CLAREMONT, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- He's light skinned but had lived his life as a black man in southern California, until a DNA test showed Wayne Joseph he wasn't, ABC reported Sunday.
In a feature illustrating the many cultural facets of race identification in America, ABC News News told the story of the high school principal who took a DNA test to find he was 57 percent Indo-European, 39 percent native American, 4 percent East Asian and zero percent African.
The 50-year-old Joseph said the news rocked the world of his first wife, a black woman, and their two children, that of his mother, of Creole stock, and
of his wife of the past 17 years, a white woman.
About 7,000 have taken the special DNA test offered by DNA Print Genomics. About 5 percent of European-Americans exhibit some detectable level of African ancestry.
