually details about them. That’s none of my business. But you should acknowledge your ancestors in the proper context if they were indeed victims of slavery.

[@shebelieves9650]

My husband can definitely relate to you. We’ve been together for almost 30 years. He keeps reminding me that he’s black and how he’s oppressed. He has a well paying job, is a supervisor for one of the nation’s largest employer, has received many awards, and is well respected both at work and in our community. We own a nice house, Have several cars. And I don’t have to work as I’m a stay at home mom to several children. I’m hoping one day he will realize as an immigrant who came to this country looking for The American Dream that he has the American Dream. However he’s addicted to The MSM who keeps reminding him and telling him he’s a victim. So even though he’s successful he believes he’s a victim and of some sort of lower class in his head. I myself am multi racial with Hispanic, Native American and of African descent. However I am very pale and thanks to The MSM not only does he keep reminding me that he’s black he also constantly tells me that I’m white. I pray to God that he will top drinking The Kool Aid of The Left and realize we’re just all people. After all we all came from Adam and Eve.

[@hunnybadger442]

@@rainbeauxunicorn5237 I can't because I'm not allowed to... Because I don't look black

[@ask4theupgrade359]

1607 - the British Colony of Jamestown, Virginia was settled by a group of English settlers in what would become Protestant 1619- Again, we leave out the indentured European female, usually Irish Catholic [referred to as the Negros of the Protestant British] that had a child with an enslaved African that was born FREE. Was she raped? Was it consensual? Yet Free People of Color that were never enslaved existed. There were also Native American Women that had children with European men. There also was the 1/8 rule of African blood, many crossed over to white society, passing. The 1 drop rule, became prominent after slavery was abolished. During slavery, the child would always take the station of his mother. People often get these 2 laws mixed up. Macon’s rebellion, during the 1660’s is when all these codes restricting black people came about. “Slavery and the Making of America” documentary available for free on KZbin

[@own4801]

The "one drop" rule wasn't just about African blood - it also applied to Native American and Asian ancestry. And yeah, we know all about indentured servitude and mixed-race relationships - it's not like that's some kind of secret history that's been hidden from us. But you can't deny that the "one drop" rule had a major impact on how race was defined in America, even after slavery ended.

[@LoveMafae]

Blacks keep using this to make the number look big.

[@Goodpatron]

Underrated comment.

[@own4801]

What number?

[@mrstoniamiller]

Great job Yaba! Represent Temple U.

[@journeymansmitty8283]

Looks like a really interesting book education for the mind I did not know this🤔

[@biracialawareness.7956]

Mildred Loving was (Mixed Race) not black.

[@peacehappyb237]

She was not mixed-race. She had two black Native Americans.

[@peacehappyb237]

@Onna Sweet Ginger Rose she was a black Native American.

[@incelsshoulddie2548]

@@peacehappyb237 she's mixed race dude most african americans are there's no such thing as a light skinned black person, black people have afro textured hair broad noses full lips and dark skin anything less isn't black

[@rachelcrawford9174]

Yes, thank you. Meghan marble is not black as well. It’s weird that the royal family were concerned about her baby, her baby is going to be less than 25% black… he’s pretty much a white baby.

[@JetseTurner]

Reparations Now, for Descendants of Slaves!! B1✊

[@chuckstockford2338]

For what reason. We can all go back in history and find descendants that were wronged. The whole reparations movement is detrimental to making everyone equal. When you hold yourself out to be special you’re saying that we’re not equal. Seriously I ask why are you entitled to free money or stuff. Please explain. Win me to your argument. Thanks in advance as you may have a valid argument that I’m not aware of.

[@mrarchangel4457]

All Black people in this country are descendants of slavery...What would you say...would be a fair amount of money paid out ? The military in the 70's gave soldiers (that they paid for) $50,000 life insurance ...who would you pay that to ? I think investing money into to Black education...would make better use than any...personal payment !!! Just my opinion !

