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Why does my dad says we're white when my great grandmother could be black?

My family and I are Latinos, but racially my dad says we're white. My mom told me that apparently, my great grandmother had dark-ish skin, a bit of a wide nose, and big behind. I've never seen her before but does this mean she's black? And if so, then why did my dad says we're white? Are there white people with a big butt, a slight wide nose and dark-ish skin or...?

PS- I have fine textured curly hair (have a lot of it, though), a high-bridge nose, round dark brown eyes, naturally very pale skinned, lips that are between thin and plump, and low cheekbones.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    He wants to hide your black granny in the woodpile , Lester .............. can`t say as I blame him !!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Wow. identity disaster, what do you recommend via organic Black? Do you quite recommend you're claiming to be an American of untainted (organic) African ancestry. by way of fact Africa is the main important inhabited continent on earth, you could greater healthful the country into the Sahara barren area. on the Continent there are dozens of international locations, the peoples skin hues variety from off white to midnite black, there are different species with different skin shade's, google up some pictures of Africans from different factors and you will see what I recommend. So that's not skin shade, that's ancestry which seems to be the issue right here. i could recommend which you do a sort of DNA hint issues, they could inform you which element of Africa your (black) ancestors got here from. Then the 'organic black' element basically wont remember anymore. you have gotten the skill to proudly state your origins. White individuals do no longer say oh i'm of eu descent, they say i'm of Italian or Polish or regardless of usa their ancestors hailed from. you need to have the skill to declare my ancestral native land is Ghana or Mali or regardless of. look into the links desire this enables, i understand a great sort of persons it has. reliable luck

  • 1 decade ago

    There are really very few ethnically pure people in the united states due to a lot of the white plantation owners raping and having black concubines in their beds and not their wives. So over time the fair and light skinned blacks passed as whites and this intermixing of races created what is know america

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe shamed by the fly in the buttermilk;>

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'm black and I have 4th cousins who are white.

    It's all about the genetics..

  • Jakey
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    well, latinos can have similar features

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