He's got dark skin, but he aint black!
You don’t have to be a ‘black’ or ‘African’ person to have dark skin. As a boy I was often mistaken for a ‘black’ boy when I tanned in summer. I had one very enlightening incident as a ball playing youth and then another one while swimming in the Pacific in the WWII years. Those times in my life taught me that a dark skinned person isn’t necessarily an ‘African’.