Blacks discover their DNA roots

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 02/25/07 | Tony Allen-Mills

[WorkingClassFilth]

The next act or inquiry for honest blacks seeking knowledge of their roots is: What role did Islam play in their ancestor's subjegation and what role is it playing in slavery today?

[Anti-Bubba182]

"Her agent said this month she had no plans to board a boat to west Africa and would not be visiting Guinea-Bissau in the foreseeable future."

Lol! Whoopi knows better.

[toddlintown]

"African Ancestry, the company he helped to found in 2003, now claims to control the world’s largest collection of African DNA with at least 25,000 samples from tribal groups...

Critics argue that the test results offer only a partial glimpse of a family tree that may extend to 1,000 ancestors from 300 years ago. Hank Greely, an ethicist at Stanford Law School, said that DNA matching was being 'oversimplified and oversold'."

So what we have here is another example of black-on-black crime on a more sophistiated level.

[martin_fierro]

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[Anti-Bubba182]

Alex Haley

"..Plagiarism and other controversy

Alex Haley researched Roots for ten years; the Roots TV series adaptation aired in 1977. The same year, Haley won a Pulitzer Prize for the book and the Spingarn Medal as well. However, Haley's fame was marred by plagiarism charges in 1978; after a trial, Haley settled out-of-court for $650,000, having admitted that large passages of Roots were copied from The African by Harold Courlander.[2.."

[BunnySlippers]

Only because, according to the article , that Whoopi is afraid to fly. And hasn't flown in 20 years.

[ikka]

One of the highlights of the four-hour series showed Chris Tucker, an actor and comedian, tracing his roots to Angola and visiting the tribe he was linked to. Tucker was stunned to find that many of the tribesmen looked like him.

Really? That is very interesting...

[Army Air Corps]

The new Nigerian Bank Scam:

Dear ________,

I am a solcitor in Nigeria and I disocvered that your DNA matches that of a recently deceased foreign national in our country...

[conservative cat]

Could you add me to your ping list for genetic genealogy? I am interested, although it seems to currently have massive limitations.

[traditional1]

"Some black Americans have received nasty shocks when it turned out that they were not African American at all: their ancestors came from Europe and in some cases were white."

Uh-oh........disqualified from "Reparations" ????

[digger48]

"Some black Americans have received nasty shocks when it turned out that they were not African American at all: their ancestors came from Europe and in some cases were white. "

[Jewels1091]

does she DRIVE from California to New York or what?????

[Cowboy Bob]

I wonder if DNA will show that Alex Haley was related to MLK, since they both shared the "plagiarism gene."

[Mercat]

I love that movie.

[Calpernia]

This was a good movie; btw. Since Whoopie was mentioned.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Could be.

[Fairview]

I don't blame them. The study of genealogy is incredibly rewarding, and there is quite a thrill in going back to the place your ancestors came from to find that they speak, move, and look like you, even at the remove of centuries. I'm speaking from personal experience here. Genes are amazing in the ways they are expressed.

[MaxMax]

They'll be suing for claims on her estate after she croaks.
Then everyone in Africa will get a shiny penny.

Heh, Whoopi may have made a mistake.

[Mercat]

My office mate who is a wonderful person but very very misguided politically and culturally was talking in his office to a very successful black woman. He started in on some liberal bs about the horrible white man and Indians. I mentioned that I had two Native American ggggreat grandmas and the woman, who had been looking totally bored, brightened right up and we started chatting, totally ignoring Pat. hehe. I've had that happen before. You ignore the lecture from whomoever on whatever and connect directly to the person who in this case, also had Native American ancestry. We bonded in about ten minutes.