Alonzo Herndon was an American Quadroon. His father was a US born White man of English European origin. Alonzo's mother was an American Mulatto woman of English European and African American descent. Alonzo Herndon's first wife Adrienne McNeil Herndon was also a Quadroon.
Herndon's father was white and the one drop rule was created by the US federal government, not the black community. And in states like North Carolina a large segment of black Americans resemble Herndon.
"black"? Funny how people see things differently. For example, I see someone of mixed heritage. Somewhere along the line there was a blending of African and "some other," more than likely "white." So how is it, among both "black" and "white" Americans, this "one drop equals "black" fiction, established in a slave/plantation context, remain so well respected, especially in a time when a man with movie star good looks, who bedded three A Hollywood listers, sired a tribe of children, can now be seen as a woman? Isn't it rather puzzling, looking at photos of a man of manifest mixed heritage, be called "black"?
Alonzo Herndon was an American Quadroon. His father was a US born White man of English European origin. Alonzo's mother was an American Mulatto woman of English European and African American descent. Alonzo Herndon's first wife Adrienne McNeil Herndon was also a Quadroon.
Herndon's father was white and the one drop rule was created by the US federal government, not the black community. And in states like North Carolina a large segment of black Americans resemble Herndon.
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"black"? Funny how people see things differently. For example, I see someone of mixed heritage. Somewhere along the line there was a blending of African and "some other," more than likely "white." So how is it, among both "black" and "white" Americans, this "one drop equals "black" fiction, established in a slave/plantation context, remain so well respected, especially in a time when a man with movie star good looks, who bedded three A Hollywood listers, sired a tribe of children, can now be seen as a woman? Isn't it rather puzzling, looking at photos of a man of manifest mixed heritage, be called "black"?
He was born a slave. Mixed race didn't matter back then, nor does it now