Yes. But does it matter?
I come from the middle of the earth and my closest relative is a cockroach.
Most people don't know where they're from.
I do, however.
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in what sense?
i'm just interested, exploring cultures in hope of better understanding of ppl
Why ask just the black girls, what about the boys?do you know which african country your ancestors come from? debeli
Why ask just the black girls, what about the boys?
Marley kinda danced around the topic but most blacks born in America pretty much have no way of determining which African country our ancestors came from because of slavery.
During slavery it was normal for slave owners to name their slaves anything they wanted. Slaves were often given the surname of their owners. Sometimes no last name was given. Familys were also sold apart numerous times and since slaves were not even considered people; but property there was often no receipt or paper trail of the transaction.
On my mother's mothers' side, we were never slaves. A full-blooded Cherokee Indian married a free-born black woman and that trend kinda continued for a while. That branch of my family tree can be traced back to 1813 in South Carolina. We still own property there.
My father's sister paid some geneaological company $100 back in the 1970's to research our ancestry.They told her our family originated in County Kilkenny, Ireland. :lmao: I suppose it could be true. It would explain why many on my dads side of the family are light enough to pass, have green or hazel eyes and auburn hair. :wink:
^It's probably one of those things where someone thinks the portal to black history and culture can be summed up in a few sentences.
Anyone with half a brain knows that this is a fairly irrelevant question. We ALL come from Africa in a sense, and a good bulk of blacks in 2008 won't be able to find any accurate depiction of their ancestry, a lot of which was fabricated and distorted anyway..
Not a surprise at all. My family is mixed too. On my dad's side, his father was Maroon. His mother was half Maroon and half Spanish. On my mother's side, her father was half Scottish and half black Jamaican/Amerindian. Her mother was an extremely light skinned woman from a part of Jamaica where people were known to be heavily mixed with white (they also had money) so chances are there was some sort of white mix in there too although I never got to the bottom of what it was and what it meant in her case. My mother is light enough to 'pass' although she never tried to and my father wasn't. Like you I have family with all kinds of eye and hair colors.
No. What matters is they are simply wonderful:smile:Yes. But does it matter?
No. What matters is they are simply wonderful:smile:
I don't want to put words in Marley's mouth; but what I think he may be trying to express is his confusion about why you need such detailed and sometimes private information when you provide next to no information about yourself or your ancestry in your profile.so you assume:
1. "anyone" (at least with half a brain?) lives in us
2. all black people live in us
3. no black person migrated from africa since slave trade
4. if something cannot be summed up in a few sentences why bother thinking about it and discussing it.![]()
I agree, it is quite interesting. P+erhaps your wording could have been better. :redface: I'm not sure how, since when you discuss race, ethnicity, or ancestry people always get touchy no matter how innocent the question.seriously, i find it interesting subject, you learn a lot about yourself, other people, history etc etc all the boring stuff![]()
I dated a white lady once. I think ?Mister, you are/were involved with a black girl?