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You're welcome, son. lol. BTW, that now part in my quote wasn't me trying to be scolding or anything. If it came out that way.
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I knew about the northeast, but the southeast? Really?
Yeah but I should note that most of the Southeast part west of the Anacostia. Like around Capital Hill and around the new Nationals stadium is what I'm talking about. While slowly they are going across the river, it is still heavily Black. Wait until you see the H Street corridor in DC too. Changing pretty rapidly.
The genes involved with race are multifaceted and involve more than one gene that has relationships much more complicated than the dominant/recessive that everyone learned in high school biology class, as the sourced Wikipedia articles above clearly show. Even so, have you actually seen any children produced by an interracial marriage? Doesn't the child's skin color take some sort of intermediate tone between the mother and the father? LOL, do you seriously think there's one gene for skin color that has one allele each for "white", "black", "Hispanic", and "Asian"?
If the white phenotype was "recessive" as you have wonderfully theorized, very few would actually be white; when haplotype blood tests are done (the most reliable modern indicator of any type of racial differences in the human population), almost no ethnic group has characteristics fully in one haplotype. Shown at the link I just dropped is the average percentage of the two "white" Y-chromosome haplogroups, R1a and R1b in various ethnic populations. Even in the Scottish, who were the most "white" ethnic group tested, it looks like a good 15-20% of people who do not have a white haplotype. Looks like you had way more than one drop of nonwhite blood and never even knew about it, eh?
In all fairness, there is evidence (although entirely circumstantial) that genes called ASPM and DAB1 have contributed to the development of cognitive abilities essential to civilization in Europe and South/East Asia, respectively, but even if that is verified, there are plenty of people in Europe without the gene and plenty of people in Africa with it and it would make no statement about whether any given white person was cognitively superior to any given black person.
Regardless, somehow I doubt your concerns are actually what you claim they are.
Excellent post...a little over my head, but I kinda understand it.
Even so, have you actually seen any children produced by an interracial marriage? Doesn't the child's skin color take some sort of intermediate tone between the mother and the father?
Not always is the color in between the mother and fathers. sometimes they come out in between, sometimes looking just black, and sometimes looking just white.
Not always is the color in between the mother and fathers. sometimes they come out in between, sometimes looking just black, and sometimes looking just white.
True...but even beyond skin color, they normally have some features of both parents.
True...but even beyond skin color, they normally have some features of both parents.
sometimes yes and sometimes no. sometimes they will take on both "black" and "white" features, sometimes just "black" features, and sometimes, just "white"features. While many of times, yes IR children will look like a mixture of both backgrounds, sometimes they don't
sometimes yes and sometimes no. sometimes they will take on both "black" and "white" features, sometimes just "black" features, and sometimes, just "white"features. While many of times, yes IR children will look like a mixture of both backgrounds, sometimes they don't
It is true that many biracial children look more white or more black, but I have never in all my years seen a biracial child that didn't have feautures from both parents. It's not always noticeable at first glance.
Show me a half-black child that comes out with blonde hair, blue eyes, a slender nose, thin lips, and not an ounce of melanin in their skin. I have never seen this. I don't even think it's possible.
It is true that many biracial children look more white or more black, but I have never in all my years seen a biracial child that didn't have feautures from both parents. It's not always noticeable at first glance.
Show me a half-black child that comes out with blonde hair, blue eyes, a slender nose, thin lips, and not an ounce of melanin in their skin. I have never seen this. I don't even think it's possible.
I have all white children that don't have blond hair and blue eyes, so you can't use that as being a reason they don't look white. and, it is possible for them to look 100% white. Just because you have never seen it, don't make it not possible.
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In theory blonde hair and blue eyes should be possible if the Black/Asian/Hispanic parent has a white ancestor with those traits. As I understand it all you need for blonde hair is two people who have the recessive gene even if it's not expressed in either one. (You need two of a recessive gene to have it expressed) Same with blue eyes.
Now if the Black parent is from Africa, or the Asian parent from say Japan, it's not at all likely. However a good deal of African Americans have white ancestry. Granted having a blue eyed and blonde ancestor does not mean you will have the recessive gene for either thing, but I believe it is possible. Although I would say it's fairly improbable. Still Rashida Jones strikes me as fairly "white" looking albeit not naturally blonde so far as I know. (I have seen her with blonde hair on occasion, but I'm thinking it's a dye job. I don't know her eye-color offhand. I think it might be green and I don't remember the genetics on that)
By the same token, and if I have this right, two naturally blonde people can not produce a brunette child. To be blonde they must only have the recessive gene. (Combinations are BB, meaning you only have the brunette gene; Bb, meaning you have both but are still brunette because brunette dominates; bb meaning you are blonde) Likewise two blue eyed people can't produce a brown-eyed child.
At least that's what I'd been taught. Looking it up I guess research has indicated it's a bit more complicated than this and it's at least possible for blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed kids.
Well, it is possible for them to look 100% white. Just because you have never seen it, don't make it not possible.
That little boy does NOT look full white. I mean not EVEN. I'll admit that at first glance I probably wouldn't assume that he was part black, but I would be certain that he wasn't 100% white.
He is an example, however, of a biracial child favoring the white parent.
That little boy does NOT look full white. I mean not EVEN. I'll admit that at first glance I probably wouldn't assume that he was part black, but I would be certain that he wasn't 100% white.
He is an example, however, of a biracial child favoring the white parent.
and please tell me how he don't look white?
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