re: Do you consider mixed race black people to be "black" or simply "mixed race"

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How black are you?

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they do say once you go black, you don't go back.

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1/3 so not even 50/50

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We do not think there could be any serious denial of the fact that in Louisiana the words "mulatto," "quadroon," and "octoroon" are of as definite meaning as the word "man" or "child," and that, among educated people at least, they are as well and widely known. There is also the less widely known word "griff," which, in this state, has a definite meaning, indicating the issue of negro and a mulatto. The person too black to be a mulatto and too pale in color to be a negro is a griff. The person too dark to be a white, and too bright to be a griff, is a mulatto. The quadroon is distinctly whiter than the mulatto. Between these different shades, we do not believe there is much, if any, difficulty in distinguishing. Nor can there be, we think,
any serious denial of the fact that in Louisiana, and, indeed, throughout the United States (except on the Pacific slope), the word "colored," when applied to race, has the definite and well-known meaning of a person having negro blood in his veins. We think, also, that any candid mind must admit that the word "negro" of itself, unqualified, does not necessarily include within its meaning persons possessed of only an admixture of negro blood; notably those whose admixture is so slight that in their case even an expert cannot be positive.

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