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"?
The reason he is called Black is that either he would have had to identify himself as Negro or due to his complexion it would have been apparent that he was Negro. Either way if the ‘cat was out of the bag’ he would have been categorized as Black in America. 👍🏾
He was called Black either because he identified himself as Black or due to his complexion it was apparent that he was Black. Also he had previously been enslaved.
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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"?
He was born a slave. Mixed race didn't matter back then, nor does it now
The reason he is called Black is that either he would have had to identify himself as Negro or due to his complexion it would have been apparent that he was Negro. Either way if the ‘cat was out of the bag’ he would have been categorized as Black in America. 👍🏾
He was called Black either because he identified himself as Black or due to his complexion it was apparent that he was Black. Also he had previously been enslaved.