Here is Part 2 of my #onedroprule post. Here is a comment about it that I found on @blasianfma’s #youtube channel. do you agree? 🤔 Now more on the history of the ODR: Although #racialsegregation was adopted legally by southern states of the former Confederacy in the late 19th century, legislators resisted defining race by law as part of preventing #interracialmarriages. In 1895 in South Carolina during discussion, George D. Tillman said, "It is a scientific fact that there is NOT one full-blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of…colored blood. It would be a cruel injustice and the source of endless litigation, of scandal, horror, feud, and bloodshed to undertake to annul or forbid marriage for a remote, perhaps obsolete trace of #Negro blood. The doors would be open to scandal, malice, and greed.” The one-drop rule was not adopted as law until the 20th century: first in Tennessee in 1910 and in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (following passage of similar laws in several other states). In the U.S., the concept of the one-drop rule has been chiefly applied by #WhiteAmericans to those of sub-Saharan #Black African ancestry in the 20th century, when they were trying to maintain #whitesupremacy. The poet #LangstonHughes wrote in his 1940 memoir: “You see, unfortunately, I am not Black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word ‘Negro’ is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown." Whites also applied this rule to #mixedrace descendants of #NativeAmerican and #African ethnicity, classifying them as only African. In this they ignored how people identified themselves; many Native American tribes reared children of mixed race as culturally within their tribe. This distinction was critical as Native American slavery had ended during the colonial years! A child of a Native American mother should not be enslaved! We simply don’t want to be ignored! We want to identify ourselves! Please share/sign petition in my bio! 💉 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx1phupFucz/?igshid=q3cv0wm9rkyq
