October 15, 2007 Newsflash: Black People Can Have Blue Eyes Love Muffins!
One of my love muffins, Jinx, wrote:
She has green eyes, not blue, geezzz! I could really go in on what I’m scratching at here, but I won’t. Let’s keep it light and airy.
Okay… I just thought it was a good time to educate some people including my love muffin, Jinx, that “Black” people can have blue eyes! Vanessa Williams’ parents were both of African American and European heritage and so it would not defy logic to believe that she does or could have blue (grayish) eyes! I’m interracial and have relatives with blue, green, gray, hazel and everything in between eyes. I have never met Vanessa Williams so I don’t know for sure but I can go by what I have seen of her eyes in pictures over the years.
Click HERE to see three different close-ups of Vanessa Williams’ eyes, none of which appear to be green. I think her eyes are most likely a combination of colors 80% blue and maybe 20% grayish-green; some call it “aqua” or “Caribbean-blue“. As you can see above Vanessa’s eye color appears to change color depending on the eye make-up (style and color) she has on, her clothes (color), on the light (colored, direct, non-direct), and a few more factors.
Here’s some pictures of little blue eyed Laren Galloway. Laren’s parents are both African American and he clearly has blue eyes.
Stacie
October 15, 2007 at 6:55 pm
dang bscott you just educated all of us. lol
mimi
October 15, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Awww lil Laren is soooo cute!
Ms.Aja
October 15, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Educate them B. I also come from a mixed race background and it is not unusual for black people to have blue, grey or green eyes. We are beautiful and diverse people and our eyes just like our skin come in many shades from very dark to extremely light or somewhere in between.
Ms.Aja
October 15, 2007 at 7:19 pm
That baby is so cute.
JA
October 15, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Is it just me or is that baby scary as hell? Yeah, he’s a cute baby but those eyes scare the hell out of me.
KristopherNexus
October 15, 2007 at 7:30 pm
That baby is scarycute!
envision 88
October 15, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Ignorant folk alone think that black people can’t have blues eyes. Vanessa William’s eyes are green.I once met her in NYC and have a photo with her.
latinito
October 15, 2007 at 8:37 pm
that kid is adorable!
i want one!
tellytellz
October 15, 2007 at 9:01 pm
thank u, i’ve been tellin ppl dis for yrs…. we can have blue eyes, just like there are ppl out there that have blue skin (its a condition that i 4got the name of)….
elise
October 15, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I thought both of Ms. Williams’ parents were just light skinned black folk. I’m a huge Vanessa Williams fan and have never read or heard of her saying she or her parents are mix. Just because your light skinned does not mean you are mix.
Yes Black people can have blue eyes; but her eyes are green. At least they were when she crowned Ms. America.
tanyetta
October 15, 2007 at 10:05 pm
I am so happy you cleared things up.
M
October 15, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Some Older African-American have develop a combination of both. Their eyes are brown with a blue circle around the brown. The Blue Circle begins to take over the brown more and more over the years.
busy bee
October 16, 2007 at 7:12 am
That is such a cute baby!
The Bee is out!
Tyrakills
October 16, 2007 at 9:53 am
You guys are all crazy that is the freakiest looking baby ever. Looks like he should be able to shoot lazers out his eyeballs. I think it would be better if they werent such a crazy bright blue color…lol. M, my grandmother is 74 and she has the blue rim around the eye as well.
twan71
October 16, 2007 at 11:26 am
I once saw a man with blue eyes like that baby but he was JET BLACK!! Scared the S*** out of me!!! It was really weird to see. My family on my father side has blue/green and light hazel eyes, my father has light hazel eyes and they are not mixed.
Paula
October 16, 2007 at 11:59 am
I guess we made it now! LOL So what? My aunts/uncles have two Black (American) parents and they have all different colored eyes. Of course we all have European heritage, or else we would be straight African! So what?!?! What does that mean? Nothing at all. How about we make a “Black people can have straight hair too”…how about it? So?
Paula
October 16, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Vanessa Williams are also born to Black American parents. ALL Black Americans have European ancestry (again). And that baby looks scary. I’m sorry, just because your eyes are blue, doesnt mean it looks good!
Paula
October 16, 2007 at 12:05 pm
*ahem* correction: is
francesca
January 2, 2008 at 2:06 am
laren galloway has something special his eyes usually every people is special when they are children but when you grow up you need something special to appear and little laren wont be boring when he will be over 40 for this I like differences and then to look different is not abad thing!!!!!! cute laren
Triz
January 10, 2008 at 12:22 am
Mrs.Williams obviously has blue eyes;not green. Compare Tyra’s eyes and Vanessa’s eyes,they are very very different. Anyway,I’m glad that you know her eye color is real,as for there are people who think she is wearing contacts. It’s funny because Paris Hilton wears contacts [natural color is brown] and nobody questions her!
