It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
That's true in America's racial categories but I already pointed out that other countries have different categories for race. In Latin American countries, Agartha's answer is correct. The multiracial child would be classified as Mulatto, Mestizo, or another term as opposed to "white/Latin" or "black/Negro".
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: Agartha
Except the OP specifically states it is from the American POV, as “white genocide” is mainly an American movement.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
originally posted by: TinySickTears
a reply to: JoshuaCox
This # is so annoying. Too bad humans can't get their # together and just start viewing people as people.
It's 2018 and there are still dudes at work who run the mouth about how their daughter better not come home with a black guy.
I hear that # all the time.
Sucks big time
And there are Black/Hispanic/Asian parents that hope their children don't bring home white people. If only they knew it was 2018.
originally posted by: Agartha
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
That's true in America's racial categories but I already pointed out that other countries have different categories for race. In Latin American countries, Agartha's answer is correct. The multiracial child would be classified as Mulatto, Mestizo, or another term as opposed to "white/Latin" or "black/Negro".
Thank you, I was going to reply exactly the same. In the UK you'll have many boxes to choose from for ethnicity: white British, White Irish, White other, black British, Black African, Black Caribbean, Mixed white and black African, Mixed white and Black Caribbean etc etc. I can't believe in the US you don't have the same.
Usually ethnicity boxes can be left blank, they are not compulsory, same with religion and sexual orientation.
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: Agartha
Except the OP specifically states it is from the American POV, as “white genocide” is mainly an American movement.
The court record of Jacob Perkins vs John White (1858) in Johnson County, Tennessee, provides definitions of the time related to race and free people of color. At the time, as in Virginia, if a free person was mostly white (one-eighth or less black), he was considered legally white and a citizen of the state:
Persons that are known and recognized by the Constitution and laws of Tennessee, as free persons of color are those who by the act of 1794 section 32 are taken and deemed to be capable in law to be certified in any case what is in, except against each other or in the language of the statute "all Negroes, Indians, Mulattoes, and all persons of mixed blood descended from Negro or Indian ancestors to the third generation inclusive though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, white bond or free." ... That if the great grandfather of Plaintiff was an Indian or Negro and he is descended on the mother's side from a white woman, without any further Negro or Indian blood than such as he derived on the father's side, then the Plaintiff is not of mix blood, or within the third generation inclusive; in other words that if the Plaintiff has not in his veins more than 1/8 of Negro or Indian blood, he is a citizen of this state and it would be slanderous to call him a Negro.[17]
In 1895 in South Carolina during discussion, George D. Tillman said,
"It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of... colored blood...It would be a cruel injustice and the source of endless litigation, of scandal, horror, feud, and bloodshed to undertake to annul or forbid marriage for a remote, perhaps obsolete trace of Negro blood. The doors would be open to scandal, malice, and greed.[7]"
The one-drop rule was not adopted as law until the 20th century: first in Tennessee in 1910 and in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (following the passage of similar laws in several other states).
originally posted by: sapien82
I also think the term "person of colour " is a bit confusing considering no human is without colour in their skin , there arent translucent humans cutting about ticking boxes saying not coloured
and in any case if we are being this picky about "people of colour " as a term then , black and white arent #ing colours
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: enlightenedservant
That is neat to know.. even provides a basis for African Americans being called “colored” , because African Americans are all mutts.
AA’s don’t even look like African, Africans.
Definition of mutt
1 : a stupid or insignificant person : fool
2 : a mongrel dog : cur
noun
informal
1A dog, especially a mongrel.
‘a long-haired mutt of doubtful pedigree’
2A stupid or incompetent person.
‘he pitied the poor mutt who ever fell for her charms’