My pasty-faced, blond, blue-eyed, thoroughly Caucasian-looking step-daughter had a DNA analysis taken recently. She found out she (and obviously my wife) had a black ancestor who lived in England and intermarried with the home people. There have been black people in England since Roman times, and many obviously interbred/intermarried with the English. My wife was shocked, but it didn't surprise me much. So whenever I hear certain people prate about their "pure" bloodlines, I smirk and then wish I could give that person a DNA analysis.
Yes and the “first black President” (never mind the claim about Clinton) had a mother whose race was the same as mine:
Caucasian (he admitted to being a “mutt”)
Agreed about the mixing over the years.
It’s not that there is no such thing as race. There are measurable genetic differences between, say, a “white” and a “black” person. It’s just that race is not so specif-c ordefinable a category as we pretend, and certainly there’s no such thing as racial purity. I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean, really. But you fall over backwards in the other direction when you deny race altogether.