Perhaps the most famous example, written as a book entitled "When I Was White", was of white South African/Afrikaner, apartheid-era, parents who bore a 'colored'/black child, Sandra Laing. The long-odds and geographic location created a tragic circumstance for Sandra and her family, with a legacy that continues to this day. (here)
The technical reasons on how this occurs is pretty simple. Each parent carries a combination of genes whose phenotype (expression) is dominant toward one ethnic group, while even a small number of genes are also resident, but without expression. At conception, the 'minority' expression of the genes may combine in such a way to have the minority ethnicity to 'poke through' and express itself in a one-in-a-million scenario. In the case of Sandra Laing, she is every bit the offspring of her parents, including her wrapping. She simply shows something that is unseen in her parent's outward appearance - that is a very small amount of recent generational black heritage.
James C. Collier
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7 comments:
My grandmother had a phrase to describe this phenomenon, which apparently was not unknown to her: "an arrow from afar."
I had to read this piece 3 times to finally understand what you were talking about, course i am a little slow, but yes i do believe you are right.
I have a lovely friend who is mixed ethnicity (African/Spanish/Irish). She looks like she is mixed Spanish/African. She married a European American. Her children all came out freckled white, red hair, blue eyed. Everyone, upon meeting her at soccer or baseball games, assume she adopted her children, either directly or as a stepmother. She is a wonderful woman and does not take offense at all ---- but it does get tiring to always explain the genetics involved.
if this isn't a OBVIOUS case of cuckolding then i don't know what is.
rare genes indeed...
Hey Anonymous,
A DNA test was performed and White dad was the biological father to the Black child.
I'm afraid that not true. A blood type test was performed, he was determined to be not excluded as the father. DNA tests did not exist at the time.
Um.....no.
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