Anyone Can Have Black Babies, but only White Woman Can Give White Offspring?

[Blaqueprincess]

Yeah one of my male friends' mom is black, dad is white...and all of her kids can pass for white...it just has to deal with genetics, u really have no clue how the kid's gonna look.

[AndyChow]

In this day and age, who cares? If you're skin is more black, people might use the word "black skin" to describe you, because it's convenient. The same way you can say "Black hair", "Blond hair", "tall", "short", etc.

I feel it's stupid to say anything like the subject suggests. Women have babies. Those babies can be identified by physical characteristics they have. That's it.

[Dawn]

"We're all familiar with the One Drop rule, it has it's roots in history, slavery and power. But, some argue that aesthetically ,it makes sense because most of the time children from a black parent and white parent will resemble the Black parent more so than the white parent, so it makes sense that white women can have "black babies," but Black mother can't have "white babies." Is it just about looks though, or is it something else? What about the Biracial children who truly look like they're in between, such as Alicia Keys, who would be considered, in some countries, "white." But, in the US is considered "Black." " - quote from original post of this topic.

When i read the red, i just take it to mean that the kid is going to look more black than white (as far as skin color, hair texture as opposed to facial proportions and such).....he/she will likely appear more like a black kid than a white kid or like he/she obviously has some 'black' in them.   Not necessarily meaning that they will look like the black parent.  (I don't know if that's what the quoted person meant)

I agree, Obama looks more like his mother.

yeah, i agree and understand what you mean.  however, i still believe we have all been brainwashed to believe that basically anyone mixed with black is black and that is what black looks like.  when in reality if we clear our minds and look at someone like barack obama he really doesn't have anymore so black features than he does so called white features (as well as others such as halle berry, alicia keys, etc.)   we've just been trained to believe that.  i think it's a way of keeping whites in a superior position.  as if saying NOT just anyone can be white.

[Vashti Lebron]

"We're all familiar with the One Drop rule, it has it's roots in history, slavery and power. But, some argue that aesthetically ,it makes sense because most of the time children from a black parent and white parent will resemble the Black parent more so than the white parent, so it makes sense that white women can have "black babies," but Black mother can't have "white babies." Is it just about looks though, or is it something else? What about the Biracial children who truly look like they're in between, such as Alicia Keys, who would be considered, in some countries, "white." But, in the US is considered "Black." " - quote from original post of this topic.

When i read the red, i just take it to mean that the kid is going to look more black than white (as far as skin color, hair texture as opposed to facial proportions and such).....he/she will likely appear more like a black kid than a white kid or like he/she obviously has some 'black' in them.   Not necessarily meaning that they will look like the black parent.  (I don't know if that's what the quoted person meant)

I agree, Obama looks more like his mother.   

[Chocolatesmoothie]

true Dawn, he does look a lot like his mother, but his color is more like his father's (in that picture) although sometimes he can look pale

[Dawn]

"We're all familiar with the One Drop rule, it has it's roots in history, slavery and power. But, some argue that aesthetically ,it makes sense because most of the time children from a black parent and white parent will resemble the Black parent more so than the white parent, so it makes sense that white women can have "black babies," but Black mother can't have "white babies." Is it just about looks though, or is it something else? What about the Biracial children who truly look like they're in between, such as Alicia Keys, who would be considered, in some countries, "white." But, in the US is considered "Black." " - quote from original post of this topic.

i totally disagree with the words in red.  i believe our brains have been trained to believe that the child looks more black than white because of the "one drop rule".

let's take president obama for example, if i had to choose only one parent that he resembled more, i would choose his mother.


pic source blackcelebkids.com

i chose a pic of barack when he was younger because that's a pic of his parents when they were younger. pic source fanpop.com

[joeclyde]

Meghan Markle plays on the USA Network TV show "Suits"

She is biracial with a black mother and a Dutch-Irish father.  I wouldn't necessarily say.  That she could pass for White but definitely is racially ambiguous.

[Vashti Lebron]

As for the title, I think it depends.  I do think most B/W IR children have that "mixed" look or they look light-skinned black.  BUT, I know of a black woman who married and had kids with a white man long time ago and her first child looks totally white and always has.  You would not know that one of her parents is black just by looking at her.  In that case, i think a black person can birth a white child---at least based on appearances.

[joeclyde]

Giving the eye test.  The offspring of most Black IR couples look Black.  Unless you carry a sign that says mixed with you.  Most people couldn't tell.




There is a social hierarchy.  With Whites being on top and Blacks being on the bottom.  So I'm not sure how hard White people are going to fight.  To have these mixed kids.  To be labeled as White.  Then it would lessen the power of having White skin.  Now if they want to fight to label themselves as other.  That is perfectly fine.  As long as that other is still lower than White.

Does having a "Black" child affect the marriage rate of WM and BW.  Possible.  But I think you would have to ask White men.  Their opinion about having a child that isn't "white".




 But for Black men.  Believing that any woman you are with.  You will have a Black child.  That does lessen.  The perceived "betrayal".  That you are doing to the Black community.

[Chocolatesmoothie]

Anyone Can Have Black Babies, but only White Woman Can Give White Offspring?



Related Topic: Beautiful Women Pictures 

[Chocolatesmoothie]

Anyone Can Have Black Babies, but only White Woman Can Give White Offspring?


We're all familiar with the One Drop rule, it has it's roots in history, slavery and power. But, some argue that aesthetically ,it makes sense because most of the time children from a black parent and white parent will resemble the Black parent more so than the white parent, so it makes sense that white women can have "black babies," but Black mother can't have "white babies." Is it just about looks though, or is it something else? What about the Biracial children who truly look like they're in between, such as Alicia Keys, who would be considered, in some countries, "white." But, in the US is considered "Black."

Read the article, post your thoughts.


This is a blog post from Stuff White People Do

Did you ever notice that white women can give birth to "black" babies, but black women can't give birth to "white" ones?

If a white woman gives birth to a baby that looks more or less black because the father was black, most people today still say the baby is black. But if a black woman gives birth to a baby whose father was white, that baby also becomes a black person, whether the baby looks black or could pass for white.

In 1996, James McBride published a popular book called The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. Why is it that a white person could never write a tribute to his or her black mother?

Presumably it's still the case, then, that if a "Black" woman in Europe had a child through normal reproductive methods whose father was "White," the child would be considered "Black," and if a "White" woman had a child with a "Black" man that way, that child would also be considered "Black."


This racial conundrum also determines how we label and perceive our president, Barack Obama.

Obama's mother is white, but we usually consider him black, especially because he looks black. But if his mother were black and his father white, we would still consider him a "black man," whether he looked black or white. We perceive our leader through the lens of this double standard because it's still the case that white women can have "black" babies, but black women can't have "white" ones.

source


































Anyone Can Have Black Babies, but only White Woman Can Give White Offspring?