A white couple Dana and Hugh Clarke are shocked when Dana gives birth to a baby with African-American features. How do you explain this one? Is this even genetically possible for a white couple to have a black child naturally as Barbara Delinsky, author of ‘Family Tree’ puts it?
So what would you do if this happened to you? Send your spouse packing or try to explore the genetic side of the story? And how do you even begin to convince your family and friends?
Well you gotta admit that this is one thought provoking book.
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Comment by Cocokisses on 7 September 2007:
This is a very interesting article. We all sould be smart enough to know that it could happen. We can change a lot of things about ourselves, but we can’t change genetics!
Comment by Kevin on 7 September 2007:
I would have to get dna done to see how that happened. I would trust my lady. I would just want to know what was in my gene pool and what was in her gene pool that came together to create the child.
Comment by vette on 7 September 2007:
Even though both the male and female label themselves as white someone doesn’t know the whole truth about their genetics, It is impossible for two white people to have a black baby, but it is possible for a black to have a white baby (Albino). Both need to trace their family tree or someone is not telling the truth.
vette
Comment by Jade74 on 7 September 2007:
This can happen.The genes going back many generations.Someone in the past were pasting or not telling about the family tree.
Comment by Cocokisses on 8 September 2007:
Blacks can have white babies. My best friend is married to a man who appears to be white. He is in fact, black. He has straight hair, white skin. His Mom is bi-racial, and his dad is a light skinned black. Both his parents look black, so go figure. He does have some great stories to tell about comments people make to him not knowing what his true race is.
Comment by Diva on 9 September 2007:
An excellent book to read about this topic is “When She Was White: the true story of a family divided by race” by Judith Stone. I found out about it in Essence magazine and picked it up at my local library. Pretty interesting read.
Comment by fala on 9 September 2007:
That’s a very good point Jade. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I read about this.
Comment by vt33 on 10 September 2007:
All Bloggers..if you watch PRISON BREAK you will see that this is modern day and happans more often then people think. If you google Wentworth Miller aka Michael Schofield you will be amazed at his heritage.
To me this isn’t somthing that is schocking that someone wishes to write about, like they are trying to bring somthing schocking to the light. Not really, everyone bases stuff like this on the whole Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings ordeal. The offspring of Jeffersons looks like they have black in them, but Wentworth Miller, you would never no that he is of many, many cultural backgrounds.
Keeping you on your toes! Till the next episode.
Comment by Ezrhino on 12 September 2007:
If both parents are white and neither could be or would consider themselves black then it does not take Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out, DNA will clear this one up quick, fast and in a hurry.
Two mixed raced parents will produce mixed kids and no kid can be darker or lighter than either parent.
This reaching back generations stuff is just a cover that mother cheated very recently like 9 months ago. By the way a mixed raced person and any other race will still produced a mixed in appearence baby. I had to answer this because I,am tried of seeing this sort stuff being swept under the rug. You can bet the Mom knows who the REAL father is no one reaches any further into their family tree beyond their parents. I guess people really believe that those blonde haired blue eye kids are really Micheal Jacksons, skin lightners and processed hair and plastic surgery do not change his original dna either
Comment by Ezrhino on 12 September 2007:
Anybody believing this reaching back stuff should wake up an smell the coffee and get real ,or has used it as a cover for or by those making the claim for what really went on it that were the case we would still be producing pre -human caveman every now then. Albino babies still have the phyiscal ( hair/nose/eyes ) of their race no one has ever had to ask and albino their race because it is obvious based on other factors other than skin color
Comment by bdogbill on 13 September 2007:
Ok here is some perspective from someone who is a product of a mixed relationship. I can identify with the guy in cocokisses story as most people think Im hispanic and never guess black at all lol. My mom is white and my dad is lite skinned black guy. now my dad is lite skinned but his sister is a lot darker than him as well as his brother. I do believe the genes can reach back maybe a generation or so but I still would prefer to get a dna test as well. its something I havent experienced yet as I dont have kids but I do think it can happen and fala some say I look like him lol
Comment by vt33 on 13 September 2007:
lol..Sorry Ezrhino…Wentworth Miller proved the reaching back theory ten times over. His daddy is black and his momma is white and he admits it. Both of mixed heritage, and he looks white like that. It can reach back, don’t say it can’t it can.
