Super Mrs. C.
1 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Homer Plessy, 7/8 white, was deemed "black" enough to provide the benchmark for "Separate, but Equal" laws in the U.S. Clearly, 7/8 white was still "black" enough, if one could be visibly identified as "not white," to be subject to every humiliation of segregation. In fact, if anyone knew enough about your forebears that they could prove you 15/16 white, that damned 1/16 still made you "black."

"Loving vs. Virginia" did not negate the "one-drop" rule. It outlawed banning "racial integration" in marriage.

For some reason, which I definitely don't get, you want to assert that "whiteness" is no longer a privilege in the United States. It was, and it is. Whites today stand on the privilege they cemented in the past. Whites are the ones who believed they had the license to define others as different, assigned them "race," and, to this day, believe that they still have the license to determine, how, when, where, and to what extent others receive the "privileges" that they own as their rights. You are welcome to your beliefs; wrong as they are. You are toxic in that you give other toxic people aid and comfort.

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Super Mrs. C.
Super Mrs. C.

Written by Super Mrs. C.

Retired teacher. Humorous essayist about Life. Serious essayist about politics and “race.” Aspiring world saver. Cat mama. We can do better than this.

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