onlyhuman77
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Location: Harlem, NYC
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| gs56ca wrote: | | onlyhuman77 wrote: | | gs56ca wrote: | | Salsassin wrote: | | gs56ca wrote: | | thankyou so much for that article. However, I think my friend was proving her un-black ancestry, by having family in certain countries, not any real evidence. She wasn't clear, so I'll just leave her alone if she thinks these things. I honestly think she is denying her African Ancestry, or the possibility because she equates it with something bad. Whatever the case, may be, I'm just going to leave her, thanks once again for the article |
Shoot, if you are that curious just pay for a DNA test and ask if she will take it.
She might not know of African Ancestry in her family, and there is a chance she does not have it. A picture would be good. |
I would like to, but I have to ask first. |
I would just let it go, discovering African Admixture when you are not open to the idea in the first place will only cause more of an identity struggle. Chances are she wont even be open to the idea of taking a DNA test if there is even a chance of SSA admixture showing up. |
You're right. I'm just surprised people would deny their own heritage. This is a first for me. Thanks. |
Not saying that your friend is guilty of this, but many people don't like having certain parts of their heritage for various reasons so they edit or revamp their family tree to more appropriately reflect how they choose to be perceived.
Many of my cousins (myself included) were born in NYC and have one Yankee parent but were raised in Georgia. One of my cousins who was reared by my Grandmother told all his friends that his mother was Native American, and if you see the pictures he has of her in the 70's and 80's she looks it with tan skin and straight dark hair. But everyone in the family knows she is actually Italian. Why he chose to do this, we don't know, but this is what he said up until high school.
Who knows if he tried telling people his mother was Caucasian first and people were not responsive in the way that he would of liked, but saying she was Native American was just incorrect, but this is what he did. |
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