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You may be getting misled by the apparent albedo ~ which is many photos is similar ~ just the luck of being a public man I guess, but color or tone means nothing when you are out there among 50,000 black people and you are looking for Dick Thompson ~

Trust me when I say that I've got a better than average ability to differentiate one black face from another. People in my family run the gamut from white enough to fool you, to black as Nat King Cole.

The albedo doesn't throw me off. I'm looking at eye shapes, noses, mouths, chins, jaws, foreheads, cranial shape and size, ears, cheekbones -- things like that. Skin tone and hair color don't matter a whit.

Heck, my little sister, who is a dark chestnut brown, is a dead ringer for our grandmother, who had white skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. I was just looking at their pictures today, as a matter of fact. It's stunning how similar they look.

Now, I'm not saying that Malcolm X really is Obama's father. I just think there's a possibility that he could be. As far as anyone knows, Obama was built in a lab.

...Now, I'm not saying that Malcolm X really is Obama's father. I just think there's a possibility that he could be.

My sentiments exactly...he COULD be. Just like Mark Ndesandjo could be the son of the kenyan, and Mark Davis could be the son of Frank. And when it comes to could be the resemblance between MX and zero is much stronger than is is between Stanley Armour and zero...all they share is a prominent chin.

i’m glad you recognize there are at least 72 points we all use to recognize folks ~ otherwise every piece of toast would seem to have a picture of Jesus on the dark side.

Heck, my little sister, who is a dark chestnut brown, is a dead ringer for our grandmother, who had white skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. I was just looking at their pictures today, as a matter of fact. It's stunning how similar they look.

It has been my observation that often times resemblance skips a generation or two. I have two great nephews (the children of two nieces from two of my sisters.) that look identical. I actual mistook the picture of one of them for the other.

Barack looks a great deal like his Grandfather, Stanley Dunham. Even his own Uncle Ralph Dunham and Aunt Virginia Goeldner say so. As for resemblance on his father's side? He certainly looks more like Davis than he does like Barack Obama, but genetics can play tricks like that. The only sure way to know is a DNA test.