Why is the 1 drop rule being so hotly debated now-a-days?

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Beyonce, Obama, Megan Good, Ice T, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey

The list goes on & on for Americans who , although not litterally being Black, identify as such because of the way the U.S. has classified race from the time it was conceived up until about 1980

Are people really so upset about people like Obama identifying as Black than they would destroy the Black American identity, which encompasses a myriad of looks, for a third identify [since this would be the second time Blacks in the U.S. have had their identity reshaped], to differentiate light-skin Blacks from other Blacks like they do in Brazil & South Africa
 
Well let's see. Most of my ancestors were Europeans, but I have a fair amount of Native American blood and my great grandmother was Black. I look pretty much White, and I think that's how a lot of people see me, but I kinda don't care a whole lot about how many drops of which ancestor's blood is in me. Maybe I'm just socially irresponsible...
Feel free to debate it hotly though. I'm sure there are people who feel that all this is somehow important. The people I know don't really care much, but maybe they are as socially irresponsible as I am...
 
Because our president is black and now they wanna discredit the blackness of ANY person who isnt asphalt-black. They talk sh*t about Black people for allegedly wanting to claim everybody and yet they're doin the same thing

Funny, I'd dare any of these people to go into a prison and see what side of the colour line they on. I know in jail aint no movement among the white innmates to claim lightskins and mulattos. If Barack Obama was a car thief or ran a drug cartel there would be NO rush to label him as anything other than Black. And if he looked white you KNOW the media would let it be known that his daddy was african.



Soulflower broke it down better than anyone else; it is largely outta spite.
 
It just goes to show how flimsy the social construct of "race" is. The rule was fine until it began to work against the dominant structure that created it. When it was used to seperate "black people" into the category of second class citizens, it was fine. When it became a way of claiming great black leaders, entertainers, inventors, etc, it had to be debunked. It is just another example of how truly undefined the terms "black" and "white" are.
 
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