To: LWalk18
"since under Jim Crow any drop of black blood made you black period."
i think the law was if you were 1/64 black you were considered a negro.
75 posted on
04/19/2003 9:41:37 PM PDT by
sonofron
To: sonofron
Then everyone is black... woo hoo reparations for everyone! Oh wait... I'm exempt... all my relatives are immigrants.
79 posted on
04/19/2003 9:43:34 PM PDT by
cyborg
To: sonofron
i think the law was if you were 1/64 black you were considered a negro. Yes, I think that was the law, in fact about 15 years ago a woman that was I think 1/64 black in Lousiana tried to change the race on her birth certificate from black to white and she was not allowed to based on the law.
83 posted on
04/19/2003 9:46:52 PM PDT by
LWalk18
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