University of Delaware Assistant Professor Arica L. Coleman Quote

I tell my students all the time that there has always been the politics of difference, so as long as there are more than two or three people on this planet, somebody is going to find a reason why they are better than you. Before, it was religion. But now in our American society it is this myth of race, or separate biological races. So now we have Native people and this issue of blood quantum-it may take one drop of blood to make a black person, but it takes a lot of blood to make an Indian. That is politics. That is not scientific, or the law of God-it is somebody's politics.
-University of Delaware Assistant Professor Arica L. Coleman being quoted in a article entitled Blood On Their Minds, And Hands Exploring the political exploitation of racial labels and blood quantum in America by Vincent Schilling in This Week From Indian Country Today Vol.3, Issue 17, May 8, 2013, pg.31