[Phasad1913]

I hadn't heard this bit of controversy, but I believe I read at some point in my studies of American history that when a white woman during that era married a black man, when and where she could (like In D.C. perhaps), all of her government documentation would be changed and she would legally be categorized as black. It sort of makes sense since the whole theory behind the laws of anti-miscegenation was that it was unnatural and wrong for blacks to mix with the white race so once it was determined that some allowed a black person to infiltrate the white race, that white person was "expelled" for the sake of the proverbial "books" so that it wouldn't be documented that there was mixed white and black blood. If the white chick was then deemed to be black, then their offspring would, therefore, also be black.

Whatever.