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Originally posted by 8=K=A=Y=B=E=E=D
Mess
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Tell me why I rolled over on my bed and didn't realize how close I was to the end and I fell slap off, laptop and all, and busted my ****
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Kendra.
We're African-Americans. Let's discuss our
questionable Native American heritage. A LOT of African-Americans like to say that they have partial Native ancestry but can't prove it. Tina Turner has said all her life that she was part Navajo and then she takes the DNA test on that Henry Louis Gates show and she's only 1%. Some African-Americans are very critical of others who claim Native ancestry because they assume they do it just to seem 'exotic'.
I've been told all my life that my great-grandmother was (at least half) Blackfoot and that there was some Cherokee on my mom's side of the family. I see pictures of my great-grandma... ...AND SHE WAS BLACK.