Gail–I actually work with a woman who is pale, blonde, and blue-eyed. Her brother is tan, black-haired, and has brown eyes. They are both 100-percent related, not half-siblings. And they are both half Hispanic. It’s hysterical to see people’s reactions, because on their own you wouldn’t think they were siblings. But they share so many physical features that the relation becomes glaringly obvious if they are standing together!

I never could understand the whole race thing myself, too. It’s just skin, after all, and we’re all the same color underneath.

–TwoDragons

Because I believe that “race” is really just an outmoded cultural construct, and I love to make people question inherently racist political agendas, I’ll sometimes bring up the matter of vitiligo. For instance, as an employer, I was required by a rather officious management office to fill out a form listing my employees and providing various statistics. One of the blanks to be checked off was “Minority? Yes___ No___” I asked the person who required the form what exactly was meant by this “minority.” Within seconds, it became apparent that their idea of what made a person a “minority” was an unbelievably insensitive set of generalizations. I further exacerbated things by inquiring as to where exactly does one draw the line — at which point does a person cease to be “black” and become “white”? What if the person gets a deep tan? or develops vitiligo? I pointed out that one’s parentage has very little to do with one’s shade of brown; I’ve seen so-called “interracial” couples produce children who might easily be labeled one or the other, as well as “mixed.” In the end, I labeled everyone “minority” on the form, after I’d determined that the point of it was to see if some quota was being met.

For the record, all three employees happened to be women, two of Puerto Rican ancestry and one recently arrived from Ethiopia. Maybe someone out there views them as minorities — but I never thought of them that way. Half the human population is female, ergo, women are not a minority; women are equal partners. As for the brownness of their skin, who am I to judge? Apparently, in this city, my own skin’s total lack of melanin production makes ME the “minority.”

I also mentioned George and his contemporaries as well.

The condition was often inappropriately referred to as ‘piebald’ when present in people of color, likening them to livestock.
You may read the full article here:

http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/2007/05/zebra-people-piebald.html