Black Parents... White Baby

[Chubb Rock]

Source: The Sun

THE stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared yesterday — "I'm sure she's my kid ... I just don't know why she's BLONDE."
British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.






Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3060907/Black-parents-give-birth-to-white-baby.html

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I hate to link to FreeperLand, but you have to read some of the comments. They can't possibly fathom that their "pure" race could have been copied by...AFRICANS!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2555570/posts?q=1&;page=1

[babylonsister]

1. Just so you know, the freeper reaction is probably what the

sun was going for; not a credible source for anything.


It is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.<5><6>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_%28newspaper%29

[Chubb Rock]

3. True, but the story is cool...

and what a beautiful baby!

[dipsydoodle]

4. Freeper

is a meaningless expression here in the UK and I'm not sure how many over your side would read The Sun anyway. Has it it been picked up by your own media ?

[babylonsister]

5. No idea if this media has it; probably not (yet). I was responding

to the FR link that was posted, so freepers here are apparently aware of this story (disclaimer: I refuse to click on those links from that vile place).

[dipsydoodle]

10. I subsequently realised

that Yahoo uk has it so I'm guessing .com will too.

[bitchkitty]

35. Is it meaningless?

I know a few English that use the term; admittedly, they are online friends who are familiar with US politics and with the extreme right website.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Bue eyes too

Beautiful baby.

[Ian David]

6. White people are mutants who adapted to absorb more Vitamin D in less-sunny climates

White people are mutants
http://scienceblogs.com/digitalbio/2006/09/white_people_are_mutants.php

I just had no idea that the mutations were so small that they might conceivably rarely occur within a single generation.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Evolution in one day.

If the genetics holds true, and he is the father, it answers quite a bit, doesn't it?

[Ian David]

7. SOMEONE is about to lose their FR account...

<snip>

This is exactly why we should be smart enough to let all this race stuff go. Because nobody knows - we all could be who we don’t even think we are. And so what?? We’re all human, and if we can just love each other instead of playing that game into infinity, we would wll be better off. (Except, of course, those who make their living off keeping us at odds with each other.)

21 posted on 07/19/2010 8:17:56 PM PDT by smalltownslick

[madrchsod]

25. probably a troll...lol

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[Alcibiades]

18. I doubt that

It's true, she resembles the mother more than the father, but a child who has 50%/50% parentage would probably be darker than this baby. It's a mutation, a rare one, to be sure, but the fact that there are any white people in the first place tells us this is possible, in fact, probable with large numbers of births. And, if a mutation has happened before, it will happen again. There are people born with many different kinds of genetic mutations: while most mutations are benign, most of the ones we would notice are horrible.

This baby looks African in all respects except pigmentation. The process of genetic expression is a complicated one I won't pretend to understand fully, but all sorts of strange things can happen, many of which involve pigmentation.



A black bellied penguin.



A white stag.

[Javaman]

19. Right, because science is wrong.

You might want to rethink your position, before you lodge your entire leg down your throat.

[TommyO]

20. Can you prove this, or are you just in the mood for pizza?

[marmar]

23. I'm thinking pizza delivery.....

nt

[TommyO]

24. It turns out that this twit is Michael Crook, a known troll

[ThomThom]

22. or hospital made a mistake... that happens too

or story is a fraud
I'll wait for the blood test

[Javaman]

27. Or perhaps genetics do happen.

oh yeah, that science thing.

[LisaL]

39. How would that even work?

I presume you think the hospital switched the babies? That would mean they also gave a black baby to a white couple and that couple did not notice?

[seabeyond]

28. truth you state, when you dont know. that alone makes you look foolish

forget science? wrong forum.

[On the Road]

9. Good Thing the Family Lives in Britain

In Nigeria, they might have lynched that kid.

[Robb]

11. In parts of this country, not too long ago

...the dad would've been in some jeopardy.

[dipsydoodle]

12. True

They should be safe here in the UK.

[On the Road]

15. I Mean, I Know the Baby is Not Albino

but tthe distinction might be lost on he villagers who subscribe to the idea that albinos are evil and must be killed.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Maybe it's not the mother who cheated, but the father

Picked up a fertilized egg somewhere. There was a story in Germany a few years back in which a similar thing happened, but two white parents had a black baby. Needless to say, the father went ballistic, accusing the wife of cheating. After all the tests, it turned out he'd "picked up" and implanted an egg - extremely rare but apparently possible.