Comment by vt33 on 13 September 2007:
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/Prison_Break/Image_wentworth_miller_prison_break.jpg
Comment by vt33 on 13 September 2007:
peep that one bloggers…
Comment by ETERINITY on 13 September 2007:
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION HERE IS HOW WILL THE CHILD REACT ?
Comment by Rich on 13 September 2007:
Black people of mixed descent can have white babies (if there is white ancestry on both sides) It’s the same as blue eyes. 2 brown eyed parents can have blue eyed kids. But a white couple cannot have black kids just as a blue eyed couple cannot have brown eyed kids. Black is dominant as are brown eyes. If the genes for black skin are in you they will show and the white will be “masked” (at least partially) But if the “masked” genes are passed on on both sides and the black ones are not the kid will be white. But white couples cannot have genes for dark skin or they would show in the appearance, being dominant. So, 2 white parents = no black kids.
Comment by ezrhino2001 on 13 September 2007:
Wentworth’s dad was light complected mixed race , mother white, He would appear more white. My Hertiage is similar to Wentworth’s I have more white charatceristics than black remember no lighter than the lightest parent and no darker than the darkest. The child in question is much darker than either parent. I stand by my 1st comments. Yes I,am mixed and love diversity but its time to be real here.
We can all weigh in here , but a simple DNA test will clear this up and silence us all my self included once and for all
Comment by angellx on 14 September 2007:
there was a programme on recently in the uk…where twins were born to a white couple where one was born white and the other light with black features, it highlighted the different life experiences of each and the difficulties/isolation faced by the ‘black’child during child/adulthood,compared to that of his brother….i feel thats in all our genes an can happen at anytime..this is not the first time a story like this has been heard, there are black couples who give birth to babies with white skin/features, me and my sons father are brown and our baby came out as very pale skinned with curly lightbrown hair but that type of coluring is in our family, it happens. if this couple are able to look back into their history im sure they will find some other cultural connection….jamaicans say ‘out of many we are one’ so true..
Comment by revnurse1948 on 15 September 2007:
Well, Ezrhino, you are sort of being silly here. If you understood anything at all about genetics, then you would realize that it’s possible, through gene combinations, through recessant traits coming to the fore, and even through spontaneous mutation, (for who knows what reason, maybe even the will of the Creator), for an apparently all white couple or and all black couple to give legitimate birth to a child who seems to be of a different race. There are many implications here, one being that there is ONLY ONE RACE: the HUMAN RACE. In our time, the so-called races are melding, blending. Perhaps it’s time for race-consciousness to die and for human-consciousness and tolerance to take its place. Also, perhaps it’s the will of Divine Intelligence, the Creator Within, that such children be born in order to further Human-Consciousness on this planet. Those who are born this way are both challenged and privileged. They are challenged to rise to the call to be examples of humanity at its blended best. They are privileged to be the harbingers and way-showers of better things to come. It’s not a sex or faithfulness thing at all. It’s part of a much bigger picture in my opinion. Thank goodness! And, Eternity, let’s all join together to see that the child reacts and lives with dignity and empowerment, as it’s not all up to the parents to see to this, but to a global community of liberated thinkers. Ezrhino—you need to begin to think bigger. I have 10 mixed nieces and nephews and four mixed grandchildren, along with one “all white” grandchild. All of them are HUMAN. None of them are the product of infidelity or someone fooling around on someone. They are God’s children, as are we all.
