Revolution 2.0

Introduction For centuries, anyone who had any noticeable black ancestry was considered to be black for purposes of hateful discrimination, including slavery. Today, anyone who has any noticeable black ancestry is considered to be some combination of a deserving victim, or simply a cut above.   Both are wrong. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing Ugly terms like mulatto and half breed were once used to denigrate the offspring of whites mating with blacks, and whites mating with Native Americans. Both were generally shunned by society, including both sides of their ethnicity. More recently, Eurasian was used to describe the offspring of whites, typically US military males, and Asian females. Again, most of these children were shunned by society, especially Asian societies where almost all of them were born.  Today, the strong trend is to label the lightest skinned black as black, along with observing that the darkest skinned blacks are also black. In other words, you are black or