Michelle's family story

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Henry Louis Gates on race
' As we have shown in the “African American Lives” series on PBS, fully 58 percent of African Americans have at least 12.5 percent European ancestry. Only 5 percent, in spite of widespread myths to the contrary, have as much Native American ancestry. And between 30 and 35 percent of all African American males can trace their paternal lineage (their y-DNA) to a white man who impregnated a black female most probably during slavery. '

No fav of mine Gates but ...
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/one-familys-roots-a-nations-history/?hp
 
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