Did you know that in legal terms, if you are 1/32 nd of any race, you can stand up in court and swear you are a member of that race?
That means that about 6 generations back you had one ancestor among 32 of that race. I was interested in a story about a white American businessman who had his DNA tested, and discovered that he had a tiny fraction of african blood in his ancestry, and then promptly applied for a special government program to help minorities in business. It seemed to me that he was cheating someone who actually WAS black out of that benefit...but legally, this guy qualified and he did receive the government benefit.
I traced my own tree back that far, and found ancestors born in the 1700's.
Elizabeth Warren, US Senator from Massachusetts, just had her DNA tested and she is not nearly up to the legal limit of 1/32nd (.0313%) native american. She is between 1/512th or .019 % native american but it doesn't even reach that level without rounding up. The actual percentage was .097% or 1/1024th. Apparently the Boston Globe botched their math in their original reporting when they stated that there is VERY strong evidence of her ancestry. This percentage puts her native american ancestor about 10 to 12 generations back, in the early 1600's.
Elizabeth Warren may or may not have used her so-called minority status to land a job at Harvard. Harvard claims she did not. However, Warren taught at a University out west which featured Warrens minority status prominently in their faculty newsletter. At times during her career she filled out applications stating she was white, and at other times she did not.
Just remember, folks, if you are even a smidge of any minority, it is legal to cash in on government money and other benefits and take it away from someone who actually needs it.
I traced my own tree back that far, and found ancestors born in the 1700's.
Elizabeth Warren, US Senator from Massachusetts, just had her DNA tested and she is not nearly up to the legal limit of 1/32nd (.0313%) native american. She is between 1/512th or .019 % native american but it doesn't even reach that level without rounding up. The actual percentage was .097% or 1/1024th. Apparently the Boston Globe botched their math in their original reporting when they stated that there is VERY strong evidence of her ancestry. This percentage puts her native american ancestor about 10 to 12 generations back, in the early 1600's.
Elizabeth Warren may or may not have used her so-called minority status to land a job at Harvard. Harvard claims she did not. However, Warren taught at a University out west which featured Warrens minority status prominently in their faculty newsletter. At times during her career she filled out applications stating she was white, and at other times she did not.
Just remember, folks, if you are even a smidge of any minority, it is legal to cash in on government money and other benefits and take it away from someone who actually needs it.