[LisaL]

37. I find it very hard to believe that the man can pick up an egg.

[ecstatic]

38. wtf? wow! nt

[Emeritus]

41. Wait...so you believe he rammed an egg in her as she slept?

Wow.

[no limit]

14. I'd get a DNA test pronto

[BrklynLiberal]

17. Mother Nature is amazingly wonderful....

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2082429/Mixed-race-couple-Dean-Durrant-and-Alison-Spooner-celebrate-after-having-a-second-set-of-black-and-white-twins.html

[AngryAmish]

21. Occam's Razor says...

[MrScorpio]

26. That kid is going to have a blonde kinky afro one day

I hope he grows it out

[ehrnst]

29. Would it have been called a 'miracle' if a blonde family had...

suddenly been confronted with a child that had Negro hair and skin?

[seabeyond]

30. that is what i am thinking. two brown hair, br eyes has blue eye blonde....

my youngest son.

no surprise. well surprise, but not unheard of.

[happyslug]

34. A Afrikaner couple had the problem about 30-40 years ago

I wrote a bite more of it below, but it reflected the fact that Afrikaans (by that term I an referring to those South Africans of Dutch descent) had mixed with native Africans from the 1600s, when the Dutch first settled South Africa, till the Great Trek of the 1830s (and even afterward but not officially).

The Great Trek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trek

[JCMach1]

31. Birth skin and hair color change... my hazel-eyed, light-skinned, blonde daughter (i.e. Anglo)

began life as a dark brunette Latina... She was even darker than many of the Mexican-American babies in the Midland, TX hospital...

The child's hair will most likely change as well as other things.

[happyslug]

32. Blonds do occur in the Western Sahara area of Africa

A present time it is believe to be two movement of blonds into the Western Sahara, one in prehistoric times as the area went from grasslands to desert and the second was the movement of the Vandals from German to Spain to Carthage around 450 AD. How extensive was the later is debated (And how much of it survived in the gene pool of the Western Sahara is open to debate). On the other hand the existence of blonds among the Barbers and other tribes of the Western Sahara is while known, known even in Roman days (Thus the down playing of the later Vandal invasion as the gene source).

Nigeria is the delta of the Niger River which drains most of the Western Sahara. Rivers are natural transportation routes so people have used them form thousand of years. Given the existence of Blonds in the Western Sahara, how the Niger flows and the location of Nigeria, that blond genes are in both parents gene pool is easily explained. The key is WHY it shows up TODAY. Given DNA testing (and even British Hospitals concern for litigation) there is more then the fact the baby came out of her mother's womb tying this baby with BOTH parents (DNA results can be achieved within hours AND unlike old fashioned blood tests are accurate from birth).

Just comments that this is probably both parent's child and both parents have some blond gene in their gene pools and those genes just matched up in this baby.

Map of the Niger River:


About 30 years ago, before the fall of apartheid in South Africa, I read of a similar (But reverse) situation with an Afrikaner couple. Both were white and both families had been white for generations but the couple produced an all black child. The reason for this is about 5% of the Afrikaner group gene pool is African not Afrikaner and that African blood lines showed up in their baby. Since this was the middle of apartheid this caused all types of problems, for the child was technically classified as "White" even through her skin color was black. Thus she was allowed to go to the better all white schools in her area. She suffered from discrimination from her class mates and other whites who did NOT want to accept that fact she was "White" under the laws of South Africa at that time (She was "White" for both of her parents were "White" not "Colored" as those terms were used under apartheid). The last part of the article that I read was she was having a hard time as a "White" women in marrying a black male (remember this was during the height of apartheid NOT today) she basically had rejected the "white" label for her fellow "Whites" did NOT want to accept her as "White" so she wanted to marry a "Black" male, but as a "White" women she could not. One of the problems with apartheid and one of the reason it was abolished.

[bitchkitty]

36. Great post, thanks. n/t

[chalky]

42. They made a movie about the Afrikaaner family, called "Skin"

it was put out a year or so ago: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964586/

[happyslug]

43. I was not that far off, given I read the article I cited 30-40 years ago

n/t

[LWolf]

33. Wow. nt

[Emeritus]

40. For some reason, I'd like to know what a paternity test would reveal

The article does not mention DNA test having been performed.