and your fear of them not being considered black and "strengthening your numbers" in the long run makes you force them to deny what they really are and their "mother or father" in the process. lets face it that's what this really comes down to...anyways i'm out for the night, will check back tmrw.
its not about that...its about how my family looks because of our mixture and then some of us claiming we aren't black when in fact we are. I got cousins/nephews/nieces who are dark or brown with straight hair. Very light cousins/siblings with freckles, black or red hair that's nappy etc. Then we got some in between that looks like regular black folk. Just about everybody in my family has married black people. I have one cousin that has a mixed child...ONE but we still have all these different looks to us.
By you all's logic we should be in here claiming we mixed but we aren't. We just black folks that look different. My Dad has 7 siblings all by the same parents and they range from very light (dominican like) to dark all with the same different types of hair texture etc.
What I'm saying is just about every black person in the U.S can claim they are mixed and not black if we went by yall's logic. Its crazy.