And by the way, Sandra Laing was not a single child, but had siblings, who are all white and very like theyre father... Ok whatever
Again, please do your research before opining.
I'm going to give it one more try and then I'm out. Sandra Laing was first classified as black by the South African authorities based on skin pigmentation charts and skull and facial measurements despite being legally the child of "white" parents. Then, after years,
and at the insistence of her father, who took it all the way to the South African Supreme Court, the
South African courts looked at dna evidence that showed she was the biological child of her "white" classified parents, and reversed the standards previously used and
legally classified her as white. Of course, she was still ostracized by "white" looking Afrikaners. When she ran away with a black South African man they had to live in the tribal areas. When she went to apply for an identity document as "colored", she was refused on the grounds that she was now "white". She and her black partner were jailed for miscegenation.
Here is a documentary done about her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYZyvxpsCjQ
Of the three children of this family, one looked mulatto (Sandra), one looked white (her older brother), and one, her younger brother, looked "white enough" (despite his African hair, and obviously "different" complexion, he was lighter than Sandra), and so his original status as the "white" child of "white" parents was never changed. As an added irony, the educator who expelled Sandra from the white school for being black looks admixed himself to me.
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I don't have anything more to say to someone who can't see the utter insanity of this and insists it's some sort of conspiracy when the evidence comes from the South African courts themselves. If you have a problem with the determination of the South African courts of the time (this actually played out in the 70s), you should complain to them, not me.
You clearly lack an understanding of how pigmentation and facial and hair features can vary in families with a mix of racial ancestry. This is a Lumbee family, a tri-racial group from the Carolinas. One or perhaps two of those children could definitely pass. The others could not. This was common in admixed people. Of Thomas Jefferson's children with his slave Sally Hemings, most could and did pass. Two could not, they looked too black, and so they remained part of the African American community.
Melungeon family: