I guess that this means that Obama would be turned away, right? The so-called first 'black' president? What about Susan Rice for that matter (since she apparently has been in the news lately).... her skin isn't actually 'black' per se, is it? There are lots of people who classify themselves as 'white' who are darker than she is. What exactly is a 'black'? Not that I care a ratz's patooty about this organization but perhaps since BLM created policy about this issue, wouldn't it make sense for them to actually offer up a concise definition? Maybe there is a scientific definition to it that involves DNA analysis…. Or perhaps it’s as simple as doing some kind of melanin count. Does a black person have to have some ancestral roots in Africa? There are countries in the world were the people may be ‘black’ but they have been there so long that they can’t trace any roots back to Africa. Some of the blackest people I’ve ever met are from India…. don’t believe their ancestry every had a connection to Africa. Well then, what about ‘white people’ who have been in Africa for so long that they can’t trace their roots back to any country before that…. are they now considered black because of their connection to Africa? And what about an albino child born to ‘black parents’. What is he/she classified as? Too many questions to waste on such a stupid subject…. and such a brain dead organization.
By the way, Dr. King referred to himself as a Negro…. Just sayin’.
It is getting to be a problem. Everyone who is well known, who has any black ancestor, seems to be only proud of their black heritage. Most of my relatives are much darker than Mariah Carey, who had a black grandmother and considers herself black. President Eisenhower had a black grandmother and no one considered him black.
DNA tests do give you a % of how much subsaharan African you are. I guess someone needs to come up with a number. 50%? 25%? 10%? Where do you want to draw the line?
(Personally, I want to be done completely with all racial categories. My daughter has most of them. What is the point?)