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...problem that consistently confronts racist law makers in the question of defining who is "Negro" and who is "white." In general, two schools of "thought" prevail is the United States on this issue. In about nine states a Negro is anyone who had a grandparent who was a Negro. The laws generally define such a person as "having one-eighth or more Negro blood" or as an "octoroon." The other definition of Negro is used in at least six states: a Negro is any person who has "any trace of Negro blood." The circularity of these statements does not seem...
Virginia provides an interesting example of racist legal gymnastics. Whites in that state can marry neither Negroes nor American Indians. In Virginia, a Negro is a person who has any Negro ancestor, and an American Indian is a person who had at least one Indian grandparent. If someone has one-sixteenth or less "Indian blood" then he is a white. But Virginia still hasn't decided what you are if you have one-eighth Indian heritage, i.e. one of your great-grandparents was an Indian. Furthermore, if a man is an inhabitant of an Indian tribal reservation...
...their votes to Paramount Chief Victor Poto. But as it turned out, Poto did not get the job. Instead the office went to Chief Kaizer Matanzima, the candidate preferred by the South African government. Poto wants white men and white investment capital in the Transkei, while Matanzima, a black racist, supports the idea of an all-black state...
...disclaim even remote complicity in the murder. "Thank God it wasn't a Negro," said a Negro in Toronto. Many others insisted on reading into the event their own political passions. Statesmen in Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
...ambiguity in details of your phrasing, the main thrust of the Association's purpose seems to us now to be made quite clear. The stated purpose is to have a student organization which will be exclusively African and American Negro. Your letter calls the policy by the name, "anti-racist racism." It goes on to justify the purpose at length in terms of acute present-day social needs. And you call upon Harvard to recognize that the special needs of the time require the College to abandon, for your special case, our long-standing rule that membership in student organizations...