To be fair, in this case it’s a little more understandable - in the picture, he’s wearing sunglasses and has his hand over his nose and mouth, so very little of his face is visible, and it looks like both guys had the same hair style* at some points. (And I guess they were cousins? The general shape of their faces isn’t so dissimilar.) It’s not quite the usual “here’s a clear photo of a Black person identified as someone they obviously aren’t, because we couldn’t be arsed to even look at the pictures” racist nonsense. Someone might have actually gone to the effort of glancing at the pictures, even!
*Ever since I got repeatedly confused for someone else in grad school with similar hair, I don’t discount how much people use that to identify people they don’t know very well. (In my case, it was rather humorous as we’re not even the same ethnicity, and that aside, I don’t think we even looked very similar.)