This site lists her eyes as blue :http://www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrities/people/dating/vanessa-l-williams.htm!
Lucy Carmichael
January 15, 2008 at 11:08 am
Laren is a beautiful baby. It is obvious most African Americans have European ancestory and blue eyes can skip many generations and show up. I think diveristy is great he’s a darling, happy, handsome little boy.
Ainusa
January 20, 2008 at 10:07 am
It’s rare, but it obviously happens. Blue eyes are recessive. Green is the rarest. Nobody questions Paris Hilton because blue eyes are common among White Europeans. And one doesn’t need to be mixed with European to have light eyes. There are 100% Africans who do posses hazel, although super rare, blue eyes.
A girl from a Kenyan tribe: http://www.africancolours.net/media/10929_2_03,%20Miss%20Richard%20Wachira.jpg
A Scientist from south africa
February 9, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Ok you people are not educated. The girl who said just because lighted skinned doesnt mean your mixed? ah yeah it does, somewhere down the line the was some in your family maybe on both siad that wasnt black. and to the girl from kenya I thought you would know many people in africa have none african people somewhere in there family which results in light, to mid skin and light to mid eye color.
Essence
February 21, 2008 at 8:37 pm
a great conversation piece
harpersdivine
March 13, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Actually, light eyes are not a sub-saharan african trait. It’s mostly european influence. Just b/c ur parents may identify as “black” there most likely intermixing in the past(trust me A LOT). due to this country’s history of treating race, we come to think that we are “pure” and no intermingling goes on…it’s just a fact, accept it….Having blue, green, purple etc eyes will not make you “less” black.
Loadfaster
May 21, 2008 at 11:49 am
Im a lighskinned brotha, most people think one of my parents is white. No my family for some reason married into light skinned blacks. Im the fairest in our family tree.
Thats not a boast in any way!
anyhow Ill admit, it seems very strange to see such a blue eyed lack child. That is a very qute child. But at the same time those eyes! It looks so foreign to me almost alien!
of course its bound to happen.
Brother from Alabama
May 27, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Black people can have blue eyes. I have an aunt, an uncle and a first cousin with natural blue eyes.
Having different color eyes other than the normal brown is very common on my father’s side of the family. My father has hazel eyes and he has 6 other siblings, 4 out of the 6 plus my father have different color eyes. Two of them, my father’s sister and brother (my aunt and uncle) have natural striking blue eyes and dark skin just like the pictures of baby Laren. My father’s other two sisters (my aunts) have steel grey eyes and light brownish yellow respectively.
My father’s family orgin is from Trinidad/Tobago.
I think it is a recessive gene because I have brown eyes, being that my mother, who is black as well, has brown eyes.
Taliska
July 31, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I have blue eyes and both my parents are black (although my great grandmother is mixed black n white) and my other grandmother is mixed with black and indian.
Yes a black person can have blue eyes but only if one of their ancestors were white european.
The same goes for green eyes. When people have different ethnicities the sky is the limit with eye colour.
Halima
September 17, 2008 at 4:21 am
That baby’s eyes is SCARY!! i hope its photoshop to make it so bright- if i see that at nighttime i might think i was in a chucky remake movie. lol. but i hope when he grows up it’ll look cute.
Sista from florida
October 10, 2008 at 3:10 am
I just think some people are ignorant to say that the baby is scary. That baby is just what God wanted him to be. In case you didn’t know….black people can make any color skin, hair, and eyes. There is no limit. Just because you never saw a black baby with blue eyes doesn’t mean it’s scary or ugly. It just means you need to read more and maybe even travel the world. You’ll be amazed what you’ll find.
dasha
November 2, 2008 at 7:58 am
YES US BLACK FOLKS CAN HAVE BLUE EYES, MY COUSIN’S MOM GRANDMA IS WHITE, AND HIS DAD IS BLACK/INDIAN AND HE’S LIGHT,THOUGH HIS EYES ARE SOMEWHAT A HAZEL,HIS GIRLFRIND IS BLACK/WHITE AND SHE HAS PRETTY BLUE GREEN EYES,I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THEIR BABY GIRL DUE NEXT MONTH…
Nicole
November 2, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Blue eyes is a recessive trait. In order for a child to manifest with blue eyes (the phenotype) he/she must have received a blue eye gene one from each parent. So both of his parents are blue eye gene carriers. Racial purity is rare anywhere on the earth. All people are racially mixed it is just a matter of how much of a percentage of what you are mixed with. And yes, even in Africa the people are mixed.
