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So why was she born black


I am watching the movie but missed the first 30 mins??

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They argued that it has something to do with some sort of ancestral gene. I forget the scientific name they used. It's sort of like that idea people say about certain traits skipping a generation. Something about her parent's combine gene pools which triggered african features in her and her younger brother.

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And I've got a bridge to sell you. lol

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And if any of her relatives were alive and cooperating, MAYBE she could have genetic testing done. And if her mom died in 2000 or after, When did the dad die? That way she would have found out FOR SURE. But actually, I think if they test her brothers,couldn't she have found SOMETHING out??

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Her brothers cut all ties with her. YOU'RE MAKING ME CRAZY!!!!!

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Yeah, I know her brothers cut all ties with her but this makes absolutely no sense given the fact that one of the brothers also looks black. Why would HE cut all ties with his sister?

I just don't get it.

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Her brothers cut all ties with her. YOU'RE MAKING ME CRAZY!!!!!

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And now you are being redundant!!!

lol

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Watching this on Netflix now.

Is it truly genetically implausible for two Caucasian parents to give birth to a girl with much darker skin?

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I have read where this is possible but EXTREMELY RARE.

The absolutely only way to clear this up is to get ALL parties in the same place, get blood drawn, do a DNA Test (with the father's sample) and

because you can't test the whole world, if he is the father you get 99.9%.
If they tested everybody on the planet, and he was found to be the father, you would get 100% but because they can't you get the next best thing. 99.9%.

But if he's not the father, you would get 100%

That's how DNA testing is done.

too bad they didn't have this in 1955.

And it's a darn shame that her brothers have no contact with her.

I mean, family is family, for goodness sake!!!

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That's just it ugggh THEY WEREN'T PURE CAUCASIAN. When they first went to get Sandra's classification turned back to white remember the mother saying "If we have black blood in us we didn't know". How would they white people are notorious for denying the fact that their gene pool has mixes of African, Hispanic and Native American genes mixed in. It goes back to slavery and African colonization. If you looked you could even see her older brother had splotches on his skin that looked like big brown birthmarks but were really signs on their genetically altered gene pool. Sandra and her younger brother were the realization that they weren't purely white. Which is why the classification law in S. Africa was changed anyway.

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The movie stated that her father took a paternity test which proved he WAS her biological father. So it was the case that two "Caucasian" parents had a "black" daughter. It certainly is possible; they both clearly had some "black" genes.

And her younger brother had some aspects of his appearance that suggested "black". His hair, for example. I've read that this was true in real life, but her brother's appearance was not such that he would have the issues his sister did going to 'white' schools etc., and he did not mind being classified as "white'.

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Genetics - My family has flame-on red hair that skips a generation; my cousin, brown hair, brown eyes married a man with brown hair and brown eyes. Their daughter was born with afore mentioned flame-on red hair. If my Aunt hadn't been alive with her red hair my cousin might have had some explaining to do. This is where the term "red-headed step child" comes from. Generation skipping is common for red hair and twins.

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This is a year later but the concept of twins skipping a generation is a myth.

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I keep hearing that but every other gen on my dads side has twins going back to the 1800s.

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Jumping in here although this topic has been discussed quite a bit on other threads.

First of all, you have to get rid of the notion that phenotype (what you look like) supersedes genotype (what's in your DNA). Every human conception is a crapshoot regardless of who you THINK your ancestors were. Then there is the whole dominant vs. recessive gene thing--ask a biologist. Witness all the DNA paternity tests of the last 10-15 years. You can look NOTHING like your parents and STILL be their child. In my family, I look like my dad, my sister looks like his mother--neither of us resemble our mother. Although, no one questions their maternity do they? Ha! Ha!

Next, you have to get rid of the idea of "black" vs. "white" as mutually exclusive. That is a sociocultural FICTION, especially in the USA. Recent genetic, anthropological, and biological research has proved that ALL humans are related.

In this film there is a moment in court where the scientist testifies to the fact that a large portion of S. Africans (Europeans) have African genes from their early days invading that place. Just look at Australia. All the rapes of Aboriginal women by the British invaders to the point where between genocide and rape there are a huge number of Aborigines who no longer resemble the indigenous population.

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YES thank you

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I haven't seen the movie yet, so no spoilers, please. But forget skin color or features. I'm just talking about eye color.

A biological mother and father, both with blue eyes, cannot produce a child with brown eyes. Brown eyes are dominant over blue eyes, so a parent with brown eyes is likely a carrier for blue eyes, but a parent with blue eyes can NOT be a "carrier" for brown. Because the brown eyes would be dominant over the blue.

Do they explain that in the movie? Is the man who thinks he is her father not really her biological father, something like that?

In real life, I don't care what the wife says, that must be the case.

The mother must have cheated on the "father" with a man who has brown eyes.

There is no other way.



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"A biological mother and father, both with blue eyes, cannot produce a child with brown eyes."

Actually they can. It is rare and unusual, but it is possible. Christie Brinkley's daughter has brown eyes while both parents have blue. It goes against the norm, but for a child to have darker eyes than both parents does happen sometimes.

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Wait a sec! Which daughter do you mean?
Billy Joel's or Pete Cook's?

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Do you mean Alexa? Her eyes are greenish, almost exactly the same as Billy's. They are not brown.

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You actually believe 'huge numbers' of indigenous Australians are the offspring of rape?

When the largely male white population moved into the Australian countryside they quite often had families with indigenous women. Sure, sometimes it was rape. But most of the time it was just people doing what is natural. The same thing has happened everywhere, and forever.

While, I'm here, there is no such thing as 'African genes' except in the sense that we are all African in our genetic makeup. Race is a cultural fiction and has no basis whatsoever in science.

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