Your Take: Halle Berry, the ‘One-Drop Rule’ and Race in America

The Takeaway

Our conversation with Kai Wright of ColorLines.com about Halle Berry’s comments to Ebony magazine elicited a wide range of responses from The Takeaway community.  Greg, a listener from WDET Detroit wrote,  “The ‘mixed race’ tag is the new ‘one drop’ tag of the post racial era… Race trumps everything in America.”  

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