Sammy Sosa, for instance, is not black. A to-all-appearances black man, descended from Africans brought to this hemisphere for forced agricultural labor, does not count towards those numbers if his name is Rodriguez, instead of Jackson. A man from the Dominican Republic is not black, but a man from the SAME ISLAND with the same proportion of African, European and American Indian ancestry, IS black if he's from Haiti. I don't get it in the least, since black is pretty much a superficial appearance issue. They have the same superficial appearance, so why does it matter what language they speak in their home country. Is Idris Elba less black because he's from England? I'm pretty sure the KKK wouldn't make the slightest distinction among any of those examples, and the whole point of keeping and citing racial statistics is to be alert for discrimination. Sammy Sosa was no less likely to be a target of racial resentment in his pursuit of the home run records than Barry Bonds was, but only one of those guys would be counted among the 8.5%