black women....blonde babies?

Question

okay so I went to Jamaica back in 1997 to visit my fam ,and i saw the strangest thing, see the black women (like bob marley's mother) of jamaica who live near docks where foreign ships come in tend to give their bodies to foreign (white) men in trade for goods so theres like villages if you will of black DAAAAAAAARskined black women with these mixed babies, anyway i remember even though its been 10 yrs, seeing this dark black woman with three kids, and ALL of them were fair skinned with blonde hair and i was 8 yrs old and to me that was unheard of i new it could happen if the mom was white but black women too? im still convince these babies were switched in the hospital or something lol. so my question is have any of you seen this before? i dont date white men but golly. thats interesting to see. also what are some of the strangest mixes you've seen?

from Al all the way down to Helina yall need to learn how to read. im not putting down race mixing only an illiterate idiot who wants to stir trouble would say the retarded **** yall saying..im talking about GENETICS and how wierd it can be...get it together.

btw i AM Jamaican...im not making the dock thing up its real. some women go to the docks and trade a 'good time' if you will for goods. not all but for the most part.

another example of a strange mix was this guy who mom is mexican and his dada black, he looks like the perfect mix he looks like both but his eyes are blue....wow.

puregold its not a mtter if i get out much, THE POINT IS i havent seen that prior or since my visit to Jamaica...you happy?

okay so yall can stop whining change 'strange' to unique.

Answer 1

I had a very good friend who was married to a white girl from a mixed marriage. Her mother was white, her father was black. She appeared 100% white. Her brother from the same parents appeared 100% black.

genes are crazy tricky wonderful things

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Answer 2

It doesn't matter whether it's the mother or the father who is white. Babies can ressemble their mother, their father, both or neither and that goes for skin color as much as anything else. The genes of both parents get passed on to the child, but somehow some genes become more dominant in the child.

A mixed couple (black and white) can have a white baby, a black baby or a mixed-looking baby.

What's weird is that a mixed couple might have a white child and when that white child grows up it might have a black child, even if their spouse is white too, because the black genes are still there even though they weren't visible in the mixed couple's child.

Answer 3

Well ... did you study genetics at all? Actually, black women can have white kids. It happens everyday. You can even have throw-back genes, e.g. if your grandma was blonde your kids could be blonde. The strangest mix I know of is this: my great-grandmother was a twin. Her sister was blonde with blue eyes and my great-grandmom was black (not dark-skinned, but closer to black than white). Those were the days when babies were born at home so there is no switching taking place.

By the way, since white babies aren't too common in Jamaican hospitals, it's highly unlikely that these dark-skinned women would have had three kids switched at birth. And I have never heard of those communities though I have lived in Jamaica all my life. You really do live and learn.

Answer 4

I think the strangest one I've seen was the other day I saw an Arab-looking family with a little boy with the most stunning greenish-blue eyes I've ever seen. He had the straight black hair and deep olive skin, but those eyes were incredible. I don't know where they came from! Everyone else in the family had brown eyes. I don't know who was mixed, or how, but those eyes came from somewhere.

Genetics are a strange thing. Back when I was in school (20+ years ago) they just taught us that there was "dominant" and "recessive," and that's it. I'm not sure if they were over-simplifying it for the class, or if they really didn't know, but they were sooooo wrong. Skin color, hair type, and eye color comes from more than one set of genes for each thing.

I'm white (blonde/blue; British/German background) and my husband is African (from Ghana - brown eyes, black hair, medium-dark skin). We have two sons together, and while they look similar in their faces and both have chocolate brown eyes, one is much lighter, with looser curls and medium-brown hair and pink nipples (!!), and the other has kinkier black hair, darker skin, and brown nipples!

My science classes in school never would have predicted that!

Answer 5

what you say about jamaica is true not to mention the clubs for sex,ususally white men and young jamaican girls. this is old news but the weirdest mix i've seen was a jamaican guy and white woman in new york . the child was in between that arab and african skin tone with curly black hair and brown eyes . you could not tell he was mixed except for seeing the parents. mixing is okay if there is maturity and love you will say fuuuck the world and its views when you get down to it.

Answer 6

LOL I can imagine it would look strange, and I'll admit, first time I saw this, I was pretty gobsmacked myself - I couldn't believe it.

But then, it just comes down to the genes. Or, in a nutshell; dominant gene, recessive gene. The most recent discovery in genetics is that the colour of one's eye is not determined by just one gene, but by more than one gene. It might be the same for skin and hair colour. This could be a possibility to explain a pitch black (sorry, no offence) woman with blonde and fair skinned children.

Another possiblity could be that she is the child of a dark skinned parent and a fair skinned parent, and that her dark skinned genes dominated, why she is so dark herself - but the fair skinned parent's genes are still inside her genetic make up, of course - and she is married to a fair skinned man, or a man with a similar genetic background to herself (one dark skinned parent and one fair skinned parent) and their children inherit the fair skin genes from both the parents.


Of course, those two possibilities are just guesses from what I have to go on, and nothing more.


**edit**

Made a mistake in the text, the word 'gene', I believe, should be replaced by 'allele', if I remember my genetics classes correctly.

Answer 7

If the father of the children was a white man with blonde hair then there's a good chance that the kids will have blonde hair too. Even if the mother is dark skinnned.
I haven't seen any strange "mixes".

Answer 8

I've seen it a lot. I've seen mixed kids with blonde hair, red hair, hair with a mixture of colors. Green, blue, and grey eyes. My family is mixed and some of us have the darkest skin and hair and some of us are mistaken for white or Latin. Many of my black friends have mixed children as I do and a few of them have kids with blonde, red or light brown hair. I have a Latin friend who's youngest child has red hair. It's not that uncommon at all. I guess what you see is according to how observant you are or where you live.

Answer 9

Yes i have seen that every where i have traveled and alot here at home black men get white woman pregnant then leave i live in a small town and there are three woman in our town that left for college thought they would try something new had black boyfriends had two or three kids and then the guy leaves ..I am not saying this is all black men but the worst part is they do not support there kids i do. Because they are all on welfare to try to get by..And there are no single men that want to take on the responsibility to raise them kids..

Answer 10

Yes often times if a black woman has a baby with a pale or fair skinned , blond or red haired white man, the babies will take on the lighter skin and hair. A few of my g/fs babies and kids have this look and they are married to white men. Most often the males genes are dominant.

Answer 11

It certainly is possible im am dark skin and three of my kids are very light skin with reddish blond hair my son when he was an infant had a blond patch on his hair till he was about three years old.my ex husband isnt white but very light skin black with light eyes and light hair.But people i know that are maaaixed marraige dark mom white father have these features.and of the strangest race mix ive seen phillipino guy jewishhassidic girl