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originally posted by: SprocketUK
So the Guardian/Observer has today run a piece defending the casting based on the "One drop" rule that years ago forced people to be discriminated against because "One drop of black blood makes you black"
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Now, I have various problems with this, they start with using an argument touted by a discredited system of racism from Jim, Crow era America and Apartheid South Africa...Or are those societies getting so rehabilitated now that we are supposed to be able to see the good in them?
My other point is, according to the out of Africa theory, everyone has one drop...
originally posted by: LordAhriman
originally posted by: Byrd
a reply to: vNex92
I wouldn't mind if it was posited as fiction, but it's not. The scholars I know are pretty annoyed by this.
You've seen it? The story is so far off that it should be fiction? Explain. I haven't seen it.