Black People with Red Hair -

[@LifewithDrTrishVarner]

Thanks for featuring us. Our younger daughter (the one with the red hair) recently took a My Heritage test. My Heritage is a swab test as opposed to spitting in a tube like some of the other tests. Our daughter didn't want to spit in the tube. Our other daughter (the one with black hair) did take an Ancestry DNA test. We already have a video on her results. As soon as we get our red hair daughter's results back from My Heritage, we will compare both daughters' results.

[@ginagaladriel]

@GeneaVlogger, I think you should help Ms. Trish and her hubby with their tree, they have some interesting mysteries (well. I haven't check their updates so I don't know if they figure out who her husband's grandpa is), since she is a KZbinr maybe she could be part of your KZbinr Family Trees series?

[@digitalpickles1277]

It’s so funny that you have the Scottish ancestry and not your husband! Thank you for sharing your story. I too, would love to see a family tree.

[@21_f_aus]

I watched your video a few weeks ago it was very interesting... I can't wait to see her results..

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍

[@Renexoxo]

Darling couple and family.

[@davideebelle6915]

Back home I'm in Cameroon 🇨🇲 Some tribe do have red hair with red skin Nothing unusual there. It's just another shape of Africa

[@hengineer]

I would be curious how much of that is ancient Celtic migration and travel.

[@sahirygnobehi6448]

@Colin Grayson .. Really. So you felt the need to debunk it rudely. Pourquoi 😄😄😄

[@amandamilo3454]

Same thing in Nigeria. It is no mystery at all.

[@esemusic8294]

I know a guy from Liberia with this look. No dye..

[@Dreadtheday]

We are far more blended than we give us credit for.

[@jemmajames6719]

Black skin with red hair looks gorgeous and she’s such a cutie!

[@TriniRoyQuiReyes]

Absolutely so Jemma James

[@aliciaroberts9618]

"Black" is not baby girl's skin color. Sigh....patience is a virtue. "Black" is the descriotive/not true/nonscientific/european/colonial people continuing in 21st century..smh incorrection. We are people of color, indigenous worldwide. As children we are taught primary colors as well as all colors made from them. Therefore: black is black, brown, yellow, red, cream, dark,medium shades of each color, milk white, average white etc. History dictates "black" is to denigrate as are other descriptive words...p

[@aliciaroberts9618]

lol oops spelling correction, descriptive hope everyone has a wonderful day..knowledge is power

[@ninavictoria6805]

@@aliciaroberts9618 lol we get the point tho.

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

When it is natural, I absolutely love it. 🌻🌻🌻🌻❤

[@Coolkem1]

My sister has red hair. It has gotten darker the older she gets but it’s still unmistakably red. As an adult people tend to think it’s a dye job. My cousin also has green eyes and we are all Yorubas from Nigeria. No mixing with anything. My neighbours growing up in Lagos 2 of their kids had light skin freckles and vibrant red hair. Also Yorubas. Afticans have the genetic code for every variation of skin and hair colour and hair curl pattern. We’re not surprised at all!

[@Blackgirlproblems2022]

Summer Aku red hair and igbo KZbin and she ain't mixed race

[@BreezyDaBaddest]

I’m Nigerian! You don’t know how happy I am to say that because I had no idea until I did a dna test and my highest percentage was Nigerian so that’s what I’m claiming 😊

[@kandi7625]

@@BreezyDaBaddest me too! My highest percentage is Nigerian also❤️🇳🇬🇳🇬

[@BreezyDaBaddest]

@@kandi7625 It’s amazing isn’t it? I’m going to get the African dna test to try and narrow down the area and then I’m going to visit

[@marelle8427]

My dad is half Nigerian according to his results & our family is notorious for having sandy or red hair w/ dark eyes or dark hair with light brown or grey eyes. I have the first combo & my dad has the latter lol.

[@LarkBlue-ek8wq]

Black people with red hair is not just from the slave trade. Some Africans had dark reddish hair when they came here. And I saw a number of children in Senegal with dark red hair.

[@JJamiah]

Very true

[@deemaverick987]

My African American best friend moved to Nigeria with her husband. She left with very nice black hair when she returned for a visit her hair had turned red. Sun bleached.

[@Bluebird-77]

Interesting

[@MelodyT78]

to be fair, she said for African Americans.

[@zaryamain-i8l]

yep. I grew up in hawaii and hawaiian kids with red hair happens. And the term race was created by colonialists to dehumanized others... the term race in biology refers to and entireeeee different thing than skin color. When people say "there is only one race the human race" they aren't just being corny with the "I don't see color" shit... human IS a race..... we only have one RACE of human... you cross a human with another human and you get (wait for it) another human lol and the more mixed you are the less likely you are to have genetic issues that can be common in specific ethnic groups.

[@Lemondrop2124]

My people have genetics for red hair. My aunt has it. It is common in certain areas in Africa. Before Europeans came to my family's part of Africa, we never called ourselves "black/brown", we differentiated ourselves by whether we had black hair or red hair. We would say "red haired person or black haired person" in our native language.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

That's super interesting, may i ask which part of Africa is this? Also, it doesn't sound like you're Han Chinese, may i ask why your username has Hanzi?

[@murderfaery5715]

That's because Egyptians at one time were red haired. They married into the other African and middle eastern royal families. Also the the fact that the Egyptians had slaves(tho so did every other culture, they enslaved their enemies who lost the battle/war) .

[@careyparks2316]

Wow!I never knew that. I am African American with red hair. My mother had eight kids. Four with black hair and four red heads.

[@mindpainsakaniceguy3704]

@@murderfaery5715 What history book did you read when the Egyptians never had slaves an the Europeans lied on bring us to america when we have been in america to the rest world 1st.

[@alexandrajackson8498]

@@murderfaery5715 Egyptians with red her were most likely HENNA. The same Egyptian henna Lucille Ball used to make HER hair red from her natural blonde.🤷🏾‍♀️

[@cosmicgoatlady6957]

Aboriginals from Australia have kids with blond hair. There is a group of blond/light red haired children in Mongolia and the primary color is black.

[@lisagrl89m.67]

They don't have African dna, their light hair comes from a generational mineral deficiency lacking in their diet. Their complexion comes from the region.

[@michellebreitner6195]

That is because the Brits took Irish as slaves as well as the Aboriginals....the Irish are multi cultural and have mixed with everyone

[@JessicaCEP]

The mongols have some European ancestry too…

[@oliverlaw02]

@@michellebreitner6195 Non-white people had red, blonde hair and green or blue eyes before people with white skin existed.

[@areasonablethought610]

The aboriginals to the world are natural with dark skin. Even early people in Europe before the slaughters of the Scandinavian people killing them were the same color as aboriginals in other parts of the world. Africans were travelers of the Earth for tens of thousands of years.

[@baranacamercado957]

I’m a natural black red head and in my case I’m just beautifully made by God❤️

[@8ofwands300]

Hahaha!!! Love it! 💗

[@kimbo8778]

Yes, and how awesome you are! ⭐️

[@alovingtouchhomecare2082]

Love it. I have 3 black gingers, I told them God made them perfect in his image

[@skills504]

And your mother and father

[@karrenosoarussavage2179]

yes, you are, girl🤗

[@LarkBlue-ek8wq]

When I was in Senegal, West Africa, I saw a lot of children with dark red hair. I also grew up with a number of light skinned black kids with red hair and freckles, a family of dark/redish skinned kids with red hair.

[@JamieBleu]

@@LarkBlue-ek8wq people with red skin is so rare

[@siyamanci2596]

I am south African, my sister has red hair

[@EbsSeven]

There are a lot of people in my family, myself included, like this. Also, a lot of Black people in the midwest have honey brown colored eyes.

[@africanredemption15]

😂😂😂 I’m Senegalese and I had reddish brown hair as a kid and now as an adult I have dark brown hair that shows reddish in the sun

[@portiaparker1669]

I attended school with a light-skinned girl who had long red hair and freckles; although, her brothers were light-skinned they lacked red hair and they were all biological siblings. Also, I grew up with President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings descendants who of course were high-yellow lacking any traces of melanin and I believe reddish colored short hair; and very pleasant.

