BM/WW Celebrity Families with children

JordanC said:
I think what he is asking how a recessive trait comes out when the father has the dominant hair color.
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it should be noted

Africans can also have recessive genes, just because it's not present in the phenotype, doesn't mean it's not latent. "Pure" Africans have different phenotypes (see those with the epicanthal folds) and genetic markers. Jan's dad is from Mozambique. Maybe East Africans share similar traits with the eastern Blonde Aboriginals shown below.



Invariably anytime there is discussion or even photographs of what we call "mixed" or "non monoracial" people these discussions come up; many times in referencing the perceived notion of what a "Black"/"White" mix looks like. Jan's father is an African from Mozambique, so again, the perception that a "full blood" African can't have a kid with "Blonde" hair or White skin is WRONG!! It happens so often that I don't know why folks call it an anomaly, especially with the Black and White twins. The press love these stories because it's so rare, yet despite it being rare they seem to have these stories every year. This being a BM/WW thread, I'm going to post this couple as example , even though there are WM/BW couples this happens to.

 
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xoxo said:

playing with his sister
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his sister has blonde hair and this is his brother below.


tuckerreed said:
not an anomoly, basic bio, you have one in 4 chances to have features of one parent, 2 in 4 chances of having features of both(mixture) and 1 in 4 for the other parent.
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^^^yep. This thread is perfect evidence of that. Lots of "Blondies" on here.
 
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photo request for Jaleel White and his daughter with his ex gf pictured on his left. He also has an IR webshow called Road to the altar.

 
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Tiny (TI's Girlfriend and from Tiny and Toya)

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Her parents (and I think that might be her sister)

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andrae09 said:
Because generally bi racial kids have more african features. Growing up I knew a lot of bi racial kids and non of them had blonde hair. Just a first for me I guess.
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In the U.S, what people usually describe as “racial” features are in this order: skin color, hair texture, craniofacial elements.

I see a fairly equal distribution of features in children that result from both parents, if not in one child, certainly among a bunch. Mulatto and genetically mixed African Americans are no exception. While their features might show African ancestry (historically one of the factors that determined their racial classification) they also have craniofacial (especially) and other features that show European ancestry.

Again, In the U.S, the spectrum for “Whiteness” has been narrow, historically excluding the Whitest of the White (like the Irish) for ethnopoitical reasons, and other what is called “ethnic” Europeans like Jews, Slavs, Turks, certain mediterraneans. Even to this day, some are debating whether certain groups like Armenians or Albanians are White.

The spectrum for Blackness however has been very wide and all that's been required is known or suspected African ancestry. Thus, I feel the perception of what some Americans see as Black/African features or a predominance there of lie within this wide spectrum of what constitutes Blackness or non Whiteness.

The only thing that seems to be an "anomaly" about the Silva children is their "straightish" hair in combination with the color. Take a look at the other brother with short hair. If these kids had coiled/curly hair, I don't think there would be anything that would distinguish them from what people consider a Black/White mix to look like. How many of these biracial kids you know are Finnish/Mozambican? That mix could be a factor, there could be a few reasons why the kids look like they do.

Despite the Black power ideology, Black people can have recessive genes and they don't always take predominance in a mix with a "White" person or even a "Black" person with light skin. As tuckerreed stated you have one in 4 chances to have features of one parent, 2 in 4 chances of having features of both(mixture) and 1 in 4 for the other parent.

With regard to Blonde hair, I have seen many “Black mixed” kids with Blonde hair (my hair was dirty blonde as a kid and I'm not first-generationally-mixed,) granted many of those are from already mixed "Black" Fathers. But men like Seal and this man, who I suspect are 100% African, can have kids with Blonde or Blondish hair. They are a bunch of mixies on here with varying Blonde color and texture.
 
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Somali reporter Rageh Omaar and his two kids, Rageh is married to Georgiana Rose "Nina" Montgomery-Cuninghame. she's Scottish nobility...still looking for a pic of her

 
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xoxo said:
In the U.S, what people usually describe as “racial” features are in this order: skin color, hair texture, craniofacial elements.

I see a fairly equal distribution of features in children that result from both parents, if not in one child, certainly among a bunch. Mulatto and genetically mixed African Americans are no exception. While their features might show African ancestry (historically one of the factors that determined their racial classification) they also have craniofacial (especially) and other features that show European ancestry.

Again, In the U.S, the spectrum for “Whiteness” has been narrow, historically excluding the Whitest of the White (like the Irish) for ethnopoitical reasons, and other what is called “ethnic” Europeans like Jews, Slavs, Turks, certain mediterraneans. Even to this day, some are debating whether certain groups like Armenians or Albanians are White.

The spectrum for Blackness however has been very wide and all that's been required is known or suspected African ancestry. Thus, I feel the perception of what some Americans see as Black/African features or a predominance there of lie within this wide spectrum of what constitutes Blackness or non Whiteness.

The only thing that seems to be an "anomaly" about the Silva children is their "straightish" hair in combination with the color. Take a look at the other brother with short hair. If these kids had coiled/curly hair, I don't think there would be anything that would distinguish them from what people consider a Black/White mix to look like. How many of these biracial kids you know are Finnish/Mozambican? That mix could be a factor, there could be a few reasons why the kids look like they do.

Despite the Black power ideology, Black people can have recessive genes and they don't always take predominance in a mix with a "White" person or even a "Black" person with light skin. As tuckerreed stated you have one in 4 chances to have features of one parent, 2 in 4 chances of having features of both(mixture) and 1 in 4 for the other parent.

With regard to Blonde hair, I have seen many “Black mixed” kids with Blonde hair (my hair was dirty blonde as a kid and I'm not first-generationally-mixed,) granted many of those are from already mixed "Black" Fathers. But men like Seal and this man, who I suspect are 100% African, can have kids with Blonde or Blondish hair. They are a bunch of mixies on here with varying Blonde color and texture.
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Wow that was a long and unneeded lecture. I admitted that my knowledge on interracial mixing was limited. I said in MY experience I've never seen it didn't mean I don't think it exists as it clearly does in the pictures shown before.
 
andrae09 said:
Wow that was a long and unneeded lecture. I admitted that my knowledge on interracial mixing was limited. I said in MY experience I've never seen it didn't mean I don't think it exists as it clearly does in the pictures shown before.
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Lecture? Since when am I lecturing? If am I gonna discuss something as complicated as "race", I wanna try to be thorough. I'm not an expert, nor am I trying to lecture, but race/ethnicity is the last thing I want to be flippant about, especially with regards to how children of IR turn out.
 
xoxo said:
Channing Frye is about to be a dad, he wants you to guess the sex of his baby.
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I picked boy.

Funny how out of the 523 votes that have been made, 261 were for girl and 262 (including mine) were for boy. :)
 
This may not be the place for this photo, but I thought it was so cute and family-oriented that I wanted to post it. We can pretend they are celebrity hands if that will make everyone feel better. ;)

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