The "One Drop" rule

 One thing that's always baffled me about one aspect of "race" is the "one drop rule", whereby any person with any ancestor who had been anything other than white or Caucasian was - merely by the slightest presence of any "black" genes - black.

And so today we have a former president, Barack Obama, who aside from the fact his mother was Caucasian, is considered to be, even by his own reckoning, black. And yet he is as much "white" as he is "black". 

In this CBSN news item, Yaba Blay explains the absurdity of the "one drop" phenomenon, and its history in America and worldwide, where racial purity - a concept rooted in eugenics - continues today, deep in the sub conscious of society.


So why do we still accept this nonsensical idea that "black" is an actual race, when a person can be more "white" than black and still be considered black?

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