I have always been appalled by the idea that if a person has “one drop”
If you have “The Drop,” then no other ethnicity, skin color, or culture can trump that Black droplet.
I wonder where that notion of a single drop of blood making you Black was invented.
It seems impossible that idea came from the scientific community.
A single drop of pure water doesn’t make the ocean any less salty. Adding a single speck of sugar to cookie dough doesn’t make the cookie any sweeter.
If Racial identification by blood droplet isn’t chemical or scientific — then is it a cultural condemnation and a preservation of a social pecking order used to falsely mediate expectation?
The droplet identifier isn’t perceived as a mark of pride by those attending the notion and applying its appeal. There isn’t a day when we celebrate “Being a little Black” in the same spirit that we celebrate having “A little Irish in all of us” on Saint Patrick’s Day.
Is the idea of the droplet a mark to dehumanize those without identifiable — or stereotypical — “Black” skin in order to keep them down and under social control? Once accused, how does one disprove they do not have the droplet?
Is it possible we all have a droplet of Black blood? How can anyone truly know the genetic blood history of their ancestors from thousands of years ago? There is no blood test that can differentiate a single drop of blood from the rest of the body’s blood pool.
Why have we allowed the notion — the total evisceration — of a person based on the theory of a single droplet? Can we ever trump the droplet or not?