Why do many people label blatantly mixed-race people as 'Black'? (Especially in the US)

[Kamal900]

Well, she looks Black.

If she's black then I'm rob schneider's left testicle.

[TheOldNorth]

because in america half blacks are ashamed to be part white

[Zroota]

because in america half blacks are ashamed to be part white

Nah, I think it's pretty much this:

Because most of them want to be black. They get to be at the "top" of the black hierarchy because they usually have lighter features and "good hair" while still identifying with black culture. You don't really think twice about the mixed race people who look and act white.

[TheOldNorth]

Nah, I think it's pretty much this:

very true

[JamesBond007]

Many 'Black' Americans in particular are blatantly mixed-race and should be regarded as such, yet we only notice their Afro ancestry. Some examples of blatantly mixed-race Americans who are labelled as 'Black' and in some cases have played fully Black people in acting roles:


Personally, I prefer the Latin American attitude that mixed-race people are regarded and acknowledged as being, well, mixed-race and not one group or the other.

It used to be they were called by terms like mulatto and other terms but then political correctness banned those terms. It's convenient to call mixed people black, for liberals, because it helps create the illusion that blacks are not as low IQ and criminal as they really are because the mixed ones are closer to the white average norms.

[Septentrion]

Many 'Black' Americans in particular are blatantly mixed-race and should be regarded as such, yet we only notice their Afro ancestry. Some examples of blatantly mixed-race Americans who are labelled as 'Black' and in some cases have played fully Black people in acting roles:

Halle Berry


Karyn Parsons


Faith Evans


Etta James


Tia and Tamera Mowry


Most famously of all, Barack Obama


Personally, I prefer the Latin American attitude that mixed-race people are regarded and acknowledged as being, well, mixed-race and not one group or the other.

Fair enough, that’s you. I see them as Black too.

[The Blade]

You are making a good point.
I think whites do it because of racism and some mixed race people identify simply as Black because they don't feel relation to whites.
Most of these do look mixed and the Mowry sisters resemble African Ethiopids in the way their mulatta traits are expressed.

[glambutera]

It used to be they were called by terms like mulatto and other terms but then political correctness banned those terms. It's convenient to call mixed people black, for liberals, because it helps create the illusion that blacks are not as low IQ and criminal as they really are because the mixed ones are closer to the white average norms.

The one drop rule was not made by the liberals. Also, I can understand mixed folks cause no one wants to be like mongrels from latam with no culture/identity.

[Mortimer]

This is the case in a western dominated society like america. It was put on them by the white people, and many slave owners raped black women and the offspring was considered as black again etc. You cannot blame blacks for it, also aframs are pretty much all of them to some degree mixed, so mixed people are the norm among aframs but they consider themselfes black. In africa it might be different though as they are homogenous and fully ssa.

[Rico33]

Identity whoredom.