Comment by Erik on 15 September 2007:
The same thing happened to Dinah Shore(1940’s actress). She was from the south and her “White slave owner” ancestors had many “Black African” women “warm their beds.” It was determined that the “Black” gene decided to manifest itself when she got pregnant. Unfortunatly her husbands did not understand and divorced her.
Comment by revnurse1948 on 15 September 2007:
Dinah Shore’s black gene was evidenced also in her singing voice, and unusual timbre for a “white” woman, like textured velvet…so beautiful.
Comment by mossimo on 21 September 2007:
A simple DNA test would put an end to some of the specualation. Wonder if that was done….
Comment by Jade74 on 21 September 2007:
How about Carol Channing..and her family?
Comment by vixen2007 on 23 September 2007:
ok ,white mommy white daddy black baby,this isnt hard,uhh mommy did a hook up with a black guy,ha
Comment by Sandra888 on 16 October 2007:
White slut was obviously messing around and her dumb ass got caught.
Comment by Mike on 1 November 2007:
Finally some people see it for what it is instead of the blah blah about genetics. She cheated on her husband with a black guy, what’s the question?
Comment by Lisa on 10 November 2007:
Well I’ve heard of black babies being made from white mums and dads. It used to happen in England in the old days, they would question the mum. Who’s the daddy? but the genes can come from a few generations back and a darker or black baby can be born. Our son is white skin, blonde blue, eyes and his daddy is west african our other son is black like his daddy.
Comment by Zenos on 14 November 2007:
What a liar. She knows she laid down with an ape, hopefully her husband isn’t stupid enough to believe it.
Comment by Ebonegirl on 14 November 2007:
Ok, ok…I have a girlfriend (black), EZRHINO2001, who is lighter than BOTH of her parents..she has grey eyes, naturally blonde hair with highlites, but both parents have dark brown eyes and hair. At her recent graduation where she walked in among several white women, WE actually missed her in the crowd..lol…So DON’T say what is IMPOSSIBLE when it comes to genetics.
Comment by Stan the Man on 14 November 2007:
The last few posts are proof positive that one can have a human-like shape but have no brain. I can’t imagine who the parents of these posters were. Not even the progeny of Australopithecines could be that stupid.
Comment by Stan the Man on 14 November 2007:
The last few posters above, the “race-conscious” ones, are proof positive that one can act human but not have a brain. I can’t imagine who the parents of these posters were, only that it does seem possible that pre-humans are still with us. But don’t take this the wrong way, cavemen. Not even the progeny of Australopithecines could be this stupd!
Comment by Stan the Man on 14 November 2007:
Sorry for the double-posting and the typo on “stupid.” There must be some white blood in me.
Comment by Chris S on 15 November 2007:
Hmmm… White woman gives birth to child with negroid features = cheated with black man.
Anyone seriously think a black couple would have a White child?
Comment by adolph on 15 November 2007:
If you and your wife are both white and you have a black child, she’s screwing a negro, its that simple. You can let this jewess liar tell you any differently if you like. You probably also believe 6 million Jews died in a holocaust too! They’re liars, that want you to forget your heritage and culture and give into this multicultural agenda, dont fall for it!
Comment by schwartza on 15 November 2007:
Talmudic Bullshit!
Comment by Stan the Man on 15 November 2007:
Actually, “Truth” (there’s a misnomer if I ever saw one!), I don’t hate white people but I must admit an intense dislike for fools like you because you give white people a bad name. The fact is 99.99% of white people have nothing but contempt for the hate-filled, fact-free drivel racists like you and the other posters here spew forth. They would not be caught dead at a Nazi or KKK rally and are embarrassed as hell that anyone would think the garbage you stand for has anything to do with them. That’s why ignorant racists don’t believe in democracy because none of them could be elected dogcatcher. Why don’t you try speaking to some real white people and find out for yourself?
