"I felt physically sick"

After a mix-up in a fertility clinic, this white couple ended up with a pair of mixed-race kids. An Asian man's sperm was used by accident. I'm not sure who put the emphasis on race in the way this Sun article, but it's easy to infer from it that the colour of the two twins was as much a problem as their paternity.

This reminds me of something I was pondering the other day. Colin Powell is, apparently, 1/8th black. That is to say, he's 7/8ths white. So why is he considered to be a black man? This is the sort of dilemma which gives the lie to any sort of colour-based classification of people. I know that some people find it tough being colourblind, but it would make things much easier.

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