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Originally Posted by Sistermadly
My best friend's family arrived here as free people of color back in the late 1700s-early 1800s. None of his relatives were ever slaves. I think this is more common than people realize, and yeah, I think it's seriously misleading to assume that just because a person's of African descent that their ancestors ever shared the enslavement experience.
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Another irony is that there may be 2-3 "lighter complexion" non-African ancestors that somehow co-mingled and produced offspring that wound up "darker hued". Then over time, that darker complexion became dominant in the rest of the progenitors... Then ever 1-2 generations, the lighter complexion pops up.
It is called Epigenetics and the generalized skin coloring genetics and systems may be under that level of control.
An interesting fictional account book is "Black Like Me" that all the current Black writers of the day severely criticized it...