Comment by Dietrich on 15 November 2007:
Leave it up to those with a specific agenda to lie in order to further it (coughjewesscough). The “Jefferson fathered a black child” myth is just that, yet it keeps slogging along because people just want to believe, but look what happens when actual science gets involved:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6293333.stm
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings-jefferson_contro.html
“Sally Hemings was only a minor figure in Thomas Jefferson’s life and that it is very unlikely he fathered any of her children. This committee also suggested in its report, issued in April 2001, that Jefferson’s younger brother Randolph (1755-1815) was more likely the father of at least some of Sally Hemings’ children.”
Comment by dougjn on 12 December 2007:
A more likely accurate title would be:
White mother, white husband, black child.
I would absolutely NOT “trust my lady” categorically under these circumstances. Only an utterly ignorant or self deluded and/or femi propagandized male would. There are remote possibilities and then there are probablilities, and the later mandates testing.
I would require DNA testing before I would sign my name on any birth certificate or agree to my paternity.
The DNA tests are readily available and used by women all the time when they think it’s to their advantage to prove where REAL biological paternity lies.
Yea, it’s possible that a low and previously unknown (and unapparent) level of black ancestry in one or both of the white parents was unusally strongly expressed (by the roulette wheel spinning of which of the near ancestral genes get passed on) in this child. It’s without question a LOT more likely, statistically, that the wife has been playing around with a black lover on the sneak tip. That’s not exactly unthinkable these days, and in fact is almost propagandized for by Hollywood (no almost about it if the cheating element were removed).
The statement that “racial purity” is very unusual is very misleading. Some 50+% of self identifying white Americans have no detectable black ancestry at all. They are more likely to have some AmerIndian or other racial ancestry - depending as well on the number of races we are chopping the world into. Most of the rest of white Americans have 1/128 African blood - which is miniscule.
However it’s true that the average white admixture among African Americans is about 20%, and very few who’ve been here for generations have undetectable3 amounts. Similarly AmerIndians are much more heavily mixed with whites and to a much lesser extent with blacks, on average. Populations which historically (for millenia) bordered on other geographic races often were at least somewhat mixed, as for example the predominantly but no where near to exclusively Caucasian N. Africans (e.g. Algerians or Egyptians).
Comment by milan patel on 15 December 2007:
This is really interesting. But it is impossible that white parents having a black baby. This change is at genetic level and as all knows that genetic change is not possible by our self. Here either mother or father may be related to black family or any black member in family or there is also possibility that mother having relationship with black. NOw a days DNA tests are avilable which gives complete information regarding our genetic structure. so we can confirm that the baby is related with the parents at genetc level or not. Ofcource the results are always interesting.
Comment by DABLACKGUY on 17 December 2007:
I THINK ITS IMPOSSIBLE FOR WHITE COUPLE TO HAVE BLACK CHILD, BUT IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE FOR BLACK COUPLE TO HAVE A WHITE CHILD OR ANY RACE GENETICALLY SPEAKING; THE “ADAM” GENES THEORY . THIS IS VERY INTERESTING, IF THIS IS TRUE SHE DIDN’T CHEAT ON HER HUBBY A LOT MORE STUDYING NEEDS TO BE DONE ON DNA.
Comment by Someone who knows on 24 December 2007:
Hey,
It is possible for a couple that appear to be both white to have a baby that shows black genes. The reason would be because somewhere in one or both parents lives a the gene.
I am three different races. If I marry a man that is white then my child could look like he or she is only white or possibly bi-racial.
Having a child is like rolling dice. You do not know what number it will land on. Having a baby, you will not know what what it looks like until it is born.
My cousin’s daughter is proof as well. She has a white mom and a black dad. But she does not look like she has a black gene in her.
Then my grandfather’s brother was really fair skinned and black but had blue eyes. And my grandmother had straight hair and was bi-racial but could have passed for just being native american because she had straight hair.
The only way to truly tell what is going on is to take a DNA test if you are a couple with a “surprise” baby.
Maybe one parent was adopted and did not know he/she had black genes.
