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**SoorgoBardy** · 05-20-2012, 06:41 PM

If a white guy has a drop of black blood and it shows a little... why is he considered only black?

But why is a black guy, who is half white, considered only black?

Does this have to do with whites being seen as pure white? And other races don't have to be pure?

If you find a non-white ancestor, say, 2,000 years ago, you aren't white? Why? Why doesn't the same apply to other races?

For the most part, it's only in reference to black ancestry. Anyone with recent Native American ancestry is allowed to claim themselves as an Amerindian and receive the rewards for that, but most of the time someone with an Amerindian great-grandparent or Mexican or whatever is still considered white.

Nowadays, white society is more tolerant of mixed people and considers them a gray area rather than the black-and-white way things had been previously. However, most mixed black offspring seem to identify with their black ancestry more than their other-ancestry, as has been the case with, say, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Jason Kidd, Alicia Keys, etc.

Who have a varying degree of phenotypes.

I have friends who had no idea Jason Kidd was mulatto until I told them. But when people called him a mixed or white basketball player, when he was younger, he got defensive and didn't like it much at all. He considers himself black.

05-20-2012, 06:41 PM	#4
SoorgoBardy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	If a white guy has a drop of black blood and it shows a little... why is he considered only black? But why is a black guy, who is half white, considered only black? Does this have to do with whites being seen as pure white? And other races don't have to be pure? If you find a non-white ancestor, say, 2,000 years ago, you aren't white? Why? Why doesn't the same apply to other races? For the most part, it's only in reference to black ancestry. Anyone with recent Native American ancestry is allowed to claim themselves as an Amerindian and receive the rewards for that, but most of the time someone with an Amerindian great-grandparent or Mexican or whatever is still considered white. Nowadays, white society is more tolerant of mixed people and considers them a gray area rather than the black-and-white way things had been previously. However, most mixed black offspring seem to identify with their black ancestry more than their other-ancestry, as has been the case with, say, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Jason Kidd, Alicia Keys, etc. Who have a varying degree of phenotypes. I have friends who had no idea Jason Kidd was mulatto until I told them. But when people called him a mixed or white basketball player, when he was younger, he got defensive and didn't like it much at all. He considers himself black.
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