Comments on: Black and White and Gray (Grey) http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=298 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: The Ridger http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=298&cpage=1#comment-135165 The Ridger Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:40:52 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=298#comment-135165 The logic is that a drop of dirt makes the water impure, so a drop of black makes the white person, well, black. Contrast this with Australia's erstwhile plan to "breed the black out in four generations"... Both are kind of creepy, but they come at it from different angles. The logic is that a drop of dirt makes the water impure, so a drop of black makes the white person, well, black.

Contrast this with Australia’s erstwhile plan to “breed the black out in four generations”… Both are kind of creepy, but they come at it from different angles.

]]> By: Neal Whitman http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=298&cpage=1#comment-134198 Neal Whitman Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:35:33 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=298#comment-134198 Thanks for taking up this topic. I've wondered about it myself, remembering phrases like "even a drop" and "passing for white", as well as way outdated terms like "mulatto", "high yellow", "quadroon", and "octoroon". Nobody (publicly) talks like that anymore, but the rarely questioned classification of Obama as black made me wonder if this kind of thinking was still going on. Thanks for taking up this topic. I’ve wondered about it myself, remembering phrases like “even a drop” and “passing for white”, as well as way outdated terms like “mulatto”, “high yellow”, “quadroon”, and “octoroon”. Nobody (publicly) talks like that anymore, but the rarely questioned classification of Obama as black made me wonder if this kind of thinking was still going on.

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