With all due respect Eja. I dont think it is beneficial to separate black people by their particular shade of black. I am not coal black. I was born in america and probably has some kind of non-black (white/native american) genotype in me. My shade is not that much darker than Haile Selassie I.

I would not want any darker Afrikans on the continent or in the diaspora to classify me as not being black because I am not black like Marcus Garvey.

I think where the person is mentally and how comfortable they are with their blackness is the key.

Bless up.