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

[Duffmannn]

Mariah Carey considers herself black...

And Vin Diesel?

[Duffmannn]

Mariah Carey considers herself black....

And Vin Diesel?

[Synapsid]

Ethiopians are genetically a intermediate between caucasoid and negroid. Here is a Ethiopian politician, he looks Black Brazilian.

As a part horner I beg to differ. Ethiopians looked very different from black brazillians.

http://humanphenotypes.net/EastEthiopid.html

[Synapsid]

Karyn Parsons again. LOL at the idea she is 'Black', and even played one in The Fresh Prince. (Actually, she might pass as Ethiopian or Somali, but certainly nowhere in Central, Western or Southern Africa).

Her nose is too wide to pass as a horner. A light mulatto can only pass an an omani admixed swahilli or a magrabi haratin but not an native Horner. Believe me.

[JosephK]

No one gets any "hipness" points for being White in the US... I'm pretty sure anyone who has any right to do so would consider himself Black if he could, for the benefits, cultural, social, political and economic.

[1GiantLeapForMankind]

Would these class as black in the US?

[Epirus DNA]

The new term is "people of color"

[Tooting Carmen]

The new term is "people of color"

That refers to all non-whites, not just Blacks.

[Epirus DNA]

That refers to all non-whites, not just Blacks.

Can you give me a list of ALL non-whites?

[Gota_type_]

All black americans are Britannic and Anglos. As for them, all blacks, amerindian, mestizos, or fully germans from America Latina are hispanic/latinos or even "Spanish" (I have seen that many USA people say that Dominican Republic people are "Spanish"). So, let´s be equivalent.