# Whoa... shocking family secret revealed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-shocking-family-secret-revealed/569060 "2011-01-26T16:24:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-shocking-family-secret-revealed/569060/41 "2011-03-11T16:08:50Z")
Just learned that Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan is married to his first cousin: [http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/08/japans\_prime\_minister\_is\_married\_to\_his\_first\_cousin](http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/08/japans_prime_minister_is_married_to_his_first_cousin) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-shocking-family-secret-revealed/569060/42 "2011-03-11T21:07:42Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Any black american lighter than Wesley Snipes almost certainly has slave owners in the family tree. Just wondering, is that necessarily true? Statistical probability aside, isn’t there tremendous shade variation among full-blooded Africans anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-shocking-family-secret-revealed/569060/43 "2011-03-11T21:50:18Z")
One of my great-grandfathers (father of my paternal grandmother) married the sister of my paternal grandfather. They had one child, so that side of the family tree is a bit knotted (I’m my own 2nd cousin or uncle or something). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-shocking-family-secret-revealed/569060.md?page=2)