A bit of a tangent and anecdote:

My mother's second husband, and the father of my two beautiful sisters, is, shall we say... an a$$hole. Being from the deep South, he has some unsavory characteristics. cough*rascist*cough

So imagine my glee when, at the age of thirteen, the older of my two sisters started going a bit... nappy on the head. I couldn't help needling him about some forks in his family tree, just to get a rise outta the bigot.

Both of my sisters also tan very easily, and dark.

But on paper, they're "White" .

So no, the article Paul cited doesn't surprise me in the least.