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Well, if they are black people with white ancestors(or white people with black ancestors), then they aren't the people I was thinking about. Almost certainly, t

Well, if they are black people with white ancestors(or white people with black ancestors), then they aren't the people I was thinking about. Almost certainly, the only reason your black friends produced a white baby, is because they had white ancestors at some point. If two doberman pinschers had a puppy that looked like an English bulldog, it would be strange and newsworthy. But, if the two doberman's actually had grandparents that were English bulldogs, the mystery would be fairly easy to solve. At least part of this confusion is associated with the culture of race(at least in the US) as opposed to the genetics of race. For example, we consider Barack Obama black, but he is equally as white as he is black. There's no genetic basis for making that kind of determination.

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> Well, if they are black people with white ancestors(or white people with black ancestors), then they aren't the people I was thinking about. Africa is very, very, very genetically diverse compared to the rest of the world. I don't think there exists a population which doesn't contain genes for lighter skin. I think race labels make some sense in a social/cultural context: In America we can call someone "black" when they are 75+% white, because for their entire childhood/life, socially, society at large treated them similarly as they treat people who are "100% black". But race doesn't make sense in a genetic context. It's probably far more absurd than defining the difference between an accent vs dialect vs language. Even though there are clear differences between individuals/families, the boundaries are absolutely arbitrary.