The Study of Racialism

Liana · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2004 {Posts: 352 }

Here is a link to an article you may enjoy

http://www.afn.org/~dks/race/wright.html

Powell · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 2179 }

This article is historically inaccurate. The 19th century was actually more liberal than the 20th in regard to "black blood" and the definition of "white. Frank Sweet's historical articles deal extensively with this topic.

Liana · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2004 {Posts: 352 }

I have not read that particular article of Frank's

It surprises me that a previous period was actually more liberal than a later one. What do you think accounts for that?

Powell · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 2179 }

Here is the essay in question.

How the Law Decided if You Were Black or White: The Early 1800s
Essays on the Color Line and the One-Drop Rule
by Frank W Sweet
August 11, 2004

http://www.backintyme.com/Essay040811.htm

I also addressed this issue in:

http://www.interracialvoice.com/powell9.html

The passing of time does not necessarily mean progress. Reconstruction was progress, then came Jim Crow. Weimar was followed by Nazi Germany. The U.S. has gone backward in many ways and forward in others.

Liana · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2004 {Posts: 352 }

A shame so few people iknow this

And so many soul patrollers will swear that, one of the reaons you HAVE to go by the One Drop is that THIS IS THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN DONE HERE - I have had that stated to me as one reason you have to do with it. Not so

Liana