Can white parents give birth to black babies?

Question

My friend says that two pure white parents can give birth to a black child. I think it is wrong. Who is right?

Answer 1

Your friend is wrong. There is no way to give birth to a black baby without having some blood relative with a black heritage in your family. The farther back the ancestor, the more dilute it is.

Answer 2

White Parents Have Black Baby

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I saw this on Inside Edition or something. Two white parents had a black daughter.

What do you mean by "pure white" though? More than likely, I think the parents probably looked caucasian and at least one of them had black genes which showed up in their child's skin. It's pretty rare to find anyone that is "pure any race."

I know a Native American couple that have a daughter with blue eyes. So, I tend to think it is possible.

Answer 5

I know it is possible for two black parents to give birth to a white baby because of a rare skin disease. I shouln't use disease because it is only the pigment in our skin that makes our color so I assume if two black people can have a white child then the same goes for two white people having a black baby!

Answer 6

Seemingly possible.

"Long before science learned to meddle with genes, there was Sandra Laing. She entered the world in 1955, a beautiful baby by all accounts, who could be expected to grow up in a close-knit family amid mines of gold and forests of pine. At the first sight of Sandra no one, not the nurse, her mother, father or neighbours would admit the obvious. Nature had played a trick. Abraham and Sannie Laing were white, their parents, grandparents and great grandparents were white, yet their daughter was dark. By a biological quirk, the pigment of an unknown black ancestor had lain dormant for generations and manifested in Sandra."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,915475,00.html

A rather tragic story, given the apartheid-era South Africa setting...

This is interesting:

"Remee, who weighed 5lb 15oz, was blonde and fair skinned. Her sister Kian, born a minute later weighing 6lb, was black. ..
Both Kylie and her partner Remi Horder, 17, are of mixed race. Their mothers are both white and their fathers are black.
According to the Multiple Births Foundation, baby Kian must have inherited the black genes from both sides of the family, whilst Remee inherited the white ones."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=377839&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5

There's also a story about black babies being born to white parents thanks to a mix-up at an IVF clinic, but I can only find it on a pro-life crackpot site, so the reporting isn't exactly reliable. (If searching -- beware crackpot racist sites that'll come up...)

Answer 7

Two white people give birth to a white baby. Unless there is a mix up in the birth room. If they have any other color in there family then it is possible to have a black baby.

Answer 8

Genetic mutation aside (and I'm not actually sure of the possiblity or chances of even that), if two parents with entirely white lineage pop out a black (not just dark-complexion) baby, it means mom was screwing around and it's not dad's baby.

Answer 9

It s possible because My great grandma was born with black skin and she had to white parents but according to my DNA their is no evidence of any blacks ever being in my family tree but my great grandma was born black in skin but 100% white in DNA so bye my family back ground I know ur friend is speaking the truth. So don t let anyone try to tell u it s in possible because it is very possible plus you should never forget nothing is impossible it is very rare to happen for full blodded whites to give birth to black babies but it does happen some times it doesn t always have to have something to do with family back grounds

Answer 10

precisely an identical element occurred to my friends dad, His dad and mom the place the two from Jamaica and he got here out white with Blonde hair and blue eyes. i think of you call them throw backs. My pal became additionally white with the blondest hair you have ever seen and delicate blue eyes. yet she had black good factors