African Americans are multiracials  Countless studies and research have shown that African Americans arent pure blacks like you would find in Africa but multiracials They have Native American and Caucasoid in their ancestry from being raped and what have you Technically speaking they are a completely separate race from Black people as they arent pure blacks The only reason theyre often categorized as such is because of the OneDrop rule Shouldnt this fact be noted in the heading of the article At least something about them being multiracials as opposed to pure blacks     Preceding unsigned comment added by      Thats because race varies over a fairly smooth space of variable phenotypes and two races are described as different when there is a discontinuity  That is to say before civilized times one was not really able to tell the difference between ones neighbors and one was rather unlikely to encounter people who looked substantially different until more modern and effective means of transportation and higher population densities allowed for it  Your views on racial mixing creating a new race is bizarre since it takes race to be an immutable and discrete classification system  This is the same kind of fallacy that leads one to ask for the missing link for evolution  Preceding unsigned comment added by      What do you mean by all that bombastic rigmarole I am stating a very simple truth which is that African Americans are a mixed race because we have Caucasoid Native American and Negroid in us People might wonder to themselves how can Tisha Campbell be black or Negroid when she doesnt look black by any stretch of the imagination The answer is simple because shes African American and skin colors range all across the board in the African American community I have several people in my family who are the color of Tisha Campbell and thats because African Americans are NOT Negroids Were multiracials Research has been done proving this not to mention I have proof within my family tree