How did people treat people who were both black/African and white/Caucasian?

Question

likes in time of slavery or discrimination?

Answer 1

I really can't say, but my half-sister is Half Black, Half-White.:-)

Answer 2

I think in almost all the cases they were treated as blacks. It was a horrible time when people were really, really mistreated for their race. During that time any idea that a person were from a different race made that person an outcast from the white community.

From the black community I have heard that lighter skinned (mixxed) people were treated better and I have heard that they were rejected from the black community as well.  I'm not sure which one was the most practiced.

It makes me sad just thinking about those times.

For a long time the excuse for people not supporting the right of a mixxed race couple to marry did so with false concerns of, "Think how hard it will be on their children. No child deserves to have to go through that."  Etc. Etc.  Even during the time I was growing up I heard those statements.  I lived in small town hickville and heard the old timers talking some terrible racist things... but then they did a wonderful thing. They sent me to a school that was mostly black. There I got to form my own opinions about people and learned to not base those opinions on race.