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How Would You Feel If Your Child Was Black?

starbelgrade

Let's say that you & your partner are both white (a fairly high chance of this happening in Ireland)... you have a kid & it is born black.

There is no question of any infidelity in your relationship & it turns out that by a rather unusual (but definitely possible) biological quirk, that the pigment of an unknown black ancestor had lain dormant for generations and manifested itself in your offspring.

This is obviously a direct comparison to the "How would you feel if your child was gay?" thread and I'd be interested to see if anyone would have the same feelings as expressed in that thread - the feelings of devastation, or worries about discrimination, or is being discriminated as a kid different if it's for a different reason?

So, how would you feel if your child was black?

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Not The Real Scarecrow

I'd call it Houdini..... if it escaped from the black sack it was in and emerged from the river alive.

CoolHat

Its the classic story isnt it :P
White couple, black baby.

I know this is only a "what if" thread op :P But I have to be honest, if I gave a white girl a baby and that baby was black. I'd walk and never look back. It wouldnt be no biological quirk :P (what 000.01% chance? :pac: )

But imagine it :P
You love a girl, she says shes pregnant and you're going to be a daddy. 9 months later a black baby comes out? It would be enough for any man to hate women afterwards.

maygitchell

I have a black wife

Therefore I would be unsurprised

Sungodbr

Not a possibility, Id never be with a northsider anyways.....

Mickey H

I'd feel the same way I always feel anything - with my hands. :cool:

Pherekydes

All Black? That would be great.

iPlop

Reminds me of a couple on holidays this year, their son was chinese and they were Irish, nothing unusual there maybe they adopted. One night we were having a few drinks when the childs father told me that "seeing his son being born was the greatest day of his life"

His missus said she has been working for a chinese for the last few years. I think the poor fella ignored the fact his kid was chinese or blocked it out of his mind. Either way it wasn't his.

tfitzgerald

It would make colors day at school easy

phill106

Sink The Banana wrote: »

Reminds me of a couple on holidays this year, their son was chinese and they were Irish, nothing unusual there maybe they adopted. One night we were having a few drinks when the childs father told me that "seeing his son being born was the greatest day of his life"

His missus said she has been working for a chinese for the last few years. I think the poor fella ignored the fact his kid was chinese or blocked it out of his mind. Either way it wasn't his.

Looks like she got the cream of sumyungui as a Chinese takeaway!

IvyTheTerrible

Sink The Banana wrote: »

Reminds me of a couple on holidays this year, their son was chinese and they were Irish, nothing unusual there maybe they adopted. One night we were having a few drinks when the childs father told me that "seeing his son being born was the greatest day of his life"

His missus said she has been working for a chinese for the last few years. I think the poor fella ignored the fact his kid was chinese or blocked it out of his mind. Either way it wasn't his.

He more than likely knows and accepts the child as his own. I know a family in that situation (but easier in that the child is the same ethnicity as the parents). From day one the husband knew the child wasn't his but he said he loved his wife, wanted to stay with her and bring up the child as his own.

iPlop

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

He more than likely knows and accepts the child as his own. I know a family in that situation (but easier in that the child is the same ethnicity as the parents). From day one the husband knew the child wasn't his but he said he loved his wife, wanted to stay with her and bring up the child as his own.

I couldn't do it, I could never love someone else's child as my own, especially if it was because my wife was cheating. Id probably hate the child, so the only path forward would be to dump the wife.

orourkeda

Pherekydes wrote: »

All Black? That would be great.

Its hardly going to be half black is it

Pherekydes

orourkeda wrote: »

Its hardly going to be half black is it

Maybe it was a reference to the All Blacks; maybe it was about a child who 'tans' easily: white during the winter, very dark, relatively speaking, during the summer. (Though not this summer, obviously)

suicide_circus

Are we talkin will smith black or wesley snipes black?

Son Of A Vidic

Since you mentioned the gay child thread OP, you could try this. I suspect it might not work in this instance however.

El Weirdo

Denny M wrote: »

Yeah, but hair colour is considerably different to skin colour.

Now a ginger black child, that'd be something.

Tucker Fast Firefighter wrote: »

That would be spectacular. Probably a God in some cultures

Malcolm X and Redhead Kingpin, to name but two.

EGAR

Jaysus, the amount of stereotype sh*te in this thread is astounding.

[Deleted User]

I'd feel gutted at how much I'd end up spending on this stuff.
http://www.yumtrade.biz/images/A3_PersonalCare/personal_care_A30022_e.jpg

cowzerp

Denny M wrote: »

Yeah, but hair colour is considerably different to skin colour.

Now a ginger black child, that'd be something.

Wes brown is black with red Afro!

parker kent

Somebody was watching this last night :pac:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964586/

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

IcedOut

I would be very proud because he would get gold in the Olympics for 100m sprint, become a famous rapper and he would be good at basketball and play in the NBA

ejmaztec

suicide_circus wrote: »

Are we talkin will smith black or wesley snipes black?

I dunno, it seems to be a bit of a grey area.

phasers

I'd run out and buy it a saxophone and a packet of smokes

Biggins

starbelgrade wrote: »

...So, how would you feel if your child was black?

I'd wash him!
Anyone recommend a good soap?

Serious answer: Its my child - I'd love him/her equally - why not?

efb

OMG I would totes ring Madge and be 'Got me one too, girlfriend'!

WinstonOno

id buy him a bass guitar and make him learn 'the boys are back in town'

CrazyRabbit

I've always thought that one of my siblings wasn't my fathers child. I think it's Susann, but I guess it also could be Jing Lu.

Eric Cartman

id love it , just wait until hes 16 then start using him as my body guard , would be savage , we could go to KFC together and listen to rap music in the car

shanered

My inverted reversedly black albino kid would make me feel "white".
If that is such a feeling!

Keith186

Coming up next: How would you feel if your child was black and gay?