[stn_za]

Everyone knows what is meant by black person. Don't overthink it.

[ben_w]

If you'd said every American agreed on one meaning, I as an outsider would believe you.

But the rest of the world doesn't share American culture.

I'm British as far back as the family tree goes, and I've been surprised at least once by a person revealing they faced racial prejudice for "being black", and my surprise was because their skin colour was so close to my own, mine being approximately that of Colin Powell in this particular photo (given my current display brightness settings etc.): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Colin_Po...

[alan-hn]

Their point is that people have different perceptions on what would fall into that category or not