Frat Twins, One Blue Eyes and White, One Brown Eyes and Dark

By Linda Dahlstrom

Some things aren’t always black and white. Then again, sometimes they are – like the twin sons born July 11 to a German couple.

The first baby, Ryan, has light skin and blue eyes. His brother, Leo, is dark skinned with brown eyes.

"None of us could believe it," the maternity ward's head doctor, Birgit Weber, told one news source, "Both kids have definitely the same father."

Stephan Gerth is German and white. His wife, Florence Addo-Gerth, is from Ghana and has dark skin.

" It was “a real surprise,” Gerth told the German newspaper Die Welt, adding that the most important thing to him isn’t color, but that everyone is healthy.

The odds are one in a million, say doctors, but can happen with fraternal twins due the genetic soup in our backgrounds.

That just goes to show you how we are all mixed up. Just because we are black and dark skin doesn't mean we don't have white or other races mixed in us.

aawww.. thats good. so no way for any family person to come say she play foul

Actually..........suntin inside.

eh hehn!

Traveller wrote:

Actually..........suntin inside.

wetin inside??

Dey ol ma pass somewhere on the dark side.

la lie!
or maybe i should ask you where she passed since you seems to know the inside scoop

Ok you got me. My name is Dexter St. Jaques. I met the mother (Penelope Kozlowski) while she was on vacation in Jamaica and she was sittingon thebeach just crying.

I'm thinking ahead to how the outside world and even their white relatives (grandparents, aunts, uncles etc..) might be inclined to show some favouritism. Imagine growing up in a world were your twin brother was treated a little different from you because of his eye and skin color.

Sounds like a recipe for a lot of therapy.

yeah.. there will def be lots of favoritism... the parents will play a vital role in limiting that though.. if they want.. or are smart.

u sound like gadyu o, Traveller.

Traveller wrote:

Ok you got me. My name is Dexter St. Jaques. I met the mother (Penelope Kozlowski) while she was on vacation in Jamaica and she was sittingon thebeach just crying.

Traveller wrote:

Ok you got me. My name is Dexter St. Jaques. I met the mother (Penelope Kozlowski) while she was on vacation in Jamaica and she was sittingon thebeach just crying.

SirDurendal wrote:

I'm thinking ahead to how the outside world and even their white relatives (grandparents, aunts, uncles etc..) might be inclined to show some favouritism. Imagine growing up in a world were your twin brother was treated a little different from you because of his eye and skin color.

Sounds like a recipe for a lot of therapy.

Maybe the Ghanian side will show favoritism to the dark skinned baby. :)