There are no genetically-pure-African blacks in the US. Most are a mix. The lighter ones are mostly white, but feel they have to be radically black in order to be accepted.
Tell that to Opra.
“There are no genetically-pure-African blacks in the US. Most are a mix. The lighter ones are mostly white, but feel they have to be radically black in order to be accepted.”
The feeling of having to be “radically black” is an outgrowth of the Black Pride movement. Prior to that white people were saying that even one drop of Negro blood meant you were a Negro. Trying to “pass for white” was very much a “thing” up to the mid 1900s when I was a child. Since racial mixing was legally unacceptable up until around that time, at least in some states, it made for a lot of romantic pain and drama, until mixed marriage was finally legalized for the country.
As a teen my father told me about a group of people in northwestern New Jersey, and probably in parts of adjacent Pennsylvania and New York, called the “Jackson Whites”. This was a racially mixed group of people who combined Negro, Indian, and white Hessian soldiers (stayed after the American Revolution) blood who formed a cohesive community of mixed blood. I don’t know wheather they still exist as a community as they were identified when I was told about them.