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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a liberal, and I didn't care up until that bar application. It's one thing to claim some racial or ethnic heritage, ie mixed ancestry. It's another to put it down as your race. To say that is to employ the "one drop rule" definition of race, which I abhor. [/quote] I hear what you are saying, but is it really authentic for you to judge based on the standards of NOW? In 1986, MANY people DID ascribe to the one drop rule. You may not agree with it, and I am sure Warren doesn't now, and I don't now and MANY people don't now. My dh is mixed race and in 1986 NO ONE was writing in more than one thing. It wasn't a thing to do then. Would you judge his parents NOW for writing just one thing down for their kids back in the 1980s? [/quote] DP. I didn't know the one drop rule applied to Indians in the 80s. DH is something like 1/64th Indian (a specific tribe). My MIL might be able to tell me how race worked in the 80s.[/quote]
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