What does it mean to call Kamala Harris "black" in an American context? People keep saying, "Well, she looks black." Always good to keep in mind that "race" has never strictly been about how someone looks. My blue eyed children would qualify for reparations and Harris would not.

"Reparations would go to any person who has documentation that he or she identified as a black person for at least 10 years before the beginning of any reparations process and can trace at least one ancestor back to American slavery." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html

The All-American Skin Game will push your rational mind to its limits. But that doesn't mean that everyone descended from the same *continent* has had interchangeable experiences. If there is no such thing as a "black" gene (which there isn't) then these experiences do matter.