Theodoric writes:
In the US no matter if your mother or father was black, you were considered black. No matter how small the percentage you were still considered black. The thing is most mixed births during the slave era were of black mother and a white father. That is because the white father raped the mother. If a black man had sex with a white woman he would have probably been lynched whther it was consensual or not.
Artemis Entreri writes:
care to support this with evidence, or are you just making stuff up again?
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what you said is fair enough, I really do not know about the other states, being a resident of Virginia, I know how it was here, and my examples thus far have been from Virginia.
Apparently you don't even know about the law in Virginia.
In 1924 Virginia passed something called "The Racial Integrity Act." The full text of it can be found
here. It says in part:
If there is reasonable cause to disbelieve that applicants are of pure white race, when that fact is stated, the clerk or deputy clerk shall withhold the granting of the license until satisfactory proof is produced that both applicants are "white persons" as provided for in this act.
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It shall hereafter be unlawful for any white person in this State to marry any save a white person, or a person with no other admixture of blood than white and American Indian. For the purpose of this act, the term "white person" shall apply only to the person who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian; but persons who have one-sixteenth or less of the blood of the American Indian and have no other non-Caucasic blood shall be deemed to be white persons.
Curiously, Virginia was willing to tolerate 1/16 part Indian as ok, but "no trace whatsoever" of any other blood than Caucasian.
What do you say about that, Chester?
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