Who DECIDES -- in 2015??
The White/Black; or Black/White Lady in East Washington, has the Internet and the T.V. Media, "all-a-twitter"!! Our empty "Talking Heads" can't let it rest!
"Plessy v. Ferguson" (1896): Get the Trascript! Read It! This Supreme Court Decision defined RACE for the United States; until the 1970's when the Evil Nixon and his henchmen designed the infamous "Boxes" they shoved us all into, to document Racial Identification in our National Census!. It was left to White Folk to give the "eye-ball" test for Documenting "Race". Since a lot of Black Babies are born White; and "tone down" within a few years after birth, this issue of RACE just will not GO AWAY! Especially; in this age of Self-Definition, and the GOP's ADDICTION to all things Racial!
Neither has "Passing" gone away! It seems that someone in Washington (state) finds it useful to "Pass" from white to black; in reverse of the centuries old, former pattern. We know the "mating" patterns in the Americas, since Cortes and Columbus. The Spanish Clergy and Conquistadors drew the first distinctions in their "Diez y Seis Raices". Sam Houston, famously noted that there are no "Hispanics" who are not part African. God help you; if you remain confused. Only Republicans place a great deal of meaning to all of this. The English and French, along with every other stripe of white, followed the patterns we all know.
Within the amorphous, and variously defined "black community", there are those who demand the right to decide this issue. There are infamous "paper-bag" tests; used discriminate within Black Society. Hence, we have Blacks from many places, "sitting in judgment" on the Lady from Washington State.
Stay Vigilant! Remember; nature tells us: "Momma's Baby; -- Poppa's? (maybe)! The Lady's Parents may be "Passing", too. We knew, long before DNA, that more than 50% of Whites in the United States had traceable African Roots (geneologically). In this Day of DNA -- there should be few questions left -- except: who administers, and interprets the DNA Tests!
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