[imawlBoli]

ODR as it was defined is no longer in place, legally or socially. Guys who look like Dolph Lundgren, with living family who look the same, get identified as white, even if they had a black ancestor 4 generations ago.

The dividing line between white and black seems to be as much cultural as physical among mixed families, but the physical attributes continue to be an indicator, more than skin tone. West African facial features and afro hair will get a pale skinned blonde haired person labeled black.

I think this is also part of the reason why, as a practical matter, Asian and Native mixed people appear to wash out more quickly than African mixes. This is why a kid like me with slightly chinky eyes and straight blond hair is labeled as white, while a 1/4 African kid with the same skin tone, a slightly wide nose, and a blond afro is "black".

Although I still don't approve of how the US census categorizes people, and especially how law enforcement agencies do. Osama Bin Laden, George Zimmerman, etc. aren't white under anybody's definition, including their own, so why do I continue to see these mugshots of biracial and triracial people labeled white? To juke the crime stats, apparently.