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To put people with "one drop" of white blood into slavery meant keeping the races divided. It would prevent family connections or anything between the "blacks" and "whites"
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The one drop rule would obviously be a sentence of life slavery to all children born from "race mixing"
quote:Originally posted by TruthAndRights: Greetings. Race-mixing in the U.S. was going on prior to slavery; and contrary to popular beLIEf, a good part of it was 'White' women and Black men because prior to the 'White' man elevating the 'White' woman to some imagined pedestal, he worked her right along with the Black servants- they lived and worked together so it's only natural that other things would follow as Nature knows no 'color line'.... As a matter of FACT the first anti-miscegenation laws were SPECIFICALLY to keep 'White' men and women away from Black men and women- ESPECIALLY the 'White' women; lol, 'White' men were NOT happy with the way the English women seemed to prefer Black men back then! Not just a few 'White' people were willing to end up whipped or jailed or made a slave for life as punishment for their love and/or marriage, etc., of a Black Man/Woman. This is just the very very short version of it....oh, and a good source of this info is Lerone Bennett's BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER-
Lerone Bennett, Jr.'s BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER A HISTORY OF BLACK AMERICA, Chapter 10 Red, White and Black: Race and Sex pp273-299.
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Folks pay no attention to markellion. Nothing he says socialogically makes sense. He wants you to believe that people who ranked low in society pole wanted to be ranked even lower.
Maybe markellion should take the time he spends obsessing Africans and concentrate on graduating jr. high school.
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quote:Originally posted by argyle104: There were slaves who escaped slavery because they were able to pass for white.
Their was a concept amongst the Nazis about pure blood and the Nazis actually borrowed many of their racial ideas from the United States. This is where the one drop rule comes into play. The one drop rule is just what it says, one drop means slavery for life
"Free Trade, The Confederacy, and the Political Economy of Slavery"
"During this campaign I have seen terrible instances of the horrors of slavery. I have seen men and women as white as the purest type of the Anglo-Saxon race in our army, who had been bought and sold like animals. I have looked upon the mutilated forms of black men who had suffered torture at the caprice of their cruel masters, and I have heard tales of woe too horrible for belief; but in all these cases I have never been so impressed with the degrading, demoralizing influence of this curse of slavery as in the presence of these South Carolinians. The higher classes represent the scum, and the lower the dregs of civilization. They are South Carolinians, not Americans."
quote:Originally posted by argyle104: He wants you to believe that people who ranked low in society pole wanted to be ranked even lower.
I said it was a punishment not that they would want to be lower in society. There was so much "mixing" going on that the elite passed strict laws and severe punishments against it. The very fact that the elite went to such extremes to prevent it does the more to prove that there was a great deal of mixing going on
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This makes more sense when you consider that there wasn't a feeling of "white power" yet. That would have to develop later after the laws were already passed. The poor would have perceived the situation as us (poor) against them (rich). The rich were already oppressing everyone so the poor would already perceive dividing people by race as a way to oppress them even more
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quote:Originally posted by Recovering Afrocentrist: un freggin believable! even when faced with facts, the Afronut will attempt to invoke his imaginary, self-created, self hate filled reality. YOU ARE WEST AFRICAN! GET OVER IT!
It's really sad and pathetic to witness the lenght this imbecile goes to so to deny his own west african ancestry.
argyle you need to stop with these anti-west african outbursts everytime genetic studies of AA's are posted here, it's getting tiresome, you just can't fight facts.
Recovering Afrocentrist, is Salsassin or Jaime Pretell. He is not Afro-American.
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LOL You and Takruri see me in every shadow. Quite entertaining.
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