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To: Brumar89 who wrote (706271)	3/28/2013 4:09:14 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578422

Hi Brumar89; Re: "I've done some reading about DNA studies in the US. From what I've read the average US black is about 80% African." Okay, I'll believe that. The President is half white and looks about the average black skin color to me. But maybe that depends on what part of the country you're living in. Re: "BTW this means that virtually every American black is descended from slave-owning white people, while only a small minority of US whites are." I didn't pick that up from the information you provided. Slave ownership was universal in the years before the revolution, both Southern and Northern states. And because the number of ancestors you have roughly doubles each 20-year generation, people who are descended from whites who were here at the time of the revolution typically have a lot of ancestors. So even though only a small percentage of those ancestors were wealthy enough to own even one slave, it still makes for a lot of descendants of slave owners. I can find slave owning ancestors who lived in New York State and fought in the Revolution as well as owners who lived in the South. For most white people, I suspect the reason they're not aware of slave owning ancestors is because they just can't trace their ancestry back that far (not that the correct parents are always recorded). But as far as politics today goes, none of this matters. The sins of the father are not visited upon the son. -- Carl