Regardless of ethnicity, people can look like other people. And it’s easy to get to similar looking people mixed up.
Thankfully, David Alan Grier is on hand to offer some advice on how to tell black people apart. Interestingly his advice also applies to all other races too.
This is, of course, nothing but a skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It all stems from the moment that a news anchor mistook Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne.
I actually think a little too much was made of that innocent error, as the anchor could have made exactly the same mistake with a white actor. Still, mocking the incident is rather amusing.