The White South African Woman Misidentified As Black (2000)
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- Sandra Laing: A Spiritual Journey (2000): Sandra Laing was born to white parents in South Africa, but because of her appearance she was identified as black and expelled from school. What followed was a heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart during Apartheid-era South Africa.
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Sandra Laing was born in 1955 to two white Afrikaners. She had a happy early childhood, unaware of her difference. However once she started school, it became obvious that Sandra was no normal child; due to her dark skin, Sandra was believed to be black. At 10 years old, parents at her primary school petitioned for her expulsion, deeming it unacceptable for a young 'black' girl to be educated in a white school. Her case was referred to the Department of Home Affairs, and Sandra was officially identified as black, and expelled. After a 2-year-long petition process, Sandra was re-identified as white after a blood test proved she was her parents' child. It was too late however; her absence at school had caused her to fall behind, and her English to suffer. Unable to fit into a divided society, Sandra, aged just 15, ran away with a black man and started a family. She was jailed for two months for being in a mix-raced couple, during which her family refused to visit. Even once released, her father refused to speak to her and cut contact, with her mother eventually following suit. The years to follow would prove to be tough, her identity constantly questioned and her life ending up in pieces. 30 years later, now happy with a
new husband, Sandra has difficulty coming to terms with the past, feeling guilt and regret for her actions, and while she longs to visit her now dying mother, her white family still wants nothing to do with her. A heartbreaking and extraordinary story set in Apartheid South Africa, which was eventually turned into a film, Skin (2008), starring Sophie Okonedo.
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She may has some white in her blood line, but there is definitely some black in there to. Someone is not telling the truth here.
@Nicole Ray the gene may be showing up bc some where in her lineage there are black ppl; considering this is South Africa, I’m sure she does.
@Nicole Ray LoL they didn’t even show the blood test. So you believe something just because they say it?
@@duragvon2234 exactly and the fact that the father refused the offer to have her educated in the international school is puzzling. His complete rejection speaks volume. There us more to the story. They the parents told the story the needed to tell after the test results. Call me a skeptic 🤔🤔🤔
@@jclioness No there isn't stop being so hard headed. Look it up. It's science. You're not a skeptic just ignorant. Science allows it to happen that you give birth to a child that may have way more melanin than you and even appear to be a different race. Come on people.
@@sonwabisedzidzi see now I started typing this long explanation to educate you about the science but then I realize this is the reason I don't engage in internet dialogue. But you will figure it out.
She's not misidentified one of her parents has passed for white next story, please.
For sure! Somebody needs to give her a history lesson.
Sisters tell it like it is EVERYWHERE👵🏿🙏🏿🤣🤣🤣
@Rebecca Spires Where can I find that information? Has she taken a DNA test to identify her race and ethnicity?
@Rebecca Spires I don't believe it. She needs to do another one. Saying that was the case isn't enough. Show us the test and break down the percentages.
Exactly
Just give her an ancestry DNA test.
She had a test done, both were her parents. She had atavism gene and so did her brother.
Explain a DNA test in the 60s?
Yeah I’ll wait!
@@missqt48 I am talking about now... Obviously they didn't have the technology back then. But they do now. She would only be 66 now. So she could have the answers she needs.
@@clchawaii09 im not saying they weren't her parents. I'm saying to have the test done and find out her roots farther down the line. She's obviously still conflicted and sometimes knowing more information to find the answers you've been wanting to confirm can out someone's mind at rest
@@TushawnduraTM Yes you are right I believe her mother had some possible mix ancestry she was afraid to tell. They did this a lot in the south and just passed for white until they ended up having a child that looks clearly black.
The mixed school girl who said "things have changed and next time we will carry the world" made me cry...she is very intelligent and empathetic, bless her heart💚
Powerful
So young,yet so bold and intelligent
THAT 4C HAIR and that Melanin...um BYE ✋
Yall not finna play with me today😔
😂😂, don't forget features. That mama is lying. When she combs that head, she already knows!
@@chk1261
Facts!
Chile😪
Shonny Gogetter lol
Carrie Kelly --😂😂😂😂
@@chk1261 you can't go off of features to tell what race someone is.
If you look back at the history of South Africa, the Europeans mixed with the Koi koi and Koi san, which is what she and her siblings looks like. History shows that over generations a black couple (due to their ancestors interracial marriages) can have a light skinned child, as well a white couple can have a darker skinned child. I remember years ago on a talk show in the States, a black couple had a very fair skinned child with blond hair, the husband swore that his wife fooled around on him. After DNA tests and the husbands ancestry they found that the child was his as he had German ancestors. So, before you pass nasty judgement on this sad yet beautiful story, think about your ancestry. Life is too short for us to be judgmental and nasty.
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It is not just the skin color, she has black features, and let’s not talk about the hair. What white German is goin to have that class 4 hair? Some people might buy this, but if you know anything about genetics you would know this is ridiculous. Her mom got knocked up by a black man, and came up with a story to try to cover it up. The cover up was lame at best.
@@MsLionofJuda Agreed 👍
@@MsLionofJuda There is no such thing as black features or ect, when will people understand there is no race. That is why this world is still in the position it is with "race". Your appearnce is all genetics, race is all hateful BS that was made for an excuse to colonize africans by saying they were not even the same race and that they were inferior. Any single feature you see on an african is possible on any skin color. Skin color is controlled by seperate genes, the genes that control your skin color don't control nothing else.
