ReginaStar
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I read this on another site and I thought it was a very interesting perspective and wanted to share this ladies perspective here.
Part of the problem is that people confuse races and cultures.
One dropping really means that one drop of black means you must embrace African American culture.
There is an idea of a African American race a "black" African race. Or a White race. Or a red race. That people of the various races owe eachother some kind of allegence and should all love only those of their race. We know that French and English hate eachothers guts. We know that Hutu and Tutsi hate eachothers guts. We know that the Powhatan and the Cherokee hated echothers guts. Yet here we lump people now, and in our deep history by way of "races" by which we really mean cultures.
African American is a culture not a race. So is Creole. So is Gullah. So are the cultures of the various redbone's (usually that of the tribe from which they got their red). All of these are people we think of as having some black ancestry. All of these are people who had to deal with harassment by the KKK and segregation and possible enslavement etc.
People in those cultures come with all different genotypes and phenotypes and ancestries. From the lightest light to the darkest dark.
To me the ODR the 2DR the NDR N={1/2, 1 , 3/2 , 2 ...} Is nothing more than a way for the believers in that African American culture/race to impose their cultural norms on others with some African ancestry.
i.e. Take a people like the Nottoway or the Mattaponi, or the Upper Mattaponi, or the Prairie Band Pottawatomie (or the same tribe here). Take a good look at them. They come in a variety of colors in the same tribes. According to one dropping those people among the tribes with visible African mixture* are all self hating and trying not to be "black" etc. According to one dropping those people should embrace the culture of the majority of African Americans and denounce any other heritage they have. All so they can identify with people to whom they have no blood ties.
In short what I think motivates one droppist more than anything is a sort of territoriality. They are motivated it seems to me by cultural imperialism.
All kinds of "logics" are come up with for this. They almost always rest on pure ignorance or even more dangerously on partial or mythologized information. They'll talk about history and "how people would have been treated under Jim Crow"... Or Well back in the day you would be working the field/house".. etc.
The end result of these logics that one droppist desire is that "black/mulatto" Creoles will stop teaching their version of French to their children and stop giving their children French names. The result one droppist desire is that black+Indian or triracial people who celebrate their Amerindian heritage should not learn their native language, or give their children native names. That groups like these would not cook their ethnic foods and instead cook "soul food". Most of all the want people to when asked either only say black or to put it in there in such a way as to say black is supreme in the mixture. etc...
The end practical result that one droppist really want is for people with any "visible" ,"traceable" or whatever African ancestry to identify with them culturally.
That's what I really think of people who favor the ODR. It's not enough that someone like me freely acknowledges my African ancestry, and owns a Black Nationalist flag, and is a Muslim with an Arabic nick name. I would have to totally deny my native heritage exist to make some of them happy.
Part of the problem is that people confuse races and cultures.
One dropping really means that one drop of black means you must embrace African American culture.
There is an idea of a African American race a "black" African race. Or a White race. Or a red race. That people of the various races owe eachother some kind of allegence and should all love only those of their race. We know that French and English hate eachothers guts. We know that Hutu and Tutsi hate eachothers guts. We know that the Powhatan and the Cherokee hated echothers guts. Yet here we lump people now, and in our deep history by way of "races" by which we really mean cultures.
African American is a culture not a race. So is Creole. So is Gullah. So are the cultures of the various redbone's (usually that of the tribe from which they got their red). All of these are people we think of as having some black ancestry. All of these are people who had to deal with harassment by the KKK and segregation and possible enslavement etc.
People in those cultures come with all different genotypes and phenotypes and ancestries. From the lightest light to the darkest dark.
To me the ODR the 2DR the NDR N={1/2, 1 , 3/2 , 2 ...} Is nothing more than a way for the believers in that African American culture/race to impose their cultural norms on others with some African ancestry.
i.e. Take a people like the Nottoway or the Mattaponi, or the Upper Mattaponi, or the Prairie Band Pottawatomie (or the same tribe here). Take a good look at them. They come in a variety of colors in the same tribes. According to one dropping those people among the tribes with visible African mixture* are all self hating and trying not to be "black" etc. According to one dropping those people should embrace the culture of the majority of African Americans and denounce any other heritage they have. All so they can identify with people to whom they have no blood ties.
In short what I think motivates one droppist more than anything is a sort of territoriality. They are motivated it seems to me by cultural imperialism.
All kinds of "logics" are come up with for this. They almost always rest on pure ignorance or even more dangerously on partial or mythologized information. They'll talk about history and "how people would have been treated under Jim Crow"... Or Well back in the day you would be working the field/house".. etc.
The end result of these logics that one droppist desire is that "black/mulatto" Creoles will stop teaching their version of French to their children and stop giving their children French names. The result one droppist desire is that black+Indian or triracial people who celebrate their Amerindian heritage should not learn their native language, or give their children native names. That groups like these would not cook their ethnic foods and instead cook "soul food". Most of all the want people to when asked either only say black or to put it in there in such a way as to say black is supreme in the mixture. etc...
The end practical result that one droppist really want is for people with any "visible" ,"traceable" or whatever African ancestry to identify with them culturally.
That's what I really think of people who favor the ODR. It's not enough that someone like me freely acknowledges my African ancestry, and owns a Black Nationalist flag, and is a Muslim with an Arabic nick name. I would have to totally deny my native heritage exist to make some of them happy.