Comment by visionb2008 on 24 December 2007:
my grandfather was black, his twin sister was white
Comment by vt33 on 24 December 2007:
Wow..you guys really are killing this blog. Insults and mindless thoughts. I mean, Wentworth got kicked around, cut up and deemed a child of a affair.
Dinah Shore, kicked up chewed up and deemed a cheater in someway shape or form.
Sally Hemmings, a jewess and now Tommy’s brother was hiting the sheets right along with Sally. This shows a very serious lack of education within some of these blogs.
Those of you who don’t believe, and still choose to call a woman a jewess. Here is one for the books, When She Was White, the Story of Sandra Laing.
Read that and see what the cost of reaching back by genetic cost this young woman, and her constant struggle with identifying with who she is and where she belongs.
Pitty, thou Mrs. Laings story started over 50 years ago. It is now 50 years later, and it seems that this topic still brings out the evil in people. Nothing still has been learned from the past, and from the looks of things, no knowledge will be passed on to the future.
Good Night!
Comment by Freeofdrama on 24 December 2007:
Some of these comments saddens me, especially on an interracial dating site. I have a cousin that is brown skin and her husband is dark skin. Their son is very light with gray eyes and blonde hair. If you dig back far enough there is some a lot of whites on my cousins father side and not many on her husband side. The point is when her husband has the baby along he gets a lot of ugly looks and it was even said my cousin had cheated on him.
This is 2007 people WAKE UP! Just because a gene is mostly dominate doesn’t mean it can’t be masked and reappear somewhere down the line. That’s what makes reproducing such a wonderful thing. You just never know what you will get.
Comment by outri on 3 January 2008:
Wow.. What will they come up with next…
Comment by PreserveHumanDiversity on 20 February 2008:
It is funny that interracial couples believe so much in diversity, yet through interracial dating they actually destroy and abolish cultural and ethnic diversity. What’s wrong with wanting to date someone of the same colored skin if that is part of cultural identity? Of course, there should not be discrimination against those who do not value cultural diversity, but the point remains just the same…
Comment by chris on 15 March 2008:
Apparently you all missed it.. the lady had NO idea who her father is, for all we know hes black.
Comment by Sxybrwnsuga on 21 March 2008:
I think he need to get a DNA test. Somebody’s lying.
Comment by P on 13 April 2008:
ezrhino2001…. you need to educate yourself…My son is darker than me and his father. How do you explain that.
Comment by girlsixdiva on 13 April 2008:
Just wanted to copy and paste the article I posted a while back for those of you who think the child’s father is Black:
Comment by Diva on 9 September 2007:
An excellent book to read about this topic is “When She Was White: the true story of a family divided by race� by Judith Stone. I found out about it in Essence magazine and picked it up at my local library. Pretty interesting read.
Comment by girlsixdiva on 13 April 2008:
Another thing I want to point out: did anyone read about that young couple who were both mixed, had a set of twin girls, one baby was white and the other black? It was actually a true story. Look it up on google and you’ll find the Snopes story.
Comment by girlsixdiva on 13 April 2008:
chris: the woman you are talking about is Dana, the woman who had the Black baby with the white man. Get your comments straight!
Comment by fkoi on 14 April 2008:
My son looked Chinese when he was real little but his Mom was Spanish and English and I’m mainly Irish. He looks more Spanish than not today.
I’m wondering though about the “African-American features” mentioned above. We all tend to be a mix of some sort or another in this country and African-American features can mean a wide variety of things. And frankly, since I tend to date Black women, I’d be more concerned if my child had no African-American features.
