What percent of African American must you be to be considered "black"? 1%, 10%, 50%? Who decides and why?

That's a good question here is another one why do they keep identifying themselves as a minority by calling themselves black or African Americans ? Why don't they refer themselves as Americans of African decent? cut the B.S.

You could be zero percent like Rachel Dolezal. You could self-identify as black, and it would be your own business. All that applies unless you do as she did and make a living out of your being black, up to and including a high post at the NAACP, and get outed as a white impostor. Then the NAACP establishment will make the call that you were never black at all.

To be considered BLACK?   You have to BE black.  If you are not all black then you are partly black. 

I'll make it easy on you.  

As long as people look at the colour of someones skin and see it as some kind of label, there will be a problem. I knew two sisters. One had very dark skin, but the other could pass for white. They must have had different fathers. Thumb says they see themselves as black. They ARE black. The real question is, why should anyones race be an issue? As long as people judge others on the colour of their skin and the like, it will be. It ain't always the right wing who do it. The Labour party here has spent a large part of this year having a major scandal over anti-semitism and racism. But in the US, your election cycle has been dominated by Trump playing the race card. There is no other way to look at it. Anyone who tries to deny that is either extremely stupid or extremely dishonest.

BINGO!!! That's exactly what my father would say. But he would ALWAYS say he was American of Italuan and French decent. I haven't heard anyone put it that way since he died. Too bad it won't be something most people would embrace.