The "Blacks" in the United States are a hybrid population

[hipaware]

To be honest on the pictures you provided not really. How much Negroe is he?

Most likely between 20-12% Negroid. He was the first "Black" president of an AA university.

[aherne]

I find nothing negroid about him.

[Sikeliot]

Borreby.

He doesn't look African American, but there are many people who identified as African Americans (due to pressure from the one drop rule) who didn't look it either.

[accepthetruth]

Yes, there is a slight look about him that is african, especially in the second pictufe

[Piparskeggr]

definite passer...

[Stefan]

I'm trying to imagine him in the modern day African-American community. I'm having a hard time doing that. In the second picture he reminds me a bit of my paternal grandfather who would be about 15% African 15% Amerindian; the rest Euro.

[hipaware]

Borreby.

He doesn't look African American, but there are many people who identified as African Americans (due to pressure from the one drop rule) who didn't look it either.

He doesn't look like the typical African American. But AAs who looked like him were more common in the 19th and early 20th century. Alot of prominent AA's in those times were Quadroons or pred European. But they mixed into the general AA community., and are rare to see, except in upper class AA circles.

From various studies, around 3-5% of non recently mixed AAs are pred European(60% or more) genetically.

[hipaware]

I'm trying to imagine him in the modern day African-American community. I'm having a hard time doing that. In the second picture he reminds me a bit of my paternal grandfather who would be about 15% African 15% Amerindian; the rest Euro.

He'd be seen as White by most AAs. But would be accepted as an AA because of the historical ties. AA's aren't as inclusive as White Americans because of our ODR history.

A current AA who looks "White" but has two "Black" identified parents.

G.K Butterfield.