I think her mother was passing as white
That little girl at the end spoke with so much comfort and wisdom beyond her years! She didn’t get any credit but I’m sure she’s a fantastic young woman now 20 years on ! Hopefully a world changer making it a happier place like she said
Clearly all of the children had black blood, Sandra just happened to be a few shades darker.One of her parents held on to a secret about their bloodline. How sad that they allowed Sandra to suffer the way she did just so that they could protect themselves.
Right. I noticed the brother's hair, definitely mixed with Black. Terrible they chose to live the lie their white non-biological dad forced on them, and ostracized Sandra for living truthfully.
They had a third child who look mix too. However he doesn't speck in front of cameras.
@@sophiawilson8696, the other son doesn't look mixed-race at all. I have tracked him down on social media and he looks as Afrikaner as any other. Clearly Sandra and her mixed-race brother have a Black father.
@@elgee6202 you are WRONG I am talking about the second son he a little lighter than the sister but you tell he some black in him. The true is one of them had a black ancestors and pop up in two of the 3 children end of story.
@@sophiawilson8696, no, it isn't "end of story", because it is almost impossible to happen.
For that to occur both parents would have to have more than the usual 1-5% African ancestry that Afrikaners have AND for Sandra and her brother to defy the odds by taking huge chunks of the African DNA from both parents to look how they look, even when each parent has such remote African ancestry as to look totally White themselves.
The obvious answer is that Sandra's mother had an affair with a Black man who fathered Sandra.
This only proves that someone in her family was passing for white-She is black❤️❤️❤️
Search up Cape Coloureds
They never did that Passing for white BS in South Africa
or the mom cheated
She's coloured,not black
I agree. Or someone doesn't realize or was never told their true heritage back in her family line
So no one is going to suggest that the mother might have had an affair with a black or a mixed race man?
They did a DNA test.
My thoughts exactly...
Lauren G they did a blood test which is not 100% accurate. It only shows they shared the same blood type. There’s a chance you and I are the same blood type but pretty sure we aren’t sisters.
@@MzPink1992 You know blood has DNA in it right?
We dnt have to, the proof is SANDRA🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I KEEP WAITN 4 THEM 2 SAY WHAT DISEASE SHE HAVE.......
Jesus, did everyone just throw biology 101 out the window after high school? Genes can skip several generations, but whatever😧
Yes genes can skip generations but this chic has very strong African features. Something's off!
Biology? The average person is comfortably clueless about your references to Atavism.
Do not take the name of the Lord in vain. The Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Exodus 20v7
What’s worse to me is her parents saw her every day and didn’t prepare her for any of the hardships she was going to face. She was a child who didn’t know anything, but her parents knew the politics and the culture.
Her non-biological White father was in willful denial. He even refused the international school where she would have fit in and been successful. He punished her life.
This lady seems to have a lot of sadness in her heart. Poor lady. She went through so much at such a young age.
That is how a system can alter a person's complite outlook in life. We are all just like caged animals.
@@lebohangmoloi6229 We? Who's we? Apartheid was a system to cage Black and mixed people. No one else! Stop speaking in cursive
What's the scientific proof for that skin color
There are two liars here 😂, one is the person who wrote the title of this video, and second one is the momma ✌️ I'm out 😂 😂 😂
ThunderStrike V very funny 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
ThunderStrike V 😂😂😂😂😂
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ThunderStrike V yep...exactly
Do a DNA test, like me you will find out someone thought they took a secret to the grave. I found out both grandfathers were no who everyone thought. My grandmothers were up to it, while married.
R u also from SA?
I just did a DNA test and found out I have relatives that I SHOULD NOT have. MY Sweet old grandparent was up to some shenanigans.
Imagine how lonely she felt without her parents. Idgaf what era you lived in, your child needed you. Needed your love. That hurts. Then what makes it even more unsettling is that her brothers wouldn't or won't even talk to her. Fucking pathetic! And don't even put it on her being with some man... he was old af talking to her and she did what any other teen was doing... being naive. And all her father saw was skin color. Forgetting what color his beautiful baby was and putting aside that some grown man was preying on his little girl. This whole thing... she didn't ask to be mistreated, shunned by near everyone but people who looked like her, etc. The brothers are by far... get it together. The mother is even more shocking to me... and still while going through all that Ms. Sandra still came out to be one of the greatest mothers despite of what she lacked. I watched the movie but actually watching this and seeing how hurt she is, I can't even. The mother in me feels that little girl in her still longing smfh.
Well said........you did a great job of expressing my anger about this story
Well, it was a crime to be black, and her father was just trying to protect his child.
Her father should have supported her through not cutting her off completely.
Her parents suffered too.
Her mother has some black her. Sandra's brother has her features but is lighter skinned. I just don't get why her siblings want nothing to do with her. She definitely hurt her parents, and it affected her siblings tremendously. Still...
My heart goes out to this woman. I think she needs some therapy you can see how broken she is.
Athreeplusc Family@That white man klan you are mammying for seems to be part of the problem, maybe the same glue this woman in the video needs to fix her brokenness could be used on you.
People like yourself always look very ignorant when you assume things
@@Chaos-Retribution 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so not fair,, leave her alone
This white Africans need to stop mixing with this mess up people
LMAO! Who? like brotha man who was doggin her out ?.
