I couldn't agree with this post more to be honest. But it's a pipe dream I think, to get to that point. On a personal note, Black to me is more a 'consciousness' over a racial classification / skin colour. I don't particularly understand the skin colour arguements for it either. i.e activist-academic Angela Davis is Black but so is actor Viola Davis. In terms of the complexions, they couldn't be further apart. So, to allot 'Black' to a skin colour is nuts.

I must also say that I'm British based in England so my views on this come from the framing of race in Britain which is completely different to the United States. Yes, technically I am brown or Brown. In many conversations with people that identify as Black, to say "I'm Brown" would be interpreted as a hottake. Honestly, for someone that looks like me to not identify as Black has got some people upset.

It is about semantics and when you don't agree with established norms/meanings or the accepted, then you become a problem. And if I was to tick a box, I would probably tick Mixed-Race over Black. But in Britain, when you tick those boxes there it isn't a 'Mixed-Race British' box. It's Black British for me or Mixed Other. OOF. Brown/brown makes more logical sense than Black.

Yes, good post, Keith :D