str
November 13, 2008 at 5:01 am
they can only have them if they’re mixed. that means they aren’t black they’re mulatto. real black people can’t have green or blue eyes
sillytwin08
November 19, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Well we don’t say that white people can’t have brown eyes, we never say “oh your too white to have brown eyes, so your not a “real” white person” lol. So if white people who are the lightest of all races can have brown eyes why isn’t it possible for black or non-white people to have lighter shades of eye color without being mixed? If that’s the case then everyone is mixed. And that’s a bunch of bull and it doesn’t make you any less black or of non-european ethnicity. Eye color is complicated anyway because there’s more than 1 gene that determines eye color. And at times it just shows up at random, it happens. Its simply just what god wanted and shows you that his creations aren’t just limited to certain factors like racial mixing. It could be a mutation without any interaction from another people. Thousands of years ago there were probably “real” black people who had blue eyes or other hues besides brown. It was just a rare occurence and I’m not refering to albinism either.
Comments
November 30, 2008 at 8:57 am
My grandmother had green eyes and all of her children had either bright green eyes or yellow-tinted eyes except my father. My eyes are between dark brown and hazel. Back in my family tree on both sides, my great great grandfathers were white. If you see an african-american with green, blue, or hazel eyes, they definitely have a white ancestor. It might be generations back, but it is there. Our ancestors did not get off the boat with light skin, european features, and light-colored eyes.
chris
January 29, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I think that it is truly amazing. Most Black people that have blue or light colored eyes are light themselves. Not that anything is wrong with that. I’m just saying that for a brown skinned baby, in my opinion, it’s awesome. He is going to have it going on when he’s older. Trust me.
Anonymous
April 24, 2009 at 1:35 pm
that baby just looks scary
Anonymous
April 26, 2009 at 7:20 am
African Americans all have some European ancestry. Brown eyes are the default eye colour for every race of people Europeans included. Green eyes are recessive to Brown eyes, Blue eyes are recessive to Green and Brown eyes. Recent studies have suggested that blue eyes are only 10,000 – 6,000 years old. They are a mutation that scientists think occurred around the Black Sea area and rapidly spread around North and North West Europe where there is very little sunlight and a cold climate.
It would limit your survival in the African sun to have blue eyes. Dark brown eyes would give you protection from the sun.
Alice
April 26, 2009 at 7:23 am
African Americans all have some European ancestry. Brown eyes are the default eye colour for every race of people Europeans included. Green eyes are recessive to Brown eyes, Blue eyes are recessive to Green and Brown eyes. Recent studies have suggested that blue eyes are only 10,000 – 6,000 years old. They are a mutation that scientists think occurred around the Black Sea area and rapidly spread around North and North West Europe where there is very little sunlight and a cold climate.
It would limit your survival in the African sun to have blue eyes.
krissy
April 28, 2009 at 12:41 pm
ummm yeh they look nice i think browm eyes are realy a boring color no affence i have big blue green eyes and love it im black also but very light skin i get comennts alot …..when i was about 7yrold and all through my elementry years i was the only black girl with blue green eyes in my whole school i didnt like it cause people where afraid to look at me ….but now in high school its some like 4 african american people with green eyes…so i dont feel so alone lol…but when that baby grow up there gona put him in a magizine cause hes FIERCE….oh and that lady eyes are green not blue buut my eyes look more like Denise Vasi<<<<<<look her up on google shes gourgous
Fifi
April 28, 2009 at 4:04 pm
This child is cute…I can’t lie…but he does look scary…like imagine being his parent and he is crying in the night the light from outside hits your childs eyes and they are piercing blue like Larens’…tell me you won’t freak out coz i know i would!!! But nevertheless he is pretty cute
lacole
April 28, 2009 at 7:28 pm
laren is a beautiful looking child no argument against that i myself am mixed raced and i have green eyes i dont think its rare at all…
Also EVERYBODY is mixed with something even africans themselves. Now days its hard to tell what people have got in them because every 1s so mix up mix up!
AllPeople
May 18, 2009 at 12:17 am
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It is often a surprise for people to learn
that, in reality, there is actually No Such
Thing As a “Light Skinned Black” person.
The term “Light Skinned Black” is really
nothing more than a racist oxymoron that
was created by White Supremacists in an
effort to forcibly deny those Mixed-Race
people, who are of a Multi-Generational
Multiracially-Mixed (MGM-Mixed) Lineage,
the right to fully embrace and receive
public support in implementing their
rightful choice to acknowledge the truth
regarding their full ancestral heritage.
The people who have been slapped with the
racist false-label and oxymoronic misnomer
of “Light Skinned Black” person are simply
Mixed-Race individuals — whose family have
been continually Mixed-Race throughout
the multiple generations of their existence.
For more information on MGM-Mixed lineage,
feel free to view the information at the
sites found at the links listed below:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/3331
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1399
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1747
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1570
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1573
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1402
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1400
Source(s):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MGM-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGM-Mixed
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