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Bob Marley has a white father or a white passing father
Bob's Paternal Grandfather was English from Sussex his name was Albert Thomas "Robert" Marley that is clear
Bob's Paternal Grandmother was Ellen Ann Bloomfield but the family claimed she was of Syrian Jewish origins I think she was probably of mixed but not necessarily with SSA ancestry but likely with SSA ancestry the surname could be English or Yiddish but Syrian Jewish would not make sense
A "wedding certificate for the marriage of Robert Marley [Bob's paternal grandfather] and Ellen Bloomfield [his paternal grandmother] lists him as 'white' and her as 'colored,' " "Later generations of the Marley family were unaware of Bloomfield's racial designation. She may have passed for white. Bob Marley would face grief all his life for being the offspring of black and white. . . . The truth was, the 'white' side of his family was racially mixed all along." So maybe she was mixed with a white like English and also SSA. and identified with something that could still be considered white like Syrian Jewish where a darker/atypical Northwest Euro appearance could be justified. If the family had assumed her as white then she was probably at most 3/8 SSA any higher it would probably be impossible to pass as White. Neither Bob Marley's father or Paternal uncle look atypical for someone being fully European I have yet to see a picture of Ellen Ann. if Bobs paternal grandmother was indeed mixed I would not think it is likely Bob could inherit anymore than 12% SSA through his father. So now Bob Marley is at most 62% SSA
Bob's Mother was Cedella Editha Booker (Malcolm) and looks to be passable as fully SSA as most black Jamaicans probably are. Some Black Jamaicans are fully SSA or near full enough where a European admixture can't be detected. In the United States this is very rare less then 1% probably. But of a 100 Jamaicans on AncestryDNA 8 did not score any European it is not a fairly good sample size but based off some other studies full SSA is uncommon in Jamaica but not very rare. It is possible his mom is full though more likely not. Probably somewhere between 60 and 100% SSA. Bob is almost certainly blacker than Kamala but he is no more then 2/3 black for sure
For Bob Marley he is probably between 30% and 60% if his father is not mixed probably between 30% and 50% Bob is almost certainly blacker then Kamala
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Originally Posted by Leto
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