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Ancestry/Genealogy

kdmorris

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3. I was wondering how to word that

Reply to kickysnana (Reply #1)

Fri May 25, 2012, 09:35 PM

May 2012

I'm not sure if I'm sensitive to the whole 'one drop of blood' theory that Southerners used to oppress African-Americans for years, but the title struck me wrong.

Obama identifies as a black man (though he's of mixed race). Abraham Lincoln identified as a white man and reclassifying his race because he mother may have had African ancestors just feels wrong to me. Like the Latter Day Saints baptizing Anne Frank...

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Logic is no longer taught in schools I see. kickysnana May 2012 #1

What an odd response. I'm now selecting the ignore button. AnotherMcIntosh May 2012 #2

Been doing tri-racial genealogy for 25 years and rumors are not genealogy. kickysnana May 2012 #4

I was wondering how to word that kdmorris May 2012 #3

so that would make him the first black and gay president salparadise1000 May 2012 #5