Sadly, I know of a white that created Native-American ancestry in their mind - a sort of advance mechanism.
“including the fact that there’s no evidence to say Fishburne is Latino”
Sadly, many blacks create non-black ancestry in their minds - a sort of defense mechanism. Here in NJ, we have a small population of mulattoes along the border with upstate NY that claim to be an Indian tribe (the Ramapoughs) - yet there is no evidence at all that they have Indian heritage. NY and NJ humor them with recognition, while the federal government won’t. If you see them, they look like mulattoes and many have Dutch surnames (the original settlers of the area were Dutch) - but they maintain the charade because they don’t want to be identified with the larger black population in the US (many of which also have white blood).
Mulattoes...
Probably the most confused people I’ve ever encountered beginning with the black lady that told me she was Italian.
Right...
Black haired and BLUE eyes. It often happened back in the day when slavery was going on...
Nice folks really and the non Brits attending accepted them with open arms. The Scots? Not so much.
We hall got together after the ceilidh and when pub hopping. The Aussies, N Zeds and we Americans. Boy did I get hammered and really suffered for a day after that one.
“we have a small population of mulattoes along the border with upstate NY that claim to be an Indian tribe (the Ramapoughs) - yet there is no evidence at all that they have Indian heritage”
Hey, if they self-identify as Indians, entry to Harvard should be a breeze. Who are we to judge??
They’re what is termed a “trip-racial isolate group.” They’re scattered all up and down the east coast into the Appalachians with a few communities west of them. They tend to reside on state lines, there’s a story behind that. Other such groups would be Lumbee and mountain people called Melungeons, or “Ridgerunners” derogatorily. Some of the Lumbee have English surnames that were among the Lost Colony, so there’s a claim not just of native ancestry. The derogatory joke about them says they’re “Would-be’s.” Would be indian if they weren’t so black.
They all go back to colonial times, outcasts, outlaws, runaway indentured servants and runaway slaves, mixed with whichever tribes in the vicinity would have them. They tend to be on state lines in order to be able to jump jurisdiction quickly if necessary. That’s not just due to criminal tendencies, they’ve been pursued way back by state authorities. For instance, in Virginia, it was once illegal for mulattoes to own property so the state would take it. They’d flee into NC to get away from them.
These are very old communities, in other words, that do have indian ancestry as well as black and early settler ancestry. The ones around here have been mixed for so long that they look more Middle Eastern than anything else.
Sadly, I know of a white that created Native-American ancestry in their mind - a sort of advance mechanism.