>>   I don't really get it. Does having *one* of your parents black make
>> you also black? Why is it ok to say he is black, but it would sound
>> strange to call him white? Is white ancestry "less hereditary" than
>> black one?
>
> In this country it is, yah.
>
> "Black" was defined legally as having at least one "black" 
> great-grandparent. (I.e., 1/8th black was "black".)
>

Why should there even be a legal definition of "black" in this day and age?

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