*vanity* Kamala Harris ethnicity

[Albion Wilde]

Even today, if you have one drop of black ancestry, you're considered black.

Not by everyone. That seems to be your personal standard. When a person is obviously mixed, most Americans say "mixed race." Some "one drop" people look entirely white. Few polite people label them black.

Genetically, the darker DNA seems to "outweigh" the lighter coloring. But not always. Facial features also may indicate ethnic heritage. I come from the school of thought that "content of character" is rthe more important distinction.

Have a look at these mixed-race twins, one parent white, the other black:

Lucy Aylmer, left, and Maria Aylmer are twins, despite their radically different appearance.

Different but the same: a story of black and white twins

Marcia, left, and Millie Briggs are 11-year-old biracial twin sister from Birmingham, England.

[Albion Wilde]

she was trying to leverage her skin tone to make inroads with the black population. They feel differently about Indians than African heritage blacks.

Many slave- or freedman-descended American blacks also can't stand recent immigrants from Africa, who are more like white Americans than AA's are. Because Africa is poor by materialist standards, the Africans who have come here lately are generally motivated, educated, bi- or tri-lingual upon migrating, appreciate American opportunity, and are conservatively Christian. The several families in our town from Africa and their visiting friends and relatives are wonderful neighbors. They obtained professional degrees here and have raised lovely, polite children.