If an african american is dark skin color does it mean his full black or has mix race ancestry?

Question

If an african american is dark skin color does it mean his full black or has mix race ancestry?

Answer 1

Look around you.  There are white people with red hair, blonde hair, brown hair, and others.  There are white people with blue eyes, green eyes, grey eyes, brown eyes, and others.  Can a brown-haired brown-eyed person come from the Netherlands?  Yes.  Can a blonde-haired blue-eyed person come from the Netherlands too?  Yes.  Does this mean the brown-haired brown-eyed person has mix race ancestry, just because they are slightly darker?  Absolutely not.  Same goes for black people.

Answer 2

Could be either. Certain genes are passed on from generation to generation, despite any 'light skinned'  DNA

Answer 3

Many African Americans have some white ancestry due to slavery. Slaves were considered property by the slave owner and he could pretty well do to them under the law what he pleased.

The term white is used for caucasians.  Actually if a person was "white" they would look like Casper.  Caucasians come in various pigmentations, from the very fair to those who have a naturally good suntan.

Mariah Carey had a black father and a white mother.

Answer 4

Is a "white" person who is a darker skin tone of mixed heritage?  What about black people who are pale?  I don't think ANYONE who is a product from a union of two full-bloodied U.S. Americans in the past 200 years is of a pure ancestry from One place........

Come on, all these white girls with round, full butts and full lips, etc...LOLOL

Do you think Mariah Carey or the lead younger brother on Prison Break is only white because of their skin color. . .. .  .  . . .

Answer 5

She has 92% sub-Saharan African and 8% European

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Pro...

She has 100% sub-Saharan African (khoisan)

http://www.nma.gov.au/libraries/images/t...

You cant read a book by looking at its cover :)

Answer 6

No; everyone alive on earth today is of mixed ancestry, even the Bushmen of the Kalahari.  Read:

“Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes” by Steve Olson

"Genealogy 101" by Barbara Renick and

"Trace Your Roots with DNA: Using Genetic Tests to Explore Your Family Tree" by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak and Ann Turner.

And vice verse: even the palest paleface has some color from some ancestor...

Answer 7

It means neither