I wanted to know if kids with a black mother and a white father turn out looking black because i hear so muchof kids with a white father and a black mother turning out white i want ot know if anyone has someone saw someone like that who loos black or mixed.
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My white cousin has several black kids.  I think it is whichever parent's gene's are more predominant but here is something interesting . . . Doris Day, white as white can be, gives birth to a black baby.  Her husband accused her of cheating.  She did not cheat.  She was then told that the black nanny who raised her was really her mother.  She never knew.  It can come out generations later.
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I don't think think Lala is being stereotypical, Pimpslapper.  A lot of Latino men DO stare, and I think it's built into the culture to do that to women.  Seems like it's the Central Americans who stare the most.  Anyway, Lala, being Asian, you may have noticed that some hispanics appear Asian, themselves, due to their heritage, and maybe they think you may have some hispanic blood in you, and they're trying to figure it out.  When I look in the mirror, I see a black person, but many staring Indians have thought I was of Indian descent and were a little irritated that I couldn't speak Farci, Hindu, or another of their many languages.  Lots of staring people in the Dominican Republic were shocked that I couldn't speak Spanish. I've caught myself staring at people who probably think they're white, and I wondered which grand (or great-grand)parent was black.  So much intermingling of races nowadays produces cool results, making people look longer than intended. Next time just ask kindly, "May I help you?" (That's how I find out I simply look like somebody's family member or somthing)  Wow!  Didn't mean to write a book!
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I agree, just let the kids be friends and they will decide whether to be friends.  Don't even take an offense to that, which that really makes me mad when people are so prejudice with color, or differences, but it is really about the kids.  I don't understand why if I am white and you are a different race why that would make either of us better than one another.  Just know that you are a good person and don't listen to prejudice people because I think that them acting like that they just have a lot of things they are happy with in their life so they have to judge other people out their own stupidity of not getting to know a person just because they might be different than them.  Just surround yourself with people that are nonjudgemental good people!!!!!!!!!  God bless you and keep your head up, you are just as good as any person next to you!
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My dad has brown eyes and he has classical Jewish features (black hair, hooked nose, etc.), but he is dark skinned. He must have had a Negroid ancestor. His twin sister, on the other hand, is blonde haired, blue eyed, and white as chalk. (Do you think grandma [white] slept with a Caucasian & negroid person at the same time? grandpa was mixed, though he was Jewish) It is our only explanation why one twin should be "white" and the other "black". Does this help?
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I DO. I'M MEXICAN AND MY BOYFRIEND OF 2 YEARS IS WHITE. IF YOU LOOK AT HIM HE HAS GREEN EYES AND SPEAKS ENGLISH ONLY HE'S WORKING ON HIS SPANISH THOUGH. AND HIS PARENTS ARE MEXICANS (GO FIGURE)! BUT HE WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE AND ALL HE KNOWS IS ENGLISH. HE'S ALSO LIGHT SKIN COLORED. I BELIEVE THAT'S INTERRACIAL DON'T YOU BUT ANYWAYS I LIKE THE IDEA OF  INTERRACIAL DATING. I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT ALSO WHEN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND A AMERICAN PERSON HAVE BABIES THEY ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. I LOVE THAT AWESOME MIX. BECAUSE THE BABY ENDS UP WITH DARK SKIN AND BLUE OR GREEN EYES!!!
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I'm that man.  I have a Chinese mom and Black dad, but I favor my black genes.  My brother looks more 'in between' and i have a Chinese/Black cousin who looks mostly Asian.  It's kinda of a toss up how they'll come out, but it will be a beautiful child. \nBlasian, Afro Asian, Blackanese, I toss these all around.  Chegro is new to me but I'ma use it now!  It's funny how Tiger Woods is the 'face' of  Black/Asian people because we certainly don't all look like him!
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1)Yes, we still live in a racist country.  I am a 46 year old Black woman who has experienced quite a bit of racism bcos of the color of my skin (caramel) without any knowledge of who I really am.  I have traveled quite a bit within the states as well as other countries & honestly cannot see much of a difference.  Point in case...I've even traveled to Africa & have been faced with questions like "what are you?".  I think that I offended the one asking the question bcos I said "I'm an American".  They responded "do you mean African-American?" to which I responded "sure if thats how you would like to phrase it".  2) Yes my parents had a hard time but they "dealt with it" by being active in the civil rights movement.  My great-grandmother would never let me work in the fields when I visited saying " no way, your Mom & Grandmama would have a fit & besides those days are over for your generation".  She was right, however there are others here who seem to forget that.  With regards to "us guys" still living in this country...this is our country & we'll fight for the right to live here....in peace.
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If two people can find each other and connect, that's what really matters.  I always tell my kids, I'd rather have them be with someone of a different race they love that loves them and treats them well, than someone of the same race that doesn't.  Love doesn't know color.
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love has no face once again it's all in the emotion...My mother prefers me not to date of another race. and for the record I'm african american (politically speaking)..(ghettolitically speaking) I'm black mixed with some island. just making you guys laugh..I didn't listen to my mom I like to explore exploring is good, ask Mageallen(sp), Noah, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, DR, M. Luther King, scienctist..we need to explore at some point in time. If it wasnt for or mix and variety in choice's half of us would'nt be here today..wether it's because someone decide the world was'nt "Flat"..or I'm not going to sit in the back, or what eva you guys catch my drift..I prefer to date whom eva is going to treat me right. no matter what race.
