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To: Restorer
Actually, her mother is white and the odds are her father is at least partly European in ancestry. If you trace it back, I bet at least 3/4 of her genes originated in Europe.

Kinda like Tiger Woods being (at best) 1/16th black. All of these people are wonderful at what they do ... but I just wish they would start thinking of themselves as "Americans" ... not "African Americans".

1,952 posted on 03/24/2002 8:45:58 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers
All of these people are wonderful at what they do ... but I just wish they would start thinking of themselves as "Americans" ... not "African Americans".

Of course, Alex Haley probably wouldn't have had a bestseller if he'd traced his Roots back to ... Wales.

1,972 posted on 03/24/2002 8:48:36 PM PST by Restorer
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