Thursday, August 23, 2007

Fields of Grey


What exactly is the definition of being black in America. What constitutes being black?

From PBS: Who is Black? One Nation's Definition

"The nation's answer to the question 'Who is black?" has long been that a black is any person with any known African black ancestry."

"In the South it became known as the "one-drop rule,'' meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black. It is also known as the "one black ancestor rule," some courts have called it the "traceable amount rule," and anthropologists call it the "hypo-descent rule," meaning that racially mixed persons are assigned the status of the subordinate group."

"Not only does the one-drop rule apply to no other group than American blacks, but apparently the rule is unique in that it is found only in the United States..."


Here is an interesting site I stumbled across:

Resistance MP3

The site has lectures on many progressive topics. The speakers include Chomsky, Zinn, Parenti, and Roy

Finally: White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters

The "Presidential Advance Manual," dated October 2002 with the stamp "Sensitive -- Do Not Copy," was released under subpoena to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of two people arrested for refusing to cover their anti-Bush T-shirts at a Fourth of July speech at the West Virginia State Capitol in 2004. The techniques described have become familiar over the 6 1/2 years of Bush's presidency, but the manual makes it clear how organized the anti-protest policy really is.

Stifling dissent, removing the right of habeus corpus, prosecuting people for thought crimes, intentionally lying to go to war, spying on its citizenry in all manner of ways, expanding the use of torture...

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

You have a problem with all of the above?

Jim Sande said...

Problem? More like a national crisis.

Glynn Kalara said...

No Shit!! But if you watch FOX and CNN etc. you'd think it was still 9/12/2001. Terror 24/7 .