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Originally Posted by Ch2tf
Since you apparently know that the majority of your "blood" is predominantly African, I ask HOW do you know that.
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I had the gene test done and I am of Ghanaian decent. My daughter is of Ghanaian and Benin decent. She looks just like her dad so maybe he is of Benin decent. Not that the test go far back enough because they don't. However, there are other clues. For instance, going back 4 generations in my family on both sides, my maternal ancestors all married other African decent people but who knows? Some native American blood or white blood and perhaps Asian blood may have been lurking in their veins. My point is this, I am of the majority of African decent more than I am of anything else and I relate very much so to my African brothers and sisters on the continent as well as I do my brothers and sisters here in America.
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Originally Posted by Ch2tf
I ask this because A LOT of African-Americans seem to "know" that they are predominantly of African descent, and in fact that may not be the case. I think back to the PBS special that ran February 2006 where Henry Louis Gates Jr. did a DNA/bloodline trace of some African-American celebrities (Oprah, Chris Tucker, Quincy Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, and so forth) and while some of them did have a DNA connection to some peoples of Africa, others like Quincy Jones and Whoopi Goldberg (YES Whoopi!) did not have a predominant "African" Heritage as read through their DNA.
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I saw that show and I don't remember Whoopi 's situation but I am sure if her situation is what you say it was, I would have remembered.
Any how, if one is to test for African Ancestry, that test is different from any Native American or European DNA test, they are all separate so if Whoopi asked to be tested for her European ancestry, that is the test she would have been given. Another thing is this, depending on the test center they used, different testing centers have more or less African DNA. The test center they used just may have been one of those places that didn't yet acquire blood results from the Africans whoopi came from.
Any way, this is just something to think about, those kinds of shows are rigged and one has to be very careful not to believe everything they see on Television. It is not a secret that Whoopi only dates and marries white men, that part of the show could have been fixed in order to promote some type of propaganda. Who knows? Not that looks really say anything but I know this though, Whoopi look mo' African than me