Comment by Tiffany on 20 April 2008:
I am a darkskin black woman. My daughters father has wht/cherokee mom and wht/black dad. He looks hispanic but is black. My daughter is what some may consider a redbone. She has the color of halle berry and slightly darker. Her hair is similar to cherokee indians. It is wavy and curly. People don’t belive she is mine because I am darkskin. African people think I am from ghana. I didn’t think her hair would come out like it did. I thought it would be kinky texture like mine. Most black people have some sort of mixture. You just never k.now
Comment by Abb666 on 28 April 2008:
IT CAN HAPPEN If you understood anything at all about genetics, then you would realize that it’s possible, through gene combinations, through recessant traits coming to the fore, and even through spontaneous mutation, (for who knows what reason, maybe even the will of the Creator), for an apparently all white couple or and all black couple to give legitimate birth to a child who seems to be of a different race. There are many implications here, one being that there is ONLY ONE RACE: the HUMAN RACE. In our time, the so-called races are melding, blending. Perhaps it’s time for race-consciousness to die and for human-consciousness and tolerance to take its place. Also, perhaps it’s the will of Divine Intelligence, the Creator Within, that such children be born in order to further Human-Consciousness on this planet. Those who are born this way are both challenged and privileged. They are challenged to rise to the call to be examples of humanity at its blended best. They are privileged to be the harbingers and way-showers of better things to come. It’s not a sex or faithfulness thing at all. It’s part of a much bigger picture in my opinion. Thank goodness! And, Eternity, let’s all join together to see that the child reacts and lives with dignity and empowerment, as it’s not all up to the parents to see to this, but to a global community of liberated thinkers. Ezrhino—you need to begin to think bigger. I have 10 mixed nieces and nephews and four mixed grandchildren, along with one “all white� grandchild. All of them are HUMAN. None of them are the product of infidelity or someone fooling around on someone. They are God’s children, as are we all.
Comment by Abb666 on 28 April 2008:
IT CAN HAPPEN If you understood anything at all about genetics, then you would realize that it’s possible, through gene combinations, through recessant traits coming to the fore, and even through spontaneous mutation, (for who knows what reason, maybe even the will of the Creator), for an apparently all white couple or and all black couple to give legitimate birth to a child who seems to be of a different race. There are many implications here, one being that there is ONLY ONE RACE: the HUMAN RACE. In our time, the so-called races are melding, blending. Perhaps it’s time for race-consciousness to die and for human-consciousness and tolerance to take its place. Also, perhaps it’s the will of Divine Intelligence, the Creator Within, that such children be born in order to further Human-Consciousness on this planet. Those who are born this way are both challenged and privileged. They are challenged to rise to the call to be examples of humanity at its blended best. They are privileged to be the harbingers and way-showers of better things to come. It’s not a sex or faithfulness thing at all. It’s part of a much bigger picture in my opinion. Thank goodness! And, Eternity, let’s all join together to see that the child reacts and lives with dignity and empowerment, as it’s not all up to the parents to see to this, but to a global community of liberated thinkers. —you need to begin to think bigger. I have 10 mixed nieces and nephews and four mixed grandchildren, along with one “all white� grandchild. All of them are HUMAN. None of them are the product of infidelity or someone fooling around on someone. They are God’s children, as are we all.
Comment by johnnyb on 24 May 2008:
Yeah, it can happen like 2 St. Bernards “could” give birth to a chihuahua. That dude better call Maury, then go to the VD clinic cause my bet is that dude’s wife married a coal burner slut.
Comment by LightBabyDarkBaby on 25 May 2008:
Some people on here are so sad and lost. I’m a light skinned black female with medium brown parents, with Creole and Native american ancestory within my grandparent pool. My husband is also light skinned with a medium brown mother whos half Native American and Black and a father whos half puertorican and black whos extremely light with curly hair. My first born daughter is light skinned with curly hair like a mixed girl. When she was born everyone assumed she was half white or Middle Eastern, like Iranian. Then my son was born and to all of our surprise he is dark skin with dark lips and curly hair like his sisters. People comment that he looks Pakistani or Asian Indian because he has a rich red tone to his dark skin. Yes, my children come from a wide gene pool. But they’re black and have the same father. I have never been with any other man besides my husband in my life. So yes genes matter. I so sick of small brained people viewing my family as if I was a slut or as if where some type of freak show. These same people probably think the world is still flat, 1+1=3 and the sun revolves around the Earth. Get a life and pick up a book. Who know their true ancestory now a days. NO ONE. NO ONE in this country is one race or have pure genes. Skin tone is NOT RELATED TO RACE. Where does white start and black end?
