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szdaily -> Kaleidoscope -> 
11-year-old British twin sisters that defy race
    2018-03-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A STRIKING set of twins born with different skin colors — one black and one white — are speaking out on their unique “one-in-a-million” story.

The girls Marcia and Millie Biggs reveal that at just age 11 they are already aware of racism and are daily peppered with the question “Are you two really twins?”

Marcia who has fair skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair takes after her Caucasian mother while Millie who has dark skin, brown eyes, and black hair takes after her Jamaican-descent father.

Experts say that the phenomena, although unique, occur in one in 100 fraternal births.

Their mother calls the girls a “one-in-a-million” miracle.

The twins, of Birmingham, England, were born on July 3, 2008.

Their parents, a biracial couple, said they “didn’t give a toss” of what people might think of their interracial relationship and brought the same approach toward their mixed race children.

At first the parents thought their daughters — who they gave the mixed names of Millie Marcia Madge Biggs, the other Marcia Millie Madge Biggs — were identical as they shared similar skin tones.

At about 10 months, their skin began to change into more distinct colors.

“The change happened with Millie first. She went darker and darker,” father Michael Biggs said to Good Morning America.

“We never worried about it; we just accepted it,” Michael said to National Geographic.

From their infancy, the girls were scrutinized for their different appearances.

“When they were first born I would be pushing them in the pram, and people would look at me and then look at my one daughter and then look at my other daughter. And then I’d get asked the question: ‘Are they twins?’” mother Amanda said.

She’d respond “Yes” to which the reply would always be “But one’s white and one’s black.”

“Yes. It’s genes,” she said.

She clarified that passers-by were never hostile to the girls, if anything they were curious about their contrasting appearances that made them pass off as friends rather than sisters.

“As time went on, people just saw the beauty in them,” Amanda said.

“Sometimes people don’t believe us when we say we are twins. They think we’re just telling a lie,” Marcia said to Good Morning America.

When speaking on racism the girls reveal they understand the concept quite well.

“Racism is where somebody judges you by your color and not by your actual self,” Millie said.

Marcia said racism is “a negative thing, because it can hurt people’s feelings.”

(SD-Agencies)

 

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