Originally Posted by
Starrius
more like half-race swapping has been done
Eartha Kitt had a European-American father and African American/Native American mother.
Haille Berry has an African American father and European American mother
Both of Zoe Kravitz's parents' have Ashkenazi Jewish parents and African American parents. Lenny Kravitz is the son of an Ashkenazi Jewish man and African American woman. Lisa Bonet is the daughter of an African American man and Ashkenazi Jewish woman
Since 2015, I do not use terms, white and black for race. They are social constructs created out of racism and have led to even more racism. Africa is extremely multiethnic. There are thousands of ethnic groups in Africa including over 250 in Nigeria alone. There is a lot of diversity on the other continents too. For example, there are over 50 ethnic groups in China. Samuel Morton came up with the classifications based on B.S. craniometry. He believes that the race classifications had hierarchy with Caucasoid at the top and Negroid at the bottom. There is not any scientific basis for the race classifications that are deeply entrenched in society. Theory of Evolution makes it all look ridiculous because all humans started in Africa. Every human being on this planet has African genes.
The one drop rule is an outdated, racist, and stupid rule which was created to prevent more mixing between "whites" and "non-whites" starting in the 1690s. Of course, race-mixing happened a lot in slavery period with a vast majority of it being from rape. The hypodescent rule was about being ruled inferior for having additional ancestry other than "white". I have always identified as multiracial because that's what I am and have always known with my having a mother that is mostly European. I was always told that my African American father was from New Orleans and that his mother had some French Creole ancestry. After learning about the history of one drop rule, I have a strong disdain for it. I do not believe that it should be enforced nor promoted in any type of way for it be like condoning and supporting the race supremacist policies and the anti-miscegenation laws which have been illegal since June 12, 1967 Loving vs. Virginia Supreme Court ruling.
There is a lot of denial of the race mixing here in USA to the point that only 2.9 percent identified as multiracial on the 2010 Census. Most African Americans and most Latinos are multiracial. Therefore, the multiracial population has to be far more than 2.9 percent of the population. Most Americans will be multiracial by the end of this 21st Century. Every person is mixed in some kind of way like all of us aren't full Homo Sapiens. We have some Neanderthal, Denisovan, and/or other archaic human in our DNA.
Lets make no mistake. Even though race is a social construct, racism is real. Racism is here in USA. It is one of the Three Evils of Society along with Poverty and Militarism that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed were strongly connected to each other and deeply entrenched in American society. USA is a nation of great diversity, but it is also a nation of great discord. Diversity is not the problem. It is the intolerance of diversity that is the problem. I truly believe that diversity can be a strength if we can find common ground through our shared humanity. DNA-wise, we humans are over 99 percent alike
On the 2020 Census,
White is an option for race, and it includes Egyptian!!!
Black or African American is an option for race.
They should have listed Black.
African American is not a race.
African Americans are mainly a people of predominantly African ancestry with some European and Amerindian ancestries
This is what I am putting down for the 2020 Census in regards to race, origin
Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?
Yes, Puerto Rican
race:
White [Portuguese,English,Scottish,Irish,Ashkenazi Jewish (from Romania,Latvia),German,French,Swiss,Spanish,Welsh, Dutch]
Black or African American [unknown African tribes brought in the Transatlantic slave trade]
American Indian[Taino, unknown American Indian tribes]
At genome companies, I average out at 52 percent SubSaharan African, 46 percent European, and 2 percent Amerindian
A vast majority of my SubSaharan African comes from my father, a vast majority of my European comes from my mother, and the Amerindian is evenly split between my parents.
My mother done testing at genome companies.
She averages out at 86 percent European, 12 percent SubSaharan African, and 2 percent Amerindian.
Genealogically,
My Portuguese,Spanish,Ashkenazi Jewish,Scottish,German,Dutch,Irish,Welsh,Swiss,Tai no,most of my English, and a small portion of my unknown African tribes comes from my mother.
My French, unknown American Indian tribes, and most of my unknown African tribes come from my father.