[@alyssadiceflipper5201]

My husband is a "ginger" and I am 100% Japanese. Our kids came out with dark reddish brown hair! Like deep auburn.

[@ivyjackson8695]

I betcha it's pretty.

[@veliciawilliams5865]

How beautiful.

[@loribernardisunwell9663]

My mom is a redhead, my dad had jet black hair and mine came out reddish brown and as curly as it gets lol, I mean like as in my shadow looks like I have dread locks, like the cord to a landline phone...indoors it looks brown and people always get surprised by the red once they see me in the sun, all of a sudden I'm a coppery auburn. I love it and as an added bonus my eyes are the exact color of my hair so they also look amber/auburn in the light and people always get a kick out of it, but that wasn't always the case. Growing up in an all white community my hair just wasn't admired. Kids always asked me what was wrong with my hair and they refused to believe I wasn't mixed even though both my parents are white, they honestly believed white people just didn't have curly hair like mine. I have been insulted over my hair more than complimented so I was always trying to straighten it, etc. I've come to terms with it today and my hair has relaxed over the years, but I have always loved the red even if I've had a love/hate with the curls...

[@mobutter2879]

I’m sure they’re gorgeous!

[@susieramos2963]

My mom was 100% Korean and Dad white with brown hair and hazel eyes,I'm the only child with red hair and green eyes ,brother and sisters have black hair dark eyes .

[@kimjones9006]

As a 7th generation black Nova Scotian I didn't realize this was even an oddity as I have several black cousins and friends with varying degrees of red hair🤔😃

[@jeneenr33]

I'm from Nova Scotia as well and I feel many of our black people are mixed race especially in areas like the south shore and Digby.

[@dreamHIGH94]

They have red hair because the black Nova Scotians are mixed with European

[@bee6684]

I didn't know it was an oddity either???? So many in my family

[@shanequaaustin8908]

@@dreamHIGH94 that has nothing to do with being mixed because full blooded Nigerians have red hair stop believing lies😂😂😂

[@beauty4717]

In my opinion, I believe in ancestry & European mixture ONLY ignorant people don’t want to believe or accept it or learn the history.

[@KcBreezy-g7n]

In Egypt I saw lots of Egyptians with white skin and bright ginger/red Afro hair. Side note it’s soo inappropriate to touch people randomly as innocent as it may be but do not touch random people’s children wth.

[@MikeMisiewicz]

@@KcBreezy-g7n no shit when I was a kid people would always touch my hair.

[@siobhanair2659]

I think every black person knows a black person with red hair 🥰 love this 💞

[@jacksoncitytravels6841]

Except for me. I've never seen it before in person. On the internet yes and it's rare.

[@jamabarker4051]

I went to prom in 1984 with a black gent who has red hair and freckles... he has creole descent

[@lovelydiva06]

Idk any black red heads, fair skinned sandy blonde blacks yes but not black red heads

[@jeaninehicks2907]

I don’t, lol

[@thamadsapien4618]

When my brother was born he had red hair. The older he got the darker his hair became. And "no" he is not light skinned.....deep chocolate 😉

[@jessicapeyton5444]

The report literally says, “The red hair variants in this report first appeared in ancient humans 30,000 - 80,000 years ago around the time of early migrations out of Africa” And you think that black ppl with red hair is because they have white ancestry? No sir, it’s the other way around…

[@ernestinejohnson9022]

The w man always thinks everything came from them.😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@latosha7949]

So true, I'm not sure of the tribe but all the women had red hair.

[@AlexisHoustonMeChell]

Tell him again sis

[@scribebing2043]

That is my Conclusion exactly 💚💚💚👍

[@scribebing2043]

Reason "they" called US COLORED😁 Red haired is not for mix with euro but colored.

[@lb1477]

Black woman with reddish gold hair here 🖐🏽 I used to hate the color of my hair when I was younger. It drew so much attention from people. My mom always said, there were people that paid a lot of money to get the hair color I was naturally born with. I also have freckles but they're hard to see if you're not up close lol. And, I'm perfectly fine with that!

[@gabriellerock3232]

Same here too👋🏻

[@You22238]

Mine is brown am African,,, I used to dye black

[@shamelessvanity1415]

Same here. I was born with red hair and had it up until the birth my third child. I had postpartum hair loss, hormones changed, and so went the red locks. 😔It’s still a reddish brown, but not nearly as vibrant and pretty as it is to be. You really don’t know what you have until it’s gone.

[@jeice452]

Me too! I even dyed my hair black

[@annavizard970]

I was going to say, try as they might, it is hard to replicate the color of a natural red head, but ohhhh, how they try. :)

[@Pookie1228]

We always knew my late grandmother was of mixed race. She was a beautiful brunette with long wavy hair. My sister had red hair as an infant, but it darkened as she got older. 50 some odd years later, Sis developed breast cancer, which chemo treatment caused total hair loss. However, when treatments stopped her hair began to grow back in, red and a completely different grade. RIP Sis❤

[@Ceelle2]

By the way...I love your sensitivity in discussing these issues. Your words are respectful and spot on.

[@msfiya251]

I agree he did very well and I've went to school with two males that were black with red hair. I had a crush on one and he was bow legged 😍. And the other one has a daughter and she's also redheaded and so pretty.

[@AlphaMom55]

I noticed that too and I appreciate it.

[@AlphaMom55]

@@msfiya251 my best friend LaTonya loved bowlegged guys when we were in high school. Black, white, Latino, and every other type of guy. She and I both had a crush on a tall white boy named Beau and he was hella bowlegged.😁

[@msfiya251]

@@AlphaMom55 it's just something about them bowlegs 😍😝🤭

[@warpnin3]

yeah, us black people are so very sensitive and easily hurt or insulted. A simple conversation with some of us is a veritable powder keg, so thanks again for not making the black people angry😄

[@Ceelle2]

I am mixed race with an African American father and European American mother. My sisters are twins and one was born with lighter auburn hair and blue eyes for a while. Mom had auburn hair and blue eyes. We thought the reddish tinge of hair some of us have was from our mom. Well...our elder cousin just shared our father's father...our grandfather...the Black one....had red hair. It shocked us for some reason but it may explain our next generation (our kids) reddish hair too.

[@limonesycafe8898]

It's quite possible that your great grandfather "the black one," was bi/multiracial. It's also quite possible that the majority of your father's family is bi/multiracial.

[@crystalBall9287]

I used to have reddish natural highlights in my hair as a kid. Teachers in the south though my mom was dying my hair LoL My mom's uncle had green eyes and bright red hair.

[@renaissancewoman100]

@@crystalBall9287 my daughter as well.

[@vsedai]

@@limonesycafe8898 Red hair occurs naturally in Africa without being biracial!

[@aichatoufall8553]

@@vsedai yes I am from Senegal and my hair was red. My mum colored as when I was around 10 because they do not like it. It is not rare to see children with red hair out there !!!

[@imocchidoro]

A tip for young people. Talk with family elders before they are gone for names and stories. Took me almost 15 years to track down who my paternal grandfather was in the old country. Name changes!!! ugh lol. Also it's addictive and fun.

[@GeneaVlogger]

This!!! A billion times over!!! One of my biggest breakthroughs was connecting with a cousin who had done a family history project in the 1950s! He had family names that would have been lost and we would have never connected if he hadn't done that. I would add that recording the conversations in some way, beyond just notes, is a really great way to truly preserve things because something might be mentioned that you later realize is much more important!

[@imocchidoro]

@@GeneaVlogger Love your channel. I remember that as a kid I was around people who knew, but I had no interest. I kick myself now!!! Thanks to the internet I now have records and newspaper clippings, but what I wouldn't give for some old recordings. dang dang dang. My only question left is why such a drastic name change and no paper trail at all as a connection. hmmm

[@allisonphillips-mcclure6256]

This is so true. I had just begun to piece together our family tree when the last of our elders passed away in 2017. I hope to be able to complete it one day.

