straightarrow372: How can they say she doesn't look like him?

No copyright infringement intended here. This is for discussion purposes on a topic of great public interest.

This blog is in response to the people who keep alleging that Paris Jackson is not the biological child of Michael Jackson.

This subject is really bothering me. I don't know why I would continue to attempt to inject myself into the minds of narrow minded people who don't know that most African Americans are 25% white and most whites Americans are 8% black. This is due to the raping of slaves by slave holders.

So mixed race children can have all sorts of unpredictable shades.

When I look at the two of them, juxtaposed, to me they look like twins. You have to look past the racial features at the shape of the faces: jaw, eyebrows, forehead, smile.

Ok, this word is now considered pejorative, but if you search on images for "octoroon" you get stuff like this. In the bad old days of Jim Crow, there were a lot of people who looked white who would nevertheless have to be segregated.

check out these photos of Quincy Jones and his daughters

Or this image of Diana Ross and her grandchildren

People don't seem to understand what mixed raced children look like. People don't understand that MJ was mixed race. His dad was light skinned with light eyes. His mom was part Cherokee. His mom didn't have typical African hair. His kids had the apparent races of their mothers, because he actually lacked race, despite a youthful racial appearance.

Here's a blog about mixed race children on Pinterest

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/404690716500350489

Addenda from discussion on FB

Someone asked me about her blue eyes and recessive genes. I responded that MJ's father was mostly white, having the light colored brown/hazel eyes of a white man, rather than the dark brown/black eyes of a black man

Also Prince has the very dark brown eyes of a black person

And also has vitiligo, like his dad

Addendum 3/19/18:

I think when you actually see Paris talking, and watch her face moving, see e.g. https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/975663166486016000
then you can see more easily that her skin is darker.

Some people have made the absurd statement that she has some kind of strange eye condition that makes her eyes look so startling

http://www.thisisinsider.com/paris-jackson-eye-condition-blue-explainer-2017-8

The appearance of her eyes is due to her skin being slightly darker than might be expected in other blue eyed people.

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pix comparing MJ & Paris

I hope the people who originated these won't mind my reposting them, as I feel we're supporting each other in contesting these ridiculous stories about Prince and Paris being the children of white men, like the dermatologist or an actor. I'm glad that I'm not the only one noticing how similar Paris's face is to MJ's face -- ignoring color, the hair and the nose

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— Skysong263 🌈 (@skysong263) May 8, 2023

After some googling I found some images on what seems to be Debbie Rowe's FB account. This purports to be a photo of Prince with Samuel Jackson, his great grandfather.

If I understand correctly, this is picture of Debbie Rowe's parents with MJ & Prince. The resemblance between Debbie Rowe's dad and Prince is strong.

Some people don't seem to understand that not everyone looks like their father, Some people look like their Mom's relatives.

Research article about mixed genetics of Americans. This article says that African Americans are generally 73% African https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289685/

Instagram video of blond kid who is half back

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It's really hard to tell a person's skin tone from a studio photo. Natural light is better. Here are a couple of photos in natural light of MJ as a teen.