Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 'Finding Your Roots'
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
The One Drop Rule
A master could impregnate his female slave and still own the child. That is called the law of hypodecent. The DNA companies were so confused by this result that they tested recent African immigrants who did test 100% substantive African. And now we know from DNA that the black people are all mixed up. There is no pure blackness. However, there's no pure black American.
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