There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
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In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
I am not an African. I am an American.
I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.
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