Comment by LightBabyDarkBaby on 25 May 2008:
Some people on here are so sad and lost. I’m a light skinned black female with medium brown parents, with Creole and Native american ancestory within my grandparent pool. My husband is also light skinned with a medium brown mother whos half Native American and Black and a father whos half puertorican and black whos extremely light with curly hair. My first born daughter is light skinned with curly hair like a mixed girl. When she was born everyone assumed she was half white or Middle Eastern, like Iranian. Then my son was born and to all of our surprise he is dark skin with dark lips and curly hair like his sisters. People comment that he looks Pakistani or Asian Indian because he has a rich red tone to his dark skin. Yes, my children come from a wide gene pool. But they’re black and have the same father. I have never been with any other man besides my husband in my life. So yes genes matter. I so sick of small brained people viewing my family as if I was a slut or as if where some type of freak show. These same people probably think the world is still flat, 1+1=3 and the sun revolves around the Earth. Get a life and pick up a book. Who know their true ancestory now a days. NO ONE. NO ONE in this country is one race or have pure genes. Skin tone is NOT RELATED TO RACE. Where does white start and black end? The DNA evidence DOES exist. But what good will it do if people are still convienced of what their grandparents told them at the dinner table.
Comment by tnk1981 on 26 May 2008:
Great Post !!!!!!!
Comment by bruce on 28 May 2008:
he had best do the d.n.a.i do think he married a slut which is to bad but that seems to be the way females are today.you have to watch out for these sluts. today a nyc judge just ordered a man to pay an unmarried slut child support even though dna shows he is not the father not only that he does not know the woman she and the judge picked his name out of the phone book.the only thing i would give the slut and the judge is a small piece of copper and lead.
Comment by Dean on 1 June 2008:
Could be that they parents were black and they come white,
Because two blacks=white, so they child come white.
So it is not immposible.
Comment by Dean on 1 June 2008:
Could be that they parents were black and they come white,
Because two blacks=white, so they child come black.
So it is not immposible.
Comment by sherese mikell on 5 June 2008:
why dose it matter if the child is born to a white couple if the child is dna proven to be theres and they both are white yes! lets amit that’s a shocker but it just gose to show that some were in one of the two familys some one had sex or raped a slave and it’s time some one in that family makes a mend and learn to love all colors
Comment by JazzyJae on 8 June 2008:
Really?? The person who said parents cannot have kids that are lighter or darker than them. Are you serious? I have had a DNA test and both my parents are dark.. while I am very pale nearly white.. So you may want to check that before you speak on it.
Comment by dlangel80 on 16 June 2008:
It is clear that some people don’t understand genetics. While I’d probably still want a DNA test just to be sure, we know TWO important things 1) Baby shows AA *FEATURES*… that doesn’t necessarily mean the child came out BLACK 2) Mom has no clue who her dad is, his race, or anything such details. That could make a huge genetic difference.
Either way, I’m pretty positive a DNA test was done before she wrote the book.
Look at other characteristics in ourselves that pop up differently depending on the generation- genetic illnesses that skip generations, other physical features such as breast size, height, etc. Just because our parents don’t have that trait, doesn’t mean that our mothers slept around.
Comment by mossimo36 on 16 June 2008:
Interesting posts on this one!
Comment by omgzzz on 17 June 2008:
I think it means that the woman cheated on her husband lol
Comment by IamHolySpiritYourAllDead on 6 July 2008:
No Black’s, No Mixed Black’s, No Black Lover’s, ALLOWED IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Red one on 9 July 2008:
I think this subject was cleared up many posts ago by an earlier comment relating to simple dominant/recessive genetics. I am a redhead, with fair skin and blue eyes. Both my parents and brothers are not red heads. However, there is the ginger gene present on both sides of my parents family. Both my parents had parents with red hair.