[@UnderTheSameSun693]

​@GeneaVlogger Red hair is a recessive trait that pops up very rarely in pure blood Africans with no Neanderthal or non African admixture... It's recessive, so it's rare. However, In African Americans who tend to have some degree of European ancestry, that recessive trait pops up more frequently. To be specific, most blacks with red hair are Bantu descent, which is the prominent ethnic group that expanded across the sub Sahara continent, mixing with other Africans. Bantu are to Africans what the Han are to the Chinese. Also, because of their expansion, mixing with other African groups in Ancient times, Bantu are extremely genetically diverse.

[@crinna]

The diversity of the African continent is astounding you can find Naturally occurring red hair and even blonde hair. The Melanesian tribe has naturally blonde hair without any ties to European ancestry.

[@portiaparker1669]

@@crinna I knew that I had read about Africans having genetically red and blonde hair. My ex-husband was a red headed youngster having blonde hair on his arms. Although, our sons weren’t ever redhead; I believe our youngest had blonde hair on his arms; and my grandson, who is his son has blonde hair along his hairline and on his arms. Previously, at birth my grandson was born extremely pale & remained pale for such a long time that it scared me to almost believe that he was Albino, but a slight color finally came in after a few years. My ex-husband’s Great-Grandfather; my grandson’s Great-Great-Grandfather’s complexion was Red like an apple 🍎 and he was a Floridian Cherokee Indian.

[@thewordsmith5440]

While this is true it's hard to disregard that black Americans already have European ancestors that are typically the cause of those with red hair, hazel, green eyes etc

[@RedPepper26]

@@thewordsmith5440 right but now we know that all of those physical traits and not dedicated to a single race... blonde hair CAN be found in humans with no European ancestry just like very tight curly hair can be found in people without any direct african ancestry... remember race is not backed in science its purely a social/ political construct 😊

[@lobsterjohnson8642]

Yeah you definitely have mixed babies

[@fuffygoodaz]

I love how these DNA test proves that race is really a social construct

[@roriemarie2968]

Underrated comment.

[@chrismelvin7]

Sorry, but race is absolutely not a social construct. If it were, everyone would look the same.

[@hengineer]

Race is kind of a social construct but the part that's VERY real is the cultures. Whether you feel at home or feel like a stranger is always cultural differences, language, habits,. Behaviors, etc... Culture is everything.

[@lisacox3750]

@R M…race is a social construct because it was created by a human being. Race was invented. Don’t get confused by race and ethnicity because those are two different things. Ethnicity is real. Rave is not. There was no such thing as race or classification for race until the 16th century. The idea of race was invented and it started in Portugual and Spain. It should also be noted that the Transatlantic slave trade started in Portugual and Spain…hopefully you can see where I’m going with that.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

@@chrismelvin7 race is a social construct. Biologically speaking homo sapiens would be considered a race, different subgroups of homo sapiens aren't. So all humans living today on earth belong to the same race. Neanderthal was another race, but doesn't exist any more.

[@clozadarod]

I love red heads. That feature is so eye catching and beautiful to me.

[@thenarrativeman]

Me too❗❗

[@MissKittyKatify]

Same here!!!

[@CarveDxUp]

Ok

[@MissMaisieBelle]

Me as well! When I was younger I had red hair. I got it from a box. 😆 However, it was beautiful.

[@theotherkangaroo]

Seeing people with naturally red hair always make me smile 😃

[@kimberlyhampton5332]

I have a friend who is Black, whose family has a whole line of redheads. It's fabulous! They are red-red. Each generation has redheads...its really neat.

[@truthhurtsohwell05]

Thanks for covering this! My aunt is a dark brown beauty and she was born with long 3c auburn red hair. We didn’t know where she got it from until we saw the blk women on my grandpa’s side. My mind was blown

[@joannafitness9604]

I am Nigerian, full fledged. I have eight siblings but my and eldest sister's hairs used to turn bright red in the Northern Nigerian dessert region where we stayed with our grandmother for a year. White people used to walk up to us and touched and pulled at our hair. It used to be really bad that I started biting their fingers. We do not have European blood in us. Red hair in Africans has always been part and parcel of the African diversity and are not as uncommon as one might believe. Therefore, we should not assume because you have a red hair black person (not mixed race person) that they have caucasian ancestry hiding somewhere in their DNA.

[@hyacinthdibley2420]

True. Well said.

[@belladamma2345]

Yup my brother was born with red skin and red hair we are 100% Nigerian Igbo. No mix. I know Igbo twins one girl was born with red hair and red skin the other twin has brown skin . Two twins with different complexions and the same mom and dad, 100% Igbo Nigerian no mix.

[@lovelydiva06]

I agree even a African can have blue eyes it’s rare but it can be cause by a genetic abnormality so saying you must be part European if you have these genetic features I think is wrong to say but it’s usually the case with black Americans cause most of us have some percentage of European blood

[@petersugar2185]

@@lovelydiva06 like the Caribbean's do too unfortunately

[@loraliema3017]

Oxidation can cause that. The same sort of thing used to happen to my granddaughter's hair and to a friend of her's--a Korean girl's. My granddaughter had blond hair but being outside, mainly swimming, would turn her hair shiny, like Barbie hair. It was gorgeous--although rather weird. I'm not sure what color her friend's hair turned; her friend's mom only told me about it. I'm not saying this IS what happened to your sister; I'm just saying it might have been. It affect my other granddaughter's hair too, but not as badly since hers was a trifle darker. It also caused their hair to get brittle and break. I finally dyed the darker haired girl's hair so it would stop breaking. It worked. A darker dye coats the hair. At the place my older granddaughter went for martial arts lessons there was this young black girl who had natural platinum blond hair. Fascinating. She was mostly black too. Where I live there are many mixed people. My own kids are half Chinese.

[@maryscaggsdane1978]

My whole family is red-heads - for generations. One of my nephews has a great response to the "where did you get that red hair" question. With an absolutely straight face he tells them, "I eat a lot of crustaceans." I love that kid!

[@prfox1827]

Great answer 😁👏🔥💯👍

[@epiphanyinsight]

😂😂😂😂

[@Ultamami]

*are, not is

[@rosalindcazares4563]

@@Ultamami l got this by mistake do not know anything about it. sorry!

[@honeybunch0128]

Is it really true that you all eat a lot of crustaceans

[@julilla1]

This was really fun and their daughter is adorable!

[@ladyjpolite]

I thought it was fun too. Very interesting lol

[@sylviaguerrero9794]

I had red hair growing up just like the little girl in the video, but it turned brown then black as I got older. I took an ancestry DNA test and my results were 31% indigenous Mexico, 28% Nigerian, 17% Spain, 8% Mali, 3% Senegal, 3% Ivory Coast & Ghana, 3% France, 2% Germanic, 2% England & Northwestern Europe, 1% Benin & Togo, 1% Cameroon Congo & Western Bantu Peoples, 1% Philippines. I have 5 children with a Mexican descendent man and all of our children were born with red tint in their hair while my only son was the only one born with red hair that hasn't turned brown or black. He's 12 and it's looking like he may keep it lol

[@lukeet331]

Bloody hell you're from everywhere

[@TheEmbrio]

Lovely !

[@Arts4Change]

Oh wow you’re as equally black as you are Mexican! 😍 Did you already identify as Afro Latina before this?

[@anitahamel4576]

WOW I would be so proud of that mixed ancestry. I think of different races as different kinds of flowers so, to me, you would be a really exotic, unique & precious flower!

[@artworksphotography4682]

If I may ask, which service did you use? I'm planning on getting mine done too. Thanks!

[@ln664]

Africans genes are truly unique in that we have different hair colors, textures, eye colors, and skin tones. European ancestry is not required to produce these features.

[@winging2458]

Thank you so much for addressing this. Didn't an anthropology dig determine the mother of Humanity to come out of Africa???? Guess some folks still in denial about now proven facts of evolution....🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@ilmarsbelevics]

Tell me you're american without telling me you're american!

[@Arunadawn]

Yes exactly!

[@creolela]

Exactly !!!

