"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> I haven't known many black people, but of the ones I did, some were nice,
> some were horrid. Pretty much the same as everybody else!

As I said before, I tend not to think of people by color. I have one friend
on my Facebook that I haven't seen in person since High School. For some
reason I always thought of her as French when in fact she is not. She
thought she was African American but... Her husband bought her some sort of
kit to determine her ancestry. I can't remember all of her ancestry but
there was Chinese in there! She doesn't look Chinese but looks like a very
light skinned black. One of her nieces was on the episode of Chopped where
they had teens on there and she looked totally white.

The odd thing is that people might associate themselves with a certain
ethnicity yet they don't necessarily look that way to others. I remember
arguing with a co-worker because I didn't think she was black. She then
opened her mouth so that I could look inside. Not sure what it was that I
was supposed to see. I just said... Okay! You're black!

I had another couple of coworkers who called themselves black and yet they
had the prettiest green eyes and naturally golden blonde/blond hair. Their
skin to me just looked like they had a nice golden tan.

My friend who was white, married a black man. One of her daughters had
several children by different fathers. Not sure of the ethnicities. Don't
even know the whole story there. There were issues with the daughter and my
friend and her husband wound up getting custody of the grandkids. But...
The one little girl had the same golden blonde hair, golden skin and
beautiful green eyes. In all cases, their hair was not the "black" texture
but more like big loopy curls.

I am part Cherokee Indian but you wouldn't know by looking at me. Or maybe
you would. I have met several people who were part Cherokee and we all have
similar coloring. Greenish eyes that tend to change color depending on our
mood or what we are wearing, and dishwater blonde hair. We all have high
cheekbones and the same sort of eye shape. No prominent upper lids.