Are Michael Jackson's Kids Half Black?

[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.

[El Kabong]

Nope, and no matter how much plastic surgery you get it won't change your genes. Those kids aren't Michael's, I mean he may have raised them and all but he didn't make them or anything.

[JazMerkin]

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.

That's not always true, particularly when they're children a lot of mixed-race kids can have relatively straight, thick hair. See Alesha Dixon, Jennifer Beals, Ryan Giggs (yep, how many of you knew he was mixed-race ).

Still, none of them have any recognizable resemblance to how he used to look, so no way are they his.

[Chino]

Good points Jaz
But sometimes I think certain genes are obvious when children are mixed. Put any Asian with a westerner and without doubt the child will have asian eyes. I think it can be applied to black as well with a westerner. As for MJ's children, Iiiiiiiiiii am not sure. I wonder why he didn't have his very own children. I like MJ but some things about him I just can't figure out.

[JazMerkin]

Good points Jaz
But sometimes I think certain genes are obvious when children are mixed. Put any Asian with a westerner and without doubt the child will have asian eyes. I think it can be applied to black as well with a westerner. As for MJ's children, Iiiiiiiiiii am not sure. I wonder why he didn't have his very own children. I like MJ but some things about him I just can't figure out.

Well, MJ was a westerner as well. I'm also telling you from experience & living in one of the areas with the highest numbers of mixed-race people worldwide.

When two people of the same race mix they will take a certain number of features from each parent, but because they are the same race that is seen as obvious. With a mix between black & white, the child will equally take a number of features from both parent, but most people will see the black parts as more obvious because of what the person isn't - white.

Look at Barack Obama, then look at his parents. He seems to have his mother's mouth & smile, with more of his father's eyes, with his nose somewhere in between the two. I've got a mix of both my parents & truthfully don't really look like either. I know if people saw me in public though, they would only associate my mother as actually being my mother because we're both 'black'. I've actually been accused of lying by a police officer of my Dad being my father because he's white. It's quite an ingrained piece of Western ideology based around the absence of 'whiteness' making someone 'black' (sorry I did sociology & politics as part of my degree)