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The Arlington National Cemetery website has scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Native American, Black, Hispanic, and female service members buried in the cemetery. Only White males remain.
Many white supremacists believe in the One-drop rule. Basically, to them, if you have even a single black ancestor within the last three or four generations, you’re black even if you don’t think you are, and should be treated as such.
Obama didn’t even have the good grace to look white* so his ancestry doesn’t even matter. To them he was black.
* I am, of course, being sarcastic here.
I was gonna say that every human being has Black ancestors…of course, misunderstanding of that fact probably enables some racists
Yeah, and then the sensible, up-standing, God-fearing citizens turned themselves white through sheer determination. Anyone who’s still black is lazy and lacking in moral character.