March 30. 2020

Drake and his son

Today rapper Drake, real name Aubry Graham, posted a photo of his 2-year-old son, Adonis Graham, to his Instagram page, to much criticism and inappropriate comments. Drake once rapped, "I wasn't hiding my kid from the world, I was hiding the world from my kid." 

Drake is biracial (black and white). Drake's son looks more like the white side of his family. The little boy has blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin, like Drake's mother. In fact, the boy looks exactly like Drake's mother and there's nothing wrong with that. Drake's mom is pretty.

However, some people are stating Drake, a black rapper, hid his son because he looks white. Some people on social networking have insulted the boy's looks, which is a mean thing to do. Some are clearly of the belief Drake's son looking white impacts his dad's street credibility as a rapper. Some are even saying the boy is not his child (and that Drake thought the same). However, that's how genetics works, especially when you're mixed race. The child can be born looking like either race.

Drake and his mom

The mother of Drake's child, Sophie Brussaux, is white and has genes for blonde hair and blue eyes. Brussaux's genes picked up the same blonde hair and blue eyes genes from Drake's line, regarding his mother. Genes of two parents often look for what is similar in each other, then the gene is expressed in the child.

I have friends who have brown eyes and black hair and their kids were born with light eyes and light colored hair like their Caribbean grandparents. Some genes are more dominant and easily expressed. Mixed raced people are used to this.

My grandfather was black African (Ghanaian descent) and my grandmother white Irish and Brazilian Indian. Their five children were all born with different shades of skin from light to dark, curly hair and with mixed looking facial features that made people repeatedly ask for decades if they're mixed with Indian. One daughter was born with red hair like my Irish great-grandmother. It skipped my mom but the red hair gene hit me. That's how race mixing works.

However, too often, when people do not understand something, they criticize, as we are seeing with some people's reaction to Drake's son. The little boy doesn't deserve that. He's just a kid. There's nothing wrong with how he looks.

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