[spectre]

She is 50% white and 50% black, and she chooses to say she is black. Which is fine by me, but it doesn't change the facts.

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[mafree]

No one is disputing the fact that Halle has a Black father and a White mother but you also cannot dispute the fact that she looks Black. Therefore, it's consistent that she consider herself Black.

[aristeides]

In a world with reverse discrimination, it pays for someone who is half black and half white to say that he (or she) is black.

On the extortion angle, I wonder how much of Hollywood's U.S. audience is now black (and thus how much of a threat a boycott would be.)