Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests

NY Times ^ | April 12, 2006 | AMY HARMON

[Pharmboy]

Front page NY Times...

[Pharmboy]

Show me the money/DNA/Tonto Kowalski ping list...

[DB]

I find it racist for the government to give preferential treatment to people based on their genetic racial makeup. Actually I find it disgusting.

[sportutegrl]

What about giving preference to someone who just pretends he is a native american so he can get a professorship? At least with the DNA testing there is some objectivity involved. I sort of like the idea of parents playing the game by the rules the affirmative actionistas set up.

[Shimmer128]

I'm native American. I was born here.

[csvset]

PBS had an interesting program, African American Lives on a couple of months ago.

Oprah found out that she wasn't Zulu ! (SOB !)

The host's , (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) story was rather interesting.

[Pharmboy]

Yes--I read his op-ed piece on this in the NY Times (free--online, that is).

[sportutegrl]

I was referring to Ward Churchill. I personally think affirmative action is wrong and would love to see it eliminated; however, if they are going to make the rules, I like to see people game the system because it shows how ridiculous AA is.

[PeteB570]

As a hyphenated American I stand tall

American-American.....from both sides.

[OldFriend]

Affirmative action is by it's very design racist and demoralizing.

The purpose of the adoptive father is equally revolting.

[Servant of the 9]

Don't get tested unless you are prepared for the results.

None of us can know what might really have gone on out behind the barn 200 years ago.

So9

[Pharmboy]

Indeed...that's the way it's been for a while. In the near future, they just might turn to genotyping rather than eyeballing the person for the determination.

[Savage Beast]

I've always said that when DNA evaluation reaches this point, the racists are in for a big surprise!

SURPRISE!!!

[Kenton]

Adolph Eichmann could have really used something like this...

[Varda]

"Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white..9 percent Native American and 11 percent northern African"

This points up the confusion between the political category "white" and biological categories of race. The twins are 91% Caucasian but their Dad doesn't seem to consider them "white".

[Pharmboy]

...or it might have done Eichmann and a few of his SS buddies in.

[martin_fierro]

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[hispanarepublicana]

I would LOVE to do something like this. Mine would probably look like a checkerboard.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

When they get the price down, I will think about it.

[SunkenCiv]

a small amount of ancestry from one continent may not actually mean someone has any.

In addition, random genetic remains from the colonial period are bound to color (so to speak) the reference samples. What is 9 per cent of 23 chromosome pairs anyway? ;') Thanks for the ping.