>> There's a book by a woman that married a Samoan, and when she saw the paperwork that described him as brown, waxed quite poetically that he was clearly bronze. <<

It's funny how people think Doc Savage must be a white guy, he's usually filmed that way ... but the original description is "The man of bronze" and the old pulp covers tend to show with the deep, lineless tan that comes from crossing European with Northern African or Indian heritage.

>> And yes, I've eaten peaches that could never be color-matched to a 'white' person. <<

Well, there are yellow peaches and white peaches. The yellows run to Asian or Asian/American crosses. But some of the white peaches are very fair-skin-colored.