[@laughsinmisogyny8827]

THANK YOU!!!!✊🏿

[@juliea3447]

My grandmothers cousin (Yoruba, both from Nigeria) had red hair. It’s not common but it happens without European ancestry (their family don’t have any returnee or European admixture, their lineage is 100% African). I never got to meet him as he mainly lived in Nigeria and passed before I was born but my mother remembers his visits to London fondly. I also knew a dude as a teenager who had red hair but he was half Nigerian half Jamaican so he may have had European ancestry. Really cool video!

[@Addi_Teacha509]

I saw an American abstract from the 50s that analyzed the red hair in Nigeria

[@chetyoubetya8565]

Umm yeah no I have never ever seen any pics of any 100 percent Africans with natural red hair albinism yes

[@msfergie5851]

@@chetyoubetya8565 google is your friend

[@tutotutot5193]

i am from africa and i wanna tell you that sex is a taboo conversation especially with elders. europeans have been mixing with africans way before transatlantic slave trade. it would be safe to have dna test first

[@sohniya7681]

@@chetyoubetya8565 ok, and?

[@briant7265]

Can we just take a moment to admire what a charming family they are?

[@michaelmahoney1205]

I do every time I'm out in public

[@cattymajiv]

Indeed they are just great! They'd make great neighbors.

[@Lemurai]

My main concern with these genealogy tests is data security & integrity, I worked as a pharmacologist (pharmacokinetics) jr researcher while I was working on my masters & I saw some things I didn’t like in regards to DNA, security/protection, what they don’t tell you is many of these pharmaceutical companies have flagrantly open access to DNA repositories from these testing firms, because they use them to run simulations for drug matrix modeling, lastly, there are other larger 3rd parties such as the Chinese gov, purchasing huge stakes or often times trying to outright acquire these companies. I don’t trust any of this, it’s cute to the novice, but industry insiders will tell you, they don’t & wont take these tests or administer them to their own family members. There are serious intelligence & national security concerns regarding these test as there has been suspicion for years of nefarious genomic research associated with DNA data such as bio warfare research targeting specific ethnic groups. Think I’m exaggerating? I seriously implore anyone considering wanting to purchase these ancestry tests to research this for themselves, I’ve worked in biotech, If what I said is anything like I’ve experienced in the field, where people’s biological information is freely accessible without regard for professional protocol, you should be deeply concerned. No one is being held accountable for any of this proprietary research.

[@taram9409]

Wow. That is scary. I do believe you, because I know how much evil there is in this world. Is that why 23andMe was hacked again recently? And the hackers were mainly interested in certain ethnic groups? Thank you for being honest.

[@elisascottcobbsmyprofile2317]

I always suspected this!

[@kimberlygodbold880]

THANK YOU!!!!! I KEEP telling people this! They Also tell people that they destroy your samples after they’re finished analyzing it but PEOPLE NEED TO READ THE FINE PRINT!!! They keep your DNA 🧬 “PERPETUALLY”, and you Lose ALL your rights to your DNA Sample! They can run tests on it and all! If they make a medical discovery using your sample (whether helpful or harmful) you give up your rights to it! Plus it’s said to be “For ENTERTAINMENT ONLY!!!” SMH!!! 🧐😳🤔

[@yanellepowell8336]

It doesn’t cause harm, so atp 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@charlenedula3049]

@@Lemurai I believe that! Seems suspicious to me. The end will reveal the truth.

[@FukaiKokoro]

Genetics are so interesting. We are all connected in some way. That’s what hate is dumb. We are all one.

[@LoneWulf278]

Exactly

[@FFgirl7]

THIS👏🏽

[@yourenotbetterthananyone681]

I know.

[@AlphaMom55]

Girl, yes! I have a relative who swears there are only three white people they trust and like. Such ignorance.

[@bettynolo23]

Yep!

[@medusasunshine4705]

The little girl is beautiful 🙏🏽🤲🏽💪🏽 May she be covered & blessed

[@mikhailbraggs3822]

Lol. I am African American that had red hair as a child but it got darker as I grew older and now it's the color black! I know for a fact that my great grandfather was an Irishman and that is where the hair color comes from.

[@redstone1999]

Your mother was also a carrier of the Redhead gene also. It takes both parent to be carriers to produce a redhead child. Another point is that many redheads lose the color by 20-30's.

[@gabriellesummers1426]

Im native american with irish ancestors and mine is as my mom calls it black cheery

[@favorit-kritter]

That's so interesting! Do you still show red in your facial hair or is that black now too?

[@Pinkladyisv]

I also had a red tint to my hair when I was younger. Like you it darkened as I grew older.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

Interesting comment, i had no idea this was a thing! i think i must have assumed that dark pigment would like nullify the red. Do you know whereabouts in Ireland your great granddad came from? might take a while to respond as not very well rn, but wish you all the best!

[@jillbert40]

I was at Disneyland years ago with my redhead daughter when she was about 6 years old. As we were waiting in line for a ride, an Asian couple that did not speak English kept touching the hair on her arms, which was sparkling in the sun, and seemed to keep talking about her.. It was cute how they were so amazed.

[@manuellubian5709]

I wouldn't let anyone touch my kid like that. When Asian's do it, it has racial overtones to what they do. Now bear in mind some Asians have super wiry hair. But will be the first to say something about someone, else. Also, in China, Japan (where I once visited), and So. Korea they are known to just indiscriminately walk up to minority visitors and without word or warning run their hands, through your hair. I consider that very rude to do that.

[@Outnumberedbykidsandcats]

I wouldn’t find that cute at all. If anyone touched my child without permission I would be really irritated.

[@TheWpgMom]

I get it. My legs look like I have glitter tights if I don't shave for a couple of days LOL, I also get that as a redhead I became desensitized to being randomly touched. Lots of people find it really upsetting but I honestly just got used to it. As long as they are nice about it.

[@RuizCaz]

@@jillbert40 That’s not cute. I’m a POC and of Asian descent and they saw her as a black person to be picked at as a novelty. It’s not nice to let let strangers put their hands on your children.

[@obedirect5491]

@@manuellubian5709 exactly..100% agree

[@KatherineRoseArt]

My brother had a friend when he was a kid who was from Mexico and his mother was a dark skinned latino woman with red hair, green eyes and freckles. :)

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

There are a lot of Afro-Mexicans in Mexico, but they weren't acknowledged until a few years ago. Central and the southern part of Mexico has a lot of Mexicans with very dark skin. Mexico denied that these people existed for a very long time. The first or second president in Mexico was Afro-Mexican.

[@benjamingonzalez8792]

@@MADNEWYORKER914 Katherine's comment didn't need this response.

[@anaz5918]

@@MADNEWYORKER914 Mexico wasn’t denying anything all of us Mexicans who actually lived and went to school in Mexico are very aware of African ancestry on our country . In Mexico we identified ourselves as “Mestizo “ meaning mix race our culture is a mixture of Indigenous, European and African roots everything from food , religion, music etc.. The Mexican government doesn’t ask for race on official papers they might describe you in your if/driving license and passport but they’ll never ask you about your race if you are born in Mexico you are Mexican it doesn’t matter if your parents are from China you’ll still be considered Mexican and while we have communities of Indigenous people and very few African communities who have kept to themselves and still speak their Indigenous languages and kept most of their original culture they are on the minority. The majority of Mexicans are integrated into the mestizo culture.

[@dyread]

In countries where red hair is normal enough we don't have that rubbing it thing. I'm in Ireland and my son had lovely ginger hair especially when he was a child, and one day walking through town with his brother an American tourist came over and rubbed his hair. He was not happy about that and stayed away from tourists since then.

[@21_f_aus]

I think one of my cousins had that problem with people rubbing his head, because of his red hair, he didn't really like it either... it is rude especially to just randomly do it without asking if it's ok...

[@anebasammy]

That was not okay

[@SabzKhumalo]

It is a breach of personal personal space, very rude.

[@mothratemporalradio517]

haha.. i can understand why he took a dim view of that in a less touchy feely culture.. staying away from tourists is a pretty understandable MO

[@jagmannenarbrand8373]

Yeah it’s from some weird superstition in America that isn’t practiced now a days. That rubbing a red heads hair will give you extremely good luck. That’s why it would be mostly old people rubbing your head in America. Idk if it was believed everywhere in America back then but it was kinda common.

