Black people who immigrated to America during Jim Crow/segregation immediately realized that the United States is a ethnostate where black Americans are second-class citizens subjected to targeted violence and systematic discrimination.
They took one look at how black Americans were treated and quickly tried to distance themselves by claiming their nationality as a race or simply lying as Kamala’s mother did. They weren’t “black” they’re “Jamaican” or “Nigerian”
Some of them changed their race to “black” after the progress made after the civil rights movement when it was safer especially when going to HBCUs because now they want to fit in with the negroes.
According to this census, the races were white, negro, Indian (American), japanese, Chinese, Filipino, other. I don’t think negro changed to black until post civil rights movement.
So her Indian mother chose to put Caucasian instead of “other” or even “negro” and her father put “Jamaican” instead of “negro”
Kamala was raised by her “Caucasian” mother. Why would she identify as black?