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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]

One fourth of my ancestry is black.  I look black.  If you ask ten people my ethnicity, they would all say black because of the color of my skin.  I've faced the bigotry of people assuming I wasn't "smart," and assuming I got a job due to affirmative action despite having much better grades than white students I graduated with (who also got jobs with the same firm).  I've had people talk about how unfair it was that I got into a certain grad school that a white classmate didn't.  Luckily one of my white friends who knew both my grades and the other classmate's grades was there to set the record straight.  I don't think a percentage cut off can determine if you're black.  People would look askance at me if I tried to claim to be something else.  My cousin who has more African ancestry than I do doesn't look black and never faced the same discrimination I did.  I think how you look influences whether you face discrimination.  I've never needed affirmative action based on objective standards like grades and performance, but I wonder if the biases without it would have stopped me from getting in the door to prove myself.  [/quote]

Yep, my neighbors have kids who are 1/4 black—one looks black and has super curly hair, while the other looks Asian and has straight hair.

Actually, I know another family like this too—one kid looks white and the other looks at least 1/2 black.  You never know with genetics—kinda cool to see what you’ll get![/quote]

Hi neighbor![/quote]

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