calling all MIXED people... one drop rule?

im part awesome, so i consider myself fully awesome.

:drinker:

Showing up in my news feed *check*

Heinz 57 here, might as well be a mutt dog. Don't consider myself any one thing I'm just me.

I have a drop of giant sea cucumber DNA. Should I be concerned?

Those things feel super neat.

From the naked scientist web site.




I'm glad to be related to such a sexy beast.

Awesome, one squirted water at me, I giggled, my bf shook his head. I think he was jealous.

Mostly mouth and gonads. Your bf should be jealous of such animals. But no cucumber is taking you abroad, I think he'll do ok with the competition.

Thankfully I don't share any blood with platypus. I think they spontaneously generated.

Edit: platypi? Platypuses?

Platapusua?

That's so twisted I want to keep children away from TVs.
That would be tentapusua. Not sure any one has a drop of their blood. No. Just no.

I love Drawn Together. That's the episode they found out Clara (the racist Disney princess) found out she had a cursed 'octapusua'.

I only count six.

Well they did try to hex it.

So long as you are human, who cares what your background or heritage is? just be nice and good to one another.... stop labeling everyone.

As my hubby would say "Thats mighty white a 'ya"

You don't care, because you have never needed to. You are much less likely (if at all) to be targeted for ANY (negative or positive) reason just for being white. Race relations have a legacy.
After all the GOV"T spend millions of dollars and several decades trying to turn my babies GRANDPARENTS "white" and if i am not the one to tell them that their Native side isn't wrong or ugly.. who will?

Heritage is VERY IMPORTANT

:flowerforyou: Yes!

Nice to see some very intelligent folks on this thread!

Yes, my "friend" told me for years she was mexican/cuban, says they hate each other. She recently found out the Cuban father is black. I dont care if she is part martian, or part wolf. She is who she is because of her behavior. I regret to say, when she found out she has that drop of black in her, she very loudly called me a racist, and ended out 13 yr freindship. (because sometime between 98 and 99, I told her to stay away from (exhubby's) black *kitten*...... I would have said white, purple, blue, green. I really dont care. She needs to stay away from him.....

but that one comment in 13 yrs. and her finding out she is part black..... I fail to understand how finding that out changed her so much.

I am an american mutt. when any paper work asks for my Race, my answer is HUMAN.

I keep reading references to white privilege but haven't seen any about reverse discrimination. Yep, it exists!

Reverse discrimination does exist, yes, but being made to feel uncomfortable because you happen to be white is in no way the same as being abused, tortured, denied certain rights, etc. just because you happen to be black.

Note... reverse racism on the other hand, doesn't exist.

For anyone thats even remotey interested in my racial background, I am a quarter irish, a quarter english and half indian, but I look completely white, and people never guess I'm mixed race so I enjoy laughing at their reactions when they meet my mother! XD

I keep reading references to white privilege but haven't seen any about reverse discrimination. Yep, it exists!

Reverse discrimination does exist, yes, but being made to feel uncomfortable because you happen to be white is in no way the same as being abused, tortured, denied certain rights, etc. just because you happen to be black.

Note... reverse racism on the other hand, doesn't exist.

"Being made to feel uncomfortable?" Um, how about not getting a job when you are the most qualified because the need to fill a minority hire quota?

And racism is racism, and it most certainly can be directed at white people.