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I was reading some of the answers for, "what are some goals black men have accomplished" and...?

One of the answers named a man who performe the first successful open heart surgery, he was African American also. I thought that was extremely interesting, so I quickly researched him and found his picture on wikipedia. In there it also claims that he is African American. I'm sorry, but he doesn't look black to me. It's crazy what was considered black back in the day. I'm not denying he wasn't African American, I know he was, but it's just so crazy because he shows evidence of the, "one drop rule". Picture... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Daniel_Hale_Williams.jpg He looks a little more black here.... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aframsurgeons/images/williams.jpg Yes, I'm black and no I'm not kidding around. I found this interesting. I've personally read books about Black people and the "one drop rule". I've seen black people who literally look like white people. Just the slightest curl would determine the person's race back then. How am I acting ignorant. I'm actually not surprised. I've seen pale black people before, I don't know. Now that I think about it doesn't come as a surprise, but yet a subject of interest. I wasn't expecting to see a black person who looks white. I wonder how many black people there are who I think are white. It's just something interesting to think about. I've never been to the deep south and I don't want to be! Thank you very much!!!! Nope, raised in the southwest, west and north. Loved it. The deep south is so laid back, too laid back. Did you see those statistics for obesity down there? Oh wow.

Public Comments

1. he looked white in first one because of facial hair (ewe) lol like white people men wore facial hair like that not africans though the were clean cut
2. The guy looks more Northern European white than me
3. If you take the mustache off, like in the second picture, he looks like a light skinned black. If the picture was in color, I think he would look "high yellow" which of course is considered black.
4. he probably relaxed his hair to look more white, like millions of black WOMEN still do today.....it's amazing the psychology tricks used on blacks (by whites back then) and how deeply ingrained it still is today. Black people don't think that the features natural to the original africans are beautiful, they try sooo hard to fit into the eurocentric view of what's beautiful.......guess i'm just ranting about my issues with blks, but whatever...........there is the one drop rule though, but the only people keeping that rule in place are the "blk" people that live by it. sad but true
5. Are you really black or just kidding around? Please someone tell me that black kids aren' t this uneducated about their own race? Honey, are you telling me you have never been deep down South and met or seen black people who look white? You do know we come in all shades of color right? You need to research your race a little more, you should not be so surprised by this. Honey, it's a beautiful country we live in. You should definitely go to the deep South and open up your eyes to your culture down there, that's where it all began after all. You will leave there with an education that is priceless, not just as an African American but as an American as well, hell, you may like it so much, you may not want to go back up North.
6. i know dat i dnt know u but the way dat u talkin sounds pretty intresting to me... but dem white people thank dat dey all dat but i can tell 'em other wise
7. He looks like a mixed man, who looks Caucasian.
8. First, I'm glad I could pique your intellectual curiosity. :) Second, it is worth noting that in the late 1800s, photographs of any prominent person of colour were often light-adjusted to make the person look lighter. I've heard that this was just a by-product of the photographic processes used back then, but I'm not sure if I buy that. In any event, he may have been much darker than the photograph shows. Of course, the odds are that he was mixed to some extent, just not as much as one would assume by looking at an old photo.
9. I guess one can never underestimate the power of black.
10. what did you expect him to have a big ol afro and a fubu shirt on?