It's all so idiotic. My paternal grandfather has a mulatto mother, her mother was dark as night, and his father was dark skinned. He came out dark skinned, you could literally not know that he had a light skinned mother if you did not know him.
My mother's side is even more heavily mixed and the phenotypes would be confusing and paradoxical to many who uses these strict definitions for "Blackness."
It just depends on if you want to define race biologically or socially/culturally?
Black traits tend to be dominant alleles and with meiosis it's such a crapshoot what a person will come out of the womb looking like.
Same here. I tend to lean toward the darker skin tone, but my father was high yella (Louisana Creole), so was his entire side, but my mom's is very dark. I ended up looking straight up Habesha.
My father's side was mainly Louisana Creole but it's so many colors, hair textures, features, it's arbitrary. There is literally no genetic evidence for race existing. That's all it comes down to, it's a social construct meant to keep a group of marginalized and disenfranchised people on the bottom of the totem pole in every aspect, but nikkas wanna make decisions for other nikkas. If it a mulatto wants to called themselves mixed, or black, or even white I don't care. That's not my business. And we get the flack all for a white supremacist system that we ain't even create in the first place. nikkas is weird man.