{"id":189,"date":"2016-02-16T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=189"},"modified":"2016-02-16T19:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:05:41","slug":"how-i-learned-about-the-one-drop-rule-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/how-i-learned-about-the-one-drop-rule-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned about the One-Drop Rule: Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHLnigR70Qs?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FANSHEN<\/strong>: Recently I asked my friends &#8211; when was the\u00a0first time that they heard about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One-drop_rule\">one-drop rule<\/a>. And their answers were really\u00a0incredible, so we&#8217;re sharing them here\u00a0and we&#8217;d like to hear yours &#8211; so send us\u00a0an email, tweet us, anything and let us\u00a0know, &#8220;When was the first time YOU\u00a0learned about the one-drop rule?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAURA<\/strong>: My name\u00a0is Laura Black, and the first time I\u00a0heard about the one-drop rule\u00a0was in the 7th grade. An English teacher\u00a0had introduced me to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/langston-hughes\">Langston Hughes<\/a>. I\u00a0read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simple-Takes-Wife-Langston-Hughes\/dp\/0884110621\">Simple Takes a Wife<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>written in 1953. And the quote was,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s powerful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What?&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;That one drop of Negro blood. Because<br \/>\njust one drop of black blood, makes a man\u00a0colored. One drop? 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And their answers were really\u00a0incredible, so we&#8217;re sharing them here\u00a0and we&#8217;d like to hear yours &#8211; so send us\u00a0an email, tweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/how-i-learned-about-the-one-drop-rule-laura\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[18,34,35,36,14,23,10,76,16,19,6,17,20,24,33,11,77,41],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-drop-of-love","tag-biracial","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-cultural-studies","tag-ethnic-studies","tag-history","tag-identity","tag-intersectionality","tag-langston-hughes","tag-mixed-race","tag-mulatto","tag-one-drop-of-love","tag-one-drop-rule","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-racial-justice","tag-racism","tag-simple-takes-a-wife","tag-socially-conscious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}