I think it’s adorable how Paris thinks MJ will save her from the hungry president.
That’s what you saw. She saw the father that she loved.
She looks like his kid. I mean, just from her facial features alone, she looks like him. It’s sort of like me and my dad; we don’t have the exact same facial features, but if you look at pictures of both of us, yeah, it’s really freaking obvious.
She knew him in a way that you don’t. Perhaps she could see character traits in him that she aspired to. Maybe he was very non-judgmental, for instance.
I have no clue if those kids are his. Seems unlikely, because that grade of hair is very rare in black kids, even if they are bi-racial. Still, I used to babysit one little girl who was a blue eyed platinum blonde, and her hair was bone straight and baby fine. Her mom was fully black and her dad was Hispanic.
raises my hand as a doubter
I am very well-acquainted with the notion of people light-skinned enough to pass as white while having recent black parentage.
Usually, however, there are heavy doses of European admixture in the “black” bloodline. Yes, Joe Jackson has “light” eyes. But I wouldn’t look at dude and think, “Ooh, he’s got a white parent!” Or even a white grandparent.
Also, I’m suspicious because all his kids are “passable”, for lack of a better term. I could buy one. Maybe even two. But all three? And not at least one being only “passable from a distance, if you’ve never seen a black person before” kind of way?
I do have an aunt who had a slough of sons and all of them came out phenotypically “white”. So yes, I know it can happen. But my aunt does not look like any of the Jackson’s. She is light enough to pass herself.
I am not a MJ hater at all. And I’ll concede that my impressions may be twisted by doctored photos from the tabloid media. But Michael Jackson was a troubled man with body dysmorphia–vitaligo or no. The way he destroyed his nose and his fixation with straight hair and that neon-white skin—all of these strongly suggest unhappiness with his racial appearance. I don’t think he hated being black, but I do think he hated looking it. So it would not be a shock to me if he isn’t the bio dad for that reason alone.
The kids likely do have African ancestry because I don’t think MJ would have been stupid enough to choose a white sperm donor while trying to pass them off as his own. But I do think their biological father probably has quite a bit more European ancestry than MJ did.
(Also, someone earlier mentioned Rashida Jones. She has a sister who is more phenotypically black. I read an interesting article once about how divergent their lives are.)
Kidida Jones, Rashida’s sister, looks pretty similar, and is also an actress. Were you thinking of Michael Eric Dyson by any chance?
Er…no. It would be kind of hard to mix those two up. 
Yes, it is Kidida, and to me, she does look more “black” than Rashida. Like in this pic with Tupac. Rashida can slip through my 'dar, but not Kidida. But I think the differences in their lives stems from the fact that Rashida was raised by her mother and Kidida with her father. Which I have not been able to verify in my searchings of the interwebs, but I do think that was the thrust of the article I read.
I know this is not GD but, I’m sorry, you are wrong. My siblings and I are biracial and I guarantee you wouldn’t know my sister’s mother is black if she didn’t tell you, and based upon your comment, you probably wouldn’t believe her if she did.
That said, Jackson’s daughter is not his biological offspring, so why confusion about her race?
I agree. She seems so poised, particularly impressive given that 13 is such an awkward age. Her eyes are so striking. I hope she has a happy life.
How can you follow up your first statement with the second? How would you figure she isn’t his daughter?
I sincerely doubt that there is one single person in the USA of African decent that does not also have European ancestors.
Is he actually legally the father?
I thought I heard on TMZ that Jackson never legally adopted the two younger ones, The surrogate just gave birth and he took them. I thought his first son was his and his second wife’s, while the other two kids were totally the product of a surrogate and sperm donor.
Maybe I’m wrong. Anyone know?
Yes, you’re wrong. The first two children have the same mother (Michael’s ex wife).
Yes, Omega is right. Michael was married to Debbie Rowe for the birth of the first two children. The third child (who I think looks like most undeniably like Michael at that age) was supposedly the product of Michael + a surrogate who had no idea whose child she was carrying.
Those poor kids are going to hear this ALL their lives - it’s in every single thread they come up in here. It’s as if some people think there’s only one way for people of African descent to look.
I know someone with a very mixed ancestry - mother half Welsh, half Maori (very dark-skinned Maori, not African-American, so far less chance of European ancestry in that line), father half-Norwegian, a quarter English and a quarter Indian (Asian Indian). She has slightly wavy blonde hair, blue eyes and very lightly tanned skin. It’s as if she missed out on all but the Norwegian genes. It happens.
:rolleyes:
I state again (note this is my anecdotal which you replied to with your anecdotal):
I have never personally known a 1/2 or 1/4 black person who had hair like Miss Jackson in the pics we’ve seen.
Others in the thead have. Why is your anecdotal evidence superior to theirs? Also, you seem to think that “black” genese will always win out over white. Why is this? Why would not a person who has 3 “white” grandparents and 1 “black” grandparent (that is what “1/4 black” means) be expected to show more evidence of the single “black” grandparent than the other 3?
The colour is completely unsurprising, and, I don’t know what her hair’s like naturally, but in the pictures I’ve seen her hair looks straightened - it has that certain shiny sharpness which you don’t get with even the straightest natural hair.
Why is it you think I’m not entitled to anecdotal evidence? Have I stated “my anecdotal trumps yours”? No.
It doesn’t look chemically straightened to me at all.