@BritishFailedAesthetic So there actually is some nuance here. The racial concept of blackness and whiteness were created in America. African-American descendants of slaves grow up with black identity. But a lot of people in Jamaica and Africa aren't familiar with blackness and don't think of themselves as black. So it's not uncommon for Jamaicans or Africans to not identify as black. The same thing happened when various European groups came to America. They didn't know they were white until they learned about racial dynamics in America.
Today we have a globalized world where everyone grows up on American media, so this is changing. But it's not uncommon to still run into African immigrants in America who say they're not black, because they're not African-American.
@BritishFailedAesthetic Yes. It is up to her if she identifies as black. I wonder how she does view herself. I was being facetious about her skin though, it's brown.
