A friend who is a history teacher with wavy hair and blue eyes got into a discussion with a couple of his Negro students who were spouting off about the superiority of Africa and its culture and he asked them how they knew? had they lived their? One replied that well, he was himself African. Mark then told the purely locally born and raised kid that he, Mark, was more African than the kid could ever be. The kid challenged him because Mark is white. Mark explained that he was born in Ethiopia (now Eritrea) and had grown up there while the kid had not been fifty miles from his home in Florida. The kid was properly awed. Marks parents were missionaries who themselves had lived many years in Ethiopia. Mark now says he is an African American.
THERE, not (wince) their.
You never know about things. I, and my wife, are of northern European heritage (Germany, Poland, Belgium, France). My daughter is, naturally white. She had a child with a half-African-American, half Puerto Rican man. My grandson has blue eyes and red hair and is whiter than me. Go figure.