Well. They think they’re white. Whiteness isn’t just something someone can identify as, it’s a condition imposed by white supremacy and it’s contingent on the political moment. A lot of leopards-eating-faces moments come when they find out that their whiteness in Colombia is non-transferable to whiteness in the US. If the white supremacists decide having English as a second language or having a dark-skinned grandparent makes someone non-white then their skin color won’t actually protect them.