What does "not black enough" mean?

Question

What does it mean? White people I knew have told me that and I still think it's offensive. Does being a mixed-race African-American have to do with it?

Race has nothing to do with how a person acts, behaves or carries himself.

Answer 1

No such thing. There is not an archetype of what constitutes "blackness." Whoever said that is ignorant.

Answer 2

black americans use it, well some, usually the dumb uneducated ones to claim that some one is not ghetto, as if blacks should automatically be ghetto like them.

Answer 3

It means you dont perpetuate the stereotype enough.