Abolish the One-Drop Rule

It doesn’t benefit Black people like you think

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The one-drop rule is one of America’s lasting remnants of slavery. It’s an ideology rooted in white supremacy and anti-Blackness, yet many of us still follow it today. Why?

The one-drop rule is a legal and social racial categorization system that assigns minority status to mixed race individuals. This means if one of…