Black Couple have White Baby (not Albino baby)

This is the black couple who have amazed medical experts after their baby daughter was born with white skin, blue eyes and blonde hair.
Benjamin and Angela Ihegboro's daughter, Nmachi, has flummoxed genetic experts who are unable to explain why she looks they way she does.
Doctors say the white-skinned newborn is not an albino.
The blonde, blue-eyed girl's Nigerian parents say they don't know of any white ancestry in either of their families.

The British couple are both of Igbo Nigerian origin and have dark skin.
Father Ben Ihegboro, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted that when he saw the baby he exclaimed 'What the flip?' before joking: 'Is she mine?'
Doctors at Queen Mary hospital in Sidcup insist that Nmachi - whose name means 'beauty of God' in the couple's native Igbo language - is not an albino.
Her stunned parents, who already have two black children, just 'sat and stared' at their white baby when she arrived, they told the Sun last night.
'We both just sat there after the birth staring at her,' said Mr Ihegboro.
Mum Angela said: 'She is beautiful, a miracle baby.'
Despite jokingly asking whether he was the father, Mr Igegboro said: 'Of course she is mine.
'My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn't been, the baby wouldn't have looked like that!'
Pale skin genes can skip generations but neither Ben nor Angela Ihegboro - who only moved to Britain five years ago - know of any white heritage in either of their families.
'She doesn't look like an albino child anyway,' Mr Ihegboro said.
'Not like the ones I have seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby.
'My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine. But we don't know of any white ancestry.

'We wondered if it was a genetic twist. But even then, what is with the long curly blonde hair.'
The couple also have an older daughter, Dumebi, two, and a son, Chisom, four.
Mr Ihegboro said the couple's son was even more confused than them.
He added: 'Our boy keeps coming to look at his sister and sits down looking puzzled.
'We are a black family. Suddenly he has a white sister.
'But all that matters is that she is healthy and that we love her.'
Skin colour is believed to be determined by up to seven different genes working together.
If a woman is of mixed race, her eggs will usually contain a mixture of genes coding for both black and white skin. Similarly, a man of mixed race will have a variety of different genes in his sperm.
When these eggs and sperm come together, they will create a baby of mixed race.
But, very occasionally, the egg or sperm might contain genes coding for one skin colour. If both the egg and sperm contain all white genes, the baby will be white. And if both contain just the versions necessary for black skin, the baby will be black.

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[111bulletz111]

funny how white people dont wanna believe thay came from black people ..ignorant fools do your reseach this is not uncommon ..

[knuxiefan1994]

"whites" come from "blacks".

As do tan-skinned & redheaded individuals.

Anyone who's studied genetics knows that a "black" couple's genes bring out a skin, eye, & haircolor that may not look like their own. A "white" couple having a baby born with dark skin is a matter is being mixed. Its stupid to assume no one carries everyone's blood, becauase humans are 99.9999999....% alike. Those decimals I left out would fill the page.

I met an african american girl whose parents moved to the United Stat

[irishkc93]

she looks albino to me

[treeyard1]

lawd i hope he believe the story about emaculate conseption by the blond blue eyed cracker jesus

[mallowhawk294]

@James4MyHorse and maybe your mentally debilitated : )

[ficksuck1]

@AleaOfferein

nope thats bullshit

[AleaOfferein]

This baby looks just like any other African baby with albinism... Maybe she has a mosaic form or something, that would cause her to have improved eyesight (as that is what doctors check to confirm albinism)

[sprPee]

EVOLUTION.....JKLOL

[James4MyHorse]

May be the Drug the girl and Rape her that she can not RLZ

[gethsoftware]

@111bulletz111 i personaly dont draw the disnstictions. most african americans have european ancestery. some have more then 50%. the skin color is so easy to change. simple drop in melanolin is that simple. so instead of drawing lines about skin color. skin color is just one of many traits. bechose we draw lines based on skin color, the cultural traits seeme like racial when they are not. now, i know that human have natural tendency to be xenophobic, but you gotta fight it.

[teaspooon1]

she cheated on him? durr

[gorditabellisima]

This is a great life lesson ..... the truth have always believed that we are instruments of God and through the exposed individual to its will our Father ..... no distinction of color, race or religion are simply their children like this family .... loves and loved his daughter even if not of the same color .... because it is his daughter .... just open our eyes once and for all, the differences are only in our minds .... not in our heart ...