I don't really understand why maany people keep on assuming that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not Michael Jackson's biological children, simply because they are light skinned, and have long hair. Many half-white kids tend to be light skinned anyway, and as for the texture and color of their hair, both Paris and Blanket have curly black hair (I know Paris's hair now looks straight (but this could be the simple result of hair-products/perming), but if you watch videos of Paris during her infancy, you will see that her hair was dark brown back then, and quite curly like a gipsy's; which is very often the way the hair of half-white and half-black children looks). Michael Jackson definitively stated on Martin Bashir's Documentary "Living with Michael Jackson" that all his children were conceived from his own sperm cells. So we are then left with a number of possibilities: 1) Either MJ was blatantly lying to the world about his children's parentage (and why exactly he would lie about something like this I don't know, since the LA Coroner's final Autopsy Report, stated that MJ was still producing active/motile sperms at the moment of his death? If he was producing his own active sperm cells up to his death as the autopsy report concludes, then why would he need someone else's sperm cells for the in-vitro fertilization of his ex-wife? And this is only if we concede (for reason of argument) that he did not conceive both Prince and Paris in the usual sexual manner, which is how his dermatologist; Dr. Klein has stated on Larry King's CNN Program that he strongly believes MJ and his ex-wife did conceive them. Blanket is the only child MJ explicitly said was conceived via in-vitro fertilization [and his unknown mother (based on the boy's looks) is most like of hispanic descent]), or 2) Both his ex-wife and the hospital the kids were born in, deceived Michael Jackson, secretly fertilized his ex-wife with another man's sperm cells, and passed on to him someone else's kids under false pretenses (and MJ we are again asked to stretch credulity and believe, rather very strangely fell for the same trick twice), or finally 3) they are all indeed the man's children as he has always said they are, and as I also believe them to be. I have a lot of mixed race children as friends (indeed I grew up with quite a number of mulatos, and I got to watch the way their looks and pigmentation tends to change with time), and depending on the way their parent's genes combine, these children can display racial traits that either favor one parent, or racial traits that happen to be more in balance between the various races involved; and whose genes are being combined. We have already been told that Michael Jackson himself is a mixture of Black, White, and Native American genes. If the white genes he inherited, were recessive in MJ's case, and thus the black genes in his DNA tended to dominate (thereby resulting in him looking dark), then it is very likely that if he were to mate with a white woman, her dominant white genes, when combined with his recessive white genes, would produce whiter rather than darker children (this is simple Mendelism, and if you read your basic genetics theory, you would find out this is how such crossings usually turn out). And I guess, it is partly because of this uncertainty as to how the progeny of mixed couplings would turn out that racists in the old (and I hope forever gone) dark days of "The Segregation," upheld the outrageous "One Drop Rule." In essence thereby stating that if you have one drop of black blood in you, you are considered fully black, but that rule in no way settled this thorny issue, for many mixed children used to turn out sometimes so white that even back in the Deep Racist South (or more recently in Apartheid South Africa), without keeping detailed records of people's parentage, you could not tell simply from their appearance alone, whether someone was pure white, or of mixed blood. And if I remember correctly, some such mixed children were referred to back then as "Passing for White." So those of you, who are so quick to conclude from mere appearance alone that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not MJ's kids, I ask you this question, what if like many other mixed children in the past, they are merely passing for white. There was a curious case that made the news, either last year or two years ago in France. This was a case I saw with my own eyes on Cable TV. It involved fraternal female twins, born to the same French mother; a white girl and a black girl. The mother was white, and the father black, and the twins split the genes of both parents, so don't be so quick to conclude these kids are not biologically Michael's. Human genetics, and the result of combining them, is still an area of science we do not fully understand!
Submitted by John Odeh (not verified) on November 19, 2009 - 4:59pm.
Mulato Children Can Be Very Light On Occassion
I don't really understand why maany people keep on assuming that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not Michael Jackson's biological children, simply because they are light skinned, and have long hair. Many half-white kids tend to be light skinned anyway, and as for the texture and color of their hair, both Paris and Blanket have curly black hair (I know Paris's hair now looks straight (but this could be the simple result of hair-products/perming), but if you watch videos of Paris during her infancy, you will see that her hair was dark brown back then, and quite curly like a gipsy's; which is very often the way the hair of half-white and half-black children looks). Michael Jackson definitively stated on Martin Bashir's Documentary "Living with Michael Jackson" that all his children were conceived from his own sperm cells. So we are then left with a number of possibilities: 1) Either MJ was blatantly lying to the world about his children's parentage (and why exactly he would lie about something like this I don't know, since the LA Coroner's final Autopsy Report, stated that MJ was still producing active/motile sperms at the moment of his death? If he was producing his own active sperm cells up to his death as the autopsy report concludes, then why would he need someone else's sperm cells for the in-vitro fertilization of his ex-wife? And this is only if we concede (for reason of argument) that he did not conceive both Prince and Paris in the usual sexual manner, which is how his dermatologist; Dr. Klein has stated on Larry King's CNN Program that he strongly believes MJ and his ex-wife did conceive them. Blanket is the only child MJ explicitly said was conceived via in-vitro fertilization [and his unknown mother (based on the boy's looks) is most like of hispanic descent]), or 2) Both his ex-wife and the hospital the kids were born in, deceived Michael Jackson, secretly fertilized his ex-wife with another man's sperm cells, and passed on to him someone else's kids under false pretenses (and MJ we are again asked to stretch credulity and believe, rather very strangely fell for the same trick twice), or finally 3) they are all indeed the man's children as he has always said they are, and as I also believe them to be. I have a lot of mixed race children as friends (indeed I grew up with quite a number of mulatos, and I got to watch the way their looks and pigmentation tends to change with time), and depending on the way their parent's genes combine, these children can display racial traits that either favor one parent, or racial traits that happen to be more in balance between the various races involved; and whose genes are being combined. We have already been told that Michael Jackson himself is a mixture of Black, White, and Native American genes. If the white genes he inherited, were recessive in MJ's case, and thus the black genes in his DNA tended to dominate (thereby resulting in him looking dark), then it is very likely that if he were to mate with a white woman, her dominant white genes, when combined with his recessive white genes, would produce whiter rather than darker children (this is simple Mendelism, and if you read your basic genetics theory, you would find out this is how such crossings usually turn out). And I guess, it is partly because of this uncertainty as to how the progeny of mixed couplings would turn out that racists in the old (and I hope forever gone) dark days of "The Segregation," upheld the outrageous "One Drop Rule." In essence thereby stating that if you have one drop of black blood in you, you are considered fully black, but that rule in no way settled this thorny issue, for many mixed children used to turn out sometimes so white that even back in the Deep Racist South (or more recently in Apartheid South Africa), without keeping detailed records of people's parentage, you could not tell simply from their appearance alone, whether someone was pure white, or of mixed blood. And if I remember correctly, some such mixed children were referred to back then as "Passing for White." So those of you, who are so quick to conclude from mere appearance alone that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not MJ's kids, I ask you this question, what if like many other mixed children in the past, they are merely passing for white. There was a curious case that made the news, either last year or two years ago in France. This was a case I saw with my own eyes on Cable TV. It involved fraternal female twins, born to the same French mother; a white girl and a black girl. The mother was white, and the father black, and the twins split the genes of both parents, so don't be so quick to conclude these kids are not biologically Michael's. Human genetics, and the result of combining them, is still an area of science we do not fully understand!