Posted on 04/13/2006 5:55:02 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
February 22, 2006 - Take a look at these adorable little British girls. They were Good Morning America's picture of the week.
As you can see, one looks white and one looks black. But they are biological twins! Their names are Kayeen and Roomay. Mom and dad are of mixed race.
We're told, the odds of having twins this diverse in color is one in one million!
"to 1 in 1 million odds out of that.... someone lied to these folks."
The lottery odds are 1 in 10,000,000 , for example, but really it is 50/50. You either won or you didn't.
There is not a single gene that is either "white" or "black." Racial characteristics are based on a group of genes governing hair and skin color and other external features. So the odds of a child having features of both races are very high. For the same reason, the odds of a child having exclusively the features of one race or another are low.
Kayeen and Roomay ping!
So does the father pay child support?
Wow! I guess most folks (including myself) aren't aware that SS can affect other ethnicities too. My sympathies to you and yours. If you don't mind me asking, does having the trait result in noticeable health issues, or just that the possibility is there for it to cause issues? - OB1
There was a story in a Maine paper a few years back with a similar situation. It turned out that "mommy" had a fight with her boyfriend (who was black) and went to a local gin mill to "cool off". She had sex with a stanger (who was white) she met at the bar, then went home and "made up" with the boyfriend. Nine months later she had fraternal twins, one white, one black, each with a different father. So even though they were born at the same time, and technically twins, they are also only half siblings. Try explaining that at the family reunion.
Skin colour is believed to be determined by up to seven different genes working together.If a woman is of mixed race, her eggs will usually contain a mixture of genes coding for both black and white skin.
Similarly, a man of mixed race will have a variety of different genes in his sperm. When these eggs and sperm come together, they will create a baby of mixed race.
But, very occasionally, the egg or sperm might contain genes coding for one skin colour. If both the egg and sperm contain all white genes, the baby will be white. And if both contain just the versions necessary for black skin, the baby will be black.
For a mixed-race couple, the odds of either of these scenarios is around 100 to one. But both scenarios can occur at the same time if the woman conceives non-identical twins, another 100 to one chance.
This involves two eggs being fertilised by two sperm at the same time, which also has odds of around 100 to one.
If a sperm containing all-white genes fuses with a similar egg and a sperm coding for purely black skin fuses with a similar egg, two babies of dramatically different colours will be born.
The odds of this happening are 100 x 100 x 100 — a million to one.
I suppose it would impossible for there to have been a error in the hospital.. or a publicity ploy.. NAH..
That was classic!
There was a white lady named Jackie,
And she went and married a blacky.
The result of the marriage
Was "quads" in a carriage:
Pne black, and one white, and two khaki.
Harry Chapin ping
Yup, and though the picture isn't a very good one, the "dad" looks to be of Middle-Eastern origin to me. If that's the case, I don't even want to think about how this might end after the mullahs pull daddy aside and give him a good talking to.
It disadvantages the kids when they are adults.
Cutesy made-up names like Kayeen and Roomay do not help them get along in the real world.
If that is the father they better check the milk man for DNA.
That's MY guess....DNA testing is a wonderous thing. Just ask all the honies on Maury Povitch...... If DNA testing had been available at the beginning of the last century, I'd dare to say there would have been some corrections to the published family lineages....
Poor kids.
Why do you say "poor kids"?
Because of their names.
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