Here is the crazy lady who thinks shes white and wants nothing to do with being black or part black or anything. I can't stand this bitch. A.D, Powell:
n May 15 I heard Juan Williams on "Talk of the Nation" and "black" journalist and professor Neil Henry (author of Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for his White Family) tell their audience of millions that "one drop of black blood makes you black." They said this as a FACT. The Latinos, of course, were conveniently not mentioned. If the "one drop" myth were true, then nearly all Latinos would be "black." That's why Latinos are now spoken of as a separate "race" (while leaving the escape hatch that Latinos can be "of any race"). Somewhere a person of mixed ancestry who is struggling with whether or not to reject hypodescent listened to Juan Williams and was persuaded that he has "no choice." Somewhere some "whites" who are confused about why some people call themselves "black" when they don't have that phenotype have learned from "the experts" that a good non-racist liberal defines "black" by "blood drops."
On May 17, NPR continued its promotion of forced hypodescent by interviewing Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone, the supposedly "black" and "white" authors, respectively of Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White. Their book is a history of the infamous 1920's "Rhinelander" case, in which a high society poor excuse for a man named Leonard Rhnelander tried to get his marriage to quadroon Alice Jones annulled because she allegedly "lied" about her "race."
Lewis and Ardizzone, like Neil Henry, are advocates of the idea that anyone who even might have a "drop" of the dreaded "black blood" is instantly a member of the "black race" and "African American" ethnic group. They want people to believe that you can be "black" without even knowing it. Non-black phenotypes and cultures are dismissed as unimportant. Note again that, through silence, they pay tribute to the greatest "passers" of all, the Latinos and Arab-Americans, by being careful not to mention their embarrassing relationship to the "race" they claim to champion.
Ironically, the books cited above lead one to question most of the "mulatto elite" values their authors hold dear. Neil Henry claims that his quadroon great-grandmother, Pearl was "proud" to be "black." However, her life story tells of a woman who "walked" the color line, even in Jim Crow St. Louis. Pearl took "white" lovers and did not behave the way a "respectable" light-skinned credit to the "Negro race" was supposed to behave. Pearl's "secret" was that she kept in touch with her "pure" white family in Louisiana after moving to St. Louis. She was afraid to tell her "Negro" family about it because she feared ridicule. As every good, black-identified "mulatto elite" person knows, "white" genes are to be cherished as a source of beauty, intelligence and "good" hair, but "white" people are to be rejected as "the enemy."
Neil Henry tells of a trip he took to Greece in which Greeks started speaking to him in their native tongue because he "looked Greek" to them. Neil relates this tale with typical "mulatto elite" astonishment at being assigned a "superior" identity. He can't get over it. Henry's family is nearly all "mulatto elite" or mixed to varying degrees, with typical "mulatto elite" values. Young Neil must be the best student in school in order to prove to "whites" that "blacks" aren't inferior. He must be "proud" of his [black] "race," while cherishing light skin and "good" hair. He must consider himself indisputably "black" even though he seems to have nothing in common with the "real" black kids. His culture is too "white" for them. He denies the contradictions of his "black" public identity and his mixed-race reality.
In Love on Trial, Lewis and Ardizzone use their editorial perogative to continually describe Alice Jones as "black" and "African American" as if these were objective facts. Yet, Alice was the daughter of immigrants from England. She had no ancestors among American "Negroes" or even mulattoes. Her mother was described as "pure white" and her father's ancestry was actually unknown. He was the son of a working class white Englishwoman and a father who was presumed to be from one of the colonies of the British empire. To this day, Alice's paternal grandfather has not been identified -- racially or otherwise. Her father, George Jones, was darker than "white" but otherwise had no Negroid characteristics. Culturally, the Jones family (including two other daughters) did not consider themselves "black" or "Negro" and did not participate in "Negro" organizations. Like many mixed families, they varied their answers when completing the "race" question on official documents. Sometimes they were "colored" and sometimes "white." The authors admit that "colored" was not synonymous with "black" or "Negro," and the Jones family did not consider an admission of "colored blood" to be synonymous with accepting membership in the "Negro race."
The irony, again, is that the actual facts of the case show the ambiguity of mixed-race status. If Alice had been "black," she would not have defeated Rhinelander's suit. She would not have acquired massive sympathy from working class "whites" as a poor working class girl mistreated by a cowardly, high society cad who professed his undying love and them submitted to the authority of his aristocratic father. Also, contrary to the "passing" myth (upon which the "lying" about "race" accusation rested), Leonard was well acquainted with Alice's parents, her sisters, and even a really "black" brother-in-law. He often visited their home while he was courting Alice. The jury realized that Alice's husband didn't care about her ancestry until his father put the screws to him.
Finally, it must be noted that Neil Henry (professor of journalism at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley), Earl Lewis (professor of history and dean of graduate studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and Heidi Ardizzone (teaches American studies at the University of Notre Dame) are gatekeepers of official knowledge on "race." They KNOW that, legally, the "one drop rule" has no status or power. They KNOW that the "black" ancestry of their Latino, North African and Arab colleagues proves that. They have jobs where they can spend all their time promoting the "one drop" myth at the taxpayers' expense.
Heidi Ardizzone says she's working on a second book called Red Blooded Americans: Race, Mulattoes, and National Identity. We've seen the propaganda we can expect from her. I suggest that she read my review of Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Italian-Americans were once almost mulatto.
The real facts about "race" will never be taught at Berkeley or Ann Arbor. You will never hear the truth about "race" on National Public Radio. "Black" elites and their "white liberal" allies will see to that.
Its because of people like you that other mixed people want nothing to do with being black. I normally keep my comments about obese people to myself.
REALITY BITES.
