[cloudmountain]

My husband, mother and I had a chance to visit Kenya some years ago.
We were all shocked at how BLACK the Kenyans and other Africans were. Black, as in EBONY, the color of my computer. We were all used to the African-Americans who call themselves "black" and ASSUMED that they were DARK. Well, they are NOT.

There WAS an African-American couple there too in Kenya, perhaps looking for THEIR "roots," and they were SHELL-SHOCKED at how LIGHT they were compared to the Kenyan tribes. They were dark compared to ME but almost white compared to the Kenyan tribes...ALL of them. It was good for all of us to see that.

So this article on biracial family only amuses. MOST "African-Americans" ARE biracial, whether they think so or not.

If they don't believe that statement they need ONLY to take a trip "back to Africa"--hah, what a joke--and just see with their own eyes how African they are NOT.

[dennisw]

The sun is stronger in Africa. This makes Africans blacker (more tanned in a way)than blacks who live in America. Also as you mention, the white and Indian blood that American blacks have flowing in their veins

[arthurus]

When WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) was the term of derision for the dominant American culture Walter Williams used to call American Negros BASPs because they shared the dominant culture and had nothing in common with Africa beyond some of their genes.

[tbw2]

There were genetic studies of African Americans finding that the average one is one third to one fourth Caucasian.