Republicans Suck asked:


Scientists can now trace EVERY person on the planet's DNA back to two people who lived in Africa thousands of years ago. Since hyphenated terms like Asian-American and Italian-American denote ancestry, shouldn't EVERY person in America be considered African-American??

facts:
Mitochondrial Eve (mtMRCA) is the name given by researchers to the woman who is defined as the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for all living humans. Passed down from mother to offspring, all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in every living person is directly descended from hers. Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor, although they lived thousands of years apart.

Mitochondrial Eve is generally estimated to have lived around 200,000 years ago, most likely in East Africa. Mitochondrial Eve lived during a period of time when Homo sapiens were developing as a species separate from other human species.
Albert's America Blog.. are you serious? no, i wasn't born in Africa, and i didn't move here.. but NEITHER DID the 99.9% of African-Americans.. yet they still have the term. You insult me and precede it with a nonsensical remark? how Yahoo Answer-ish!! LOLLLLL
do i really need to post a source for this? just Google "Biological Eve". its common knowledge, as some of you have pointed out.

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Dan asked:


There is no black or whithe! And to day he is more black than white is a gross lie! And is scintifIcly and Geneticly false! I being amix person if there is such a thing feal that this type of thinking is a big problem in the USA. it is not found in alot of other places in the world.
And it's slave master thinking in the frist place, If you set a law saying that a mixed person is not white he cant vote in favor of the slaves. The one drop rule still blages the US. to day

One drop rule

Warren Harding and Barack Obama.
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Harding may have had enough African American ancestry (one great grandparent) for him to be black under the one drop rule.[85] Conversely Barack Obama has one African parent and one white American parent. Having a white parent is never enough to be considered white, there is no reverse one drop rule. Obama is normally identified as black and identifies himself as African American.[86]Further information: One drop rule and Racial segregation
The one drop rule — that a person with any amount of known of African ancestry (however small or invisible) is not white — is is a classification that has been used in the United States.[87] It is a colloquial term for a set of laws passed by 18 states of the USA between 1910 and 1931, many of these laws were passed as a consequence of Plessy v. Ferguson, a Supreme Court decision that upheld the concept of racial segregation by accepting a separate but equal argument. The set of laws was finally declared unconstitutional in 1967, when the Supreme Court ruled on anti-miscegenation laws while hearing Loving v. Virginia, which also found that Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was unconstitutional. The one drop rule attempted to create a bifurcated system of either black or white regardless of a person's physical appearance, but sometimes failed as people with African ancestry sometimes passed as "white" as noted above. This contrasts with the more flexible social structures present in Latin America, where there were no clear-cut divisions between various ethnicities.[88].

As a result of centuries of having children with White people, the majority of African Americans have white admixture, and many white people also have African ancestry. Robert P. Stuckert, member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Ohio State University said that the majority of the descendants of African slaves are white.[89] Writer and editor Debra Dickerson questions the legitimacy of the one drop rule, stating that "easily one-third of blacks have white DNA".[90] She argues that in ignoring their white ancestry, African Americans are denying their fully articulated multi-racial identities. The peculiarity of the one drop rule may be illustrated by the case of singer Mariah Carey,[91] who was publicly called "another white girl trying to sing black", but in an interview with Larry King, responded that—despite her physical appearance and the fact that she was raised primarily by her white mother—due to the one drop rule she did not "feel white."[92][93][94]

SouthernGuy asked:

This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of actor Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.