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PT1 - So one drop MAKES ME EUROPEAN?!
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May 12, 2025
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uh I'm going to try to explain the
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reason why the one drop rule is cra is
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crazy to me the one drop rule if you
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don't know is um an American idea that
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came after a during and after slavery of
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African people who were brought to
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America um the one drop rule stating
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that if you had a single drop of African
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blood in you then you're African um and
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so long story short um as this is a
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problem because
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uh to have one drop of blood and to
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claim that you're African even though
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you may have other blood from other
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places that are from different cultures
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or different places especially if it's
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um more prevalent within the person it
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it makes things like mixed people don't
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think like this is usually people who
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are on either side of being closer to
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either what would be called white or
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black in America because white and black
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means different things in different
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places the the way to think about this
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is if any other group of people was con
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was considered for the one drop rule if
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if one drop rule was white right if you
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have a single drop of white blood in you
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then you're white how would that change
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how people think about things everybody
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would suddenly be white right i think so
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because you can't tell me that there in
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America there are not too many people in
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North America who don't have some
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Caucasian in them that's just a matter
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of fact and I'm particularly referring
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to uh people of color you know people
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who are called black or people who are
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descended from Negroes or people who are
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descended from indigenous people people
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who are descended from Africans all of
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those people have some some white in
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them right so flip it like that one drop
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rule for white people right or one drop
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rule for indigenous people everybody's
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going to be considered indigenous so it
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really comes down to what these colors
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mean and if you are willing to put
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yourself in like for example the word
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black if you want to consider yourself
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black because your skin color is dark
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and you have curly hair that would be
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different than another person who would
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consider themselves black for a
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different reason meaning that they have
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significant African blood and they come
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and you know that's the culture of North
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America uh you know after the 60s
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between the 60s and the 80s that
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developed that is a word that black
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means um or somebody who simply thinks
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that it's a feeling and has to do with
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food and music that people like a
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certain segment of people are familiar
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with um all of those things you know are
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can be described as the same thing but
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is not always and necessarily considered
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the same definition um which is part of
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the reason why I'm bringing this to the
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table right now because I I'm a person I
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do not identify myself as black even
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though I know other people would um
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because I have curly hair and brown skin
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um though in terms of my genetic makeup
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um black is or African blood which I'm
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assuming is the origin in the mind of
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most Americans of what they consider
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black is African origin so African
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origins in my specific chart is about is
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is third on the list um this is because
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my all my grandparents were mixed and
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only one of them uh has lineage that is
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from Africa directly um and this I do
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know because of um both family passing
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down information as well as um genetic
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charts being done um my grandmother and
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grandfather on my mom's side even though
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she's dark uh is only partially African
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and I mean like a third I don't mean
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like 50% or anything like that so long
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story short um you know recombination
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effect you might get you know when it
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comes to me because obviously
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recombination would be my parents and
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then it would break down again when it
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comes to me so if I was to categorize
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how much African blood is in me I would
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say it's between 15 and 20% even though
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if you look at the matrial side um it
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would be um like obviously this the skin
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and the blood are two different things
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technically um if you want to talk about
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the chromosomes and like origins and all
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that stuff I can get into all of that
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but long story short um in relation to
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me this is the reason why I don't
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categorize myself um as black because
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first of all I stand as uh the learning
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point for both people of color as well
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as people who are from different
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cultures about what those words mean and
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how those words were passed down to
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people through institutions like slavery
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and how I do not agree with color codes
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in general because people like forget
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that yellow and red are color codes but
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nobody walks around well indigenous
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people call themselves red and mind you
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just because someone has black skin
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doesn't mean that they're not red there
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are black skin red people all over the
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place that's a part of that it it's
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about the culture and about where the
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origins of those people came from you
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don't have um Asian people walking
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around calling themselves yellow people
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even though that would be the color code
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for an Asian person so people who are
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who consider themselves black they're
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choosing to call themselves black but
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black in America has to do with the the
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uh the institution of slavery and Jim
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Crow laws which originated in the south
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um another example as to in relation to
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this is Brazil brazil because of the
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transatlantic waterways which means that
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naturally occurring waterways from
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Africa to the islands up to North
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America and back over to Africa have
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existed as long as people have existed
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on boats like that that's just purely
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simply true because long story short the
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tectonic plates in the in the continents
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move very slowly every year so basically
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the the more uh back in time you go the
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closer together the continents were in
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the first place so long story short um
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the mixing of people is not a surprising
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thing the issue is that black has a
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constitutional meaning that may or may
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not have been changed in reference to
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the humanity and rights of a person the
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the rights of a person people often talk
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about the rights of people who come into
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America um and I mean this legally i
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don't mean this illegally i don't get
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into those issues because I there's it's
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so complicated and it's sad to try to
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imagine about it that like I'm talking
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about when people legally come into
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America and they have their culture and
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their country of origin and their
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heritage they have protections attached
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because of those things because of those
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um identifying markers the issue is that
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people who came to America as slaves or
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were in America and were taken as slaves
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either one um had their rights their
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identity their culture and their
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languages stripped from them so that
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they had nothing to call themselves and
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then the slave owners and the people who
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were in charge of the economy
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