Thread:SMiki55/@comment-31463564-20190107200636/@comment-27075564-20190729180747

Race is a... finicky thing. Not to delve into it very much, but there was a time in the US where interracial relationships were ok (before slavery) but then social dynamics got changed around, it became illegal, and started the "one drop rule" shit, before becoming legal again, and a bunch of other stuff to the point some would try to hide having black ancestors by claiming they were something else (like saying they had a long ago Native American ancestor instead). So there could have been a possibility either his mother didn't know if she was mixed, or hid it to protect him if she was part elf.