I read the book when it came out. I need people to learn what recessive genes are. Somebody hidden in her parent’s families passed all their genes and African features on to her!
I cried watching this! She’s such a brave woman who’s gone through so much. God bless her and her family
This lady went through a lot of unnecessary evil. Words hurt.
All this because of the color of her skin. Yah neh!
breh
This is so sad I cried for Sandra
Honestly speaking, she looks mixed raced. One of her parents may have had black bloodline in the past.
Love from Botswana ❤.
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Or her mom was most likely creeping with a South African brother on the low...
Yes........for sure. How could they not question their bloodlines. So strange.
Yes, in África mixed is white. ONLY in US or Europa mixed people are black. For us they are non black.
@@natureela5441 That's because Africa is a black continent and Europe, America is a white continent. Mixed people get categorized depending on where they are.
The child trying to make her feel better just brought a tear to my eye. What a well spoken compassionate little girl.
She was.
Welcome to South Africa, here we live, breath and dream race in every possible way.
Why don't you dream your way into a stable economy and society?
@@allopez33 because the white people are leaving and no longer have control over the country.
@@laki5717 so true, lol, literally I CAN'T BREATHE
There's no misidentification here. It's very clear that she's black woman.
Right
Her Mother been fooling around
no both of her biological parents were white
@@jaydengray4015 yeah kinda wrote that before watching the whole thing 😬👌
No she not a black women
If she's white I'm Japanese
+Dominique Speaks Actually you can't go off of physical appearances to determine what race someone is. Her great-great grandmother was black.
I doubt the black genes would be that dominant after 5 generations
@@AzureKite191 ,,she is black regardless,, such a bad situation, wouldnt know what to do if my wife has a blond baby.
@@AzureKite191 Either her both parents had recessive STRONG black genes or her mother slept with a black man or they simply adopted her...she's clearly mixed at least...
@@SmartRobot-wc2fb I believe she was adopted...or one of her parents have blk in genes..
Her brothers are so hard to find any info on. Everyone seems to ignore Adriaan, the youngest, which I find so strange. He came out black too, even though he was lighter. He still had the same kinky curly hair but resembled the father so much so I would have to say Abraham finally had the proof he needed in his second son that Sandra was his. Yet no one batted an eyelash about him at all, not even the schools. Leon, I’ve read, came out white but not really. I think he probably had curly hair too as his nickname in school was “Jew”.
i had a friend who i met in 2nd grade who looked mixed, mostly dominantly white because of his hair. Turns out the dude is fully black with both black parents and grandparents. He mentioned to me as we got older that one his parents had a great grandparent who was mixed so he probably inherited that gene. Lol i cant forget how puzzled my class was when he introduced himself with an African name while looking white
Pearl Thusi so. These parents just need to be honest with their children 🤣
She has a beautiful small home. The brick layer, roof, and walk path connected to her home is very neat.
I love you.
Gee, are You a crook
I loved the wall of plants 🥰
We South Africans are generally neat people. We wake up at 5 to sweep the yard n polish the stoep. If ur neighbour wakes up late that day, she finds the outside of the yard swept n gets embarrassed.
Yes. It look so cute
Hi Sandra, your mother lied to you, you are mixed. You have some black in you and that's okay because black is beautiful.
Ruthmeli Charles yep lol she got a whole black daddy out there
Shes black and her Mom bad made a fool of her😢
Jo Jo alright imagine if every person with Caucasian especially from colonization got to claim that they’re white just because of the blood in them... the world would literally be overpopulated with “ whites “ and everyone would flip it would create identity crises... why don’t Europeans and Asians identify as Africans since most of their Homosapien DNA is from the continent just adapted in their region?
It's possible for her to be born apparently black even though she is born of apparently white people. You might actually find that both her parents have black genes in their family in that they each have an ancestral black person from whom they received the "black" gene. This gene might have been recessive meaning that it didn't show in the parents, however, because they are both carriers, their mating resulting in them having a black child. At least understand the basics of genetics before you can invalidate this woman's story. While there are stories of cheating parents resulting in the birth of a child of a different race, her story is not a lie... she is a white woman who has black features and is born of white parents. Her case is not absolutely impossible, but very rare... she is that 1 in so many people.
@@nondumisondhlovu9181 ehh maybe. more likely the father was having an affair and her white "mother" agreed to raise the children. i say father cause no way a WW in patriarchal conservative apartheid SA could get away with affair wit black dude.
Atavism-the recurrence of traits of an ancestor in a subsequent generation. Both her parents have a black ancestor. Nothing sinister going on here.
Crazy that her own brothers have turned against her. They are only fooling themselves.
Yes, we know the story of Sandra well in SA🇿🇦. She's one of many and different circumstances and lives shattered. It just illustrates the absurdity of Apartheid which many family still suffer the repercussions of today. Black families split when their fairer, lighter skinned family members classified "coloured" and moved to mixed race locations, other black families split by tribal groups, people in mixed marriages jailed, some white sympathizers of anti-racism disowned by their families and jailed. Broken family ties with many still confused about their identity still and messed up. 🇿🇦
Can you imagine what would have happened to my family? Genetics really is all just a roll of the dice. I definitely do get treated as the odd one out in both the UK and the Caribbean; when my mother introduces all of her kids to someone they look me up and down and ask 'um, who are you? Are you like a friend or something?' imgur.com/cCdyJ63
Hoi
You're lying on the "light skinned people" part. My mothers side of the family are light skinned,but weren't classified as coloured and moved to coloured communities. 😒
Why do you lie so much?🙄
@@SD_M9 it is not a lie. Some black people who were light skinned and could pass as coloured changed their surnames and moved to coloured communities so that they could access better opportunities. Just because your family didn't do it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Yithi awazi. I have members of my family who, to this day, are classified as coloured because they changed their classification during apartheid times.
