How Diluted Must A Person's Black Heritage Be Before They Cannot Legitimately Call Themselves A Person Of Colour?

[dave50]

Grandparent,  great grandparents, how far down the line?

[barry1010]

I have noticed that most people call those with mixed race parentage 'black', rarely 'white'.

[wolf63]

I'm just Peely-Wally.

[barry1010]

Me too. Unless I've been in the sun then I'm just peel and bright red

[1ozzy]

Does it really matter how people perceive their heritage?

Personally I don't give a rodents rectum.

It's their choice!!

[Old_Geezer]

It's more about how they perceive themselves. Never really got why Barak Obama was considered 'black' as it dismissed & disrespected half of his family tree. But if that's what he and the world wanted...

[DDIL]

Good Morning Old_Geezer,

If Barak had called or referred to himself as white then he would have been called a liar by many people including some on here!

 

[barry1010]

It seems it does matter how you perceive your heritage, Rachel Dolezal and Martina Big are two women who haved caused controversy. 

[Old_Geezer]

Fair enough DDIL. Why disrespect either side by claiming to be the other ?

[Hopkirk]

I'm beige 

[1ozzy]

Mellow Yellow?

[Peter Pedant]

Never really got why Barak Obama was considered 'black' as it dismissed & disrespected half of his family tree.

I never got why Obama was half Kenyan and loathed the British  - the cause of the worlds trouble for at least a thousand years including Vietnam,

and Kamal's mother in Indian saying - if she gets in, I hope she will bring american investment into India !

The two difft attitudes MUST be as a result of their antecedence

[Deskdiary]

Wiki - the One Drop Rule.

 

"The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood")[1][2] is considered black"

[Peter Pedant]

DD - do you have a wiki ref for  that?

There was certainly a phrase - touch of the tar brush...

[Peter Pedant]

oh, wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

also one drop rule ( wiki)

one drop of Japanese ( but not  German or Italian) blood and into a "forced internment camp" - they went ! -  note not concentration camp ( oh no)

[Old_Geezer]

A clearly daft rule.

 

But I guess that at the time they needed to draw a line somewhere and decided to be over-cautious. I trust they find that somewhat embarrassing now.