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[calipoppy]

Originally Posted by caribdoll

That's true. Honestly, I believe a significant number African-Americans have Native American ancestry. And honestly, if they lived with Native Americans, they are very much a part of the culture, whether mixing with them or not.

Actually, most African Americans do not have Native American ancestry. The majority of African Americans have European ancestry however it became easier to swallow the idea of one's lighter complexion coming from Native Americans vs the truth of the rape of Black women by European men. This is the origin of the "indian blood" myth.

[HoodsofATL]

Originally Posted by caribdoll

That's true. Honestly, I believe a significant number African-Americans have Native American ancestry. And honestly, if they lived with Native Americans, they are very much a part of the culture, whether mixing with them or not.

[katzpaw]

Originally Posted by Lucario

Now y'all are obsessed with our DNA.

Always...

Black Like Me (1961)
I must have had a dozen rides that evening. They blear into
a nightmare, the one scarcely distinguishable from the
other. It quickly became obvious why they picked me up. All
but two picked me up the way they would pick up a
pornographic photograph or book-except that this was verbal
pornography. With a Negro, they assumed they need give no
semblance of self respect or respectability. The visual
element entered into it. All of the men showed morbid
curiosity about the sexual life of the Negro, and all had,
at base, the same stereotyped image of the Negro as an
inexhaustible sex-machine with over-sized genitals and vast
store of experiences, immensely varied. They appeared to
think that the Negro has done all of those "special" things
they themselves have never dared to do.3(pg.85) Griffin
finds that hitchhiking at night through Mississippi is the
best way to experience the underlying stereotypes found
throughout Mississippi. A man will open up at night because
it gives him an illusion of anonymity. Griffin can't
conceive of how these men can have such distorted concepts
of another human being. It becomes obvious that the reason
these men have such little respect for the Negroes is
because they have absolutely no understanding of them.
Griffin realizes that before his travels as a Negro in
Mississippi he too knew very little about them. The Negroes
cope with this hate based upon ignorance by relying on each
other.

[HoodsofATL]

Originally Posted by calipoppy

Actually, most African Americans do not have Native American ancestry. The majority of African Americans have European ancestry however it became easier to swallow the idea of one's lighter complexion coming from Native Americans vs the truth of the rape of Black women by European men. This is the origin of the "indian blood" myth.

Though that is true of their rape of The Black Woman, it's even more plausible that the Natives felt sympathy and welcomed Afrikans, though it is not recorded in history due to who controls history, unfortunately.

[green_mariner]

Black Indians in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage – Zinn Education Project

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

And great great grandma was a Cherokee princess.

Always Cherokee. Never Ute or Ak Chin or some boring tribe few people know existed.

I think it had to do with that Paul Revere and the Raiders song.

I grew up in NJ, yet probably half the kids I knew claimed to have Indian blood, and yes, always Cherokee. I was one of the people whose family was in the area the longest, and we didn't have any Indian blood, yet classmates whose grandparents were born in Italy or Poland were claiming they were part Indian. Even as a kid I knew they were just making it up because they wanted to be cool.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

I encourage everybody to have their DNA tested. It's not a perfect test, but it can sometimes reveal ethnic roots that you never knew about. It did for me.

[calipoppy]

Originally Posted by HoodsofATL

Though that is true of their rape of The Black Woman, it's even more plausible that the Natives felt sympathy and welcomed Afrikans, though it is not recorded in history due to who controls history, unfortunately.

Sorry but the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw and Seminole) all owned African slaves. African slaves were made to walk the Trail of Tears with the Native American masters out to the Western territories. And they did not emanicpate their slaves following the Civil War.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.230...21101830087967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheroke...en_controversy

[ReineDeCoeur]

Originally Posted by calipoppy

Actually, most African Americans do not have Native American ancestry. The majority of African Americans have European ancestry however it became easier to swallow the idea of one's lighter complexion coming from Native Americans vs the truth of the rape of Black women by European men. This is the origin of the "indian blood" myth.

To clarify, my post stated that significant number do. Those with whom I am referring to are the ones who are actual members of tribes (a couple actually spent time on the reservations). But yes, I also mentioned earlier that it was probably not wanting to pass on the brutal history of how they ended up mixed with Europeans.

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

I encourage everybody to have their DNA tested. It's not a perfect test, but it can sometimes reveal ethnic roots that you never knew about. It did for me.

Same here. It proved that I don't have any Native ancestry. But I never thought I did anyway.