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

Never happen and here's why: Most Native nations and tribes will never get their land back, and they were here LONG before anyone.

[@kiyahnichols759]

@@chuckstockford2338 Imagine starting a race with all the best equipment. Running shoes, water bottles, great coaches, etc. You go and round up a group of strangers to race against but they have to run barefoot, no water, no training. Then, you give yourself several miles headstart. You even encourage some of you friends to join the race and give them the same advantages that you gave yourself. Finally, you realize that the first group you rounded up to join the race, just aren't keeping up. Well, what is wrong with them you wonder. Are they dumb or something. Let me throw them some shoes and some bottles to catch rainwater and send someone back there to explain the rules. Okay, now they have access to everthing I have. We are now EQUAL. Look some of them are even doing pretty good, they're even gaining ground. The fact is, no matter what scraps you've dropped for them along the way, as a group, they will never catch up to you and your friends because you still have the unfair advantage of that massive head start that you gave yourselves at the beginning of the race. Let's not confuse equality with EQUITY.

[@chuckstockford2338]

@@kiyahnichols759 so what’s your equity price per person?

[@misstp7781]

Mankind was created with the goal of diversity. Look at nature, animal species and there is the reality. Different races where meant to be.

[@mrarchangel4457]

That was a pretty racist thing to say...segregation !!! Well...in modern day America...we don't all share those separatist views...good luck with yours...oh...we do have ligers...zonkys...and verious other mixed animals...that did it on there own...in nature !!!

[@incelsshoulddie2548]

They weren't "meant to be" lol they came about due to mutations from living in certain climates.

[@legendofnagacharley1974]

WHEN

[@lethamash7784]

America is so weird

[@annettehfleming5939]

Absolutely Awsome I directly knew what the subject of the book was when I saw the title

[@CurtisWhitehead-wn5bs]

Feed me this Knowledge of Self. It counts too.

[@whitney7777]

I'm not understanding this one drop situation! does is mean 1% of any other race or 1 family ancestor of any other race?

[@blacklyfe5543]

It means if you have 1℅ of African DNA you are black and not white or mixed.

[@oluapampa5075]

You could be 1/8 black and still considered to be black.No matter how white your appearance looked. These laws were only legal in the southern parts of the US and were never recognised in other parts of the world. A white or non-black person who has some black blood is considered to be of black heritage not black or African.

[@corysimmons455]

Gotta buy this book

[@cjfl1962]

In the case of the Loving family. It was the wife the black person who decided to proceed with the law suit, not her husband. The husband refused to participate. The wife was arrested, raped in jail and had multiple death threats.

[@LorraElizabeth]

If we could just separate as a country. All the racists, and phobics, misogynists on one side and everyone else on the other. It would be beautiful.

[@Punicia]

Too subjective. That is a recipe for chaos.

[@Goodpatron]

You could always get a head start and see who follows... Bye Felecia! Lol 😆

[@incelsshoulddie2548]

@@Goodpatron obviously you are all those things she mentioned since this angered you so much, she can stay you need to go

[@blacklyfe5543]

Misogynist? What about MISANDRIAIST???

[@mr.perfectcell3236]

​@@Goodpatronyou like being a racist and homophobe😮

[@evelynaustin9679]

Well stated!

[@tlo65]

Your going to talk about the race structure of society without talking about the class structure of society and our America class history? Working white people do not shape the structure of society instead it's the bourgeois, the white supremacy. Like the same white people who were rich back in 1600 are still rich today and come from a long lineage of category races and identity politics. Hitler thought the one drop rule was way extreme for even him. I mean they're were literally white people who were counted as black because of the one drop rule, why wasn't that even brought up?

[@shaffy856]

The white people in the "one drop right" were considered colored and were no longer apart of white society. This was the purpose, to keep poor people as oppressed as possible. Bacon's Rebellion is a perfect example of how the rich created race an an opportunity to make more money and maintain power.

