I think you&#x27;ve misunderstood.<p>&quot;Not black&quot; and &quot;White&quot; are different not because of things like the one-drop rule and its legacy, but because there are races other than &quot;White&quot; and &quot;Black&quot; present in the US.<p>&quot;Not black&quot; includes Native Americans&#x2F;Alaskan Natives, Asians&#x2F;Pacific Islanders, etc., not just Whites.<p>&gt; Our distinctions are related to old Jim Crow notions that 1&#x2F;64th Black made you Not White. Why not the other way around? If 1&#x2F;64th White made you Not Black, then the USA would be about 99% white.<p>Er, no. Because even if modern Black vs. White racial identification were entirely driven by the one-drop rule (its not), there&#x27;s only about 87% of the population that identifies as <i>either</i> White or Black, so shifting some portion of the Black to White isn&#x27;t going to make 99% of the population White. Again, there are other races in the US besides White and Black.