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NJHairLuv
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:41pm |
ThatGurlD wrote:
ancestral mixed heritage is part of being AA. You don't have to name it and claim it. |
I agree.
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tatee
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:41pm |
i wonder if George Lopez is pulling out swabs for his people?
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liesnalibis
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:41pm |
That clip was hilarious.
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Alias_Avi
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:43pm |
Doubt it. He took the test and he's like 4% African He knows the average Mexican has more African blood than the average African American has Na blood ... don't get me started lol
tatee wrote:
i wonder if George Lopez is pulling out swabs for his people?
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Wildfire
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Location: Kingston, JA.
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:44pm |
on the serious though...Im sure some of the black folk claiming three-fifths indian, really are. in these parts, the indian we speak of are Arawaks or indians from India though...
Nothing wrong with claiming mixed if ya are...but black folk sound soooo proud when they say it though. All lit up. I dont hear any half indians proudly declaring that they are half black.
..we always lose.
Edited by Wildfire - Apr 21 2014 at 1:45pm
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Katrenia
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:44pm |
Most African Americans will accept anything other than the obvious. We are a race with a lost culture so some attempt to find a suitable one. Most of us aren't fortunate enough to know where our family originated. I know what Irish town my Irish Fam is in but know nothing about the African because slavers didn't keep records. Some blame slavery as I do.
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liesnalibis
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:44pm |
tatee wrote:
i wonder if George Lopez is pulling out swabs for his people?
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  God forbid
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Alias_Avi
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:47pm |
Because we are all humans who live in a caste system that degrades you depending on how far from White you are... Blackness is deemed the most 'opposite' of White Of course people feel relieved to feel like they won't be hated as much when they find out their smaller percentage of African blood But the joke is on the system. By the very virtue of being human beings, we are all of African descent I recently told this dude from the east coast whose people are Indo-Guyanese and he was shocked. I couldn't believe I met a person who has never heard this before
Wildfire wrote:
on the serious though...Im sure some of the black folk claiming three-fifths indian, really are. in these parts, the indian we speak of are Arawaks or indians from India though...
Nothing wrong with claiming mixed if ya are...but black folk sound soooo proud when they say it though. All lit up. I dont hear any half indians proudly declaring that they are half black.
..we always lose.
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tatee
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 1:54pm |
Alias_Avi wrote:
Because we are all humans who live in a caste system that degrades you depending on how far from White you are... Blackness is deemed the most 'opposite' of White
Of course people feel relieved to feel like they won't be hated as much when they find out their smaller percentage of African blood
But the joke is on the system. By the very virtue of being human beings, we are all of African descent
I recently told this dude from the east coast whose people are Indo-Guyanese and he was shocked. I couldn't believe I met a person who has never heard this before
Wildfire wrote:
on the serious though...Im sure some of the black folk claiming three-fifths indian, really are. in these parts, the indian we speak of are Arawaks or indians from India though...
Nothing wrong with claiming mixed if ya are...but black folk sound soooo proud when they say it though. All lit up. I dont hear any half indians proudly declaring that they are half black.
..we always lose.
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i get sick of hearing that sh*t tho. so people is suppose to claim what happened 50,000+ years ago but at the same time folks cant even claim what happened 3 and 4 generations back
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melikey
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Location: venus
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Posted: Apr 21 2014 at 2:02pm |
I think the mass sexual abuse during slavery as evidenced in our DNA should be known and talked about openly. It's not a family secret, it is America's horrific history.
Edited by melikey - Apr 21 2014 at 2:03pm
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