[@Goodpatron]

There are literally white people that get counter as black today, all the time, by black people like the woman in this video. It's start racism is what it is. 🤦

[@ounceoflogic]

Racism is OK.......................................................... (sometimes)

[@maureenjackson2041]

I noticed the one drop rule is applied only to African Americans, whites with Native American blood are still white, whites with Hispanic and Asian linage still white but those whites with African blood are black. In other words having African blood is a stigma and tainted. It's obvious that African Americans were obviously seen as the most inferior, the lowest and worst of the bunch, the most dispised minority, the least respected ghe least accepted most of the racial violence and terror thst occurred in the US during the first half of the twentieth century was directed against African Americans no other minority was targeted like that, also blacks were the only group to be segregated in the military, yet many white Americans will say blacks are not African American just American huh strange how they don't say Asian Americans are just American or told they're being diversive or even racist for claiming their Asian identity. Posted from Britain 🇬🇧.

[@NancyCronk]

Fascinating video and a lot of great information. (Was anyone else distracted by how perfect Dr. Blay's complexion is? She has the smoothest, most beautiful skin I have ever seen.)

[@phyllisyovone8961]

No!

[@angelicamichelle1646]

Wow

[@PhoenixProdLLC]

This also impacted native Americans didn't it? ("Half-breed"). And LatinX as well? ("Mullato")

[@shaffy856]

No the one drop rule was only enforced in the United States colonies

[@corvettec526]

Melanin - R.I.P

[@MotoMiles]

My mom is white my father is half black and Spanish from Costa Rica … people to me ….“ you’re African-American“😂😂

[@darkdan3379]

1/4 of my blood family looks "white" or is blue eyed but we make no claim to being white someone please tell me what we are doing wrong...

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

Nothing. Ppl are mad because your not playing the game of WS. Keep doing what your doing.

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

@@strawberrie6491... so you play the game I see. Smh...

[@strawberrie6491]

@@rainbeauxunicorn5237 what game? are you one of those one drop rule racist idiots

[@rainbeauxunicorn5237]

@@strawberrie6491...🤦🏾‍♀️ if the one drop rule is ridiculous so is identifying yourself as “black” (or “white” for that matter). The oppressors came up with that term too. Using it is a verbal acknowledgement that you have a place in their white supremacy game. If you don’t subscribe to the one drop rule, you shouldn’t call yourself black either.

[@yesno8785]

If they look white and have predominantly white ancestry, they are white. If they look white but have a good portion of Black ancestry, they are white passing. They can go ahead and identify as Black, but they should acknowledge their privilege or take into account if people perceive them as white. Personally, I think the American one drop rule is stupid and inconsistent, and I'm glad people are starting to take notice of it due to too many people being able to identify as Black.

[@austinjohnson9706]

That dog is not happy about the topic

[@own4801]

What dog? Could you elaborate?

[@danicapapali7810]

Bob jones univ. in SC. lifted the interracial dating ban on Larry King in 2000. Sorry Megan, but literally *everyone is having THAT conversation about mixed kids, pls 🙄 genuine strangers would tell us how beautiful it would be if we had a baby in our international marriage, at least u were pregnant. 🤣

[@virtualrealityfitness283]

I’m one percent Nigerian so I guess don’t have white privilege!

[@pixelander]

Who knows if dna tests are even that accurate

[@own4801]

That was indeed the idea.

[@whitney7777]

welcome to the family. brother!

[@danicapapali7810]

Bob jones univ. in SC. lifted the interracial dating ban on Larry King in 2000. Sorry Megan, but literally *everyone is having THAT conversation about mixed kids, pls 🙄 genuine strangers would tell us how beautiful it would be if we had a baby in our international marriage, at least u we’re pregnant. 🤣

[@jambro1583]

Well it's hard to be pure white if your ancestors came from an African woman some 1.5 million years ago

[@yellow9349]

Archie may look white or have fair skin *NOW* but he could be 4 shades darker in 3 months, looking like Meghan, her mother or Meghan's grandmother.

