A Family Feud


"Cramped Champions" on January 10, 2020, and "A Tale of Two Stackers" on January 30, 2020 reveal that Gladys and her niece Hazel from the first two seasons of Bunk'd have a cousin in "Cramped Champions".

Both Gladys and Hazel are descendants of Jedediah Swearengen who founded Camp Kikiwaka over a century ago, and so before 1915. The Bunk'd Wiki says that Jedediah Swerengen should be at least 130 years old, and so born by 1885, possibly decades earlier.

https://bunkd.fandom.com/wiki/Jedediah_Swearengen

If Hazel Swearengen is about 16-17 in season one she should have been born about 1998-1999.

https://bunkd.fandom.com/wiki/Hazel_Swearengen

In "Cramped Champions" it turns out that the despised rival Camp Champion on the other side of Moose Rump Lake is owned by the Champion family, who send a family member to investigate what caused the problem at the camp. Barb Barca, manager of Camp Champion, fears she will be fired. Kalie Champion, sent to see if Barb should be fired, is a little girl portrayed by Amanda Christine, who looks like she wasn't born much before 2009 or 2008.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11482046/?ref_=tt_eps_cu_n

In "A Tale of Two Stackers" the newly found diary of Jedediah Swearengen tells how he became discouraged by everything that went wrong at camp Champion and abandoned the camp, founding a new camp across Moose Rump Lake. Swearengen changed his name to Champion, and named the new camp Camp Champion.

So The Swearengen family owning and running Camp Kikiwaka for over a century turn out to be cousins of the Champion family running the rival camp Champion just across the lake for over a century.

But Gladys and Hazel are clearly Caucasians while Kalie Champion is clearly African-American. How can this be?

Everyone has two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, sixteen great great grandparents, etc., the number of ancestors doubling with each generation.

If some had three "black" grandparents and one "white" grandparent they would probably look a lot more "black" than white. If someone had seven "white great grandparents" and one "black" great grandparent they would probably look a lot more "white" than "black". If someone had fifteen "black" great great grandparents and one "white" great great grandparent they would probably look a lot more black" than "white". And so on.

Hazel Swearengen 's parents would probably be born about 1968-1978, her grandparents would probably be born about 1938-1958, her great grandparents would probably be born about 1908-1938, and her great great grandparents would probably be born about 1878-1918.

So Jedediah Swerengen could have been Hazel's great grandfather or great great grandfather.

Kalie Champion's parents should have been born about 1978-1988, her grandparents about 1948- 1968, her great grandparents about 1918-1948, her great great grandparents about 1888-1928, and her great great great grandparents about 1858-1908. So Jedediah Swearengen could have been Kalie Champion's great great grandfather or great great great grandfather

So there seems to have been enough generations for the Swearengen side of the family to appear to be "white" and the Champion side of the family to appear to be "black".

Or possibly Kalie Champion was adopted by the Champion family, like Zuri was by the Rosses.

Added 01-24-2020. When Destiny reads from Jedediah Swearengen's diary Ava scoffs at "gossip from the 1800s". So Ava believes, possibly because she had been told when Jedediah lived, that the diary is from sometime between 1800 and 1899, and thus is 121 to 220 years old in 2020. So that gives some extra time for the two branches of his descendants to diverge in their racial appearance.

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Wow. Not good.

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