[evammaUselp]

People often say they don't, but society as a whole still does.

A lot of people still adhere to it, hence why Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Alicia Keys for instance are all considered 'black' despite being far from pure Sub-Saharan African.

To many people, someone like Rashida Jones is a black woman who looks white, way before they'd consider her white with black admixture.

Where do you stand on this? Do you consider someone like Halle Berry 'black' more than 'white', despite that she is half and half?

[xochgtlm]

I didn't consider Alicia Keys black at first, since she has Caucasoid features and was raised by her Sicilian-American mom. Then she started getting all militant and anti-American and then married a black Muslim. That was when I abandoned her black ass.

Tiger Woods has long been considered black and he's only 25% black. I think it all depends on your looks. If you can "pass", it doesn't matter, like Rashida Jones. If her dad wasn't Quincy Jones, nobody would even know she was part SSA.

[drmarshallusa]

Some say, "If you look black you're black", but to me, someone like Beyonce doesn't look black as in pure SSA, so where do you draw the line between 'black' and not black?

[expabsPapsgag]

Well, Beyonce is a mixed, predominantly SSA Louisiana Creole... and a lot of people say she goes out of her way to look white. Look at her sister Solange. When she was a teenager everyone said she looks just like Beyonce. Now Beyonce is pale and Solange looks fairly dark.

[ultramDoctoo]

People often don't know Rashida Jones has black ancestry (from my experience) and after finding it out they usually comment on how she looks Italian and still think of her as non-AA.

[JJascaxal]

People often don't know Rashida Jones has black ancestry (from my experience) and after finding it out they usually comment on how she looks Italian and still think of her as non-AA.

Well whether one knows she is part black, there's no way to twist it so that she looks it, she simply doesn't.

[pennadyFeet]

Well, she played a white Italian on The Office, so that just shows you she can pass.

[freeprescriptionplanrrx]

What I want to know is, if you had two people who were both 25% black and one looked it and the other looked white, would you consider one of them white and the other black?

[nuncEtedben]

If I didn't know they were related and I didn't know they were mulatto, yes.

If one of them looked mulatto and I knew they were related, I would consider both of them mulatto. Or quadroon, or whatever. I don't remember the proper terminology.

[ligaliaCods]

Like these two girls are sisters, with a white dad and a black mom. Do you see a black girl and a white girl when you look at them, or do you see two mixed people?

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a..._85434_577.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs022...._7229106_n.jpg

[bestonline]

2 looks mixed.

1 only looks mixed because you told me she's mixed and I'm looking at her picture knowing she's mixed. If you just told me "Classify this girl", I'd probably say Italian. So, she can pass for white and the other can't pass for pure either.

[Klissineopar]

They are both half Portuguese, half black Brasilian. It's just funny because the one girl if she didn't say she was part black, no one would think it. And her mother is not a light mulatto either, she's probably 3/4 black.

[Clilmence]

I agree. If I saw her on the street, I'd probably think she was a recent European immigrant.

[CarrieSexy]

Yes we turks more or less invented it, if you have one drop of turkish dna, all your dna becomes turkish

[clorkergo]

What about the other one?
To me for some strange reason she looks almost Ethiopian.

[Dreqsqse]

Yeah, she kind-of resembles Horners. It's hard to tell with a small zoomed out picture, but I agree with you there.

[BlackBird]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...2_985591_n.jpg

[NKUDirectory]

Yeah, she could be Ethiopian, Somali, Eritrean, etc.

Which is odd because most Aframs are W. African.

[LindaSmithXV]

I think it depends on the country you live in. In Holland they do recognize people who are half black and half white, they call them 'half bloedjes', it literally means half bloods. It doesn't sound as bad in Dutch to be honest. They do recognize them as half, and not as just 'black'. And that is what I am used to.

[Senasivar]

Her mother is from Brasil. She has very West African features actually, you wouldn't take her for Ethiopian. Yet she has one East African looking kid and another who looks white, but her youngest daughter looks more West African plus Med.