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08-19-2007, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
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...
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Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin, is non-fiction.
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08-19-2007, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by bluefish81
I think this is interesting re: last names not being indicative of your hertitage. My last name is very German. My great-great grandfather came to the US in the early 1860s. (No, I didn't miss a generation there, my great-grandfather married later in life and then had 8 kids.) The name hasn't changed since then.
My heritage is actually over 50% German - my dad is 100% German - my mom is probably about 25%. About half of my mom's side of the family has been in the states since around the late 1600s/early 1700s. And the heritage on my mom's side is German/Scottish/English/Welsh.
Perhaps it's just that my dad's side of the family hasn't been in the U.S. long enough. My mom does occassionally like to tease him about it since her family has been here so long.
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OMG we could totally have the same great great grandfather! LOL, would be funny wouldn't it? Mine was married three times and I think had 5 (?) kids with the third one.
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08-19-2007, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by fantASTic
Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin, is non-fiction.
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Sorry, I meant "Black No More"... It is a sci fi/futuristic type book. 
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08-19-2007, 01:53 PM
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Sorry, I meant "Black No More"... It is a sci fi/futuristic type book. |
Haha, that makes a LOT more sense..I was like, "Why would many black authors hate Black Like Me? It exposed all the racial inequalities in the southern states!"
I gotcha now.
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