Talk:Sandra Laing

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This seems extraordinarily unlikely. Her facial features show clear African ancestry and look nothing like either parent. In the absence of DNA testing I think a more mundane explanation must be considered. TheMathemagician (talk) 14:09, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. And the assertion that her father was subject to paternity testing needs support. --Sylvank (talk) 08:18, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The ears are a bit like the mothers. From what I read, I'd conclude that the "paternity test" was done after the parents decided to get her classified White. --41.15.13.98 (talk) 08:31, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The paternity test apparently was blood-type (DNA testing wasn't yet available), and so could only rule certain possibilities out, but couldn't point toward a specific individual... AnonMoos (talk) 17:33, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Her father underwent a blood-typing test which was the only thing available in the 1960's and indeed these tests reveal practically nothing and could not have determined he was the father. Dionyseus (talk) 20:20, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They just didn't exclude him as the father. And it should be phrased that way in the text. How similar do legal father and daughter look on pictures? --41.151.103.27 (talk) 17:34, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think we are ignoring that two of the children showed a sub-Saharan African phenotype. The chances for even one "Caucasian" child showing every property of the phenotype are astronomical, but when we get into two children it's entirely preposterous. The few cases where sub-Saharan African genotypes produced Caucasian phenotypes are possible because sub-Saharan African genotypes are so diverse, it's much harder to go the other way. If at some point someone bothers to exhume her father and do a real DNA test, I fully expect it to show the only rational explanation. 216.58.126.28 (talk) 02:34, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Vrry similar and definitely not different skin colors lol. Its a shame apartheid happened. Its also s shame when people cheat on their gullible husbands. 74.106.205.147 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:31, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

She likely had a affair. There are MILLIONS of "White Folk" with small amounts of black ancestry, yet two of those people coming together and birthing a African-looking child is unheard of [unless the wife screwed around on the husband, which IS heard of..]. I bet if she were DNA compared to her siblings if would show she shares half of her genes with them. 107.222.205.242 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:36, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The mother was clearly involved in miscegenation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.195.60.99 (talk) 10:02, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Her brothers are still alive (and want nothing to do with her apparently) and her mother was alive until recently. Why were no DNA samples taken after her story became well-known? Even now, why hasn't her DNA been analysed? How can there be enough interest to write a book and make a film about her but not do a swab test? TheMathemagician (talk) 09:46, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously neither she nor her family want a DNA test. 2601:8:2B00:450:5028:4A1:CC5:988B (talk) 04:23, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]