Can I be black?

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  1. doombug

    doombug Well-Known Member

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    Just recently I did the Ancestry.com thing and found an enormous amount of info on my heritage. I even took a DNA test that helped confirm everything. I found out that one of my ancestors was an African American and was also a slave. Now the DNA test showed less than 1% African heritage but if I go by the old one drop rule, I am officially black.

    I do not look black.....but can I claim to be? After some research I saw where there is no rule on this.

    What is the forum consensus?
     
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    You can be anything you like. Why should anyone care?
     
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    doombug Well-Known Member

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    Sure, people can identify as they want but is there a legal status?
     
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    What difference does it make? Claim whatever you want. Is someone going to sue you over this?
     
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    doombug Well-Known Member

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    I don’t know. What if I want to benefit from affirmative action? It kinda does not seem right to claim black but look white....
     
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    Claim whatever you want. If some agency sues you you must then pray your one drop theory will hold up in court. Good luck with that
     
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    doombug Well-Known Member

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    The one drop rule is an old one. I do not believe it is used now. But I never thought of getting sued. Even more of a reason to find out now.

    It is different than say identifying as a different gender. Most trans folks try to appear as the gender they identify as.
     
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    Yes they do. And they can make the change legally
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You have to wear blackface at all times, then join the NBA or NFL and commit disproportionat amounts of crime. Only then can you scream victim and gain AA and get reparations. Having several babies and a few abortions would be added credentials. Your race card is on its way.
     
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    doombug Well-Known Member

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    And take a knee during the national anthem.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You should start demanding people call you African American.

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    That's a good point.

    Conservatives need to start a transracial movement.
     
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    yep, your part black like Obama is part white, you would qualify for reparations :)

    just save the test as proof

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    As so call race is not a scientific classification and as far as I am aware there is no current legal definition either so I see no barrier as far as you deciding the issue.
     
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    Is it not interesting that since President Trump came into power some of us seems to feel like it now ok to express racist feelings/ideas that no one had dare to express since the 1960s and then only in the deep south.

    From the first black president to the first racist president in many generations. We are indeed living in interesting times.
     
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    Since we are now free to select our gender, why shouldn't we be free to select our color? Perfectly reasonable, so long as you don't think about it...
     
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    Now that you've learned the truth you're gonna' have to learn how to walk all over again.
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    You lucky bugger! Now you can use the "N" word and nobody can chastise you!
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    many use these test for college aide and such, perfectly legit
     
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    Black is ill defined.
    It certainly isn't skin color because this person is considered black [​IMG]
    It isn't facial features because thus man is considered black [​IMG]

    So what makes a person black?
     
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    Damn I gotta get me one of those kits.

    I'll hang outside the governors office demanding 40 acres.
     
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    every human on earth has a drop of African blood, just as every dog on earth has a drop of wolf blood.
     
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    Wentworth Miller? Former hornbag and long-closeted Englishman?
     
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    You may even self-identify as a black lesbian woman. In fact, if we all did, why we would all go to the front of every line, and what could be more fair than that!
     
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    If you spent $100 on Ancestory.com DNA genealogy search, you should have just bought some ammo with the money. Anecetory.com DNA genealogy test gets a very low rating for accuracy. An accurate DNA genealogy test cost thousands of dollars.

    Everyone I know including I have a problem with the results, they don't jive.

    But almost all caucasians who did the DNA test show 1% being black. I think it has to do is that your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great.
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    great grandmother's name might have been Lucy.

    What Was "Lucy"? Fast Facts on an Early Human Ancestor -> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html


    Excerpt:

     
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    I bin tryin' to tell ya'. It's the bloood! I've always wanted a cool walk and to talk like Sammy L.J. But workin' the cotton fields is over-rated so I'm gonna' slit my wrist and make sure I gets me a 'brother' for the transfusion! Know I'm sayin'!
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