@@hlumelodwesini6244 Okay,my bad. I guess most of those black people who passed as coloured were Xhosa? Like Grootbooms,Toms etc ?
I think somebody should've asked her mom. She probably knows some secret...
A blood test proved both are her parents
@campcush You just said it's a recessive gene that both parents probably have. The whites in South Africa are also not 100% white (it's been proven).
The mom couldn't get pregnant so the father while he was at "His shop" was making kids with black women and taking them home. A white woman at that time making kids with a black man could have been expelled from the apartheid society.
Do you know how genetics work and the history of South Africa?
This woman proves that her ancestors were black
The agony in this women’s being is heartbreaking
I know, can you imagine your mother lying to you about who your father is? This woman is half black, half white.
I love how the small girl comforts her ......"next time we will carry the world and make things happier"
Maybe I’m being rude, but with that 4c kinky hair, how could she ever be classified as white 🤷🏾♀️
I did not know one's race is determined by hair texture
I have a very pale friend with her hair texture.
Her most recent ancestors come from Russia, Mongolia and a few Asian countries. She goes to a afro hair salon though because they know how to take care of her hair which most other salons don't at all.
Satoria Robinson. I think it was an experiment.
Tell that to some Sicilians 😐🤔
@@slimj5761 Watch again you nitwit - it'ss explained
Recessive genes. Both parents most likely had black ancestry.
An intelligent answer that will not be appreciated by the people who "know" but don't learn.
True ,you can tell her father was a dark complected white man
Same thing I was thinking. Those parents especially the father needed to be aware if his roots. Such a sad story...smh
Correct
I read somewhere that afrikaans people tend to have some black ancestry due to the fact that dutch men initially did not bring women with them, thus intermarring with the native khoisans.
Mommy had a little bit too much fun with the mailman, lol! Too bad there was no "Maury Povich" show, lololol!!
The mother had an affair with a black man both the children weren’t the fathers and I think he knew that. Maybe he couldn’t have children so he let it be, who knows. They say they did a DNA test but nobody has ever witnessed it. She is half black whether she’s in denial or not with her lil cute fro.
The video was made to try to understand the dilemmas of this lady, not to be debating whether she is black or white
The titles states a "white woman misidentified" newsflash this woman is not solely white but mixed. Somebody be lying. She is obviously been lied to. Which is so sad, living a life of a lie you had nothing to do with. Ruining her social life and education, bonds with family and friends.
Yeah it's hard to accept your parents lying to you.
O Colombiano well she’s black
Is the DNA test fake too?
O Colom...:I think you're right😐
Those children at the end of the video speaking with Sandra and encouraging her are so sweet and mature.😙💓
Very mature!! I don’t see kids like that in this country!!
I'm bawling my eyes out 💖
Bright Star
🤗😦
All of this drama over not admitting to an affair.
Omg . How she kept a straight face during these interviews. The mom definitely dabbled in the neighborhood. Her and her mixed brothers and sisters lol.
LMFAO!!!! GTFOH!!! That is Not her Daddy. That's why she looks at the ground when she talks. She knows she's lying about her daddy. She's Ashamed. Her mama Likes the Black D.
Lmao petty
Towards the end, the way the school kids are showing her so much love and encouragement... I'm crying 😧
warmed my heart too!
The oldest girl showed so much maturity, compassion and understanding. Loved all the children's responses.
Me too.
Me too I cried 😭❤️❤️
Children are innocent, they only know love. its the parents that corrupts their minds by telling them and showing them how to hate. "a generation curse"
girl I'm sorry for your struggles but Sis you black and your brother is black or in our South African term for mixed people "coloured"
Correction coloured people are not mixed people
@@welansworld4149 Coloured are not mixed???😂😂😂😂 Which African tribe are coloured people if they are not mixed?
All i know is that coloured are mixed generation who decided to breed with each other to maintain whiteness.
It's possible for her to be born apparently black even though she is born of apparently white people. You might actually find that both her parents have black genes in their family in that they each have an ancestral black person from whom they received the "black" gene. This gene might have been recessive meaning that it didn't show in the parents, however, because they are both carriers, their mating resulting in them having a black child. At least understand the basics of genetics before you can invalidate this woman's story. While there are stories of cheating parents resulting in the birth of a child of a different race, her story is not a lie... she is a white woman who has black features and is born of white parents. Her case is not absolutely impossible, but very rare... she is that 1 in so many people.
@@welansworld4149 In South Africa Mixed people prefer to be called coloured, not black. Coloured is a legit race, like even in legal documents we have coloured as a race. It's not a derogatory term like in America.
@@princess7873 Exactly we are a race, which is not mixed. Like you said it yourself now🤷♀️... and don't agree with you saying " mixed people preferring to be called coloured"
Despite the outcome, the ending is very emotional as the kids encourage her. 🙏❤
Seeing these young kids speaking to Sandra brings tears to my eyes. I am an African born American, and can't u understand why adults show such stupidity through their racist thoughts and behaviors. May God have mercy upon us. Racism, I see will never end.
