If One More Black Person Mentions the "One Drop Rule" I Will Scream

[coureur]

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<p>I do wonder how African Americans feel about students who can trace back to one drop checking the AA box on a college application. As a school college counselor I was taken aback by how many students tried this. Students who had never spent a moment of their lives living any culture other than white and priveleged.<<</p>
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<p>I get even more offended by people who are purely white (often white South Africans) who want to check AA box on the basis of a geographic technicality, when the question is clearly meant as a question of race and not political geography.</p>

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<p>I don’t personally know – and have never met – black people who discovered their blackness when it was time to apply for college.<<</p>
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<p>True, but I have seen plenty of whites who suddenly decide they must be Native Americans based on a family legend that one of their great-grandmothers was an “Indian princess,” usually a “Cherokee.” When it comes time for college suddenly the largest Indian tribe in the US is the Wannabes.</p>

[Shrinkrap]

<p>“If you define racism purely in terms of people preferring…”</p>

<p>Do you see preferring as negative as rejecting because of race? What about preferring because of being from the same school ( like Harvard) or city ( like Missouri ) or neighborhood ( like Brooklyn)? What would THAT be called?</p>