I had to laugh when I saw Elizabeth Warren has taken a DNA test to prove she has Native blood. I guess she's serious about running for president. I like her forthrightness and determination. I don't know if she's the best candidate, not at this point, but she speaks her truth, and she appears to be fearless.
The truth is, most Americans have Native and African blood somewhere in their history. The white man is a myth. The same was true in Germany, when blond hair and blue eyes made you "pure". We are a mixture, and we all come from Africa. My cousin did a test, and found we have an abnormally large percentage of Neanderthal in our genes. Once we got over the jokes about our family's behavior, it made sense that we were not only Native, German, Irish and whatever else (on my father's side Scot and English and Native) but that there is this through line that isn't always visible, but finds its way to the present. We're like the stews I used to make out of whatever was in the refrigerator. I called it "slop". It wasn't fancy, but it was hearty and filling. And delicious.
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