The reason I have re-appeared from a previous specific genetic ancestry is because the ginger gene is known and identified as recessive one.
Therefore it can hang around in the background of the gene pool and reappear at a latter date. Thus, if one parent has red hair, it is possible if not probable that they will have children without red hair, as in my parents case. Yet, even though both the parents do not have red hair, they can themselves create another ginger maybe two or three generations later.
However, the reason there are always less redheads than any other type is because the gene is often overlooked by ‘dominant’ genes. They are known and identified to be genes that control pigment (eg, people with blue eyes do not have a pigment) and are the darker coloured genes. There is a gene for example for brown and green eyes, and the eye colour is controlled by pigmentation. However, people with blue eyes do not inherit blue eyes, they merely did not inherit any other colour. Blue is the default setting so to speak.
The big difference here is that the darker pigmentation genes are not recessive. The are often picked first time in any conception by a parent that has themselves darker genes as they are the dominant genes. But if they are not inherited by the child, and therefore the child does not physically show darker pigmentations, as they are not recessive genes they do not carry through within that child. Therefore it is impossible for that child to go on and pass on the darker visible pigmentation genes to their children, as they do not behave in a recessive manner.
Basically, two people with brown or green or any pigment colour eyes can still have children with blue eyes. But two people with blue eyes cant have children with brown or green eyes.
Comment by Didanyofuevertakebiology? on 16 July 2008:
Here is the answer for all of you:
Ever hear of Mendel’s table regarding genetics? Look it up. Probably if any of you had paid attention in science class this debate would never have occurred. Remember when you were in school and said, “Why do we have to know this crap?” Now you have your answer: so that you don’t later in life post uneducated comments unfairly and unjustly judging people. According to Mendel’s table pretty much anything is possible because of the presence of dominant and recessive genes. Also, to Red One: my son’s dad and I both have blue eyes, and my son has green, so you’re last comment can’t be true, and no, I didn’t cheat. Again, refer to Mendel - it depends on the combination of dominant and recessive genes, which one would have have no way of knowing without genetic testing, and how those combinations are formed and reformed as generations progress.
Comment by MzCoCo on 18 July 2008:
Very good article.
Comment by Shelly on 14 September 2008:
LOL….it’s obvious she cheated with a black guy! You see a lot of white couples with a mixed child these days….everyone knows what happened.
Comment by Guest on 21 September 2008:
“Basically, two people with brown or green or any pigment colour eyes can still have children with blue eyes. But two people with blue eyes cant have children with brown or green eyes.”
This is incorrect because the blue eyes of the parents could be a result of defective brown genes which could later recombined and fix the defect with the result being a brown-eyed child born to blue-eyed parents!
Comment by thickgapeach on 30 September 2008:
It is absolutely possible for two “white” parents to produce a black child. Back in the day quite a few light-skinned blacks passed for white so sometimes you can’t even trust your family tree. Racial purity is a myth anyway; when you think about it we are all multi-racial.
Comment by demetrius on 27 October 2008:
Black genes are dominate and white genes are recessive and that is scientifically proven a fact.This this world only started out with one race of people not two.If there where two then somebody wouild have to explain why black genes are dominate and whites are recessive?Remember this world started out with one race of humans.
Comment by Random1 on 27 November 2008:
Hi Everyone,
My husband is from white parents, but their must have been some dark in past generations coz him and his brother and sisters are all very dark (like turkish looking dark) he is the darkest. I am Black and we have a son he turned out white, (not albino) he was very white with blonde hair as a baby , now he is 12yrs and he has darker hair but is still very white with thin lips, and very defined nose and chin, he looks aristocratic, people never believe him when he says his mom is black.
So it can happen both ways. Genetics is Genetics, there are people in the world that start out white and get darker over the years and visa versa, life is funny, be openminded.