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I wish I would've remembered more in Anthropology now . Do you mean darker skin? What about the nose, any have a more rounded and wide nose compared to the more skinny and pointed nose? Some other features would tell like eye orbit shapes but you can't do that..
Yeah, I didn't want to get into that because I was afraid it might offend some people, but yes, my father and some members of his family have traces of african features. My father has very full lips and a wider set nose, dark hair and skin that tans very well in the summer. His mother, my grandmother, exhibited even more of these features. I recently saw a picture of her as a young woman, and she had very full lips, very dark, thick, wavy hair and a wider nose as well. I'm not saying this is proof, but it leads me to think that it is a possibility.
I don't possess any of those features though. I have very wispy, light blonde hair, and I am a 22 year old male. I guess I got that from my grandfather who was irish Catholic, english, and alsace lorrainian. I have a romanesque nose that has shown up in every generation on my mom's side of the family, that first appeared on my great grandmother who was full Italian. And I am very pale for most of the year but I can tan fairly well in the summer.
If someone is 98% white, they're white, just as someone who is 98% black is black. By and large, they're not mixed.
If we're to take the article at face value, most whites in America aren't in fact "98% white" they're more like 88-85% white. Again, what about this is disconcerting to you? This isn't really hard to believe at all, particularly when talking about the areas of the country where slavery and the slave trade was prevalent.
Yeah, I didn't want to get into that because I was afraid it might offend some people, but yes, my father and some members of his family have traces of african features. My father has very full lips and a wider set nose, dark hair and skin that tans very well in the summer. His mother, my grandmother, exhibited even more of these features. I recently saw a picture of her as a young woman, and she had very full lips, very dark, thick, wavy hair and a wider nose as well. I'm not saying this is proof, but it leads me to think that it is a possibility.
I don't possess any of those features though. I have very wispy, light blonde hair, and I am a 22 year old male. I guess I got that from my grandfather who was irish Catholic, english, and alsace lorrainian. I have a romanesque nose that has shown up in every generation on my mom's side of the family, that first appeared on my great grandmother who was full Italian. And I am very pale for most of the year but I can tan fairly well in the summer.
Your grandmother sounds like a typical creole woman in Louisiana. It's probably some slave blood in there. Thats how I have the white in me, my great great grandfather was a slave owner, my great great grandmother was one of the slaves, house slave I believe.
If we're to take the article at face value, most whites in America aren't in fact "98% white" they're more like 88-85% white. Again, what about this is disconcerting to you? This isn't really hard to believe at all, particularly when talking about the areas of the country where slavery and the slave trade was prevalent.
I find it funny how so many white celebs come out stating they have native american ancestry yet you never hear any talk about african ancestry. When just numerically there have been undoubtedly more black-white admixtures than white-native american.
There's a whole branch of thomas jeffereson decendants today who trace there roots to sally hemmings and i'm talking about white descendants. Passing for white was not all too uncommon for lighter skinned/featured blacks in the 19th/early 20th century and they eventually blended into white society.
Here's a story from Canada that will really put the socialization of race into perspective and it occurred many years before a major event that was a subtle part of the Civil Rights Movement: Black History Canada - Viola Desmond
And a good lookin' woman is a good lookin' woman....no matter what her skin tone is or how much mixed blood she has.
Whoops, cold shower time again.
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. Do you mean darker skin? What about the nose, any have a more rounded and wide nose compared to the more skinny and pointed nose? Some other features would tell like eye orbit shapes but you can't do that..
....no matter what her skin tone is or how much mixed blood she has.
