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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The United States had the[b] “one drop” rule,[/b] which actually does mean that her kids are biracial. It’s a little ridiculous to say that they aren’t given the clear history of how race was turned into a legal category in this country.

Whether or not they identify as mixed race is up to them. And it’s not about how they “look” necessarily. I am a very light skinned woman of brown ethnicity(both sides of my family are brown). I am the only one in my family who easily passes as white. My DNA shows that I am half indigenous, 1% African heritage, and the rest Western European. I do not at al identity as African American or indigenous because I wasn’t raised in those cultures,  but that is also because my culture of origin sees those as identities are negative and refuses to acknowledge them if you can pretend you only have European roots. That’s actually very sad, and if I ever did want to explore those parts of my roots, it is even sadder that I might be condemned for it. [/quote]

OP's great great grandfather was black which means that she's 1/32 black and her children are 1/64 black. The one drop rule really only applies to people who can be physically identified as having African ancestry (despite curly hair, I'm guessing that's not OP's experience) and/or in slavery/segregation era, someone whose African ancestry was known even if they were white passing.

Biracial means the first generation children of one white and [b]one black parent[/b]. For OP's children to be biracial, either OP or her husband would have to be black.

OP is a white person with distant black ancestry. That's interesting but her children are not mixed. 
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OK but it's not like a person counts as black only if they are 100% African heritage, is it? I mean that one black parent could have been a product of one black and one white parent and still count as black.   I'm not arguing about OP's racial affiliation, I'm taking issue with your stand that a parent only counts as black if they have no white blood in them.  That alone would rule out so many people who identify as African-American.  And if a 50% black person could count as black, then...why can't a 2% black person? Put simply, how much white blood is one allowed to have and still identify as black?[/quote]

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