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I’m an expert in many things. For instance, I’m the reigning expert in sexxiness upon entrance to a room. Do you remember that scene in The Best Man where Morris Chestnut enters the club and all the women fall out?? Well, he got that swagger from me.
Speaking of swagger…Jay-Z??? Yeah I brought that to the table.
In fact, the table? All me, pal.
I’m also an expert in poly-bicarbonate infused multispectrum exhaustion disposition. And no, that doesn’t mean anything. It does mean I’m an expert in BS.
However, there is one particular area that I have no expertise in whatsoever. And this one area has caused me a great deal of inquiry and peer discussion:
Genetics.
Now you might wonder why in the world I’ve been focused on genetics. It’s for a very simple reason. I happened upon a question one day. It’s a question that has garnered many an answer and sparked much debate with no apparent agreement in the middle. It’s a question that seems more and more relevant given today’s multicultural dating climate and the abundance of race-mixing going on. Face it, you see race-mixers everywhere.
So what is the question you ask?? It is as such:
If two mixed people have a kid, what is the kid?
There are mixed kids everywhere nowadays. Which is great. I’m mixed.
Yay, me.
Black men have been dating white women at astronomical rates and procreating to boot. I’ll leave the debate alone on Black men dating white women, mostly because I really don’t care. Well this boom in multi-cultural acceptance and flat out rebellion has created a group of new little light skinned wavy haired munchkins. I’m of the mindframe that mixed (Black and white) kids are Black. Now, that’s more of a societal thing and because, well, that’s how I was raised. Growing up in a Black household (I wasn’t raised by my white mother) with Southern roots and then living in the South will do that to you. Where I’m from there ain’t no picking and chosing. You just don’t have that option.
But see, genetically speaking, mixed kids are indeed the combination of white recessive genes and el Negro dominant genes, and not merely Black.
[***Sidenote: For the sake of argument we'll pretend that Black people in America are actually Black and not descendents of white slave owners lustful escapades with Kizzy and the chick in Rosewood.***]
So say you have two mixed people, one male and one female.
And the church said, “duh.”
Male: .5 Black + .5 white = 1 mixed
Female: .5 Black + .5 white = 1 mixed
Now the mathematician in me wants to say well, if you got .5 + .5 that equals 1. So technically speaking, two mixed people with two kids would have one Black kid and one white kid, and they just get to fight it out to figure out who gets to be the cool one, i.e. the Black kid. Though of course that cool becomes completely irrelevant when the Black kid can’t get a job, but you know how us Black folks are – shortsighted and sh*t – which explains why ANYBODY would get permanent gold/platinum/titanium/uranium teeth.
But I digress.
Now I guess a lot of this depends on which rule you chose to follow as well. If two mixed kids have a child do you just say the child is mixed too?? This seems a tad absurd to me because for some reason, mixed doesn’t create mixed in my mind. It’s almost like you have to come up with a new category.
Black+White = Mixed
Mixed+Mixed= Hmmmmm…Mo’Mixed???
See, I clearly have no answer for this. So some people believe that mixed kids are just Black anyway in which case this would be a moot point. Two mixed kids would just be having more Black kids. That just seems a little bit too simple for me. But then again, what if the mixed people don’t actually believe that they’re, ya know, Black (uh, weird!). Do they just believe they’re having white kids?
Do they also believe in magic?
I don’t know. What say you?