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Default 12-03-08, 05:32 PM

I think its fair to say that all non -Whites experience raced based prejudice or discrimination in a similiar or at least related way. A mixed race person in the US would be seen as Black for the purposes of the one drop rule, and may share the same experience with Black people who are not biracial. However I have to say that the "one drop rule" definition of "Black" seems very fluid in the US.

A person can be black under the rule, but yet seen and related to as non- Black or not as "authentically Black", (for lack of a better word), as another Black person who does not have a White/Asian parent.

I think this plays itself out time after time.

As well as the similarity or same experiences shared by all "blacks", there are also specific issues which arise from being genetically attached to Whites at parental stage for mixed raced people. I think many mixed race people share in the Black experience along with non mixed Blacks, but there are other experiences in addition to those which non -biracial Blacks dont necessarily experience, for obvious reasons.

This is why I dont understand the one drop rule in the first place.....in reality it seems that there is White and non White (of different degrees of course). Although I believe a person can belong to more than one race at a time, but then that would defeat the purpose of the one drop rule, which was supposed to get around that......lol

.........this whole subject is confusing. It should be done away with....the one drop rule is a very racist rule if you ask me.

Last edited by chi; 12-03-08 at 05:37 PM.