Originally Posted by helterskelter808

Pretty sure when the Spice Girls were at their height, I saw people referring to Mel B as African American, despite the fact she is British, her mother is white and her father is from the Caribbean.

When Halle Berry won an Oscar much was made of it being a success for African Americans, ignoring the inconvenient fact she was brought up single-handedly by her white, British mother, with no input whatsoever from her African American deadbeat dad.