#one-drop rule

[serious2020]

Miami cop Javier Ortiz says, ‘I’m a black male,’ after changing his race in job application - The Washington Post

Miami cop Javier Ortiz says, ‘I’m a black male,’ after changing his race in job application – The Washington Post

Black officers complained about discrimination within the police department after a powerful captain changed his race description on applications for promotions. On Friday, he told city commissioners, “I am a black male.” — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/ortiz-cop-black/

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[fanshen]

Dr. Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. shares “How I Learned about the One-Drop Rule” 

"I’m going to love who I love – and I don’t care what anybody says."

http://www.onedropoflove.org/how-i-learned-about-the-one-drop-rule-rudy/

[fanshen]

Much love & gratitude to all who made 2015 an incredible year for One Drop. Looking forward to bringing the show to more venues in 2016 and beyond!

[soulbrotherv2]

Light, Bright and Damn Near White: Black Leaders Created by the One-Drop Rule by Michelle Gordon Jackson and Adam Clayton Powell IV

During the 19th and 20th centuries, a powerhouse of Black American leaders emerged, consisting primarily of men and women with “an apparent mix of Caucasoid features.” The face of the African warrior, brought to America centuries prior from the Ivory Coast had changed, due to perpetual miscegenation (race-mixing) and the application of the One-Drop Rule, a racial marker exclusive to the United States, in which a person was considered Black if he or she had any African ancestry. 

No other country in the world has historically defined race in the same manner. Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this “rule,” as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders. This book features these unsung Black heroes and heroines (covering the Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights eras).

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[ladyurduja4xx-blog]

The one-drop rule! Meaning anyone with any known black ancestry, no matter how far back it was acquired, classified you as a black person. No amount of white ancestry counted! Ninety-nine and a half just wouldn't do! It had to be no less than one hundred percent!  That "one drop" (or traceable amount) automatically assigned racially mixed individuals in the late nineteenth, and early twentieth century an Afro-American race card.  The one-drop rule was a concept created in the U.S. South to codify and strengthen segregation and disfranchisement most notably among those of black African descent.  Post-Reconstruction white legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws of segregation and restriction in myriad areas from accommodation & employment to interracial relationships.  No doubt, some of these same Supreme Court decisions were passed by former slave-owners and overseers  who helped create the many mixed and multi-racial people that they now sought to further subjugate...

interesting read

[diasporadash]

At the end of the day, I’m Black because I’m Black.”

-Kenya, (1)ne Drop Project