Black and white twins defy odds

[marmar]

via the Toronto Star:






Twins Triniti and Ghabriael Cunningham are your average 17-month-old siblings who like to wrestle, give hugs and blow kisses.

Apart from the fact that they were born 11 weeks early and needed to be monitored closely at the beginning of their lives, the now-healthy twins are as much of a handful for their parents as any other toddlers.

The only thing that sets them apart from others their age is the fact that by all appearances, Triniti is black, while her brother, Ghabriael, or “Gabe,” as his parents call him, is white.

“People don’t really react when we’re out in public until they realize they are twins,” said the children’s mother, Khristi Cunningham, 29, from their home in Akron, Ohio. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/babiespregnancy/babies/article/945037--black-and-white-twins-defy-odds

[SoCalDem]

1. Very cute kids.. Too bad Mom got so "creative" with his name though

That poor guy will never have his name spelled "correctly"..:(

[marmar]

3. I know.....What was wrong with just plain Gabriel?

:)

[SoCalDem]

6. There ARE books available that show how to spell names

Sometimes I wonder about people & why they must get so creative, when their child is such a special creation to start with..why tack on a weird spelling of a great name or a totally off-the-wall name that YOU think is cute and that kids will have to wear his/her whole life...or pay to have it changed?

A lady who was a hospital roommate when I had my second son named her baby Urea.. I'm pretty sure she was aiming for Uriah & hopelessly missed.. Another baby in the nursery was named Temmple Starr Gunter.. 2 m's 2 r's, and still sounded like a great name for a HORSE... or a STRIPPER

[marmar]

11. No joke.....I knew a kid whose name was pronounced Shuh-theed, but spelled.....

...... Shi'thead. I'm 100 percent serious.

[SoCalDem]

12. Barry Berry, anyone?

A 5th grade class mate

and then there was poor little Tommy Tucker who sat in back, until the teacher moved him up to the front row.,...we were learning cursive and someone always "customized" the "T" in his last name by the time his paper made it to the front of the row:(..His Mom was "not amused"

[LibertyLover]

21. I was on my Facebook page recently

and for giggles looked at some of the suggestions for people I should "friend" because of mutual friends. One person's name was, no joke, Rayne Dropp. It turns out she is a friend of my stepdaughter and her husband. Words fail.

[Kennah]

5. The kids are way cute, and ...

... I'm really sorta beside myself over this.

Really? I mean, this is weird or shocking?

Me, the wife, and our three kids are Caucasians. The wife, and thus the kids, has Cherokee and Shoshone heritage, plus Scot, and Irish, and who the hell knows what else. I'm English, Irish, Scot, and who the hell knows what else.

I have the darkest skin, then the 10 year old, then the 20 month old, then the 5 year old, then the wife.

White, black, whatever. We're all just different shades and hues.

Rant over. Soap box free.

[SoCalDem]

8. Take a dip in the gene pool & you never know what will happen

:)

[Kennah]

2. Everybody just gotta keep fucking everybody else until we're just one color

[demwing]

4. Amen to that - Its gonna happen eventually

Might as well have some fun with it

[RetroLounge]

7. Yup

:hi:

RL

[azurnoir]

10. well I think maybe I've done my part n/t

[jberryhill]

13. Actually, it doesn't work out that way

Genes don't work like mixing paint. If humans bred at some sort of global random process, you'd continue to get a mix of various traits.

What's amazing, though, is that people even make a big deal over the teeny tiny minor variations in expressed traits.

I mean, you can breed a German Shepherd with a Chihuahua if you want to (and they actually come out cute) - they're both dogs. But when you compare variations as large as that between a German Shepherd and a Chihuahua, you get the idea that dogs would think we were insane based on how we go nuts over minute differences.

The only reliable way they can tell us apart is by smell, really.

[Kennah]

15. Are you suggesting we sniff each others butts?

[Wait Wut]

14. I don't agree.

I like all the different colors.

[Kennah]

16. It was a line from "Bulworth"

[Wait Wut]

26. Ahhhhhh...

...that would explain my confusion. I'm seriously out of the loop as far as entertainment goes.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Actually, that's not what would happen.

All skin colors would still be there -- but they'd pop up at random everywhere. Which would be even cooler IMHO.

[Kennah]

24. Kinda like ligers, but they are different species so it doesn't translate exactly

[azurnoir]

9. I remember something like this happening 25 or so years ago

twins of Bi-racial parents being born one looking completely Black and the other looking completely White separatists on both sides latched on to it as 'proof' that nature doesn't want the races to mix, hopefully no one gets the idea this time

[provis99]

17. Defy the odds? this is actually quite common with mixed-race twins

These are all separate, recent cases.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15447465/ns/health-health_care/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9438648/ns/dateline_nbc/
http://blisstree.com/feel/twins-with-different-skin-color-genes/
http://simplebrowser.blogspot.com/2008/07/different-color-twin-born-in-germany.html
http://www.thebereancall.org/node/7364
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/mixedtwins.asp

[malaise]

18. They look like typical mixed kids

I don't see the big difference

[MineralMan]

19. Fraternal twins can be very different.

No surprise here.

[woo me with science]

20. These two look very much alike. I remember the twins from England,

where the difference was much more striking:



http://www.incrediblebirths.com/Remee-Kian-Hodgson.html

[itsrobert]

23. Didn't Tom and Helen Willis have kids like this?

I think their son was white and their daughter was black. I can't remember if they were twins or not.

[treestar]

28. Yes, I remember that!

Must have made old Archie crazy.

[JDPriestly]

25. If these parents are worried about how adults in Ohio will respond

to their children, they should move to California. There are lots and lots of multicultural and multiracial children and families here. Nobody even thinks about it any more.

The kids in the younger generation in my family are really a rainbow and we all love every one of them.

Good luck to this young family.

[MilesColtrane]

27. Dean and Alison Durrant hit the mixed twin, genetic jackpot twice.

The Durrant sisters, two sets of twins: