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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Folks, I am black and my wife is black. We have a baby who was born white–pale skin, blue eyes and all that. I hit the ceiling, accusing my wife to have had an affair with a white man. I pressured for DNA of this child. Well, it turned out, my DNA matched with the DNA of the child. Explanation, I had completed forgotten the story my mother told us that her great-great-great grand father was a white slaver on the Atlantic African coast. Along the line he had a child with one of slave African women. The gene in between the generations became dormant, and it resurfaced on my child. End of the story. I accepted it. From this it is also possible that a white man married to a white woman can have a black baby.
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This is very true and natural in many families. I have experienced this in my family as well. Our great-great grandfather was a slave owner and did the same thing. We have cousins that turned out to be like that except for the eyes. Scientifically, it is just the way the gene pool chooses to select the DNA strands to make that person. I always tell people to be careful who you choose a prejudice against because you may have some of the same blood in you. For years I always wondered why I was attracted to white men and now I have my answer.
Glad things turned out in your family’s favor Peace.
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I find it quite a stretch to atribute your attraction for white men to your grand grand father being white. In that line of reasoning, shouldn’t we all be attracted to each other, since if you go back far enough we ALL share the same ancestors? Why can’t people just like another race because… well, they just like them?
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It is simply hilarious that the one person that understands this article, is being thumbed down out of view. LMAO It’s like this forum is a mini version of the real world
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Anyway kudos to you man, for actually reading the article correctly!
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Race is very fluid. My cousins are br-racial. One looks very white with dark blond kinky hair, bronze skin tones, and somewhat african features. Her little sister is much darker and is usually recognized as black. White people almost never realize her sister is mixed too. And it’s led to her being severely insulted a few times.
One example, she meets her white boyfriend’s family for the first time. The mother says we’re so glad that Blank, is going out with you and some black girl.
After a moment of stunned silence, she replied actually my father is black and so am I. That relationship disintegrated shortly afterwards.
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Neosoulistic, I feel where you are coming from on that and understand the others too, but let me add that the races has been mixing for along time now, which means that genetics play a huge roll in the outcome of the child. It is very possible that this can happen when you are looking at a white father that have received a dominant AA gene from his black multi-great grandfather that no one knows about until the baby is born. the white mother thinks she’s with a 100% white man because that’s the way things look. Then they produce this beautiful dark skinned baby. Now questions are lifted high in the air! On the other hand, if the gene present the aa – which means its a recessive or weak gene look for the baby to come out looking much like the parents or you will not have much color. People have been questioning this theory for years now but lets face it, this is no longer a theory. Im still studing healthcare, God is truly amazing!
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I think both your theory and the one drop rule are equally retarded, no offense. When will people just understand that labeling anyone as anything is detrimental to their individualism. Yet everyone does it and some even want to be labeled.
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I once new a young lady that had straight blond hair and blue eyes and to me looked white but she identified herself as black because her mothers father was black. Her family believed that if you had any black ancestors that you were black. I thought it was wierd. Both her parents looked white to me but when her mother spoke she had a deep tone. The same deep tone that distinguishes a lot of AA. It was amusing. A lot of people who didn’t know her parents thought she was just crazy.
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I would simply get a DNA test. I think my wife would understand my concern if she gave birth to a baby of another race. I mean what more of a clue would a man need. It’s one thing if it It doesn’t like me, but if it’s black then I would have to investigate infidelity. I think it is possible for a white woman to give birth to a baby that looks like another race. It depends on what kind of relatives are in her lineage.
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My grandmother on my mother side was half white(scottish) her husband was predominantly african and their 14 children were a rainbow of colours from very dark to white with curly hair and blue-grey eyes. My daughter whose father is a very dark brown almost black and my dark chocolate complexion my daughter was born white in colour but with an afro and african features and everyone doubted that he was her father, but thank god he had all the symptoms for the pregnancy and he even knew before me i was pregnant but she did get darker as she got older. To this day all of my mother grand-children are white at birth then change colour as they get older.
Just remember God made us in his own image and likeness so to him we all look the same but because of our disobedience to him we see each other as different, get your bible and read about the Tower Of Babel where the difference in “man” really began.
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People just need to look beyond ethnic, were all humans for goodness sake. So what if a white mother white father black baby or if it’s the other way around all children need love. Just raise the child with morals and stability.
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This reminds me of a youtube vid about 2 yrs ago about a Nigerian couple in the UK that had a white baby.
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I read a comment n i wana set something straight, if a person is born in America and is of african decent they are not African, they are American, the African americans were the people brought from africa to america, not dissing on them or anything hell abraham lincoln is one of my great grand uncles but the whole racial categorizing thing needs to be thrown out for the sake of not only understanding but respect, one of the great rules about America is that if you’re born here you are automatically a native citizen by law no matter what skin color, sure people take advantage of that and it may need to be tweaked a bit to prevent that but the principle still stands n it would move things along faster if race wasnt divided by the past, sure its not as much as it used to be but the fact that it still is today is bullcrap.
*now is the part where we all hold hands and sing* lol XD
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For anything that thinks she was creeping, check out the movie Skin 2008. It’s based on a true story of a black girl born from two white parents during apartheid in Africa. It’s not a common occurrence but it definitely happens.
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Yeah I saw that movie, sad thing is that she did end up distancing herself from her parents. Cause her parents wanted her to be white so badly, of course she was never accepted in SA during apartheid. Sad story actually.
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I’d speculate that at some point in time after the tower of babel we had language changes and along with that in my speculation you get a number of break offs of certain numbers of people which all inter-breed and with a number of factors and tribes moving to different continents you get a distinguishable looking difference as they moved to the outer edge of the gene pool. Perhaps Some of us are merely re-accumulating the original genetic information back to the gene pool which might be healthier too. Also I’d like to mention in numbers Chapter 12 Moses was given an Ethiopian wife and as some of he’s family members spoke badly against Moses for it they had gotten smitten with leprosy until they repented. God is not a respector of persons and he’s word teaches us that we will be given the same measure of judgement that we give others. The Gospel is to be preached to every creature Mar_16:15; also, I don’t believe most of that Darwin crap they teach our kids in school either, which is just another religion that is highly arguable in scientific circles anyways.
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Conclusion, Nearly all Americans are mixed in one way or the other. Which makes the fuss over races seem even more pointless than it already is.
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Words hurt more than knives,..Questions and things people say should be checked before being altered..Some people are selfish and can use words to influence anything,even destroy a relationship,.But regardless,no body should breakup cus of words from a family member,I won’t be marrying my lady for my parents or friends or whoever,But cus I love…
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There is a movie called “Skin” it’s based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Incredible, powerful movie that will take you through the emotions of this woman dealing with her skin color. I felt sad and angry for the character. She prevails in the end but the suffering she goes through because she was born into white society with dark skin.
If you want to see a true store of the exact issue we are talking about here, then you got see this movie.
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