Are Michael Jackson's Kids Half Black?

[amat]

One of them looks like he might be but the others definitely don't. What gives?

[Kev]

Well that guy who claims to be Paris' father was white was he not?

I think it would be cool if one of the kids had stripes.

[amat]

Do they know if he fathered them or not? How bizarre, google tells me that he fathered none of them

[Chino]

I thought black genes are always stronger so the kids should have their skin at least tanned but they are as white as they can be.

[AdamGB]

Are they half black, or half white?

It doesn't matter!

[JazMerkin]

I thought black genes are always stronger so the kids should have their skin at least tanned but they are as white as they can be.

That's a common myth. Both parents will have an equal split, 50/50. Sometimes a child might look like one parent more in the same way that happens of children of parents of the same race. By and large children generally do take on genes that give them what society sees as a more 'black' appearance. This has nothing to do with the mix, as their appearance is often mixed equally, but to most people who have been brought up to see anything that resembles black as black, they see that rather than the white in them. People tend to only be surprised by a mix when it takes on more caucasian features. Sorry to go on, but I'm mixed-race & people (both black & white) have some ill-informed ideas about it.

Oh, & no way are those his kids. It's not the skin tone, but damn they would take some kind of trait from him. The oldest girl most definitely hasn't, & I really struggle to see it in the younger 2. Although it was clever who they 'blacked' them up for the funeral.

[Syntax Error]

None of those children look half black to me.

They've all got straight caucasian type hair & that does not usually happen, as mixed raced (black african/west indian & caucasian) children have afro hair.