Oracle wrote:yialousa1971 wrote:Oracle wrote:kurupetos wrote:Oracle wrote:Barack Obama, Condoleeza Rice,
Colin Powell ...
The rise of the African in American Politics.
More of the same or a hope for the Future?
all of the above are half black half white but people are stupid enough to assume that they are just negros.
Hhmm ... what do you mean by "just negroes"
In the States (and the UK), people of mixed parentage are generally "grouped" within the most dominant phenotype (in this case negroid features). So they would have had the (almost)
same prejudices as most "pure" blooded African Americans.
Although I suspect in Obama's case, it helped that they made a big point of his "white" maternal line ......
Theres no such thing as a pure blooded African American/Afro Caribbean, they all have a percentage of white blood in them. So they are all mixed, mixing happened during their time working for the Anglo's when Mr Bull fancied a bit of you know what.
Partly why I put "white" and "pure" in quotes
..... but that is a sweeping generalisation you make. Any scientific data to verify such confidence?
I have seen pure blooded Africans (Nigerians), no I haven't been to Africa but I've been to London Hackney etc.
Actually I've seen every type of Black person you could think of and its quite clear that Afro Caribbeans are mixed. It's also a well known scientific fact and has been for years. Did you know the first slaves in America were White, they eventually mixed with the later Black slaves.
Examples :-
Colin JacksonColin's DNA test results were relatively surprising. His genetic make-up consists of 55% Sub-Saharan African - comparatively low for someone of Jamaican descent - and 38% European, which would appear to come from his mother's side. Yet there was also 7% 'native American', a term used to cover all indigenous people from the Americas, including the original inhabitants of Jamaica, the Taino.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/past-stories/colin-jackson.shtmlAinsley HarriottBut he also encountered some extraordinary family details. He discovered how, in the time of slavery, one of his ancestors, an unmarried 'free black' woman, accumulated enough money to buy seven houses. His next discovery was even more surprising. Ainsley's great-great-grandfather, James Gordon Harriott, wasn't a black slave as he had thought, but the descendant of a long line of white slave owners.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/new-stories/ainsley-harriott/how-we-did-it_4.shtmlAfrican AmericansIt is well-known that African Americans have European admixture which varies a lot individually. Indeed, some African Americans are more European genetically than they are African. On the other hand, European Americans generally tend to have insignificant African admixture. This assymetry is due to the fact that individuals of partial African ancestry were reckoned to be "Black", no matter what the exact percentage of their African ancestry.
Now, a classifier that would distinguish between Whites and African Americans would have no trouble distinguishing between the two groups easily. But this classification would not need to be concordant with their admixture estimate:
A person of 25% African ancestry is extremely more likely to be (in the US) an African American than a White. And yet, the high classification probability that he is African American is discordant with their most important component, i.e., European.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2008/06/admixture-estimate-vs-population-of.html
