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.
[tags]race and family[/tags]
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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This story is from a NOVEL. It is fiction. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, but why is everybody posting about this as if it means something?
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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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In American culture, regardless of how fair skinned someone is on the outside or whatever they may look like on the outside , if it is known that a fair skinned person have African ancestry, then that person is considered black. For example and although Barrack Obama is not that fair skinned, his father was a black African, therefore, Obama is also black. Personally, I think that the mother determines a child’s race. To me, whatever the mother’s race is, that’s the race of the child. In spite of the fact that biologically, the child is the race of both the mother and father. So anyone with a white mother, for example, is not consider black to me.
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