Tuesday, July 20, 2010

"Black parents, white baby"

By Donald Sensing

The Sun, UK:

THE stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared yesterday — "I'm sure she's my kid ... I just don't know why she's BLONDE."

British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino. ...

Blue-eyed blonde Nmachi, whose name means "Beauty of God" in the Nigerian couple's homeland, has baffled genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela have ANY mixed-race family history.
Pale genes skipping generations before cropping up again could have explained the baby's appearance.

Ben also stressed: "My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn't been, the baby still wouldn't look like that.

"We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages - not saying anything."
Photos at the link. Indeed, the baby does appear to be a "typical white person" (couldn't resist). The Sun quotes experts who say that such births are very rare but not unheard of. And another thing I can't resist is the chance to post another clip (see here) from that cutting-edge, deeply sociological movie, The Jerk, starring Steve Martin as Navin Johnson, a white guy who was "born black."


Life imitating art? Not the first time.