Annachie wrote:Given that the test showed exactly that, that she had "Indian" dna, exactly what is wrong?
She met every requirement of his "bet", and, as expected,
Trump is welching.
PeterZ wrote:
The question raised brings focus on the "One Drop" aspect of laws found only in the USA...
"Based on DNA and historical evidence, Thomas Jefferson is widely believed to have fathered the six mixed-race children of his slave Sally Hemings; four survived to adulthood. Hemings was three-quarters white by ancestry and a half-sister of Martha Wayles Jefferson.[quote 1] Their children were born into slavery because of her status; as they were seven-eighths European in ancestry, they were legally white under Virginia law of the time.[6] Jefferson allowed the two oldest to escape in 1822 (freeing them legally was a public action he elected to avoid); the two youngest he freed in his 1826 will. Three of the four entered white society as adults, and all their descendants identified as white.[6]
Although racial segregation was adopted legally by southern states of the former Confederacy in the late 19th century, legislators resisted defining race by law as part of preventing interracial marriages. In 1895 in South Carolina during discussion, George D. Tillman said,
It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded Caucasian on the floor of this convention. Every member has in him a certain mixture of... colored blood...It would be a cruel injustice and the source of endless litigation, of scandal, horror, feud, and bloodshed to undertake to annul or forbid marriage for a remote, perhaps obsolete trace of Negro blood. The doors would be open to scandal, malice, and greed.[7]
The one-drop rule was not adopted as law until the 20th century: first in Tennessee in 1910 and in Virginia under the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (following the passage of similar laws in several other states).
Native Americans
Further information: Lineal descendant and Blood quantum laws
In the early colonial years, children born of one Indigenous and one non-Native parent usually had a white father and an Indigenous mother. This was largely due to the majority of the early colonists being male. In many Native American communities, these children are considered citizens of the mother's nation if they are raised in the culture and participate in the daily life of the community. This is particularly the case in matrilineal tribes, where if the mother is a citizen of the nation, so are all her children, no matter who the father may be. Among patrilineal tribes, such as the Omaha, historically a child born to an Omaha mother and a white father could belong officially to the Omaha tribe only if the child were formally adopted into it by a male citizen.[note 1] In contemporary practice, tribal laws around citizenship and parentage can vary widely between nations. "
"Issues related to blood quantum laws
Many Native Americans have become used to the idea of "blood quantum".[2] The blood quantum laws have caused problems in Native American families whose members were inaccurately recorded as having differing full or partial descent from particular tribes.[2][6][9] In some cases, family members or entire families have been excluded from being enrolled as members of their tribe even when they have no non-Native American ancestors.[4][6] "
As I understand it, Elizabeth Warren is not applying for membership in a tribe... nor was she asking for benefits from the US government... she only pointed out that one of her ancestors was an indigenous person.
Related history most whites would like to bury
https://daily.jstor.org/the-little-know ... can-women/President Trump let his racism and mouth run wild and rather than shutting up (as if he knew how to) he is doubling down.
The man has no regard for anyone not named Trump.