[@yvonneplant9434]

His hair no longer looks "ginger" or red like it once did. So, yes, his skin may change.

[@emilydowepa-c8975]

He would never be the color of Meghan’s mother. Like ANY baby their skin likely darkens a little with age but he will most certainly not be the color of Meghan’s mother.

[@bunnieslemon6837]

Archie is a white child, and even if he was 4 shades darker that wouldn't change the fact that he is over 80% Caucasian therefore making him white.

[@ms3173]

@@bunnieslemon6837 Even meghans mother looks mixed

[@hiddenbeauty2828]

Archie is less than 25% African. How would he look like he had significant African ancestry when he has very little of it to begin with? The child is White.

[@SundayBeastz]

Oh thank you O Mighty M@ sk God Government! We praise you O Mask God for blessing us with Biden for allowing us to come together to celebrate July 4th! Thank you for being so everlastingly merciful! O Mighty M@sk God Government we praise you for protecting us from the M@sk pl@gue, We praise you for providing us with relief funds to survive, We praise you for vak cinating us even though some of us have perished from the shot, We praise you for our not so free health care. We praise you for allowing us to fly to see our relatives only if we wear our god M@sks. We praise you for all these undeserved blessing for we are but the fil-th of the dust on the bottom your holy feet! Bow down, bow down, bow down to the All Mighty M@ sk God Government all ye fil-t-hy off-sc0u-ring sc um of the earth, for even your very breath is unclean and impure to His Holiness Biden!

[@xlos8317]

I’m 1% Indigenous North American from ancestry 🧬 dna

[@celticmulato2609]

Read this book: You are what you pass for- A.D. Powell. Yaba has a crab in the barrel mentality and self hate issues!

[@own4801]

If you actually bothered to read Yaba Blay's book, "One Drop," you would know that it provides a thought-provoking and nuanced examination of the complex ways in which race and identity intersect in America. But I guess it's easier to just toss out insults instead of engaging with the actual content.

[@celticmulato2609]

@OWN I have read some of her articles and she embraces the antiquated racist 1 drop rule which biologically makes no sense.

[@rooseveltjohnson4430]

Plessy vs. Ferguson

[@otisjones5412]

Imagine caring about this nonsense. Get up and along with your life today!!

[@LalaaCherry]

I just googled what the one drop rule meant, guess I’m black❤ I’m mixed, my moms moms side is all black, from the Barbados, we have 🇬🇭 Ghana, the Bantu tribe, Congo, west African and a bunch of other nationalities in our bloodline My daddy is European descent, soooooooooooooo , yeah lol

[@xlos8317]

All them percentage of dna don’t even represent me

[@patsisota6655]

Or one drop my give you an opening for reparations if they decide to do this.

[@stephenbeacham9717]

If one is a child of a Jamaican and moved to the US in 1970 would you get reparation? In Illinois we are looking at reparations for folks in one of our cities. How they write the law might be very very influential. Who is in and who is out? Is money a reparation? If so how much? Is $20,000 an insult for hundreds of years of oppression. Maybe $200,000 is more just but will Republicans explode over this amount and destroy the bill by taking over Congress? Very complex

[@kiyahnichols759]

@@stephenbeacham9717 I personally believe that whatever form of reparations that may someday be given here should be for descendents of those that were enslaved here. If by some miracle the U.S. were to one day take that step, I would hope that it would snowball into other countries giving reparations to the descendents of those that they enslaved as well.

[@phyllislawson3294]

R U sure about that. I am sure some people, will be left?? Without. If it come down to proof!

[@ak102986]

First, the one-drop rule was primary only affected by the southern United States.

[@phyllislawson3294]

Why only Southern? The law is the law!

[@nrajdil]

@@phyllislawson3294 do you think its still around?

[@phyllislawson3294]

@@nrajdil of course, everything, else is. What do you think! It is not in book's, but the heart! Megan!

