I'd never seen a person who had one black and 3 white parents before.
From what I know of American history people who were 1/4 black where not alowed in the "white areas" but um How did they know who was 1/4 black. Did people have to carry around an id or something?
2007-12-12 05:18:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
lol oops I meant grandparents not parents. I saw a pic of Victoria Rowall with this girl and I was like who is that and they said her daughter. I was like woah
2007-12-12 05:56:38 · update #1
Smaller populations then. If a person was in a small town or rural area, it's likely people knew them and their family. But of course some people were able to pass as white.
2007-12-12 05:22:29 · answer #1 · answered by tabby90 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Skin color works like any other genetic combo. How light or dark you are depends on whether your parents have two dominant genes each, in which case they can only pass on the dominant, or one dominant and one recessive, which means they will have the dominant trait themselves but can give you either a dominant or recessive gene.
Because of slave owners who did what they wanted with their property (and did not consider it rape at the time), American blacks often have non-black genes. A couple that's clearly black and medium-toned can produce a baby much lighter or much darker than the parents.
2007-12-12 05:25:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, thats the first time I ever heard of a law where people 1/4 Black were not allowed in white areas.......Victoria Rowell is mixed Black and white, her daughter's father is reportedly white, her son's father is the famous musician from New Orleans Wynton Marsalis.
2007-12-12 05:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here's a story...
In the 1890s, a white man divorced his wife because he found out she had a Black parent. Her defense was that he should have known she had Black in her blood line. The judge made her strip down to her waist to prove that he would have known she was bi-racial.
In other words, they had no way of telling who was White and Black. It was purely based on appearances. Race is socially constructed.
2007-12-12 06:16:09 · answer #4 · answered by kelly4u2 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm offended by the first person. Why is it lucky that a 1/4 black person turn out mostly white? Would it be wrong if they looked more black because it was dominant?
2007-12-12 05:23:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 8⤊ 1⤋
3 white parents ha ha.As far as I know a 1/4 black ,is the offspring of 1white and 1 black grand parent and one white and one black parent
2007-12-12 05:41:46 · answer #6 · answered by Kira 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i dont know people just assumed back then..the only way to prove it would be to look up someones geneology.....
2007-12-12 05:22:57 · answer #7 · answered by trueimage_81 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know right lmao, how funny
2007-12-12 05:27:41 · answer #8 · answered by W S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who cares ? It's not any law now !
2007-12-12 05:27:08 · answer #9 · answered by Jimbob 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