Why half black half white still called black?

Question

I am wondering why people who are born from white and black parents still called black. Sometimes even when they are only 1/3 or 1/4 black they are still called black.

In: Biology

Answer 1

For the same reason that light blue is still called blue, even if the colour is so light as to be closer to white than it is to blue.

It would perhaps be more accurate to say brown and some people do say brown, but the colour brown has some bad associations, so most people avoid that word for fear of causing offence.