Anonymous asked: i commend the person who was mixed saying that he/she identifies as mixed and not black. thats hard to do in our society. the only reason you consider mixed people black is because you follow the one drop rule which was taught to our ancestors by their slave masters and they ended up teachin it to their children and so on. in most African continents (our motherland) people with one black parent and another of any other race are not considered black. please take that into consideration

Riiggghhht, black people did not teach their children the “one drop rule” and they did not learn it from their slave masters. The “one drop rule” is the result of multiple racist state laws on miscegenation and segregation. The Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896 probably being the most notable. Plessy was socially 1/8 black, but was light-skinned enough to “pass” as white. He boarded the whites-only section of the train in order to expose the idiocy surrounding the conversation of race in America. Plessy rode the train without being “found out” for some time, until someone who knew him identified him as black. Plessy took the case to the supreme court and lost—the judge cited the “one drop rule” as a precedent. Next came the “separate but equal” mantra, and the rest is history. 

And btw, I commend her too, I just don’t like the arrogant ignorance. Many folks who were socially considered “mixed,” “mulatto,” or “bi-racial” (mulatto probably being the most racist of the three terms) were not accepted by either sides of their families (see anything by Rebecca Walker) or simply did not identify with black cultural norms because they were not raised around black people. (Of course, this is current as well) And, no, it doesn’t work the other way around because of double consciousness (see W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk).