By: Enoch

Enoch — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:59:39 +0000

The west indies are very racially mixed and most so called Africans there have high Amerindian blood as proven by recent testing in puerto Rico and Cuba.

By: Charlie P

Charlie P — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

It is both scientifically accurate and more than credible. For more info http://www.dnaancestryproject.com/

By: Stupid_People_Annoy_Me

Stupid_People_Annoy_Me — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

Oprah had hers traced back on an episode of The History Detectives (PBS). She was traced back to Europe instead of Africa.

By: dimitris k

dimitris k — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

Richard Dawkins in his book "The Ancestor’s Tale" has a long explanation about why these tests are not accurate. He says clearly that from a scientific point of view this is a hoax and people are being cheated. I am not a specialist but his explanation seems convincing.

By: grannytoad

grannytoad — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

As I understand it: I would think that if male, that is, yDNA were tested for specific markers, and those same markers were found in a population with a statistically large enough sample within an identified African group, then it may be possible. The likelihood of that is very very slim.

Deep ancestry via DNA testing means at least 10,000 years ago a haplotype was concentrated geographically in some part of a continent or parts of continents.

By: Laura B

Laura B — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

DNA testing is only reliable and credible when done by Labs that are reliable and credible. You must have a family member in both places. A general population search would be worthless. But, if you can trace your ancestry thru bloodlines and names and places back to a point of origin you have a shot at it.

By: mixedraceperson

mixedraceperson — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

Our society really needs to try to begin to understand that
the ‘African-American’ (AA) ‘Ethnic’ group is *not* the
same group as the ’Black American’ (BA) ‘Race’ group —
that the two (2) terms are *not* synonymous and that the
two (2) terms should *not* be used inter-changeably.

We are *not* speaking of ‘semantics’ here – but rather
– the BAs & AAs are two different groups of people.

The AAs are the (largely Mixed-Race) ETHNIC group.

The BAs are the (Mono-Raced) RACE group.

As confusing as it seems — the U.S. government
[due to racism & wanting to stigmatize the part
of their lineage that was from Africa which, by
the way, is only one part of their lineage] —

has labeled those individuals who are the known
"descendents of the survivors" of the system of
chattel-slavery found in the USA as being AAs
(the hyphen is used in reference to acknowledging
the fact that most of them are Mixed-Race,
with African & non-African blood lines)

AND

has labeled those people who are "volitional immigrants"
who are directly from places such as the continent of
African, the West Indies, etc. — as being BAs
(with the word ‘Black’ used in reference to acknowledging
the fact that they are of a Mono-racial full-Black lineage).

In addition, it should also be remembered that – although
some AAs adhere to a socio-political ‘identity’ that is
often described by the slang term of “black”—the AAs
are actually *not* a "Race" group at all — but rather
they *are* a largely Mixed-Race ‘Ethnic’ group
(and the socio-political ‘identity’ that a person chooses
*does not* change their racially-mixed ancestral lineage).

Most (+70%) of the people born to two (2) parents who
are of the AA ‘Ethnic’ group are are of a Multi-Racially
‘Mixed’ (MGM) lineage – while the people to two (2)
parents who are of the BA ‘Racial’ group – on the
other hand – are of a Mono-Racially ‘Black’ lineage.

There is a big difference between a largely Multi-racial
‘Ethnic’ group and between a Mono-racial ‘Race group.

In addition, there is also a big difference between
one’s socio-political ‘identity’ (ex. "black") and
one’s ancestral racial ‘lineage’ (ex. ‘Mixed’).

Just because a person adheres to a given
socio-political ‘identity’ does *not* change
the composition of their ancestral ‘lineage’.

Also — the ‘One-Drop’ Rule (the false teaching that
‘any amount’ of Black ancestral lineage make a
person "full black") is nothing more than pure-racism.

The racist ‘One-Drop Rule’ (used only by the United
States government, by the way) was created during
the antebellum, chattel-slavery era by White racial
supremacist in order to get people to believe the false
racist myth that the so-called White "race" was "pure"
and to falsely view the Black "racial" admixture
(even the slightest amount) within someone’s
ancestral lineage as being "tainted".

To embrace the ‘One-Drop Rule’ is the equivalent of BOTH
embracing "racism" and embracing the false teaching
that a Mixed-Race person’s Black lineage is "tainted".

My advice is that a non-Racist should *not* embrace
the concept of the ‘One-Drop Rule’ — as "Black blood"
is *not* "tainted" — and should never be perceived
or embraced as being so (not even in the
name of so-called "pride" and "unity").

In addition, legally-speaking, attempted forcible
application of the racist ‘One-Drop Rule’ — against
any individual or group — was made illegal and ruled
as unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court
in 1967 via the case of ‘Loving vs. The State of Virginia’.

Through the ‘Loving vs. Virginia’ case, the U.S.
Supreme Court, ruled against both all of the laws
banning Interracial marriage — and — also ruled
that any so-called law which forcibly applied the
‘One Drop Rule’ — was racist, discriminatory,
illegal, unconstitutional, and non-enforcible.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1402

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1400

By: Jayman

Jayman — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

Ask Opera.

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