{"id":26818,"date":"2012-12-06T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26818"},"modified":"2012-12-07T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:03:07","slug":"did-one-drop-rules-have-a-positive-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26818","title":{"rendered":"Did one-drop rules have a positive side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/bestoftv\/2012\/12\/05\/bia-positive-one-drop.cnn#\/video\/bestoftv\/2012\/12\/05\/bia-positive-one-drop.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">Did one-drop rules have a positive side?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cable News Network<\/a>\u00a0(CNN)<br \/>\nBlack in America: A Soledad O&#8217;Brien Report<br \/>\n2012-12-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/obrien.soledad.html?iref=allsearch\" target=\"_blank\">Soledad O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/strong>, Host<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Ethnographer and professor <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dr. Yaba Blay<\/em><\/a><em> explains why she thinks the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\"><em>one-drop rule<\/em><\/a><em> has a positive side.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Transcription by <a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\">Steven F. Riley<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soledad O\u2019Brien:<\/strong> Why do so many black people\u2014me included\u2014embrace the \u201cone-drop rule\u201d when it really, literally, has its roots in terrible things?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yaba Blay:<\/strong> Again, I think because the \u201cone-drop rule,\u201d in as much as it was oppressive, protected us.\u00a0 It gave us an identity in the same way that when we talk about white parents of mixed-race kids, you know, and you\u2019ll hear a lot of white parents say, \u201coh my child can choose to be whatever they want to be.\u201d And then you see the child struggling. That there\u2019s some comfort and there\u2019s some strength that comes with being <em>told<\/em> what you are. And so I think the \u201cone-drop rule\u201d gave us a definition of blackness that was unquestionable. There was no space to be mixed-race, biracial, any of these things. And from that, we were able to mobilize, right, in the fight against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a>; in the fight against segregation; in the fight against racism. That, again it gave us the parameters for what our community ultimately was.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"ep\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=bestoftv\/2012\/12\/05\/bia-positive-one-drop.cnn\" \/><embed id=\"ep\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=bestoftv\/2012\/12\/05\/bia-positive-one-drop.cnn\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did one-drop rules have a positive side? Cable News Network\u00a0(CNN) Black in America: A Soledad O&#8217;Brien Report 2012-12-05 Soledad O\u2019Brien, Host \u00a0 Ethnographer and professor Dr. Yaba Blay explains why she thinks the one-drop rule has a positive side. [Transcription by Steven F. Riley] Soledad O\u2019Brien: Why do so many black people\u2014me included\u2014embrace the \u201cone-drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,394,20,842],"tags":[9447,3142,12774,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-26818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-soledad-obrien","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}