Choosing a Race: The Story of Sandra Laing, A Black Woman Born to White Parents

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Sandra Laing is a brown-skinned woman born to white South African parents. Sandra's case supports the idea that racial classifications are pervious, pliable, and can be self-selected, as Sandra, herself, was classified as coloured and later white by the South African government.

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  • @WeSeeArt u r a fuking racist and if u would do some research u would know that 2 whites can have a black child it is possible if 2 whites have a black child 1 of them must have some black genetic jeans

  • What kind of waffle is this, culture is not the same as colour and ethnic background. Ok, so if I say I am a white woman, does this make it true.....No!

    Sandra is a beautiful woman, but she is of white afrikaan decent, not black. She has adopted the black culture and because of her features has been readily accepted, had she married white she may have had white children who looked like her parents. It is not to judge b/c of 'colour', her existence is a statement that says racism is a fallacy.

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  • Bring in Maury Povich and his DNA test.

  • @twinky647 if you go to any 'new world county', that has had various groups of people migrating to it, this is actually common, just not as extreme, her parents were south african whites.

    south african whites do have black admixture in small amounts around 5%

    her parents where mixed but pred european, and it just happend that their daughter came out looking significantly diffrent due to those black genes.

  • "Radical idea". More like "stupid idea". You know what, I've decided I'm gonna be half-Italian, half-Mongolian since I was born in an area with the highest percentages of mixed families since that must be what I identify with. GTFOHWTBS!

  • This woman was so bold that she turned around & had another mixed-child right in her husband's face. He either knew she was screwing a black man & didn't care or was a damn fool!

  • The bottom line is Sandra's mother lied to her and made a fool out of their whole family, especially her gullible husband.

  • This entire documentary is a lie...This young lady's mom lied to her...Her REAL father was BLACK! GTFOHWTBS! This is UNHEARD of! Albino is possible...But this?! C'mon!

  • @meshyis Mama's baby daddy's maybe

  • @ranksie400 I second that

  • @ranksie400 Her real daddy left for fear of a lynching!

  • @Crusader1815 Take an honest look at the pathology of Europeans in history. Things were bound to be anti European at some point. You get what you put out..karma

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