I wish for her a peaceful life.
May you be blessed for your kindness. You do many others shame by your grace.
Amen 🙏
Indeed!
* The Black South African Woman Correctly Identified As Black (2000)
Correctly Identified As mixed race
Idiot
@@nyembsafric1 yes, the title is idiot
YES,exactly! Correctly identified
😂😂😂😂
There needs to be a follow up on this story, after she takes a generic test. All questions will be answered.
LMFAO!!!! GTFOH!!! That is Not her Daddy. That's why she looks at the ground when she talks. She knows she's lying about her daddy. She's Ashamed. Her mama Likes the Black D.
@@billyhjackson LMFAO IKR!!!!!!!
Damn!I am a tear jerker! I cried so hard on the last part with the children 😢 thank you so much for giving sandra these words!❤
*Im surprised at Black people on here, acting like you never hear of a light skinned person that can pass for white*
*Both of her parents are Mixed White. 1/3 of White Americans have some Black in them too. Their daughter had some throwback DNA from a*
*African ancestors. It happens, my cousins kid is light skin with hazel eyes both parents dark skin with Dark eyes*
Yep look at Rapper Logic, Wentworth Miller, Carol Channing, all of them Black/mixed passing for White. Both parents were probably Octoroons or something similar.
Jason H we are the only race give off many colors from past 🧬 DNA. My daughter is dark her husband is dark my two granddaughter are bright and this comes from my mom who has obvious white in her and the kids grandmother who dad is suppose to be Puerto Rican. I am the grandmother and I am dark my father mother is black Indian. This is true.
@@tonyagetsreal8905 greetings. Im Half Trini we have many douglas in my family.
There is no such thing as passing for white. If you look white, you are white, with some African ancestry.
what happened to this woman when she was still a child its still affecting her to this day and its very sad
Ok thats 98 percent of the world population!! So !!!
Smelly Belly if she'd stop lying to herself she would be fine! Her daddy is black.
savannahs geo ye but if her mom did not tell her the truth what do you want her to say? And she doesn’t know any other father except the one who raised her,and how do you know that his father was a black man
The blood tests of both parents were matched against hers and showed both are her bio parents. Therefore, one or both of her parents is mixed race..likely both considering how strong her African features are and how dark she is. Clearly, especially living in SA, she should have been raised as a Black person.
It could be genetics alot time
child can favor description of
past ancestors hmm
I have a similar case in my family, my grandparents are dark but my mom is light skinned like her grandfather and great grandmother because we have mixed race roots. My dad is really dark but his mom is way lighter than he is due to my dad's partial Dutch ancestry. Race isn't just skin color and people need to realize the genetics behind it.
This broke me. Full on waterworks. Much love to her spirit and everyone else that treated her in a dignified way.
She is Coloured. Part of the sad history of identity-hiding in South Africa. Her mom was most definitely not white either.
Rose Gazka either her parents could have been bi-racial or her grandparents & pass as white if they looked white. Sandra looks any other normal black person. Of course she can be their child. They obviously gave black somewhere on the bloodline before Sandra.
@@annettecaitlyn1058 Yea that's what I'm betting too. One of her mom's parents was more than likely mixed already it skipped over the mom but her daughter got all of her great grand pappy's blackness lol.
@Jo Jo So you're just going to repeat this on every comment? 🤣😂😂
@Jo Jo 😅😂🤣
How would you know her mother is not white.
Either they had a black surrogate father or were adopted. They are visibily black
Qiao Ching Or both parents were mixed
No just one of the parents lied, and had a black parent or grandparent themselves. She had her DNA tested and it came back that she was both parents biological kid. Think about it if she wasn't the dad's daughter there'd of been no way she'd of ever got reclassified as white. The government most likely would of loved her to be black to kick her and her brother out of those whites only schools. Shit I'm surprised they didn't rig the test after they saw the truth to make it say she had a black dad to fit their agenda.
or most likely - surrogate mother. no way back then in paternalistic south african apartheid would a white woman be tolerated to bed a black man.. however.. a white man who was very domineering, and controlling, could definitely get away with having a black lover... most likely he fathered sandra and her little brother (the other one apparently is very white and is prolly the real biological child of them) with his black lover, and his wife tolerated it, and actually DID love him a lot, so had no issue with raising the children as her own..
I just don't see any possible way of Sandra's mother having a consistent enough affair with a black dude to bear two children while married to a white dude. unless he had the biggest cuckold fetish of all-time and loved it lol..
I'd bet the former, though, that Sandra's MOTHER was actually a black woman.
Jo Jo , she is all that she is, not only one part of what she is.
I thought I red both parents had some black genes to be honest. Why are people stressing out as to Which parent is supposedly black? Look at Eartha Kitt's daughter who is blonde and blue eyes I believe, she looks entirely white. Also Gabrielle Reese (tall, blond) former US pro volleyball player, her dad was Black.
Sandra is such a sweet lady. The ending had me tearing up.
