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Thomas Chatterton Williams on Reading, Practical Philosophy, and Embracing Contradiction | Approach Your Troubles Like Doctor

The Daily Stoic

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A Drop of Black Blood Makes a Person Black

I grew up very much under the american a logic of the one drop rule. A drop of black blood makes a person black, because i'n nat white. I never questioned that. In europe, in these nations that they have their colonial history of enormous crimes against humanity, but they didn't have slavery within their national borders. And so they don't actually have aa. They don't assume the logic of theone drop rule. So you have to explain it to them, and you hear yourself explaining this logic, and you say, wait a minnute. Do you no at meize exactly what happened to me?

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