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Henry Louis Gates...I can only shake my head about him.
This DNA testing to determine ancestry seems problematic to me on multiple levels. I think that the history that they are able to uncover that is not reliant on the DNA stuff is interesting.
And yes, some Native Americans owned slaves; and yes, they did necessarily not feel obligated to free them in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation and the ending of the Civil War.
Alternatively, yes black folks did police Native American communities in the west along side white folks. No population is entirely innocent here. (I write all of this because of the shock that both Gates and Cheadle seemed to express).
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Last edited by Little32; 02-07-2008 at 03:21 PM.
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