Her Afrikaans is so 100%.. Sandra herself is really a soft hearted individual ❤. I HOPE GOD CONTINUES TO LOOK AFTER YOU & YOUR FAMILY
This story is not about this woman being mixed race. It is deeper than that. In the old footage of the parents in the shop, the mothers face was so distorted that there was some pain going on for a minute. Now the pain of the daughter is carried on. There is more to this story than what is being told in 25 minutes. There could be more of what actually took place in the home for this girl to run away from home at a VERY young age. So, she was not accepted in school yet ran away from family that loved her? Home with family that loves you is where you find solitude. This was such a happy home, but the mother is AFRAID of the father. There is something to this story. A grown woman shy to this day, and yet she married twice, starting at what age? There is something about this story. This story SCREAMS abuse.
Barbara Changes but she left home to be with her Black lover who her parents hated.
That's true Barbra! I feel sorry for this poor lady. If only people could stop blaming.
Totally agree with you but I think people are reacting to the "misidentified as Black" part.
watch the movie it won an award
it;s pretty clear the father was having an affair with a khoisan woman )based on sandra's features - they scream khoisan). and the mother accepted the children as her own..
i doubt in the most patriarchal, conservative, racist society in the world a white woman could get away with an affair with a black dude. no way.. the father had a mistress.
sandra looks like the father - especially at a young ae - the eyes, face shape, etc.
She is not white
She is white her parents were white
Just look at her thats not white her mommy did the help same with her little brother
What do we determine race by? Looks or genetics? There are plenty of people who are visually "white, black, Asian' etc and yet their genetic makeup says differently. That's why racism is retarded.
@@vevedehavilland4743 no she looks like her white Dad
Think a little her parents proberbly both had an african ancestor
What an interesting, jaw dropping doccie... Thank you for putting this together. I hope Sandra finds peace ❤️
What a life !so much pain! yet the lady ‘s hart is still pur and good !!Ibeleive in humanity because of people like Sandra and that little boy in the classroom is so deep and compationate !!! Beautifull message 🌞Thank you 🌼
You'll be surprised what your blood contains when you do An ancestry DNA check
I don’t believe those companies.
Yeah but appearance will always make ppl label you the way they see u.
They have some black blood in them and someone was passing as white which is not common before now. There are many celebs that have black dna. I never knew slash was half black, jennifer beal or Jeff goldblum and many others. J. Edgar Hoover who was racist was part black.
Ancestry DNA is a load of bullshit lies trying to desperately convince us whites we are anything but.
My came back saying I'm only mixed with Hennessey and gin 😬😬😬
The father knew all along and needed a reason and when she got with a black man whoop there was his reason. If I'm wrong forgive but even as a child this lady looked like a black woman
I have mixed race nieces and nephews that look like this. Her parents were definately passing for white
Her 2 brothers looked mixed also......just a bit lighter skin.
@@Funonabudget 😂😂😂Then that is so sleek
Agreed, and for people to continuously try to say that her parents were passing for white is ludicrous. It's possible that maybe one of them were passing but I'm 100% sure they both were not. Even still...there is no way that ALL of their children would have come out looking biracial. Hell, I'm only 7% white (according to my genetic testing) and this woman looks just as black, if not more, black than I do. I honestly believe that her mother had an ongoing affair with a black man and her parents were too ashamed to own up to it...they thought the kids would/could pass as long as they doubled down on both being the biological parents. People keep bringing up the "blood test" but it was just that, a BLOOD TEST, which proves absolutely nothing. DNA testing wasn't even available until the mid-late 80's...
If that man were simply "passing" for white, he wouldn't have treated his daughter with such disregard. The son's were lighter and more than likely fell in line with pursuing/marrying white women, especially seeing how their sister was treated after falling in love with a black person. We are all mixed up and genetics show up in weird ways, but I'm sorry...I do not believe that these parents were simply passable for white and ALL of their children came out clearly as descendents of African people.
@@itsmevivi_ They are 100% both not her parents. Either one parent is real and the other is some mystery black parent or neither are the parents. There is a small possibility that they are both white passing but come on. They both look full white.
She is black period, and that is not a curse, not a mistake just black and nothing to sad about.
I had a friend that said her husband’s grandmother said there was black in the family. All of her kids were born with curly hair. Her daughter had a kinky patch in the center of her head. But none of them had dark skin. It’s truly hard to believe that she was born not only w/ darker skin, but also with the kinky hair. Speaking from the African-American side, we have all colors in our family. There are a lot of very light-skinned ppl in my family. It’s all genetics, someone in her family was black or biracial & passed for white. It happened all the time. I wish that ppl would be honest with their family. I’m so glad that she was welcomed in the black community & loved. ❤
When the little girl started to comfort her, that's when I bawled my eyes out. Let's hope that this racist nonsense ends soon. Its ridiculous.
Same here. It shows how much we can learn and be led by the wisdom of the children of today. Apartheid and racism is absurd and this should never happen again.
Same here ❤
Shame on her father and brothers
daric nd NO shame on her mother to screw black man .
