according to a law in place until 1983, a person was black if their blood was one-thirty-second or more black. This means that, from a racial-ethnicity point of view, former prime minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt would have had to sit in the back of the bus thanks to his great-great-grandfather. But millions of other people all over the world, too, would be counted as black due to their invisible blackness. Skin tone: parsnip. At the next stage, when our blood is one-sixty-fourth black, the journey of my descendants will finally reach Destination: white. For divided sixty-four times, the
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