In reply to Merideth.

@Meridith I'm biracial. Samoan and Black. I identify with both sides and you're right about the one drop used being instituted to maintain slavery and racism, however, you must not know the whole story because your response is very naive, given that race is a social construct that has absolutely nothing to do with DNA or genetics. It's about how you look. It's ALWAYS been about how you look. You have to put things in context. If you want to talk about biology, this is the wrong conversation because this is not a scientific issue, it's a social one. Slavery wasn't even initially about "race". It was about money. When the powers that be were worried that the poor black people and the poor white people would ban together in rebellion against the elite, race was injected into the system. LBJ said it best, (even tho I don't like him?). "If you convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't know you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.". Race was created based on the pigmentation of your skin, not your biological makeup. It didn't matter if your father was white. As long as your mother's black, you're a slave. That's why so many black women were r aped, and so many black men were castrated.
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Race is only used, or should only be used today politically and socially as we still live in a racist world and yes, the entire point is that it doesn't matter what you identify as, this racist world will see you as black. Period. We aren't saying that we agree with it, we aren't saying that it's okay, but it's reality. I'm also not saying that we should accept it either, but I am saying that you should not be so naive to think that when a raging racist is looking for n's to kill he's gonna stop when he gets to my brown self and go, "Oh, you're only 50% black, let me leave you alone.". We'd be foolish to live that way.