>>84679594>Said America was built on rape and slavery.It was. There's really no other way to put it. She made that post on Independence Day, and a lot of black people don't like the Fourth of July, because it's a day they remember as the day they *didn't* get independence, and prefer the mostly ceremonial holiday of Juneteenth (June 19th), the day word that the Civil War was over and slavery had ended, reached Texas.
>>84680025>Why don't Americans count biracial people as biracial not black?The "One Drop Rule". Basically at the end of the 19th and start of 20th centuries, the governments of the Southern states, riding high on "Lost Cause" nostalgia started passing sweeping anti-black segregation laws, and saw to it that anyone with even a hint of African ancestry was considered black. Unlike Apartheid in South Africa, there was no separate category for mixed people. While there were few such laws North of the Mason-Dixon (except in Oregon), the sentiment spread.
>>84676132If she's even half as good as Candice Patton, she'll do fine.
