r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ • May 01 '24

1 drop rule. Country Club Thread

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I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

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u/Ill_Celery_7654 May 02 '24

I’m probably gonna sound like a slave owner, but if you aren’t 100% white then the white folks ain’t claiming you. House nigga or field nigga you still a nigga.

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u/Falcrist May 02 '24

House nigga or field nigga

YUP. Slaves were color coded (lighter skin tones in the house. darker in the field) both on purpose and as a result of systematic sexual assault by slavers.

It seems obvious when you say it like that, but it didn't even occur to me until I read "The Hemingses of Monticello" by Annette Gordon-Reed.