I asked my sister for a little more info. Apparently, they own a horse ranch and appear in local parades with their horses as Hispanic riders.
>From what I understand, their great grandmother was white, so I guess they are claiming that side of the family. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Could be a million reasons. Don't know them, so can't say. Some do it > because they honestly feel such areas have better quality of life (schools, > homes, parks, etc). Some do it because they feel deep down that white is > better--even if they can't admit it to themselves. I have some black friends > like that, who live in majority white, very conservative areas. Always > complaining about racism and stuff, but never seem to be able to find the > will to move. Makes me impatient... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:38:02 AM > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WTF??? Hitler DNA Tests Show He Likely Had > Jewish, African Roots, Daily Mail Says > > > > They live in the mostly white section of Marin county. The area is now much > more integrated but back then it was about 99% white. They were doing pretty > well though. (business owners, private school for the girls etc.) Thinking > back, the lies that they told probably kept them alive in that area. I'm not > sure why they moved there though. > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Keith Johnson > <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> >> Really? Where are they located? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:29:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WTF??? Hitler DNA Tests Show He Likely Had >> Jewish, African Roots, Daily Mail Says >> >> >> >> I think that there is a lot of demons in the closet on this topic that >> should be exercised. >> >> @Keith, I have family members that are passing for Portuguese. I only saw >> them twice when I was a kid. I wonder have any of them came out of the >> racial closet or not. >> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net >> > wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Not at all a surprise. First, the Jewish thing was always noised about. I >>> often joke to my wife, why didn't someone, during any of his mass rallies, >>> look at him and say "Hey, waitaminute? Didn't he say 'blonde hair and blue >>> eyes? WTF??" Secondly, given the centuries of exploration, migration, and >>> conquest, a lot more Europeans have African and Asian blood in them than >>> would like to admit. >>> They need to do the same DNA tests on J. Edgar Hoover (rumoured to have >>> black ancestry) and Babe Ruth (often called disparaging names for a black >>> man by some of his white opponents). I've always been fascinated by people >>> who've denied, hidden, or simply didn't know about their heritage. For >>> example, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright didn't discover until >>> the last few years that she was Jewish. Her family evidently tried to hide >>> that fact, no doubt to avoid a lot of problems in American society. I found >>> her surprise surprising, as I'd always assumed she was, based on her looks. >>> >>> I've long been happy that i'm obviously black, and didn't grow up in a >>> time, place, or family where trying to pretend to be something else was >>> either an option, a desire, or even a necessity. There's a scene in one of >>> the Easy Rollins books--it might be "Devil in A Blue Dress--where Easy is >>> staking out a hotel lobby. As he's sitting there, he notices a man sitting >>> in a chair, well dressed, manicured nails, light olive skin. Idly curious, >>> Easy stares at the man for a sec. They make eye contact, and the man >>> literally starts looking agitated. Easy quickly realizes that the man in is >>> fact at least part Black, and is obviously passing for something >>> else--Italian or Greek, most likely. Easy looks away, silently assuring the >>> "brother" that he's not going to blow his cover, cause right or wrong, the >>> man feels he has to hide like that. Easy wasn't going to judge him or cause >>> him pain. >>> >>> I've often had to fight a kind of knee jerk disgust at people of color >>> who've passed for white, or who deny their African roots while embracing the >>> European ones. I had a lot of trouble, honestly, with the Torres character >>> on "Voyager", for example, because she was ashamed of her Klingon heritage. >>> But I've had to realize that some people have been raised in times and >>> places where it's simply been too hard to be who they were. Maybe they were >>> taking the easy route; maybe they were just trying to survive. I guess I >>> shouldn't judge. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:59:32 AM >>> Subject: [scifinoir2] WTF??? Hitler DNA Tests Show He Likely Had Jewish, >>> African Roots, Daily Mail Says >>> >>> >>> >>> Hitler DNA Tests Show He Likely Had Jewish, African Roots, Daily Mail >>> Says >>> By Steven Fromm - Aug 24, 2010 7:39 AM PT >>> >>> - >>> - >>> Email<?body=Hitler%20DNA%20Tests%20Show%20He%20Likely%20Had%20Jewish%2C%20African%20Roots%2C%20Daily%20Mail%20Says%0A%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2F2010-08-24%2Fhitler-dna-tests-show-he-likely-had-jewish-african-roots-daily-mail-says.html&subject=Bloomberg%20news%3A%20Hitler%20DNA%20Tests%20Show%20He%20Likely%20Had%20Jewish%2C%20African%20Roots%2C%20Daily%20Mail%20Says> >>> - Share <http://www.bloomberg.com/share> >>> - >>> Print<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-08-24/hitler-dna-tests-show-he-likely-had-jewish-african-roots-daily-mail-says.html> >>> >>> [image: Hitler Likely Had Jewish, African Roots, Daily Mail Says] >>> >>> DNA shows Adolf Hitler likely to have had Jewish or African roots, >>> reports Daily Mail. Photographer: Keystone/Getty Images >>> >>> Adolf Hitler may have been descended from both Jews and Africans, DNA >>> tests are indicating, the Daily Mail reported. >>> >>> Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren used DNA to >>> trace 39 of the Nazi leader’s relatives earlier this year, the Daily Mail >>> said. >>> >>> The relatives included an Austrian farmer, indentified only as a cousin >>> named "Norbert H," the Daily Mail reported. >>> >>> A chromosome called "Haplogroup E1b1b," or Y-DNA, in the relatives’ >>> saliva samples is rare in Germany, as well as Western Europe, the newspaper >>> said. >>> >>> "It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya >>> and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews," Vermeeren said. >>> >>> Mulders told Belgian magazine Knack that "[o]ne can from this postulate >>> that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," the Daily Mail >>> reported. >>> >>> -- >>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>> Mahogany at: >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> >> >> >> > > > >
