Why is the European heritage of black Americans downplayed?

Why is the European heritage of black Americans downplayed?

Because of the "one drop rule". All other ancestry is irrelevant if one has at least some Black blood.

It's actually bizarre that the Blacks accepted and assimilated a concept that was developed in order to keep them oppressed.

That literally only happens in North America.

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yes because the black community in Brazil/latin america is so powerful

the one drop rule helps blacks immensely

It forces all of them to band together rather than distance themselves with some latin autismo racial category

If Malcolm X was born in Brazil he would straighten his hair and call himself "pardo"

One drop rule is the reason American black stick together

>If Malcolm X was born in Brazil he would straighten his hair and call himself "pardo"
That's not how being pardo works. To be pardo you have to be less black than other blacks. Malcolm X wasn't pitch black but he was blacker than pardos.
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the point is that someone like this would distance them self from their black heritage if given the chance

The US takes away that chance which made them band together

>One drop rule is the reason American black stick together

And this tribalism is why the Black community is so dysfunctional.

hmmmm

Daymn affirmative oppression.

>One drop rule is the reason American black stick together

I thought it was ignorance.

The One Drop Rule was devised for Jim Crow.

What fucking downplaying?

The fact that every African American has at least some European ancestry.

The one drop rule makes absolutely no sense. Blacks from africa are just as "pure" as europeans. If you mix black with white you won't have the same colors anymore. How can a black that has 50% of him from Europe be the same black as a 100% african black?

No one that looks like that in latin america would call themselves "pardo".

Dominicans?

I've seen way darker people in Brazil and what not, at are not "black".

Everyone knows that and acknowledges it.

It has a limit thiugh up to 1/8th which at that point you are white.

Well, the black folk themselves very often want to downplay or disassociate themselves from their "white blood," though they often will not admit (it's just another form of racism, but apparently OK when black people do it) because of their whole WE WAZ KANGS an SHEIT schtick.

Top be fair, white people invented the term white to give themselves something to autistically cling to as well. The longer they stayed in America the further away from their heritage and culture they get. I'd argue that new ethnicities has poped up in America (like New Yorker, and Georgian, and such) and clinging, to say, anglo or german or african identity is pretty fucking stupid when you have been in America for over 200 years.

Its all about refusing to accept that you are not really African or European anymore. Its all we wuzzery and 'muh herritage' faggotry.

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>I'd argue that new ethnicities has poped up in America (like New Yorker, and Georgian, and such)

What. That's not even remotely true at all.

>Its all about refusing to accept that you are not really African or European anymore. Its all we wuzzery and 'muh herritage' faggotry.

This makes even less sense. Stop getting high off the memes user.

it fucked everything up.

>it makes more sense to "we wuz" after your ancestors have been here for longer than you can trace back.

Your in denial man.

why didn't the black knights started to use gunpowder as well?

that quote sounds fake af