Exiled wrote:The boston globe just changed the percentage to 1/1024. Does that even qualify as claiming native american ancestry (for job purposes no less)? I have a great, great, ..... grandmother who was native american, from the 1700's. Should I be able to claim that ancestry in order to get a job? By the way, I am part neanderthal too.
Everyone in the alt-right is citing the lower bound of the range as fact and ignoring the upper bound of 1/32. It's frequently accompanied by the neaderthal line too. I watched this spread like wildfire in real time.
by the way, a truly successful businessman/billionaire would likely chuckle about this incident and just donate the million to the charity, because that would be the classy thing to do, and he wouldn't worry about the cash.
So we know Drumpf won't even consider doing it, since he's a fraud.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Exiled wrote: By the way, I am part neanderthal too.
I claim 100% neanderthal.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Exiled wrote:The boston globe just changed the percentage to 1/1024. Does that even qualify as claiming native american ancestry (for job purposes no less)?
Let's see... there are approximately 37.2 trillion cells in the average human. 1/1024 of that is over 36.3 billion cells. Given the maniacal right-wing regard for every living human cell, I'd say 36 billion cells qualifies.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Some Schmo wrote:by the way, a truly successful businessman/billionaire would likely chuckle about this incident and just donate the million to the charity, because that would be the classy thing to do, and he wouldn't worry about the cash.
So we know Drumpf won't even consider doing it, since he's a fraud.
Well, we all knew Trump was not serious when he claimed he would donate to a charity.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling on President Trump to follow through on his pledge to donate $1 million to the charity of Warren’s choice if she takes a DNA test proving her Native American heritage.
We all know he won't pay it.
How does anyone know he won't pay it? She hasn't even taken the test yet.
She should take the test FIRST, then IF it turns out she's Native American, call on him to follow through.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
ajax18 wrote:I think you're required to have at least 50% Native American to get free college at universities that offer this benefit.
It's 1/16th and you have to be a registered member of your tribe. Or at least that's the case in Wisconsin. I am not sure if that is state or federal criteria. I'm sure you could look it up nationally.
The entire thing is based on ideas about race influenced by long discredited ideas in scientific racism. It's not a good system.
Warren's claim is that she had a great, great, great grandparent that was Cherokee. This was a family legend and as a result they considered themselves part Cherokee. I am sure this differs in different parts of the US, but behavior like this is normal where I come from. I can think of multiple examples of the same kind of stories where no one is chasing benefits. It's an odd form of ethic pride, like everyone being a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day.
What the DNA test shows is that this legend is plausibly true, or she could have an ancestor deeper back.