Posted on 06/30/2014 11:04:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
I always answer that with “Native American”, since I was born here.
If they object, I say I’m “African”, since my original ancestors came from there (according to science, and I have no problem with that).
If they object to that, I make them try to justify why they’re cherry-picking some specific number of generations, just to pidgin-hole me as “European”.
I’ve never gotten a coherent answer.
If they object, I say I’m “African”, since my original ancestors came from there (according to science, and I have no problem with that).
If they object to that, I make them try to justify why they’re cherry-picking some specific number of generations, just to pidgin-hole me as “European”.
I’ve never gotten a coherent answer.
Indeed! The scientists tell us that the hominids originated in African, so anyone born in America is an African-American.
Me. I was born in Brooklyn, NYC so that’ll make me a Brooklyn-American.
I am Ani-Yun-Wiya (if you don’t know, look it up)
I say what difference does it make what we are called?
Based on the most recent immigrant in my direct line, I’m a third-generation American myself, but I had ancestors on both sides of my family in the colonies prior to the Revolution.
Better yet, write about the Flood and where the “natives” had to migrate from and their ancestral origins. Use DNA evidence to confound them even more.
My dad’s side can be traced back to William Bradford. I usually just claim “American”, since I was born here - as was my daughters. Although I do mix is up on the school forms occasionally and put “Texas”; or check all the ethnicities, as I’ve got a little bit of everything. I’m a Heinz57, if you will.
A native American is an American who was born American.
I am a native American!!! I was borne in Albuquerque, NM on April 21, 1938. Should I be getting special treatment?
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