What percent black is G. K. Butterfield (the democratic congressman)?

Question

Here is a picture of G. K. Butterfield (I doubt anyone would think he was black just by looking at him):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/G._K._Butterfield%2C_official_photo_portrait_color.jpg

Answer 1

Lets see, the average white American is about 3% African...

Are you serious? LOL. Probably got one great granny who's black.

Answer 2

Well, since you've put this in the anthropology forum, I'll give you the anthropological answer, between 0 and 100%. Sorry, no way to tell. Race is a cultural construct. The most telling illustration I can give is if you could line up everyone in the world from lightest to darkest, where would you draw the line between, black and white. It would be such a gradual change that you would be making a purely arbitrary distinction between two people who look almost identical. Also, not everyone would place that divide between the same people that you would. So, sorry. It's completely arbitrary.