Why has America’s “dirty little secret” been swept under the scientific and sociological carpet for so long?
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/one-familys-roots-a-nations-history/?hp
To most American Blacks, it’s no news flash that we have white ancestry. It is surprising to some that the “Indian-looking great-grandmother” was likely a biracial woman. It was more pleasant to discuss Cherokee or Seminole roots than to acknowledge powerlessness (see Thurmond, Strom) and rape.
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http://www.theroot.com/views/michelle-s-great-great-great-granddaddy-and-yours
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