AOC calls Tucker Carlson ‘trash’ for saying she is not a woman of colour

“Self identification means absolutely nothing. I can self identify as a female Chinese red head but that does make it so. Show me your DNA and I will show you who you truly are.”

Except that current method of ancestral DNA testing used by commercial DNA testing companies like AncestryDNA and 23andme can be highly inaccurate. Here is a summary from an article at

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-are-online-dna-tests/

“When it comes to ancestry, DNA is very good at determining close family relations such as siblings or parents, and dozens of stories are emerging that reunite or identify lost close family members (or indeed criminals). For deeper family roots, these tests do not really tell you where your ancestors came from. They say where DNA like yours can be found on Earth today. By inference, we are to assume that significant proportions of our deep family came from those places. But to say that you are 20 percent Irish, 4 percent Native American or 12 percent Scandinavian is fun, trivial and has very little scientific meaning. We all have thousands of ancestors, and our family trees become matted webs as we go back in time, which means that before long, our ancestors become everyone’s ancestors. Humankind is fascinatingly closely related, and DNA will tell you little about your culture, history and identity.”

You really seem to have an obsession with proving Puerto Ricans to be white, without understanding that on PR “whiteness” means something else and PRs have several terms to refer to themselves (trigueno, Chinita, etc.)

Puerto Ricans are proud of their multiracial heritage and their culture. They don’t consider themselves “blanquito,” gringo.

“You really seem to have an obsession with proving Puerto Ricans to be white, ...”

I merely pointed out that a substantial majority of Puerto Ricans self-identify on Census forms as “white.” Attributing motives to me in doing so says more about your state of mind than mine.

Well, the last link I sent should be the last word, as it provides the most recent info on the topic and how complex the racial issue is amongst a multiracial people.

I am married to a PR lovely and know more than a bit about the place and the people. The census changes were actually an item in the local news/online.

The link I posted at #121, above, refers to 2020 Census data. Regarding your point that Puerto Rico and, for that matter the United States as a whole, is comprised of a multiracial people gets no argument from me. Again, I merely pointed out what the 2020 Census revealed about self-identification. It seems from the 2020 Census table I linked, people who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino (which are not “races”) seem to comprise the vast majority of those who self-identify as “white.” Beyond that, I don’t have the time or the interest to reconcile the very different statistics in the Census data and in the Miami newspaper article you linked.

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