I Agree By Now In Life Her Siblings should have figured out or Realized That their Sister was the daughter of All African proably REALLY Dark Skinned And They May have afraid of what their Dad would do or say to them or. Their Mom Or Maybe They Promised The Mom They Would Not bring her Around Yes Their Mom Cheated Or Their Parents One or Both had All African Blood and It Came Up through Her As It has In My Own Family And Yes D.N.A. test Proved My Brother is The Father But it Skipped Our Parents and Camed Through Our Great Great Parent's But The Sad Truth Is This Woman Has Experienced What Many of Us Or Our Family Members in The U.S. Yet If She didnt RUNAWAY She Would Have Lived A Miserable Life. Because Her legal Father Could Not Forgive His Wife Or Hated His Daughter Looked Black But Her Hair,Skin, Nose, And Build Clearly State All African Was In Somebodys D.N.A. But I Say This What Kind Of Mother Could Live With A Man Who Could Not Accept HER CHILDREN IF SHE HAD TO GO RUNAWAY WITH HER CHILDREN AND TELL HER CHILDREN IT IS WHAT IS BECAUSE THE WORLD IS GONNA BE CRUEL AND REJECT THEM HOW COULD THEY JUST SEND HER TO SCHOOL LIKE THAT AND SURELY THEY COULD TELL SHE WAS DARK AND WHAT ABOUT THE BROTHER HE IS DARKER HUMPH I KNO2 THEY WERE BUSINESS OWNERS BUT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOSS WITH THE BUSINESS AND HUSBAND THE D*** WAS GOOD TO HER NOT ONCE BUT TWICE MY HEART GOES OUT TO HER EVEN WITH ALL SHE HAS GONE THROUGH HER LOVE FOR CHILDREN IS GREAT("A TRUE AFRICAN MOTHER")
If this is 2000,i wonder where she is now...
If you ever think life is unfair watch this.
So HEARTTOUCHING and AMAZING are the Wise words of the young children,don t be ashamed of yourself etc etc.
I believe Sandra and her brother were "throwbacks". There is black blood in the family. Maybe her mother, father, grand parents had black blood which colour skipped a generation and developed generations later
Calamity Jane, yes this is the only correct explanation for this. It’s a throwback! The mom didn’t cheat on her husband. Throwback is the magic word here
The recessive can not give birth to the dominant these are not some body's children some body lying and they partner supporting the lie
could be like how black people can come out looking pure white at times or very mixed like european mixed. I know a few girls like that
Zeker weten, een terugval.
@@lionofjudah7627 big facts
She's so soft spoken. Seems kind. So shy 😒, not much confident. But one can tell her heart is as innocent as a childs. There's just something about her.
That what i noticed also. Something terrible happened to her. its strange how she age like black women
SHE Doesn't look at the Camera a lot. This is a trait of a liar!
@@billyhjackson your entirely entitled to your own opinion. Does not mean you are right. 🤷♀️
@@modestaavula295 LMAO, You must live in an imaginary World if you think this woman's daddy is not Black. #conversationover
Ok
A simple dna test would solve this mystery
They did testing with what was available back in the days that’s why she was reclassified back as white
Poor lady still carries all of the pain from her childhood.:(
Her brothers not wanting to see her are evil, and everyone that knows these brothers should never want to see them!😠
Their father showed that seed in their hearts whiles they were young . Ohhh fathers Almighty God will hold you'll accountable for derailing your children destiny. Repent to God Almighty through Jesus Christ and reconcile yourself to your family.
Can you imagine , when he died , his judgement before God Almighty for what he caused to his daughter and family ....hatred, heartbreak , rejection , separation and alienation, confusion, abandonment etc....beware of your actions FATHERS !!!!
Watch Derek Prince , on shame and rejection . Please
Most white South Africans still do not believe there was anything wrong with Apartheid
@@mikejnmarie2646 Amen!
She is a beautiful woman, but is still very much in pain.
The way she holds her head down when she speaks...so much unnecessary shame.
@@blacknnatural It's not shame it's pain. FFS why do you people think you know everything? It's obvious the woman is still in pain. She really needs a professional therapy. Most of you idiots have no clue how somebody feels after being rejected by every single person they've ever known and trusted all their lives. Her parents, her teachers, her peers, her husband, her entire family rejected her just because of her skin colour.
Sam LSD your tone is unnecessary. I do agree there is a deep level of pain as well. You can also dispense with the 'you people' terminology as well.
The CZcams rabbit hole led me here. Boy did I need this chuckle!!!
Thank you for sharing this story with us... I'm happy everything worked out for her, but she had a hard time because of her skin color.. I'm a black person who lived in the south of America 🇺🇸and I went through a lot.. Her father should have stood up and her brother's , okay they mother health was not good and they didn't want to upset her okay, but Sandra also was hurting... I'm so happy that she found a man that loved her and her children's love her and appreciate all she had to go through...
She seems traumatized 😔
She is because they paid her to be interviewed and go along with that lie about her daddy, when every person with common since know that's not her daddy and her mother was on that Black D.
You don't look Nigerian.
@@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993 how do Nigerians look?
@@billyhjackson what?
My mother ran away from South Africa in 1953, the year I was born. Now I understand why. She cried for South Africa
I'm afraid to go there. The only white people I'm afraid of are those from South Africa; they're indeed a different breed
The children at the school towards the end were so sweet. I had my reservations about SA but this has swayed me that the world really has changed. Still quite a way to go but wow. If I didn't watch this I would think its still quite bad. I know there are still incidences and institutionalised racism is prevelat, all over the world too, but I feel good watching this. Best CZcams recommendation EVER
She is so beautiful ✨💕
Documentary: "and people are no longer classified on race"
South Africa: am I a joke to you?
😂😂😂😂
The lies these white people tell just to look good 🤣🤣
@@WNdaba It's not a lie, it used to be part of your ID Number and you couldn't change it. Now that classification has been taken away. It's still being recorded for demographic and redress purposes by the ANC.
She didn't imply that society is colorblind or that racial issues are solved.
