FIFTY "Shades" of WHITE!!

Another Definition of MADNESS??

Read the text of the SCOTUS Decision, for Plessy v. Ferguson, and you'll find their evasive answer to Plessy's claim to be "White".  The Taney Court held that the questions: Who is White?; Who is Not?; and Who Decides the Issue?; were questions left by our Constitution,  for the STATE Governments to decide.

Faithful readers of this BLOG know that I have traveled and/or held residency, in just about all of our Fifty States.  I have owned property and established residency in more than half a dozen states.  The most peculiar question of race I encountered, was presented in Oklahoma, in 1962. A person I was sure was Black, convinced me he was White!  He looked very much like every Black American I had known, and was considerably darker in skin color than I was; but he proved he was white!  It was on his Oklahoma Driver's License!  The "whiteness" issue is the burning root, of the movement of those Crackers expressing their rage over Immigration;( in this, the most-immigrant , of all nations)!! 

The Oklahoma riddle was solved, when he explained that the State of Oklahoma ruled that anyone with 25% or more of Native ancestry was legally White (regardless of what your eye-sight might indicate),  Because of myriad Court actions since Plessy, we now have a situation where any white person, with an "ounce" of legal or administrative authority, can decide the race of another person!  The damage this does to the psyche of all of our citizens is immense!  It is also the animus that fuels the members of our Hard Right, found mostly in the Republican Party; and keeps the issue of RACE forever-current,  in the United States.   

During my years in Miami, I learned how desperately their Cubans yearn to be declared White!  The Sewer States are the states that adhere most stringently to the oldest definitions of whiteness,, and ,also produce individuals like Dylaan Roof!!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States

Stay Vigilant!  A closer study of the places where Cops murder young black males, might show traces back to these old Laws and Social Customs, still prevalent in our Fifty States.  It is well known that Racism is not as strong in some states; but, because of the mobility of our Citizens, the disease can be found everywhere!

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