{"id":8028,"date":"2000-05-16T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-16T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2021-07-02T02:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:37:34","slug":"lte-one-drop-rule-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/05\/16\/lte-one-drop-rule-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: One-Drop Rule Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:45:19 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: vera king (famo1962@aol.com)<br>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve read some posts, and it seems a lot of people are annoyed that \u201cblack\u201d people still adhere to the \u201cone-drop\u201d rule. We cannot change a mindset of over 400 years in a few days. I\u2019m sure anyone who saw a \u201cblack\u201d person walking down the street could not tell if the person is \u201cblack\u201d, bi-racial, or multiracial. I respect anyone who wants to claim all of their cultures. I believe we \u201cblack\u201d Americans know we are not pure, but a lot of us were not accepted nor acknowledged by our relatives of other colors. It\u2019s nice that families are proud to claim their different races today. Maybe if we were accepted in the past, we would have never hung on to the \u201cone-drop\u201d rule. Also in reference to AD Powell\u2019s April 12th message \u2013 \u201cWhy isn\u2019t Mr. Sigh considered Black?\u201d Please the man is of Indian descent. I hope he was being funny. A lot of Black people don\u2019t consider Tiger Woods black (me included).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:45:19 -0700 (PDT)From: vera king (famo1962@aol.com)Subject: Letter to the Editor I\u2019ve read some posts, and it seems a lot of people are annoyed that \u201cblack\u201d people still adhere to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-25u","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}