- 23 Jun 2024 08:15
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"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
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@FiveofSwords
58 per cent of African Americans have at least 12.5% European ancestry.
Are they 'white'?
Under your one-drop rule, 'whites' with a smidgeon of black blood are 'black', and 12.5% is more than a smidgeon of white blood.
You told us early on that skin colour didn't matter.
Daft as it seems, what with ethnic intermarriage, the numerous generations that separate respondents from their forebears, and the apparent unimportance many Americans attach to their European ancestry - Being 'white' with all its advantages is enough for them, it is almost impossible to distinguish those who identify strongly with a specific European group from those who report symbolic or imagined ethnicity (Farley 1991).
also
It looks like you will be deporting lots of 'blacks' who think they're 'white'...
Trivia:
In South Carolina, using autosomal testing that only shows recent admixtures - 'recent' being no more than 200 years - at least 13 per cent of self-identified 'whites' have 1 per cent or more African ancestry.
The percentage of would-be 'blacks' under the one-drop rule who self-identify as 'white' in South Carolina - 13 per cent - is the same as the percentage of people nationwide who self-identified as 'black' in the 2010 U.S. Census.
and
If you were sincere that skin colour doesn't matter, you'd be keeping lots of 'whites' who thought they were 'black'.
58 per cent of African Americans have at least 12.5% European ancestry.
Are they 'white'?
Under your one-drop rule, 'whites' with a smidgeon of black blood are 'black', and 12.5% is more than a smidgeon of white blood.
You told us early on that skin colour didn't matter.
European
Daft as it seems, what with ethnic intermarriage, the numerous generations that separate respondents from their forebears, and the apparent unimportance many Americans attach to their European ancestry - Being 'white' with all its advantages is enough for them, it is almost impossible to distinguish those who identify strongly with a specific European group from those who report symbolic or imagined ethnicity (Farley 1991).
also
It looks like you will be deporting lots of 'blacks' who think they're 'white'...
Trivia:
In South Carolina, using autosomal testing that only shows recent admixtures - 'recent' being no more than 200 years - at least 13 per cent of self-identified 'whites' have 1 per cent or more African ancestry.
The percentage of would-be 'blacks' under the one-drop rule who self-identify as 'white' in South Carolina - 13 per cent - is the same as the percentage of people nationwide who self-identified as 'black' in the 2010 U.S. Census.
and
If you were sincere that skin colour doesn't matter, you'd be keeping lots of 'whites' who thought they were 'black'.
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
E l/r -10 : L/A -7.64