[@phyllisyovone8961]

That does not surprise me!

[@clarkloeffler8130]

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[@bluejay9968]

The author is African. Immigrant born.

[@bricevanderwoodsan2433]

Made me wonder why this matters to her.

[@saginevital-herne3750]

@@bricevanderwoodsan2433 Read this book and you’ll see WHY!

[@peacehappyb237]

I can bet Meghan was the one concerned about the "skin color."

[@ladybhive1210]

Meighan received a lot of scutiny after that interview.

[@jojosaylor8996]

Sure blame Meghan Markle for British racism

[@hiddenbeauty2828]

I doubt it.

[@lexperz5256]

Wtf...

[@roxaneadams6723]

🦋

[@nobodyknows3180]

@AWP Edited videos I want my money back.

[@nobodyknows3180]

@AWP Edited videos waffle flops are the new rick roll 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@bluesand8466]

If biracial people are included in Reparations would that upset the AA

[@phyllisyovone8961]

I don't hink "American Airline " or 'Alcohol Anonymous' would not have a problem. with it.

[@incelsshoulddie2548]

You realize most "african americans" aren't black, any african american who doesn't have a broad nose dark afro textured hair and dark skin is not black. Your Roy Jones and Daniel Cormiers and Jon Jones of the world are not black.

[@Goodpatron]

That pretty much includes everyone, if we're really going by a "one drop" rule, for the record.

[@brobro8471]

The one drop rule was a law that was occasionally used to determine who was legally classified as white, but it was never widely upheld as a common social practice. Black Americans are anywhere from 30 to 100% African DNA which not the same thing as having a "drop" of African blood. Moreover, that woman is African from Ghana with zero ties to American sl@ve lineage yet she feels qualified to speak on issues that should be of no concern to her anyway. The one drop rule is a non issue to everyone except militant biracial and people who feel insecure about their dark/brown skin.

[@blacklyfe5543]

She has every right to speak on it because she has a degree and knows more about the history of racism in this country than you so be quiet and take some notes.

[@flexicution2323]

Notif gang lmao

[@harrybroomfield8576]

Yessir

[@harrybroomfield8576]

One of the first 😃

[@srnd1247]

Yaba Blay is a hero

[@celticmulato2609]

Why??? How??

[@srnd1247]

@@celticmulato2609 she spoke all facts and her take is enlightening

[@celticmulato2609]

@@srnd1247 do u really think she was objective and not spreading her racist agenda for people to embrace the one drop rule which is White supremacy? Why do so many Black Americans embrace the White American mans definition of Black, which they overturned in 1967 but not the Black Africans definition of Black???

[@srnd1247]

@@celticmulato2609 are you objective about her in this short interview? She has no agenda presented. She's attacking the source that created policies that affected Africans in America. As that is addressed the redefinition of Black can continue at our esteem and not anyone else. I don't get why you take her for an enemy equal to the actual perpetrators tho?

[@celticmulato2609]

@@srnd1247 She is not my enemy. She continues to support the White Supremacist one drop rule which was overturned by the courts who were White. The 1 drop rule was not a compliment but an insult to Black people saying Black blood is a contaminated and ruins an entire race and it is also erasing the phenotypic identity of Sub Saharan Africans. Why still push that old narrative? Its all political !

[@michaelowino228]

Hey

[@HilarityBribo]

😂😂😂

[@incelsshoulddie2548]

Cries of frustration and anger by some angry white male. I'm going to start calling african americans white, because they are.

[@anthonyphung4956]

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[@thomassrsich432]

The historical may totally steer because spaghetti ultrasonically radiate inside a absorbing hedge. creepy, thirsty desire

[@killshot2333]

We all need to be colored blind period 💪🏽😎💯

[@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836]

Prior to Obama we nearly were. B.O. and HIS MSM minions set race relations back 40+ years. 😳

[@santiagohardy2728]

@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 I don't believe Y🤡U.

[@kevin6293]

Apparently, support for racial equality makes a person a racist.

