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| Topic Started: Jan 22 2010, 08:55 PM (8,476 Views) | |
| Last Black man | Jan 22 2010, 08:55 PM Post #1 |
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There have been much disscussion about black/white. I am about to shake some people up because I have maintain that we have one race. Can white parents have a black baby? Even if the grandparents are white too? Tough question to answer but here's my best shot. It certainly seems possible for two white people to have a black baby even if the baby's grandparents appear white as well. Even though the genetics behind all of this are really poorly understood, there are lots of stories where white parents have black babies. In fact, one such story may become a movie (see the link below). There are genetic tests that supposedly can tell you what races are in your background. The FBI used one company's test to figure out that a serial killer in Louisiana was black and not white as they had initially thought (see the link below). This helped the FBI redirect their efforts and catch the serial killer. http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=9 |
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| Last Black man | Jan 22 2010, 09:18 PM Post #2 |
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Sandra Laing: The outcast Sandra Laing was a black baby born to white parents at the height of apartheid. The hatred, rejection and heartache she suffered at the hands of the authorities, her teachers and her family sent shock waves across the world Sandra Laing was born a black baby to white Afrikaner parents in 1955. The implications of this in apartheid South Africa unravelled like a bad fairy tale. When apartheid ended, she became a curiosity, a minor celebrity, a remnant of South Africa’s shame. She is a “throwback”, or, to be precise, “of polygenic inheritance”. Her parents were pro-National Party and members of the Dutch Reformed Church. What happened to Sandra Laing is such an example of apartheid at its most cruel that her story is taught as a chapter in the history of South Africa at matriculation level, the final year of senior school. Her story has now been made into a mesmerising film, Skin, in which Sophie Okonedo, herself of mixed race, shimmers with empathy in the part of Laing. The implications of looking dark-skinned and fuzzy-haired when your parents moved in an all-white society were huge. Questions were asked of her mother. It was illegal under the Immorality Act for a man and woman of different races to have sex, and Sannie Laing, Laing’s mother, couldn’t explain her child’s appearance. Laing has two brothers, Leon, seven years her senior, who looks white, though sallow in complexion — his nickname at school was “Jew” — and Adriaan, 10 years her junior, who also has African features and crinkly hair, but whose skin is not quite as tawny as Laing’s. Her appearance could have been part of the reason the family moved to the middle of nowhere, in the eastern Transvaal, near the Swazi border, among fields of wheat and rolling pastures, where they had two general stores and could retreat from the world. It was 200 miles from Johannesburg. Laing never thought about her colour until she went to school. Piet Retief Primary was a boarding school for whites only. South Africa’s white minority of around 3.5m controlled the lives of 15m disenfranchised non-whites. They determined how they lived, what they ate, who they could marry and if they could travel. School children were taught how to evaluate racial characteristics. Black people have wide noses and springy hair and work down the mines. White people have pale skin and are the bosses. When Laing was expelled and reclassified coloured (mixed race), she could not legally enter a restaurant or cinema with her parents or brothers, or share a bus seat or church pew, or be buried at the same cemetery. Her father, Abraham, a man of extreme determination and stubbornness, fought hard to have his daughter reclassified as white. His press campaign created an international scandal, and the government was embarrassed into changing the law in 1967, so that descent — not appearance — became the determining factor in classification cases. Laing was classified as white again. The trouble is, she still looked black. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6725566.ece Elle, I am white and if you meet me could you tell: ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| Miami | Jan 22 2010, 09:20 PM Post #3 |
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If 2 White people can make a black child, that means that somebody been cheating If 2 black people can make a white child, that means that somebody been cheating and slipping around |
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| Last Black man | Jan 22 2010, 09:26 PM Post #4 |
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That is not true. My father had green eyes but I do not. I can have a baby by a woman with those traits and the baby will have green eyes and neither parents have green eyes. It depends on the genes in your pool and like I have stated that we have one race and all people come from black people; thus we are all black. Mixed kids come out black to white but never gray; get my drift. |
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| Miami | Jan 22 2010, 09:27 PM Post #5 |
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So you believe that 2 white people can make a black baby |
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| Last Black man | Jan 22 2010, 09:40 PM Post #6 |
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There have been other things that have happen in race....black/white twins:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Last Black man | Jan 22 2010, 09:41 PM Post #7 |
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It is a one in trillion shot, but the odds are greater for two blacks to have a white baby. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 22 2010, 09:44 PM Post #8 |
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It's called genetics. There are very few purely "white" and purely "black people". Many white people have some sort of black blood in them. And many black folks have white blood in them. If we looked at the genetic makeup of her parents, I am certain we would find some black genetic makeup in each of their DNA. |
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| Miami | Jan 22 2010, 09:48 PM Post #9 |
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Somebody been cheating and sleeping around |
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| Miami | Jan 22 2010, 09:49 PM Post #10 |
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Do you think George Bush got any black people in him |
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