Black Couple Surprised When Newborn Daughter is White

Queen Darling, you really are ignorant. Perhaps you should do some reading yourself into DNA and genetics. My husband and I, both have dark hair and hazel eyes, yet we have a red-headed child with blue eyes. I suppose that's not possible either?

Yes, and the bottom line is this: lighter skin is better for coping in colder climates, while darker skin helps people living in warmer ones.

Science has proven that mankind started near the Equator, so light skin had to begin as a genetic mutation that in warmer places got squashed, but in cooler places became an advantage. Specifically, lighter skin lets in more sunlight, which aids in Vitamin D production. Darker skin blocks out harmful ultraviolet radiation. This is why darker people often have Vitamin D deficiency in cooler climates, while lighter people are at a greater risk of getting skin cancer in warmer places.

Note that this only held any value during an era in which global travel was nonexistent. In today's world, it simply no longer has much relevance, because we are now traveling all over the place! But if you really think about it, this is a good thing, because genetic diversity will make us better equipped to survive the rigors of space and populate other worlds -- which will probably be necessary, since we are destroying the one we're on...

Queen darling you are the most stupid and ignorant person around. My daughter is mix race black and her husband a German with blue eyes. Their two sons have blue eyes and daughter hazel. They all have white skin. My father was very brown skinned, mother was mixed black, Jewish, Irish, Native American and light skinned. Their children range from dark like my father to fair like my mom's side of the family. So you jerk, you just can't stand to think blacks and mixed blacks as well as minorities can have white kids. Best example, Ann Curry on Today show, she is half Japanese and white but looks Asian and her daughter looks Asian and her son looks totally white like his father, a fair as you can get blue eyed blonde. Jerk, you need to take a course in genetics, you are one who hates to be fooled by a white looking black/minority person. But Miss Racist, most of all, it's only the exterior features of a person, we are all the same, if the truth is told.

Barbara, you need to read up on Mendel. It's not that simple. Brown hair and brown eyes are NOT always reflective of dominant genes within an isolated gene pool, such as Native Americans, certain Asian populations, and certain African populations. That is why my brown haired, brown eyed mother of Native American descent has a blond haired, blue eyed daughter (me).

CLM, honey, reread what Barbara posted. Specifically the third sentence. "So therefore two brown eyed black haired people can have a baby with blonde hair and blue eyes."
She said exactly what you (and G. Mendel) said.

Once again, you need to research before making such a statement. My parents are both blue eyes and so is my brother. My grand parents are also blue eyes Yet I have brown eyes. No, my mother did not cheat. I look exactly like my father, except for the eye color. It is not usual for two blue eyed people to have a brown eyed child, but it does happen. It happened to me.

Good comments Barbara... It would be nice if humans thought like you... We are all just that... Human beings...

Actually, two blue-eyed parents can produce a brown-eyed baby. The blue-eyed gene is just a brown-eyed gene with one or more defects in it so that there is no pigment expressed. It's not common, but every once in a while, the defective portion of one gene is transposed with an undefective portion of the other gene during meiosis (sperm/egg production), leading to a 'fixed' brown-eyed gene in a sperm or and egg, which is dominant over the blue gene contributed by the other parent.

Jesus is Jewish, which means He is not white or black. He is dark complected, but not African-American or Caucasian. He is what you see on TV when they show Israel in the news.