Tragedy in Charlottesville
by By Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 15, 2017
2 minutes
In the South during the Jim Crow era, the "one-drop rule," codified into law, asserted that if a person had just one drop of African-American blood, they were considered "black." I wonder what we'd learn if we gave former KKK leader David Duke and the "white nationalists" who caused havoc in Charlottesville last Saturday a DNA test to determine their racial makeup?
Dr. Henry Louis Gates from an Irish immigrant and a slave.
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