[@vfry7896]

I am a African-American Creole woman. I have three aunts that have red hair and my mom has Sandy brown hair. We are of Creole heritage, so we are aware of French ancestry w/ a host of others especially African but no one really knows where the red hair came from. Or the Sandy Brown. DNA 🧬 is such a fascinating scientific Discovery. Great content

[@aldofromsf]

@V Fry Viking -> Norman -> French -> Creole is a plausible trace of your aunts red hair.

[@dolydoly5679]

Vikings occupied Normandy, which is in the far north of France

[@k.v.7681]

@@aldofromsf You don't even need Vikings for that. There were plenty of red-haired Celts.

[@menarentlogical]

I'm Creole too. Born and bred in New Orleans. I do not consider myself to be African-American, though. I am black, but I've always felt more of a connection to Europe and the Americas. On my mother's side, we are Native American with Arabic, European, and North and South African sub mixture. There is no West- African DNA on my mother's side, which is probably why I never felt the connection that the USA tells me I'm supposed to feel. My grandmothers and great grandmothers were light skinned with long, wavy dark hair and my great aunts look like they are from the Philippines. I do not doubt that my maternal great grandfathers are some variant of Native American and/or French/Spanish, not African. On my father's side, however, is where the West-African DNA comes from, with French and Spanish admixture, but my Grandmothers and Aunts also don't look West-African. We look Native, French or Spanish, regardless of how light or dark our skin color is and how kinky or curly our hair is. I personally look more French and even white people can see it. One time, my coworkers were talking about Africans in the south during Antebellum, and I walked up on them and said "y'all don't be talking about my ancestors." And they all looked at me and said.. "bitch you look French! Shut up!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My last name was a common last name for Native Americans as well. My paternal grandmother's last name is of Scottish descent, and I do have some Scottish admixture.. Orkney to be exact. My maternal grandmother's last name was also common among Native Americans. My step mom has a French last name, but she is brown skinned. Her mother, brother, and sister were lighter skinned. My paternal grandmother's brother, my uncle, was Spanish Creole. He spoke no English. I believe it was the creation and enforcement of the one drop rule that forced us all to identify as African, which contributed to the integration of all dark skinned people, even though not all of us were African, which contributed to the dominance of African genetics in our gene pool. If I am that which my mother is, as the US says, then I am Native American. If I am that which my Father's are, then I am mixed race. But I am not African, because my roots are not in Africa. They are in this land that is now known as the USA. Honorable mention: Native Americans were classified as 'negros' on the census, and there was African presence in the Americas before colonization.

[@ZachBroadus1992]

Obliviously the French part

[@lindaplue4385]

They used to run commercials back in the 70's to send aid to Africa, and they used the fact that they had red hair to prove they were starving. They'd find a red headed boy and say "See the red hair? That's from malnutrition!"

[@thewordsmith5440]

What? lol I don't remember this. lol

[@lilyjane1011]

😂👍🤦🏼‍♀️

[@KC-ni5gw]

Happy to read so many positive comments on red hair. Thanks to all of you for being so kind

[@dionemyhre27]

I think black people with red hair are so uniquely beautiful.

[@citizencoy4393]

Blk ppl don’t have a stigma against red hair. That’s yt folks.

[@KB-therealestone]

Hi KC, In regards to your comment where you said thanks to everybody for being so kind about red heads.... It is only in Caucasian society where they demonize and look down upon their red headed people. Black and African people never had an issue with red headed people.

[@patriciakeats1621]

I love red hair! I used to date a redhead. Many moons ago.

[@Willowy13]

Red hair is almost a cult here in Brazil. We have an actress, Marina Rui Barbosa, who has red hair and a lot of us want similar. I am a bottle one.😂

[@MandeeTheGreat]

My husband has only one copy of the red head gene, so he has blonde head hair but a red beard! Its cool, he is 25% Scottish.

[@Truepurple7]

I also have blonde head hair but I don't think there is anyway that I have Scottish ancestry unless it is a tiny amount

[@mothratemporalradio517]

huh :)

[@nyfunderburk]

My (African american) brother has a red beard and freckles with brown hair and his daughter is a full on ginger down to the eyelashes Lmao

[@vikingrolloishot1789]

Lol i want to see how that looks! Blond hair red beard!!!!!!!!😂😂😂

[@albertaowusu3536]

Or a Viking.😂😁😂💓

[@RebeccaCollazo113]

My best friend’s mom is a black redhead and she’s even got cute freckles over her cheeks and nose. Absolutely gorgeous! The best thing about redheads is that they stand out because they’re so unique. Great video!

[@cattymajiv]

@denisovansdna Yes. All blacks are beautiful so are all brown people. To me, a white person, it's partly the thing about it it being sort of exotic, but at least equally, it's purely more attractive than pasty white skin. And wrinkles don't show as much either. This doesn't directly indicate anything about the personality, but it is true that people who have suffered a lot are generally kinder to others than those who have not. IMHO. But then again that's just my opinion, and it seems that lately mental health professionals are saying the opposite. So who knows. At any rate, appearance-wise the blacker the better, and more beautiful.

[@anitahamel4576]

I was told by a European man that the most beautiful girls in North America were Texas girls I find the most beautiful girls are Brazilian girls. When I visited there I was amazed at the gradations of all those skin hues, from the darkest black to lily white, all beautiful.

[@AJ-nd4nk]

​@@cattymajivLearn to love yourself. Self hate isn't attractive.

[@trinawestcoast8719]

My mom had fiery red hair when she was a child. It get darker as she grew older. My brother had light red hair, and my sister. My mom also has a strange eye color a greenish brown color which my brother had, and my sister eyes were green. She does have a great, great, Grandfather that was Irish.

[@hikmah]

What is interesting is that it is presumed being a ginger or red head is a Eurocentric trait. From my experience I have found it to be not the case. I have come across so many red heads, particularly in West and North Africa. These individuals did not have any type of European lineage or ancestry.

[@iamjustsaying4787]

@MzMalaika yes they did. Maybe not any great grandma would be willing to admit to l, but they did. You didn’t do a dna test did you,

[@aprilspencer73]

Yes my mother and my uncle is south African and have no European DNA and they are red head's

[@belleoftheball7634]

Northern Africa is filled with European descendants, and Western Africa has European admixture as well. That's why they have red hair. They took a boat ride and settled in Africa. 😄

[@onatarabandrui8375]

@@aprilspencer73 So, it could be Middle Eastern .

[@Appregator]

@@aprilspencer73 South Africans are full of white DNA. Nelson Mandela lived in Nomansland area of the Transkei which was where many mixed race people migrated. It was obvious Nelson Mandela was mixed race. It would have been interesting to see his DNA.

[@delia_watercolors]

I have a friend who is African American with green eyes. She loved her Irish grandma. She visited Ireland several times with her own children many years after her grandma's death. One never knows what's going to pop up with DNA, but it doesn't lie!

[@yavonnemcclam952]

She’s biracial not black American

[@juliegonzales258]

I think youre described as biracial when you have 2 parents of different races . Her grandmother is Irish.

[@TheHoodVoice2024]

​@@yavonnemcclam952 if her grandmother is Irish but her father is black and her mother is black and Irish she's black . all black Americans are biracial if we listen to you because not one foundational black American is 100% black, learn history

[@vickyabramowitz2885]

Green eyes are rare as they are only found in 2% of the world's population. Despite their rarity, they are found in all races.

[@BlackDoveNYC]

@yavonnemcclam952 “Biracial” is a recent American construct. To the extent that it has any validity to it beyond the common use it’s acquired (particularly among white people) it is not accurate or even relevant when applied to Black Americans or Latinos it does not make sense. Both of those groups are racially mixed already. So outside of the middle class American context it’s not even that useful. I don’t like term for its obvious lack of any basis in reality but I also remind myself that most people are not particularly well read on this topic.

