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Originally posted by DejaVu
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is her great-grandfather, white? |
No, Black Creole like Miss Tina; interracial marriage back in that day was illegal and if you had any traceable Black blood, you were Black (one drop rule).
Creole is a mix of French (mostly --sometimes Indian and/or Spanish, too) and Black dating back centuries when America was first being settled by Europeans and the Louisiana territory was still a French settlement. The European men in the 1600s/1700s greatly outnumbered the European women, but, the African slave women (throw some Caribbean culture in there as well as most of the French settler's slaves were brought into America through the middle passage via Haiti) were plentiful which meant lots of mixed babies. So many that it created a French and African/Haitian infused subculture. Racially most will only self identify as Creole/Black Creole or Black; even the ones so fair you would assume to be White until they start talking. It will really trip you out if you go to New Orleans -- you'll come across blue eyed blondes that sound like Bey and Miss Tina when they speak and will cuss you out if you refer to them as "White."