@@CeasiusC You have to be a fraud. The European Lies have to stop now. Black Lives Matter. The world is Changing for the Good, and The European Lies are being brought to the forefront. Clearly her face is the forefront, and that is NOT her "DADA"
@@billyhjackson What does that even mean? Are you accusing me of being a person from Europe that doesn't live in South Africa?
I am a white South African, yes but I don't identify as European, they abandoned us long ago.
I work with software that literally integrates with the South African home affairs system and can literally prove everything I said.
@@CeasiusC Honestly I don't care what you are, this story is about her, NOT ABOUT YOU. and she is a fraud, and you are one too, if you believe this fraud and this fraudulent documentary! Period!
...and her very siblings who say they won't let her see her mother, because it will kill her, their grand children will come out black.
Everyone’s out here arguing whether or not she’s white but can we just appreciate how beautiful the ending was 😢💖
LMFAO!!!! GTFOH!!! That is Not her Daddy. That's why she looks at the ground when she talks. She knows she's lying about her daddy. She's Ashamed. Her mama Likes the Black D.
@@billyhjackson I agree, she looks mixed but I don't see why that matters :/
@@billyhjackson
How do you know she's lying about her father do you know her personally. Look.Sandra came out dark simply because she is a throwback and suffered for it full stop.
Such a heart wrenching story. Kinda just broke my heart listening to this gentle soul still looking for that connection with her family. I hope her brothers will one day realise its never to late to reconnect with her.
She sure has a lot of videotape of her early life.
Carl Darl ikr 😂
this is why I also don't believe this documentary. staged hey.
😂😂😂
These are actors
I was wondering about that! They weren't even filming her doing much
The racism in this world is embarrasing ,it's a shame that human beings treat each other like this
It’s 8 billion people on the planet who cares
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All humans have same blood and same anatomy, I don't really understand this World is so ugly, Lod Jesus return soon so that there won't be any more hatred against its own, enough is enough 🙏🙏
Nthuthuko, is not only embarrassing and shameful, this is arrant satanic and very ungodly, b 4 God we are all equal and created in His own Image, so the one who doesn't Love other human being as love himself, he is not of God.
@@nathanielkgobe427 Well said brother. I mean who has the audacity to judge God's creation based on color? Very evil act, an act of satan.
I have never cried so much while watching a documentary. Poor girl.
the mother cheated. full stop!
One or both of her parents could have had mixed ancestry and not know.
Cookielinas love same thing i was thinking
TheCultLeader In Chief in Hell you will lift up your eyes and the last conversation you will have before you are judge for your wicked heart is king Jesus" you have no respect for the Greatness of the Creator Almighty Yahweh his Son the Holy One Yeshua the Messiah Jesus and Holy Spirit your a fool repent of your evil and maybe in his mercy he will save you
Yes look at our current princess mergan markle .I thought she was pure white didn't knw her mum is black which makes it possible dat in her gene maybe if she does have children some mite have black gene and came out darker....not dat it bad thing.
EXACTLY! They passed on those days. That is what was done in some cases....
That makes more sense than the title suggests
It's so sad that her brothers won't accept her or let her see her mother :(
If they do that ,they might realise they are half black too,so they want to live in their denial
@@FF-by6ci
Yup!
Swati Patel - The mother is dead. I saw the movie on Netflix about her life.It is called Skin.
Swati P...Yes, she died shortly after Sandra located her in a nursing home, where the brothers had moved her to. (The hid the location from Sandra) About a month or two later, when the Mum was located, Sandra's mother passed away, but the brothers did not tell Sandra, as they did not want her at funeral. That was several years ago now.
She's Blaaaaaaaaaak
Your story is so sad. I'm praying for you and your brothers to reconcile before its too late.🤗❤
So no one questioned all three children? All looks black to me, as a matter of fact one looks Asian.
Can you imagine rejected by your mother father and your siblings oh God I'm aching to give her a hug and cry with her and tell her she's love by many this brake my heart 💔😢.
But she is white
Back then it was ok to disown your child my grandma was disowned because she married a black man
As black as they come. Be proud to be black and beautiful. At least you'll age slower!
@NotJo she's not a man tho 🤔
Hell naw only way a white man ages better than black is if the black man was on drugs hella bad
@NotJo show me a pic of both of them at 60, same health and same wealth and let's see the difference
Having two white parents is far from "being as black as they come"... Lol
NotJo my dad (who is African American) is 51 and I could count the number of grey hairs on his head and beard when he was 49. He only really started growing grey hair due to stress put on his body after complications from a heart condition he was born with that he was hospitalized for at 50. All my white friends dads around my fathers age were greying and even balding already.
these kids are all so loving and wondrfully wise, i want to give all a BIG HUGS and kises. i pray god keeps the so innocent and life is good to them!!!!
I saw the movie of her life. BOTH parents had black ancestry. The movie is called Skin also both her and the youngest brother came out mixed.
I remember this story if memory serves me right and yes her father is half black passing as white.
That is what I thought.
Judith Thompson yes! Look at the baby 👶🏽 brother. 4:30
They were all white. Go and watch Skin on Amazon and Netflix for the real story. It's called atavism or ancient gene.
@Daughter of Enoch She looks just like them. People don't want to see it.😌
Daughter of Enoch it’s called being ignorant. You clearly do not know the complexity of genetics. A white blonde couple had twins, one a ginger and one black. Did the mother cheat with two races?