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This anti-mixed shit is so weird and new to me. It doesn't make sense and it makes me sad and a little mad. Doesn't it sound somewhat like a race-based conspiracy theory? Because whether we like it or not, the one-drop rule tells a revisioned story of black history. You can't define all of blackness without adding in mixed black people. Only validating the most "pure" insert race is not at all a 1-to-1 with white supremacy, but it is claiming only "purely" black people are supposedly supremely black enough to receive validation that they're black. It's "disowning the unpures" like white people have done, and I do not get why anyone believes this rule.
Am I understanding the one-drop rule correctly? Am I too far out on a limb here?
Fundamentally speaking, you have the right idea.
1DR shaped how this country perceives, treats, and polices Blackness.
Of course, a shared racial identity is crucial for oppressed peoples, and when a person has the lived experience of a Black person, what materially benefits them the most is to be grouped in with Black people.
Across many justice movements (e.g. feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, Black liberation), there is a common tendency for people to lack a more academic understanding of systems of oppression (that's why reading theory is important) and believe that their lived experience is "enough" alone for them to be knowledgeable on the subject. Lived experience is important, but these people will not know how to advance Black liberation if their lived experience just leads to them promoting "scientific racism but in favor of Black supremacy rather than white supremacy." That's what I mean by "reverse 1DR," basically. You have too many Black people using the same foolish European logic of "Your DNA is 'impure' so therefore you must be categorized differently, irrespective of how reality handles your existence" to exclude mixed-race Black people, placing the reification of some arbitrary categorization over actual Black safety and well-being.