[lit-ideas] Re: The One Drop Rule Lives
- From: Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 22:23:35 -0400
Given the Eve hypothesis, that one woman who lived in Africa some 150-250,000
years ago is the multi-great-grandmother of us all, everyone on the planet is
of African origin.
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Thomas Hart
tehart@xxxxxxx
On May 3, 2012, at 10:19 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Thomas Hart wrote:
>
>> The old principle that one drop of colored blood determines one's ethnicity
>> seems to be alive and well. a candidate for Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat
>> apparently got AA benefits because her great-great-great-grandmother was
>> Cherokee. That's 3.125%, and it was sufficient for her to call herself a
>> Cherokee.
>>
>> Given our origins in Africa, birth in the US, and immigration from various
>> parts of Europe, and sundry other places, I've always felt it only
>> appropriate to label myself as Afro-Slovenian-German-Irish-Native-American.
>> You could also say "Other" on the form, and comment "None of your damned
>> business."
>>
>
> Imagine what DNA testing is going to do to our categories. Last week's news
> on the BBC was that farmers from the Mediterranean arrived in Norway at some
> early point, to live alongside local hunter-gatherers. Thus my red-haired
> Norwegian student Leah Rebecca might want at some stage to think of herself
> as Italian or Hispanic or, as you suggest, African.
>
> David Ritchie,
> probably not from the Chinese Celts
>
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