Perceptions of Color
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You raised the critical question, thus you owe us an answer. When is a person “black” and when is he or she “white”?
For example, is a person black whose great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother was born in Africa but whose parents and grandparents since then were white?
What is the difference between what you call a “very light skinned” black person and a “very dark skinned” white person? “We always know,” says one of the blacks you quoted. How?
PATRICK GROFF, San Diego
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