Baby Too Black!

Are these people stupid, ignorant or both? What is it that they don't understand about genetics? If people of two different races mix, there is no telling what the child will look like. There will rarely be a perfect blend of the skin complexions of the parents coming out in the children. I know many, many people who are either lighter or darker than both of their parents. What race does this woman think she is? Regardless of where she is from, she looks like what is considered "black" in America. So the baby looks a slight (and I do mean slight) bit darker than the other child ('cause the baby looks to be the same color as the mama in my eyes). How can she call this child a "terrible mistake?"

After they saw a baby girl they had gone to a fertility clinic to conceive, her parents became convinced something was wrong, according to court papers.

The girl's skin was darker than either parent's, a judge wrote in allowing the parents to proceed with a lawsuit that claims the clinic botched the insemination of the wife's eggs. The ruling was made public Wednesday.

"While we love Baby Jessica as our own, we are reminded of this terrible mistake each and every time we look at her; it is simply impossible to ignore," state Supreme Court Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam's decision quoted parents Thomas and Nancy Andrews as saying.

"We are conscious of and distressed by this mistake each and every time we appear in public," the judge quoted the Andrewses' affidavit as saying.

The couple, of Commack, N.Y., sued New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine, accusing the Manhattan clinic of medical malpractice and other offenses.

The Andrewses' court papers say that on the advice of Dr. Martin Keltz, the couple agreed to in vitro fertilization of the eggs with Thomas Andrews' sperm so they could have a child who was biologically their own. However, their court papers say, the clinic was negligent and used another man's sperm.

Three DNA tests -- a home kit and two professional laboratory tests -- confirmed that Thomas Andrews was not the baby's father, the judge quoted the couple as saying.

The judge said the Andrewses complain that they have been forced to raise a child who is "not even the same race, nationality, color ... as they are."

Just when it seems that black Americans are phasing out of the color complex issues that have plagued us since slavery, these new immigrants (also impacted by colonialism and imperialism) are coming here and starting the same stuff over again. The real issue to me is these folks coming here thinking they are getting something special when they find somebody white when some of these creepy, reject men would be on their way out of the gene pool in their own communities.

That baby got the "darker skin" from the mother, not the father, or does she not understand the African influence in the Dominican Republic? Yes, they have an issue if they gave her the wrong sperm but that child is not of a different race. She is her mother's race. She needs to be thankful the child doesn't look more like that ugly dude she married ... thinking she was going to have some white looking child. I sure hope they don't talk like that around the house or that child will be screwed up for life!

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