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Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests
NY Times ^
| April 12, 2006
| AMY HARMON
Posted on 04/12/2006 3:07:14 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:07:16 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: martin_fierro; blam; SunkenCiv; thefactor; aculeus; Coleus; wagglebee
Show me the money/DNA/Tonto Kowalski ping list...
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:12:24 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
I find it racist for the government to give preferential treatment to people based on their genetic racial makeup. Actually I find it disgusting.
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:36:32 AM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: DB
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 3:48:07 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
To: sportutegrl
I'm native American. I was born here.
To: Pharmboy
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:05:10 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: csvset
Yes--I read his op-ed piece on this in the NY Times (free--online, that is).
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:10:48 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Shimmer128
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:14:57 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
To: Pharmboy
As a hyphenated American I stand tall
American-American.....from both sides.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:29:11 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Airborne - the only way to get to work in the morning.)
To: DB
Affirmative action is by it's very design racist and demoralizing.
The purpose of the adoptive father is equally revolting.
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:00:07 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
To: Pharmboy
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
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:02:12 AM PDT
by
Servant of the 9
(" I am just going outside, and may be some time.")
To: DB
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:20:17 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
I've always said that when DNA evaluation reaches this point, the racists are in for a big surprise!
SURPRISE!!!
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:29:19 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program.)
To: Pharmboy
Adolph Eichmann could have really used something like this...
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:37:28 AM PDT
by
Kenton
To: Pharmboy
"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".
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:46:55 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: Kenton
...or it might have done Eichmann and a few of his SS buddies in.
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posted on
04/12/2006 5:47:33 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: AdmSmith; AnalogReigns; caryatid; CobaltBlue; Emmalein; Fractal Trader; grey_whiskers; ...
To: Pharmboy
I would LOVE to do something like this. Mine would probably look like a checkerboard.
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posted on
04/12/2006 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(Hey, Washington, which laws do I get to break?)
To: hispanarepublicana
When they get the price down, I will think about it.
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posted on
04/12/2006 7:19:04 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Pharmboy
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 7:20:25 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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