Just saw this today. I'm not a geneticist but I have seen this fear of "white" parents having a "black" child over-portrayed. The whole "tragic mulatto" pile of merde. Thumbs down.
Call me when the "black" parents give birth to a "white" child. That should be far more tragic and far more worth watching.
You can say that again. I saw the movie. It was VERY moving to say the least. However the issue is not just something that happens to white people.
My cousin was born in the late 70's to two very bark skinned people. She on the other hand was/is very fair with blue eyes and straight hair to say the least.
Think of the shock that was put on this family until the paternity test was completed that infomrd the that they were in ded the parents of a child that looks NOTHING like them what so ever!!!!!
Lets see a movie about that. Even though aparthied is not done in the US. There is still racism here and to walk down the street with a child that does not look anything like you in any way shape or form for a black couple is just as tramatic as a white couple giving birth to a child that looks black
Thanks for your post. This is a HIGHLY, HIGHLY, ramified topic which has never been PROPERLY or TRUTHFULLY dealt with in the US. I am not socially blind, but a lot of people seem to be and to prefer it that way. But the authors and film makers always seem to want to grind an axe in either one direction or the other. I will probably have been dead for 500 years before this topic is examined and treated OBJECTIVELY.
Because of the history of the US, people have all these preconceived, deliberately instilled MYTHS in their heads - you don't look like me so you can't be mine, you're too light, you're too dark-- ad nauseam. Guess what? I don't look like my mom AT ALL. Why is it that I should I look just like my dad? This is not a color issue but a resemblance issue. Why don't people go off half nuts when their children don't resemble them in other ways? Although, I suppose they do--witness the Maury Povitch show (LMAO!)
The hard core "blacks" and the hard core "whites" do a lot of damage with their attitudes that deny historic and genetic REALITY. I can't imagine being that insecure and afraid about basic biology, especially not in this new century! If they could accept and acknowledge the huge area where they overlap perhaps they could get over it already.
The sad thing is that western europeans took this color crap with them from one side of the globe to other in their justification of conquest, theft, and enslavement. If you look at a map of the world and circle the countries where color became an issue it takes up just about most of it.
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Call me when the "black" parents give birth to a "white" child. That should be far more tragic and far more worth watching.
why should that movie have any more worth than the other no offense but that sounds a little bit black elitist. I'm black and I felt uncomfortable with that statement.
I was being snide on purpose. I've been disgusted with how the film industry has treated this kind of topic over the decades.
I'm not black. But, I AM an elitist. LOL!
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But there hasn't been a lot of topics on this type of subjects though... at least none that is as popular as this movie.
There are actually Black people that give birth to very WHITE looking children, but most haven't been through what Black looking children born to a White couple have gone through.
In the 50s a woman from a good, important African family (Senegal I think) gave birth to a "White" child (blond, blue eyes, pale white skin - a girl). At first they thought she might be albino, then as she grew they realized she was just "White" the father left the mother (he was Black). The family had a meeting, then the grandfather who was the speaker for everyone said that there has always been a rumor that his great grand father was a White man. That was it. The little girl never went through anything traumatic and wasn't sneered at or treated badly. I wish they did a movie on that... but it wouldn't be as dramatic as Skins.
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Just last year there was a black couple who had a "white child" little girl was ruled not to be an Albino, parents know of no white ancestry on either side, but clearly somewhere in their family tree there was. I think this is a sensitive topic for some. People want to think everything is just "black and white" well that's not the case. Truth be told must people in this world regardless what they look like are not 100% any race. Seeing that science says all people regardless of what race they are have a common ancestor who came out of Africa well.
shareIt's easy to keep the truth hidden, especially from a while back when mixing was illegal and dangerous.
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Hey Hunt, I tried to search this story online, but found nothing. I think the best way is to find a way to contact people in person? maybe through facebook? A friend of mine is a writer and she writes stories about real people - they are short stories with pictures - pretty good stuff, but she says the best way to get a true story is to actually GO there and interview because you won't always get what you need online. I just gave birth to a daughter in Feb and surprisingly she looks very white. I'm half Black & half Russian and my husband is half White & Japanese, but our daughter who looks like us has very light steel blue eyes, blond hair and very light olive/peach skin. She doesn't look part Asian or part Black at all.
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The story I told I watched it on a French channel (Canal + (?) or France 2 - I can't remember which). I was living in the Congo at the time and it was in the mid 90s. I'll ask around and see if anyone I know can come up with something online - if not maybe they can post the article or get you a contact number.
Good luck! and I'll do my best to help you out
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I liked Feast of All Saints
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255730/
but I've always liked Anne Rice and New Orleans.
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Huntleydevonte-1, I'm pretty sure you said you've already found this, but here it is anyway.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3060907/Black-parents-give-b irth-to-white-baby.html
I know you might be thinking, "Well, consider the source," but if you Google, "Black parents give birth to white baby," you'll find plenty of links.
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Er. This is based on a true story, it's not fiction. You seem to have an ax to grind.
shareCall me when the "black" parents give birth to a "white" child. That should be far more tragic and far more worth watching.