African American One Drop Rule

The one drop rule was a racial classification that any individuals that had one drop of African blood was considered black, and had to face the racial ramifications that that entailed, The one drop rule was a remnant of racial prejudice back in the day as any person with African heritage no matter how separated was deemed as a second class citizen by the United States. This created many Caucasian looking individuals who under the pretenses of the law were considered black even though they were separated enough that physically they did not have the physical features. This also defined white as pure into
The White Americans used the “one drop” rule to dominate people of African heritage no matter how separated they were from the original African