[@nobodyknows3180]

@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 how did he manage to accomplish that?

[@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836]

@@nobodyknows3180 I can smell a troll from a mile away, but I'll tell you anyway. Maybe others will learn. In short, B.O. did it by encouraging a victimization mentality and not discouraging jumping to conclusions before the facts were known in cases like George Zimmerman (MSM's "white hispanic") and Michael Brown (Ferguson riots). This gave rise to BLM and their very destructive narrative which has been evident ever since.

[@crystal4514]

Funny how all these books come out just in time

[@victorias5986]

Just in time for what?

[@ladybhive1210]

@@victorias5986 😂

[@mikeaskme3530]

Cant wait till the racist come out on this video, their comments should be entertaining. Please people don't respond or encourage them, just let them wallow in their hate.

[@jona.3809]

Boohoo.

[@own4801]

Oh wow, look who we have here, a delicate snowflake crying boohoo in response to a well-informed video on the racist "one drop" rule. How original. Did you even bother to watch the video or read the book before commenting, or are you just here to spew your ignorance? Let me break it down for you, since you seem to be struggling. The "one drop" rule was a racist policy that defined anyone with even a drop of Black ancestry as Black, regardless of their actual appearance or cultural identity. This rule was used to justify slavery, segregation, and other forms of discrimination against Black Americans for centuries. And guess what? The legacy of this rule still affects us today, from racial profiling to the racial wealth gap. So instead of whining like a spoiled child, why don't you educate yourself on the history of racism in this country and try to understand how it continues to impact people of color today. But hey, if that's too much work for you, feel free to keep crying "boohoo" like a clueless buffoon.

[@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836]

So sick of this "Racist, Racist! RACIST!!!" narrative. BS.

[@kevin6293]

Exactly. If America is so racist, then why are black people able to achieve greater success here than anywhere outside Africa?

[@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836]

@@kevin6293 And how did Obama become president?

[@tiffmonique7154]

Then your people shouldn't have perpetuated it in this country to begin with. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@realdeal8303]

@@kevin6293 that's an achievement made by self determination we want the PUSH that others has been GIVEN for their ancestors question is do you not feel we have earned our just Do.

[@realdeal8303]

It's time we find a chunk of land far from THEM

[@24james]

Only one thing matters to CBS in 2021...the color of a persons skin. They are OBSESSED with it🤮

[@fasilharer1291]

CBS is reflections of America. The last four years say America still is a very racist country.

[@mballer]

Give me a break.

[@mballer]

@AWP Edited videos What is that?

[@nobodyknows3180]

@@mballer waffle flops are the new rick roll.

[@flossyraven]

Well stop watching stuff like this. You see the title. Nobody is forcing you to watch these things.

[@iiiii5363]

@@flossyraven you literally cant avoid it. Everywhere you turn in America you have the mainstream media pushing racial tension/division

[@crystal4514]

I never think if color and that's all they think about LET IT GO ..MOVE ON IF THEY HAVE NOT HELPED THEMSELVES BY NOW THEY WONT

[@fragranceplace4844]

YOU ARE WHAT YOU FATHER IS PEOPLE,THE MALE CARRIES THE SEED.THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BEING "MIXED"

[@emilydowepa-c8975]

Please take a DNA test and then tell me the child is only the seed of the father. This is 2021 and basic science. How can ppl still think the child is only the seed of the father 🤦‍♀️

[@fragranceplace4844]

@@emilydowepa-c8975 SO PLEASE TELL ME WHEN THE WOMAN STARTED CARRYING THE SEED .THIS I JUST HAVE TO HEAR

[@emilydowepa-c8975]

@@fragranceplace4844 the child is the product of the egg and sperm. This is basic science. I don’t know how else to explain it. Just Google your theory

[@bunnieslemon6837]

someone obviously failed biology class

[@emilydowepa-c8975]

@@bunnieslemon6837 for real! 😆