Definition: Black

If you don’t look like one of the people represented, or darker in complexion – you are not Black. The correct term for person within skin colour spectrums that range from wan complexions to wheatish complexions, and a broad range of tones historically categorised by degrees of Black African and other ancestry is “Person of Colour” or “Gens du Coleur” – this includes many people who have for all intents and purposes blended into white populations in terms of visual presentation – but with definitively traceable Black African antecedents, either generally or particularly. There is a more precise distinction which is to clarify one’s self as a “Black person of colour” or a “White person of colour” – which can be either a statement of disambiguation, alliance or affinity and appropriate claim or reclamation.