[@hellaSwankkyToo]

*the genetic trait for red hair comes from Africa.* so, yes, there are people in Africa w| 100% African ancestry//DNA who are natural gingers//have naturally red hair w| complexion shades across the spectrum from dark to light. 😍 + by people i mean whole villages//areas in which red hear is common//the norm//not rare, unlike everywhere else in the world. + they're freaking gorgeous, just absolutely stunning. admittedly i am absolutely biased - i've had a thing for redheads since day 1. [my first crush was Archie (yes from the comics - i was _obsessed_ 🤩😂 🤦🏾‍♀) + my first human//real life crush was a set of ginger twins in elementary school, Alex + Andrew. Vernon Francois was my wallpaper for yearssss OMG that man. 😍🤤🥲🥸🙊 OK let me stop - i'm bordering on fetishizing if i'm not already there. 🙏🏾😬🤦🏾‍♀my bad.]

[@rosalindcazares4563]

Beautiful people inside and out!

[@GeckoHiker]

If anyone has doubts, we only need to look across the ocean to see that red hair and different skin tones came out of Africa without ever passing through Europe--Australia and Micronesia.

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

Facts!!! Even those eyes that are associated with Asians are found in Africa. The "Bushmen" of the Kalahari have them.

[@cooky_2076]

Garden of Eden was in Africa=Human Race.

[@jamiewilson5162]

Not saying your wrong about all humans hailing from Africa originally. However you said that Red hair in certain villages and areas are common and unlike anywhere else on earth, wrong! The British and Irish have the highest percentage of anywhere on the planet for folk born with Red Hair, Period!! Everywhere else on the planet the population is roughly 2-3 % Red Hair! In Britain and Ireland it's 12-14%!!

[@noahbodi6418]

Since Black people were the original humans on the planet, it makes sense that every gene mutation existence within the global Black population. I went to school with a kid who had very dark skin and very bright red hair. He had bright red eyebrows and lashes too. I dated a Black woman who had naturally blonde hair.

[@zaryamain-i8l]

I grew up in hawaii and hawaiian kids with red hair happens. And the term race was created by colonialists to dehumanized others... the term race in biology refers to and entireeeee different thing than skin color. When people say "there is only one race the human race" they aren't just being corny with the "I don't see color" shit... human IS a race..... we only have one RACE of human... you cross a human with another human and you get (wait for it) another human lol and the more mixed you are the less likely you are to have genetic issues that can be common in specific ethnic groups. Also mutations can happen in any group of people to result in melanin changes :)) it's the most surface level thing about us haha

[@BekkaPoo]

Amen! All traits come from our African DNA.

[@patpathos]

Oh my gosh, her daughter is cuteness overload! I love hearing her do math with her 'magic' brain fueled by her red hair.😁

[@Addi_Teacha509]

😁

[@surquhart64]

You know, this is fascinating...and it just goes to show how wonderfully we're all made up of various ethnicities. My father is Jamaican, his grandfather was Scottish, his grandmother of mixed heritage, part African plus others. My mother is English, her mother Russian/Lithuanian, and her father Italian. My sister's ex-husband is Spanish/Italian and her oldest son, born in Spain, looks Scottish, tall (6.5 1/2ft) and red headed - often mistaken for being fully Scottish. His wife is Malaysian, it'll be amazing their childrens ethnicities. Her youngest looks absolutely Italian, long black flowing locks and also extremely tall (6.5ft)...my ex, with whom I share 2 children is German/Russian, my eldest son was born with red hair, that turned white blond, he's now a dark brown. My youngest has auburn hair, like myself, with both naturally golden blond and red highlights....still with me everyone 😁...my current husband, born in Jamaica is Chinese, German, English, French, Spanish...his father's father (therefore his grandfather) was off-the-boat Han Chinese and his grandmother off-the-boat German...his mother's mother was French/Spanish and his grandfather English.....it just goes to show that racial stereotypes are a fallacy and ridiculous - we are all wonderfully made up and should be proud of IT ALL. Can you imagine all our DNA tests, we're the United Nations here 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@1besst70]

🤣🤣🤣🤣Damn you guys are everything🤣🤭

[@warriorwomanpowell6857]

Fearfully and Wonderfully made by God

[@prfox1827]

Love it!

[@photodesi]

Mixed race and proud 👏 🥲 🥰 French Chinese, South Indian, Dutch, Fijian, Melinesian, African, Japanese / Korean....from the British West Indies..

[@zekel1650]

As my Granny says, "They're just reaching back in the family". That's what she said about one of my cousins who was born light-skinned with strawberry-red hair. Her Dad is dark-skinned & her Mom medium brown-skinned,

[@Redfae7]

I think that’s a beautiful way of putting it. I wish my family had used that phrase. 🥰

[@QuinnieMae]

I came here to say that too... That that is a _beautiful_ saying!

[@brendaking737]

Just found your channel today. I really appreciate the way you present the information. The expression in your eyes while the little girl was talking is so sweet. Really enjoyed it ❤

[@crystalyana9533]

AFRICANS ARE AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE……MY MOM IS FROM PURTO RICO!!! AND MY FATHER IS A BLACK MAN!!! AND I JUST FEEL LIKE I LIVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!! MY FATHER IS FROM ALBANY GEORGIA!! AND IM VERY MUCH IN CONTACT WITH MY FAMILY FROM MY FATHERS SIDE….I LOVE THEM DEARLY AND I GET THE SAME LOVE FROM THEM!! 🙏🏽❤️

[@williammckinney567]

Port Rican’s are black also or mixed race people.

[@lettiegrant9447]

Being from Puerto Rico is not a race it's a nationality.

[@DDixon-po2sm]

Lb

[@missqt48]

Your mother is what race exactly? Americans really have to stop doing this (from my observation online) Race and nationality are two different things

[@ravenharris853]

Thatz your opinion

[@wj2107]

Yay! Black girl with red hair here :) In my family, I was pretty much the first one. Seeing younger cousins with it is fun and it’s like seeing a version of myself in person. My hair has gotten darker. Eventually I’m planning on coloring it bright red again. I miss it. I enjoy being different

[@WorldTravelPlanAG]

Makes no sense ur definitely not a red head you don’t look like u hv any European features

[@myronhelton4441]

I have heard that red hair can jump 8 generations, isnt that odd. It sounds like the redhead gene is striger than other genes. I wonder if you have green eyes. One out of 500 redheads have blue eyes. Redheads dont grey as fast.

[@anitahamel4576]

I noticed that dyeing one's hair is now very common. I LOVE all the different colors that both black & white women dye their hair. Some turn out startlingly beautiful. I am an 85 year old white woman & although I looked OK with white hair I dye it a very sedate ash blonde, which was my color when young.

[@anitahamel4576]

​@@myronhelton4441very interesting comment. I love seeing blacks with green & blue eyes too, although that can be faked with contacts.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Interesting video indeed. I noticed the husband having Eastern European ancestry and I immediately thought of the Udmurts, a Uralic people in Russia which are the other hotspot for red hair in Europe, but then saw that his ancestry was more in the Central European portions (specifically West Slavic and Lithuanian part). Interesting to see nevertheless. Also, speaking of the Caribbean, there is an episode of Who Do You Think You Are with English chef and TV presenter Ainsley Harriott which covers a lot of the topics that were brought up in this episode.

[@gee-gii4160]

It was so interesting learning about your DNA. Thank you for sharing.

[@Cartoon_carnivore]

The more you know. Homeboy can relate to people you don’t know touching your hair and feeling like that’s the move.

[@maddogmadison2188]

I was born with sandy red hair...I hated it when I was younger because to me it always looked dirty, especially after washing it lol. Once I got older I began loving my hair because people would compliment me thinking it was a dye job. Yet, after going natural I noticed my hair started turning dark brown, closer to black. I couldn't get with that it changed my look tremendously. I started actually dying my hair and sunny autumn color. I look like my former self again!

[@WorldTravelPlanAG]

So u had red hair n it turn black you people need to stop u don’t hv red hair cause it won’t ever turn black…a lot of you Africans want to say you have white in u n it’s ridiculous wen u don’t

[@jlee902]

​@WorldTravelPlanAG even blonde hair darkens as you get older. "Colored" hair turning dark is not a new phenomenon unique to black people.

