Why do mixed race people call themselves black?

Idk but it sounds like they're a try hard, attention seeking person.
Just be proud of who you are and your race. If you're mixed own it. Mixed race people are honestly the prettiest in my opinion.

I'm biracial, one white parent, one black parent.I call myself black and always have.I have plenty of reasons for this, one being that when I was first born my white side of the family didn't like me very much but my black side of the family loved me and I felt more accepted being with them.Also nobody is exactly black, black people are brown and there are plenty of shades of brown and I happen to be one of them.There's plenty more reasons but honestly I'm black and white, so if I want to stick to one just let me and don't be annoying about it.

I am black and white and go by my black side as well. Though this is because I don't like my white family on my dad's side... I want to disown them. :)

Because being white for some reason isn't cool anymore

Well im japanese and irish/german and normally am refered to as asian. Whether by my peers or who ever, not that im particularly one or the other. It just a lazier way to identify or separate oneself (or fit in)

And in the end who really cares.

I personally identfy myself and as a Shuggytarian from shuggytopia

Because it's apparently a "taboo" to acknowledge both genetic lines and go with what they really are: Bi or Multi-Racial.

It depends on where you live. I lived in Maryland when I was in middle school in a school District that was 99% black. There was a girl at the school with white skin who had a white mother. She called herself black and was very adamant about it.

Kids when they are that young are very ignorant. It was a relatively ignorant area. The general thinking was that white people are bad and everyone there was acutely aware of the plight of black people in the past and blamed it on white people of the present.

If that girl I mentioned identified as white she would be putting herself in a position to be ostracized and picked on. It doesn't help that the teachers are just as ignorant and unqualified. I had two teachers in my middle school who taught that if the races mixed the kid is black because, and I'm not shitting you, black crayons can overwrite white ones but not vice versa.

It is an ignorant tribalism in uneducated parts of the country that cause people to view race, let alone view it with such an unscientific and useless set of rules.

I'm white mixed with Mexican but I look pretty white . The Mexicans were more like Spaniards... But I'm not any black so I don't know about that. It does annoy me that people say Obama is a black president he is half and half! I think he misused that issue .

I'm biracial (black and white with other ethnicities so, if you want to be really specific, I'm multiracial). I know that I am biracial but, my family keeps telling me that the world only sees black. I find this rather dismaying since, I don't look black. To make matters worse, growing up, my maternal family (they're mainly black) tried to force me to identify as being black, shamed me when I didn't, and made my white side to be evil. So, there's a lot of environmental racism from biracial people's family's. Now, I don't even view myself as biracial, just human because, I don't/can't identify with any of the ethnicities in me. But if someone asks me, I'll be honest with them.

Usually society makes the choice of whether or not someone is white or black. It is one or the other.