View Full Version : Were Jenny & Alan racially accurate?


CDThe1
02-08-2009, 10:32 PM
Just wonder what everyone else thinks about this.

I live in a racially diverse part of the country and have many friends of different races. I am in an interracial relationship myself for 7 years now. I know many interracial couples who have had kids. In every case I know of, the child is a mixture of both parents. That is, the child is not white and not black. They are a mixture, and more caramel colored than dark.

This made me think about the Jeffersons. Jenny was dark skinned like Helen and Alan was just as white as his father. Does anyone know of this happening in real life? I'm not saying it couldn't happen, I have just never seen it happen.

I'm not trying to start any kind of race discussion here, and hope I don't offend anybody with my post.

ThomasE
02-09-2009, 02:03 PM
You are not alone. I would like to know the answer to this question as well. I have a friend who is italian but he looks more so black than white but his sisters are lighter and can pass for white. All three kids come from the same set of parents too.

TVFactFan
02-09-2009, 08:23 PM
Looks like The Jenny Character was Poorly casted

TripperFan
02-09-2009, 09:55 PM
Actually last season on Big Brother, there was a black gal on there who had twins and their father was white. I've never heard of it happening before that, but apparently one twin is white and the other black.

MickeyMac
02-09-2009, 10:08 PM
There are some mulattos who look like white people with a tan and have straight hair. In my old neighborhood there were these mulatto kids who were like that and I thought they were white and their black father was their stepfather, but no that was their real dad.

Usually mulattos are pretty light skinned.

TripperFan
02-09-2009, 10:21 PM
There are some mulattos who look like white people with a tan and have straight hair. In my old neighborhood there were these mulatto kids who were like that and I thought they were white and their black father was their stepfather, but no that was their real dad.

Usually mulattos are pretty light skinned.


I agree that that's the norm. My best friend as a kid was light skinned with reddish hair (her mom was blonde) but the hair texture had a soft kink to it. Her features were more towards black though - heavy lips and wider nose at the base. Actually, I find them to be some of the most beautiful people in the world. I had another buddy from Barbados and he was light skinned, red "patch" in his hair, black features but then green eyes. VERY cool! :cool:

Big3sCompanyFan
02-14-2009, 05:54 AM
No, it was not racially accurate but the characters were cast properly because it's just a TV SHOW and they all have error and inconsistencies in them.

There is a case in England of twins born and one is black and one is white but BOTH parents were partially black so it's not like the Willises where one parent is very white and the other very black.