[@patriciasimpson8989]

When I went to Africa, there was a little island where some of the people had red, blonde and blue eyes and Sandy hair. They is a small community in Senegal by Lake Retba a beautiful pink lake is located there.

[@p51424]

Melanesian people would be an example of black people with red and blonde hair.

[@CWS1985]

Growing up in Haiti I know a lot of people with red hair. They told us it was the water and the sun that caused it

[@LTay12]

@@p51424 melanesians aren’t black

[@bunnieslemon6837]

@@LTay12 yes they are, cope and seethe

[@emilydrayna2472]

Thank you for sharing! I was surprised, as well, by my DNA results!

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

My son is a full on ginger. My RBF stops anyone from touching his hair without permission, lol. My dad is also a ginger, as is his sister and their mum.

[@ellehan3003]

I used to get people touching my hair all the time, especially when i went abroad. Most people were really nice and wouldnt just touch it but talk to me and fuss me. I was quite flattered by the attention. It always gave me a confidence boost. Now im an adult no one does this lol.

[@sweettea5692]

In the next video she put out she shows pics of his dad and uncle. She might be a part of your series because they are searching for information on his grandfather .

[@gracietilert8952]

It is always so fascinating to learn about your ancestry.

[@geminirants424]

I don't know your channel but you seem like a very kind genuine person, thank you for the positive energy!! 💜

[@MONEYAINTATHANG100]

str@ightalk1 & Company!

[@lindacosta5688]

The red hair recessive gene is an interesting one:) For example, in parts of Italy it’s common to see red headed people

[@TonyaNicole7]

This is so interesting! Now I see why people say we are all mixed

[@marjorielauture4497]

This guy is kind. ❤ thanks for the empathy.

[@EJJohnson-cj4qn]

Excellent video. Both yours and the one you reviewed. Of my four granddaughters, two are red, red haired, one a strawberry blonde, and one blonde with no red at all. We aren’t surprised with the red heads because of our ancestry. I don’t know if strangers have ever tried to touch them but, unless their hair is braided or hidden, they always receive admiring comments, even people shouting out across a parking lot. And I’m glad your non-Kosher language never makes it into your KZbin videos. Thanks for exercising control over your temper here.

[@mangographics225]

When my family traveled thru the islands of the Caribbean there would be many, and if I am not mistaken, it was in St. Vincent the blacks had red hair and spoke with an Irish brogue. We found this so lovely and as children in the late 60's we found this one of the exciting things about traveling. Just love ginger heads.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

Because they are mixed

[@litespeedway6538]

The history of the Irish 'settling' there, wonder how many of the men had 2nd families there [Bob Marley's father was Scottish} - that's the way of the world.

[@ebonynaomi1085]

Also Montserrat is where a majority of the white and melanated Irish slaves and political prisoners, were sent, after they were expelled from Ireland.

[@hellaSwankkyToo]

are you Black? if you're not Black, don't say "the Blacks." it's Black people.

[@Soulbirdami]

The Vincentian speech pattern isnt irish. Also... 'the blacks' ?

[@wutdafeezy]

This is very interesting. My South Pacific island People’s also have those with red hair. My Samoan people too, have many with red and brown hair and the old belief is that it attracts spirits, so elders would oil the hair of children to darken it for protection. Interestingly, my people also cut our hair for our tribal head dresses. The head dresses are all shades of red and brown. If hair is black then they take it out to the sea and bleach it in the sun to get the desired brownish-reddish color. These are traditions and myths held long before white people made contact.

[@samreynolds3789]

LOVE the HOST & FAMILY !

[@51Saffron]

My friend had her daughter's DNA done. She got her red hair from her AA's mother's Scottish ancestry. Her daughter had a high amount of Scottish, which was quite a surprise for them.

[@megancalicut9798]

When he started talking about his temper on the road, he had me looking at my hair like damn am I a redhead too🤣🤣

[@andrearandall7540]

I was born with jet black hair and by age five i saw I had dark auburn dusty brown mix not sun bleached

[@inaboteva1051]

Yay! I recommended this one a few months ago, thank you so much for reacting to it!!!

[@candicehentz7904]

Redd Foxx & Malcolm X were both born with red hair. Their street names were Detroit Redd & Chicago Red. Love the Gingers!!!!

[@danignacio6705]

@@candicehentz7904 Malcom X was 1/4 white from her mother side.

[@beverns]

As a child, I was born with red hair. Over the years my hair turned brown. In the summers, while playing outside in the sun, my hair would return red again. My Ancestor DNA results show that I am 13 percent Irish. I had Irish on both sides of the family where most owned my great-grandfathers and their wives.

[@its_whatever_dani_d863]

Sound like my mom and my dad. Your hair gets darker as you get older. My hair use to turn sandy red in sun as a child… it’s doesn’t any more. My mom has freckles and so did my grandfather and he was born with red hair. So was my dad. I realize my family is confusing lol

[@Cin2023]

This was informative and fun!😊 Thank you for doing this. Their daughter is beautiful AND smart. 😌🤗

[@iglorifyu]

“Those who were enslaved “ instead of “slaves”. I caught that, and appreciate the distinction

[@2ndworldcountryusa583]

Yeah I’m sick of people doing that

[@Lily-gs9iv]

That little girl is adorable! ❤

[@yadayada752]

I would recommend getting the oldest family members DNA tested first. It will have more detail, because it gives about 3 generations, so when you do it you get 4 generations by combining them.

[@nakiadeonpresents6488]

I've always loved red hair...so much so that I pray for redhead grandkids. My uncle had red hair as a kid, it has darkened over the years but hopefully his red hair genetics transfers to my offspring some kind of way.

[@DreyahzRiot]

My mom had strawberry blonde reddish hair as a child and it darken oven time too!

[@Dwynfal]

Fellow ginger here. This has made me smile so much! Their daughter is just so adorable! 😍 Looking at him I thought he might have some Polynesian ancestry. I've been thinking about getting mine done as I'm the only redhead in my family (although my brother was as a young child, he turned out to be a blond). Supposedly I have one great-grandparent who was full Native American but I don't know if that true or just family lore.

[@lisakp71]

This sounds like we're related, ha! I was born with BRIGHT orange hair (and it stuck straight up - I look like a baby orangutan in some baby pictures 😄) that later came in blonde. And despite dentists and my orthodontist telling me what classically Native American teeth (spade-shaped, number and shape of roots), my Ancestry results turned up ...big fat zero % Native American DNA. Womp womp. From research my Aunt has recently.done, my most recent fully Native American ancestor is my 7x great grandmother, So how the heck I got the teeth but no DNA is a puzzler! Hope you find out some interesting things as well!

[@guslulou8428]

It usually is family lore. It always was in my family until a bunch of us hit DNA tests and put it to rest. There’s is some fascinating for Native Americans by white people. I’m not sure the motivation for so many white family’s to start saying such things when they aren’t based in realty. Maybe it makes people feel more interesting or something. I have very dark brown hair. I live in Phoenix and work outside. I never wear sunscreen and I don’t get sunburned. I’m just brown everywhere that is exposed to the sun. I had my DNA tested and I’m 98.5% European and 1.5% middle eastern. I don’t think that 1.5% middle eastern could be responsible for my hair and skin tone. I could be wrong, but it just seems like such a tiny percentage of a race wouldn’t be enough for characteristics of that race to be evident.

[@Quolitta04]

It may not be family lore ancestry is just now starting to get a range of people to show when I first test there was not even a Native American category.Then I got add in with other categories. I got an update recently and it is now it's own category.

[@Coach_MarcyBob]

My son is also a ginger. When he was born he had pale white skin and blood red hair. He is 13 now his skin is red and his hair has darkened up some but still red. It looks more auburn now. It’s amazing considering how many generations back was the last red head in our family. Even on his dads side( who is coal black)

[@mamajudesays6912]

Red-headed people with African ancestry are so beautiful. I have to remind myself how rude it is to stare when I am lucky enough to cross paths with these rare gems of humanity.

