Question. Why is a mixed black/white child always considered to be black?

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
if you were mixed and applying for college obviously you would put black, so you could get free money/affarmative action/etc.... same reason

Couldnt we all theoretically do that because our last common ancestor was from africa?

 

[imthebadguy]

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
if you were mixed and applying for college obviously you would put black, so you could get free money/affarmative action/etc.... same reason

Couldnt we all theoretically do that because our last common ancestor was from africa?

not according to the rules at my college, i think if youre a quarter, you can claim

 

[kmrivers]

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
if you were mixed and applying for college obviously you would put black, so you could get free money/affarmative action/etc.... same reason

Um. There is not free money because you are black, unless you go to a black university. So no...

 

[imthebadguy]

Originally posted by: kmrivers

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
if you were mixed and applying for college obviously you would put black, so you could get free money/affarmative action/etc.... same reason

Um. There is not free money because you are black, unless you go to a black university. So no...

there is at Michigan as well as from private organizations, also mad affarmative action here (UMich went all the way to the supreme court a few years back)

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: kmrivers

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
if you were mixed and applying for college obviously you would put black, so you could get free money/affarmative action/etc.... same reason

Um. There is not free money because you are black, unless you go to a black university. So no...

Hell yes there is, not to mention it increases your chances of getting in due to racial quotas.

 

[DigDug]

because the person isn't "pure/white" anymore. ?

Exactly. It stems from the deepseated notion that white is pure and any sort of mixing is a contamination. Why we almost instinctively follow this type of perception is an extremely interesting social phenomenon and, I think, goes to the root of our perceptions of color and the attributes we attach to them. Its known as the "One drop" rule.

 

[TheoPetro]

~sigh

most white/black mixed people look either white or black. i knew a guy who was mixed but looked almost completely white. if someone was discribing him it would be allong the lines of "white male, 5' whatever, medium build.....bla bla bla". now the reason they are mostly considered black is because more oftin than not the black traits showup more than the white in mixed people. the black traits are more apparent. if someone looks black then they are considered black. if they look white they are considered white.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
It really depends on what form you're filling out.

That's the correct answer, unfortunately.
If you're applying to any academic institution, you are much better off checking off something other than white. Doubly so if you want financial aid.

Meh. I'm white but could justifiably choose hispanic on forms. I never felt the need to use that to my advantage, I got by on my own merits.

 

[theeedude]

Once you go black, you never go back?
Also, can white people from South Africa pick "African American" on a form?

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: senseamp
Once you go black, you never go back?
Also, can white people from South Africa pick "African American" on a form?

Dave Matthews is technically an African American

 

[Muadib]

It could be worse. You could be mixed & live in Korea.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: Muadib
It could be worse. You could be mixed & live in Korea.

lol, I actually knew some Korean people that were against mixing. The daughter married a white guy and the rest of the family went over to their house to protest it.

 

[RaistlinZ]

From Wikipedia...

Woods' father, Earl Woods is a Vietnam War veteran and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, of mixed Black, Chinese and Native American ancestry. He is now the chairman of his son's charitable foundation, the Tiger Woods Foundation (see section Charity and youth projects below). Woods' mother, Kultida Woods, is originally from Thailand, and is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. This makes Woods himself one quarter Chinese, one quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one eighth Native American, and one eighth Dutch[1]. He refers to his ethnic make-up as Cablinasian (a portmanteau of Caucasian, Black, American-Indian, and Asian), a term he made up himself.

 

[thirdlegstump]

the negroid is strong in this one..