It's not so much the "1/4" part that made us lesser. It's that these families were all interwoven & interconnected & so if you didn't have roots on all sides in the community, you were sort of locked out.
Good times. When white people don't have enough POC to discriminate against on a daily basis, they always find someone to exclude.
And we were only PARTIALLY on the outside. If you & your family weren't "Dutch" (LOL) at all, then fuck you, basically.