“…[W]hen a mixed-race Black American appears to be ascending to the pinnacles of American power, some white Americans suddenly forget the race rules that white society created.” The “one-drop rule” wasn’t created by Black people. The myth of white “purity” survives even today, and that’s a crime.
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