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No one on this planet is 100% percent anything because I am pretty sure down every body's gene pool there a mixture of  different races. I am disturbed by this question because it sounds like  you are trying to imply if Beyonce's mother was just a Black woman, which she appears to be because Black people come in all shades and colors, that Beyonce would not be pretty which is untrue. Beyonce's mother parents were French speaking Louisiana creoles and most of them are considered Black.  My grandmother, who have both Black parents, is lighter than Beyonce's mother ,have longer hair than Beyonce and her mother,  have blue eyes and I myself have dark skinned parents but I am light as Beyonce's mother. I have friends who are albino with green eyes that have dark skinned parents and know that their ethnicity is Black. My point in saying this is that there is no certain way a Black person should look.
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It doenst matter to them and i wouldnt care what they'd think. Its my life - my choice.. not theirs, plus they can't say nothing because they had me and i am multiracial. \nI am korean, white (polish) and native american and my husband is black. \nWe have an absolutely beautiful daughter.. mix kids are the most beautiful ones.
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I think interracial relationships are great I'm mixed black and white and my niece is mixed also.  You go for what you like color desn't really matter because at the end of the day every one is still the same on the inside and we all have the same problems only difference is the skin color and looks.
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Its actually more complex than a typical simple black and white mix (referring to color)\n\nAlbinism is a genetic disorder that is quite recessive.  The possibility of the resulting child having the color of black, white or "blended" would depend if the child inherits the albinism. \n\nInheriting the afican parent's albinism depends on the caucasion's popsibilty of passing along albanism as well. \n\nTaking the albinism factor out of the equation and it is safe to say that the offspring of a person with black skin and a person with white skin will result in a blending of the skin colors. \n\nIt is also safe to assume that the offspring will appear to have more of an african-american (black) look as opposed to a caucasion (white) look and would appear to be a child of mixed heritage.
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Well, let`s see. My mom is hispanic and has hazel eyes and very black hair with medium skin. My dad is anglo and has black hair and green eyes and medium skin. My sister has brown eyes and black hair with a little darker skin, my brother brown hair and green eyes with medium skin, and I have grey eyes and reddish brown hair with medium skin. My mom`s sister is darker than her and all her kids turned out darker than us with black hair and brown eyes. Her husband was anglo also with brown hair and blue eyes. So what you get is a luck of the draw.
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yes I have been watching the show off and on and I think that the only person that is really getting anything out of the whole thing is Rose. It seems to me that she understands that we as people from different back around can't full understand why we feel, think or act the way you do.And not all groups of people are the same within or out of their group.\nJust like you I am half not just black and white; my mother and father like black but they are mixes. On my father side of the family just about everyone is light almost white skin-ed and me and two other of the grand kids are dark but from the two that is dark I am much lighter then them. And on my mothers side of the family we are all the same skin tone just about but I am the white girl in the family. Because I try to keep an open mind about things. I think if I was in the show I wouldn't know have I would feel trying to act white or black just because to me I am both and more and I like being who I am.
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Scientists said Thursday that they had discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology’s most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity’s greatest sources of strife. \n\nThe work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. \n\nThat person’s offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world’s races. … \n\nThe newly found mutation involves a change of just one letter of DNA code out of the 3.1 billion letters in the human genome—the complete instructions for making a human being. \n\n“It’s a major finding in a very sensitive area,” said Stephen Oppenheimer, an expert in anthropological genetics at Oxford University who was not involved in the work. “Almost all the differences used to differentiate populations from around the world really are skin-deep.” … \n\nThe discovery, described in today’s issue of the journal Science, was an unexpected outgrowth of studies that study leader Keith Cheng and his colleagues were conducting on inch-long zebrafish, which are popular research tools for geneticists and developmental biologists. \n\nHaving identified a gene that, when mutated, interferes with its ability to make its characteristic black stripes, the team scanned human DNA databases to see if a similar gene resides in people. \n\nTo their surprise, they found virtually identical pigment-building genes in humans, chickens, dogs, cows and many other species, an indication of its biological value. \n\nThey got a bigger surprise when they looked in a new database comparing the genomes of four of the world’s major racial groups. That showed that whites with Northern and Western European ancestry have a mutated version of the gene.\n\nSo, what does this mean?  It strikes a blow into everyone, from the racist white right to the black nationalist left, who seeks to elevate one race over another.  In short, we are all niggers now. \n\nBut here’s a thought.  If white people came from black people, and black people were the first people on Earth, and God made man in His image, then God is black.  Chew on that one for a while.
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People can be racist no matter what "color" they are, and to answer your question - yes and no. Racist people are racist no matter what happens. My mom is white, and my dad is black. My mom grew up in Minnesota and Iowa, and my dad was a Navy brat. They meet in Iowa at college, and had 5 kids after they married. After 9 years, they moved to Tampa, and we've been here ever since. At any given time, my parents can both "act white" or both "act black." They both love casseroles and collard greens. \nMy point in all of this is that PEOPLE love American Idol, and PEOPLE dislike American Idol. Even though it's stupid, hypocritical, and racist what the people are blogging, they're gonna keep doing it till they get their mind renewed. I hope that this helps your cause.