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"It used to be if your ancestors were from Africa and your skin was a darker pigment, then you were considered black," said Ancestry spokesperson Sheila Reinold. "Times have changed. What really determines a person's blackness now โ beyond genes, DNA, family trees โ is Joe Biden. Any other determiner of race is pure malarkey at this point."
A frustrated Ancestry.com customer, Brian Jennings of Log Ridge, Kentucky says he logged in to find his account had been wiped clean and years of ancestral research had been deleted all because he said in a recent Facebook post that he didn't think he could bring himself to vote for "some 80-year old, white, dementia-riddled uncle creepy" for president.
Reinold says that Ancestry is not abandoning customers like Jennings. "We are working with non-black blacks to places them into all-white genealogies free of charge."
Jennings says when he began seeking ancestral matches in his new account, his first match was a guy named Jethro Reginald Tinbucket who owned a cotton farm in West Virginia in the 1800s. After resubmitting his DNA, Jennings says he has come around to the changes receiving a huge amount of new matches to long lost relatives that are still alive today. "I plan to fly out to Colorado Springs to meet my real mom next month," Jennings said. "Her name is Belinda and she didn't blow her top when she found out I like Ben Shapiro. Thanks, Ancestry."
Reader Comments
The Democrats shaped and honed their base with lies and deceptions.
There are now more divisions, more ghettoes, more hatred, more poverty amongst and between 'African-Americans' and all regular Americans than ever there were when the Republicans fought for and succeeded in achieving the abolition of slavery.
From one perspective, one could describe 'African-Americans' as enslaved to the Democrats.
So it really is a thing...I'm so glad some Americans have picked this up. It can only help black people in America. IMHO.
Indeed, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty".
Try it: candace owens
I'm beginning to wonder whether Biden's "You're not black" comment was intentional
Hopefully after the 2020 elections the Dems will have lost a massive percentage of the black vote ... they are going to need an excuse which exempts Democrat policies
But wrong:
P.s., I've still got in paste memory a hilarious PJW video, I'm not eating bugs. [Link]
Once the slave trade cut off, imports from Africa basically stopped.
It's positive to be 'Irish American' or 'Jewish American' or 'Swedish American' or just about any other flavour of American.
But hey, it's a great way to keep your slaves on the plantation. As practiced to the great advantage of the Democratic Party.
i.e. Karen in the park calling the cops about an African American ... just shorthand for a black person
The term I find most offensive is BAME - Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic ... it's what you are meant to use to refer to any non-white person in the UK
My grandparents were not born British. They had labels too. Alien something or other, I think. The British authorities despised the non-British, Johnny Foreigners. Maybe they still do secretly...Windrush and Grenfell most immediately spring to mind, and why else would they stick the BAME on people who happen to have more melanin than the rest of the population?
The minute you slap a label on anyone they become 'other', 'not one of us'. How on earth can people assimilate if they're constantly referred to with an acronym that covertly flags 'not British' and are made aware of their difference/otherness every single day?. But maybe that's the divide&rule plan?
I would be very offended if I were from one of those high-melanin peoples.
I believe Joseph Conrad* covered that in HOD: (supposed 'racist' argh! )
RC
I view the acronym as little more that a modern version of WOG (originally for Westernised Oriental Gentleman (?))
You nailed it.