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
>>>
>>>    -
>>>    - 
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>>>
>>>   [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:
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
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