[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.

[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.

[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

[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".

[martin_fierro]

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[hispanarepublicana]

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

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

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[generally]

Let's see if I have this straight. We need affirmative action to remedy the injustices of slavery. The premise here is that even 8 or more generations after slavery was abolished, the effects are still being felt. Since the great(X8)grandparents had few opportunities, their offspring were impoverished and so on, generation after generation. (Or if we're blaming it on lack of civil rights legislation, subtract a few generations.) But an adopted child, presumably, will inherit the cultural advantages of his adoptive family, not the disadvantages of his genetic family. So if someone with no cultural history of discrimination needs affirmative action, then they are admitting that there is some inherent genetic deficiency. If this is the case, then we will never be rid of affirmative action.

So, is this a cultural/opportunity problem or an issue of genetics. I'd be happy to go with one side or the other, but you can't have it both ways.

[Right Wing Professor]

So what do you do when you find the ancestors of 78% of your genome stole the land from 12% of your genome, and then enslaved the other 10% of your genome?