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WillowTheWhisp · 10-04-2007, 08:16

In S. Africa during apartheidt one tiny drop of 'black' blood was enough to consider a person contaminated and not pure. Barmy isn't it? I presume that's the sort of thing where the notion originates though. I totally agree with your point of view. Shirley Bassey is Welsh. She's as Welsh as leeks and daffodils isn'it boyo? I remember thinking the same about Halle Berry when there was all that fuss about her at the Oscars. She's not black. She's a sort of golden colour, quite pale really. Surely there's some kind of racist element to this claim to blackness as if the whiter element is something to be denied?

There's an amusing opposite to this with a friend of mine who comes from the West Indies and is very dark skinned. Somewhere back in her ancestry there's a Scotsman, the only 'white' ancestor she's aware of but boy oh boy is she Scottish - with a vengeance. She displays her tartan, eats haggis and loves bagpipes. What about her other 30+ non Scots ancestors?

10-04-2007, 08:16	#2
WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: how much ethnic blood do you need to be a minority In S. Africa during apartheidt one tiny drop of 'black' blood was enough to consider a person contaminated and not pure. Barmy isn't it? I presume that's the sort of thing where the notion originates though. I totally agree with your point of view. Shirley Bassey is Welsh. She's as Welsh as leeks and daffodils isn'it boyo? I remember thinking the same about Halle Berry when there was all that fuss about her at the Oscars. She's not black. She's a sort of golden colour, quite pale really. Surely there's some kind of racist element to this claim to blackness as if the whiter element is something to be denied? There's an amusing opposite to this with a friend of mine who comes from the West Indies and is very dark skinned. Somewhere back in her ancestry there's a Scotsman, the only 'white' ancestor she's aware of but boy oh boy is she Scottish - with a vengeance. She displays her tartan, eats haggis and loves bagpipes. What about her other 30+ non Scots ancestors? __________________