We know that author Alex Haley traced one half of his ancestry to Gambia, Africa.
But, what Mr. Haley did not trace was the other half of his ancestry that is European to some place in Europe. Since all the plantation slaves numbering into the millions had a touch of White DNA means that Black Americans descendants of plantation slaves are a NEW race of people!
Black Americans are neither Africans nor are we Caucasian people. Black Americans are a NEW race of people. Therefore, we must have our own country, prophet, religion and to pursue life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in our own way and that is going to happen since God in now in our affairs.
The new wave of genealogical testing also has reopened one of America's ugliest wounds by confirming with science what historians have contended for generations: In slavery times and beyond, large numbers of black women were impregnated by white slave owners or other white men in positions of power.
About 30% of black Americans who take DNA tests to determine their African lineage prove to be descended from Europeans on their father's side, says Rick Kittles, scientific director of African Ancestry, a Washington, D.C., company that began offering the tests in 2003. Almost all black Americans whom Kittles has tested descended from African women, he says.
That's partly why genetic genealogy is "not for the faint-hearted," says Melvyn Gillette, a member of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California and a longtime family researcher.
"Before you go opening any door, you need to ask, 'Am I really ready for what might be behind it?' " Gillette says. "Not everyone is."
It has also been said that the Black American is a new race of people when only 30% of the Brothers and Sisters who took the DNA test had a European connection of their fathers side and this Brother said to me that the rest of The Black American's are PHONY BLACK PEOPLE. Now that statement will ring on for ever in my mind.
30% and the rest are PHONY BLACKS.