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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]23 and me affirmative action game changer[/quote]

Not at all. 23andme won’t get you on a tribe’s rolls. It won’t even help you out if it turns out the infant you want to adopt has a NA parent and you dig up a NA great-grandparent who never enrolled.[/quote]

How much African is required for African American[/quote]

It doesn’t that way, Troll. Technically, my DDs are more European than African. However, they have always lived as AAs. They have attended historically AA churches, participated in clubs, activities, etc that were either focused on AA culture or were majority AA in makeup, and were always registered in school as AA.

This has nothing to do with college admissions or FA. It’s about lived identity. My girls have never identified as anything else.

If someone has always lived as AA from birth, I don’t care if they are 51% European or 90%.[/quote]

So how do you deny a dna test vs joining clubs[/quote]

Who is denying a DNA test for AAs?

This country historically has never tried to legislate people who are claiming a black identity only people trying to claim a white one. My great-grandmother has no difficulty passing as a light-skinned Black woman so she could marry my black great-grandfather. There are dozens of other cases that I’ve now become aware of. The one-drop rule’s absurdity meant that authorities were well-accustomed to seeing people who were overwhelmingly of European ancestry living black lives. My family can trace exactly when she crossed the color line and through DNA websites, we’ve found the 100% European descendants of her siblings who are astonished at her life story.  [/quote]

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