It's a touchy subject and it mainly depends on the individual. There's no doubt that Horn Africans are classified, racially, as "black", but not all go by this term. It's mainly a Western term, so it's not native to our region and even more so to Ethiopians because of the fact that we were not colonized and didn't have that mentality forced on us. Actually the only time I ever hear Ethiopians mention skin tone is when describing someone, like saying someone is light-skin or dark-skin. You have to understand that Horners, like all Africans, are ethnocentric. They will always view their ethnicity as being superior and everyone else as being inferior. There are Horners who dislike other Horners just as much as other Africans, Europeans, Asians, etc. so it's not always a personal attack on just one group of people. It's also not personal attack if Horners view themselves by their nationality or ethnic group rather then "black". They want to different themselves in that sense because their proud to be their nationality/ethnic group and the term "black" includes so many different kinds of groups who share no similarities in culture, history, etc. to Horners and vise versa. So, in answering your question, Horners view themselves, largely, by their ethnic group and/or nationality. Those living abroad understand that were are racially classified as "black" and that's okay to same and not to others, for the reasons I mentioned above.