rgeleven asked:


People keep reciting this “one drop rule”. Any black blood makes one black. Is this really true, and how does this differ when the ancestry is not black, but some other race?

Is it just me, or is African heritage much more loaded than other ancestry? 1/4 Native American 3/4 white means white, while 1/4 African-American 3/4 white means African-American or biracial, but never white?

Jon M asked:


I was just reading an article on Barack Obama’s possible presidential candidacy in which it mentions that his father is “Kenyan” and his mother is “white”, yet describes him as a “black man”. Why is that?

Here is the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_el_pr/obama2008
The reason I say “most often” is that it seems that I’ve seen this occur before. For instance, Frederick Douglass is referred to as “Black”, but came from mixed race family, etc.

Kelis Jordan asked:


I hear that us “African-Americans” have at least 30% European blood and also A Native American bloodlines to, That the word “Black” was a racial trem to classfiled African decendants, We are a Multi-Racial groups in the USA, and the genes can make a person with dark skin to light with ***** hair and still be MIx-Race.

I think that one drop rule thing is ******! Back then we where call ‘Colored” or Mulatto people.
And then they change it to “African-American but did you know that:

Black American and African-American are two diffrent racial group of people! African-Americans are a muti-racially group with White and Native Bloodlines.

Black American is not a mix race! They are diffrent
70% of African-Americans here in the USA are a muti-Racially groups with white and native bloodlines thats why us come in diffrent shades of “Brown” and There no such thing of “black skin” of African decendants in USA!

YES, some of us don’t have that bloodlines because they are “Black Americans but not African-Americans.

icecream_kiid asked:


Hi, im 14 just to start off.I’m mixed, with black,white,crole,and cuban. but im mostly black sense both my parents were mixed.But anyways my hair has always been relaxed.Or put into braids.I just started using Pantene for women of color, both shampoo and condioner. I recently cutted it, since i saw some breakage and dead ends.But it was really damaged since i have a dry & itchy scalp.So now its to the back of my neck. My hair has been long to the top of my shoulders.But due to the breakage it hasnt grown in years.And in the middle it is shorter than the rest of my hair due to breakage too.But i want to know how to grow it back healthy.I take multivitamins two everyday. I want to know how to:

1) Grow hair 4 inches and the end of September.

2)Stop breakage

3)Get a healthy scalp

4) and many more i guess
thank you for your help.

Moon Bow asked:


I recently got custody of a child who is half African American. But she does not know anything about the heritage. She wants to learn. So I decided to get her some books to help her, but don’t know what ones would be good for her. She is 10 years old.