[@1titans]

True, Im more European than both my parents. My sister is more African than both our parents

[@1titans]

@LeMulatto Professor No, just the way DNA recombines. Say if my mother is 15% and I get 8% from her and my dad in 17% and I get 11% from him.

[@redstone1999]

On paper my parent's children should be 75% Irish and 25 % French. My sister is 65% Irish, 25% French and 10% Scandinavian. I am 85% Irish, 10 % French and 5 % North African. Weird how DNA recombination will pull different DNA from each parent's DNA.

[@PsychicMedium4747]

@LeMulatto Professor it’s because you inherit 50 percent random genes from BOTH parents….if you inherit all the white from both parents the sum maybe higher than each parent individually. Think real hard what I just told you

[@PsychicMedium4747]

@@redstone1999 ty….not sure why people don’t use common sense. If mom and dad are 10 percent Irish… one child can be 20 percent Irish if the 10 percent from both parents was passed down

[@DawaLhamo]

Nice! As a redhead myself, I am always interested in where people get theirs. Their daughter is super cute.

[@gentleasa5728]

My middle son is a redhead! His whole life I noticed , he would notice, and look at other red heads. They also always notice him. Kinda like it’s a small club, and their the only ones in it! Do you , and other red haired ppl share this phenomenon?

[@TheSiobhan12]

Same here!!! #ginger pride

[@redstone1999]

@@gentleasa5728 Oddly enough, as a kid to teenager in our area is was dislike at sight. We redheads were so rare in our area that it was like a competition of being the unique one. As adults, it was opposite. Dated a redhead who had same bright orange color. The looks we got, when caught kissing. Some actually thought we were brother & sister. :D

[@redspeedmegz]

Same! I'm a ginger as well! ❤

[@danielbrown7115]

@@redstone1999 That's kinda funny. Thanks for sharing.

[@junepatterson7928]

Thank you for sharing your story.

[@kimberlyn.2096]

We have one red headed granddaughter. She’s such a beautiful girl. When she was born, she had absolutely no hair. She had no hair until about one. She had really light eyebrows. When her red hair came in it was glorious! She is realllllly different, however. Temper? Look out. I 100% agree with the temper thing. She flips out also! It’s funny when he says he’s Russian and she says “ Alright Vlady, tell us about your people.” I like when people can tease and laugh❤

[@roriemarie2968]

What a beauty! As a curly haired red hed Hispanic myself...I love it!

[@Magarita810]

When I lived in Nigeria, I went to school with a girl who was Albino, she has brown skin, light brown freckles and long beautiful red hair. Having red hair does not always have to be a European trait. Also as I grew up I noticed that my hair colour was a dark reddish brown colour, which I embraced but now dye it blue black as I have got older.

[@cherylmills4550]

Her hair was red because of the albinism. she was no pigment. This is why anyone with it has red hair.

[@betsyannthornton1928]

Your description makes it unmistakably clear that she wasn't an albino. Sometimes black people call lighter black people albino because they're ignorant.

[@oliviamonteque6407]

​@@betsyannthornton1928 DON'T BE STUPID!

[@Iloveswedes]

Albino but brown skin? How does that work? You mean she's African, but has freckles and red hair.... the brown skin is odd for albino. Maybe partially albino (which doesn't exist?).

[@KingofgraceSARA]

She was not an albino if she had red hair. Someone with albinism has blonde hair and pale skin and are photo- sensitive.

[@arnitasmith9259]

Thanks for sharing

[@haytoo]

I’m Nigerian (born and raise in the us), some of my cousins have reddish gold hair and reddish dark skin

[@baddd59]

The sun does it

[@rashidswaleh1933]

All of humanity originate in Africa. So too are the genes for red hair. The trait is no very frequent in Africans because it is controled by recessive genes. There are Africans with blue and gray eyes too eventhough they don'thave european ancestry. So no big surprise here.

[@dav87libradall]

The thing is people don't want to admit the truth....

[@kia_rush]

Right! He like he doesn't know where the red hair may of originated, but it's like bruhh the first human was in Africa (Hue•Man) stands for black man🙄 aka the original man, African pple have diverse genes, own it!

[@aquastar5314]

Exactly. I literally put that in one post. Seen many Americans and dark skin w gray, blue, sky blue, green eyes.

[@sheabaobab3637]

Mitochondrial Gene

[@itsjustmyname2479]

you do know the original europeans were black dont you

[@Darnaguen]

I absolutely see the Slavic features in his face. There's nothing in particular, but the overall impression rings very familiar somehow. That's always such a cool thing.

[@KateeAngel]

I am Slavic and I don't see that. I wonder what you guys in the west always imagine us to be. You have a lot of stereotypes which are very inaccurate

[@mothratemporalradio517]

@@KateeAngel as a Westerner, i myself don't think i make any assumptions, or i try not to. Sometimes when you know a few people from a particular country you start to note features or they point to them themselves. As an example, just thinking of Poland although i don't know if that's actually classified as Slavic, I don't think it is or I'd have to check, i had a friend who said she has Polish cheeks and she meant they were very round. i met another woman of Polish descent and it's fair to say she had those cheeks! But then i met some other Polish ladies and they had oval faces. Even when generalisations are sometimes not inaccurate, they won't always be true so are best taken with a pinch of salt. i will say that if i was told that i could get $50 right now if i was willing to stereotype Slavic folk, the one thing i would probably think of is cheekbones. i have no specific idea about nose, lips, anything else. But i feel like it's fair to imagine cheekbones that are higher than Anglo Saxon and Celtric people and potentially a bit flatter. There could be something a bit different about cheeks generally. i definitely wouldn't imagine that all people look the same. But just like Asian people often have higher cheekbones than the average Caucasian, i feel like within the Caucasian world, Slavic ethnicities might have higher cheekbones. And might i say i believe this is an attractive trait.

[@Darnaguen]

@@KateeAngel I assume by 'west' you mean something else than Finland, because that's where I'm from. Granted, there's of course variation between nationalities and subethnicities since 'Slavic' is rather broad definition. I suppose I mostly recognized something about my friends specifically in Poland and Baltics.

[@PsychicMedium4747]

@@KateeAngel I am 30 percent Serbian….and as a biracial person I can see the slaves on him….my grandpa was Serbian and he was dark like italian. Many have middle eastern genes.

[@westaussieeggs8867]

Funny that, i absolutely agree that he has a Slavic face, I am a Slav and can mostly identify people from that region, round face, high cheek bones, upturned nose. i have all those features lol. And an answer to Cat, yes, Polish people are slavic, although not Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, they are more related to UgroFinish tribes.

[@DM31702]

Jarrett, you look like you could be the dude's brother!😆 Great video. I have a cousin with red hair, but we are fairly mixed, though still predominantly SSA.

[@florencecoach6639]

The little girl is so adorable!

[@sassytoonsball-ruck58]

People- some people - totally lack ‘personal-space’ boundaries though can’t believe someone would reach in a car😳 - momma seems forgiving but eeeesh

[@Matty06001]

I swear, as people get older, and I'm guilty of this myself, they get so desperate for human contact that they lose boundaries. I'm going to remember this conversation when I'm 80.

[@lindadollar5321]

@@Matty06001 Hi Susan..I Am 73 ...back yrs ago (50/60yrs)Red Hair Was Very Special.& To Rub The Head Of A Redhed Was Considered GOOD LUCK....Sounds Strange, But Maybe No More Than Some Of The Twisted Things People Do Now Days...Funny Things Humans Do.......

[@edg8535]

Doesn't mean a thing. I worked with two women that when they were talking to you they had to be touching. Worked with them over 20 years, they didn't mean a thing about it. I have been wondering how they can talk now a days with so many in panic over covid.

[@danielbrown7115]

@@lindadollar5321 You are so right. I forgot about that.

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

@@lindadollar5321 Thanks for your explanation

[@anonnnymousthegreat]

I’m african american as well and my dna results pretty much from ancestry and 23&me was: 83% african 14% european 2% native american & southeast asian

[@orienconway9859]

My father and I get red patches in our hair. It gets really noticable in the summer.