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A fact from Robert Purvis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 May 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,017 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Given Purvis' heritage, I added categories: Afro-Caucasian and American Jews to this article, and someone deleted them both. I understand that Purvis chose to identify with the African-American community and that the times (especially the South) after the Civil War became increasingly strict about using the "one drop rule" to classify as black anyone of African descent (first to the 4th degree, then at all). Nonetheless, the facts are that his father was white, his paternal grandparents were white; his mother was half-white, his maternal grandfather was German-Sephardic Jewish white, and his maternal grandmother was Moroccan African, described as a Moor. He had Jewish heritage, although he was not Jewish in the eyes of Orthodox, his grandparents did not have a legal marriage, and he was not raised in the religion. Purvis said in accounts that he was strongly influenced by his father, who was Caucasian, so I don't think today you can deny him that heritage.--Parkwells (talk) 13:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Should he be listed as an English-Ameircan given his father was a native born Brit. No doubt he didn't really identify with this hertiage but nontheless. It's not really too important, I'm gonna try to dig up some more research on this guy and flesh the article as much as possible! Thanks wikipedia for being one of the few "rational" places on the internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amphictyon1 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
He was Scottish on his father's side and African american on his mothers. Changing the info with the citation. Feel free to challenge me on it thatsthis is all about — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amphictyon1 (talk • contribs) 07:31, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
