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While looking for this info, I came across this tidbit: James Watson, who claimed blacks are intellectually inferior to whites, is 1/6 black. Wonder how he felt on finding that out, especially since he's the guy who said, "I didn't win a Nobel prize. I won the [meaning most important ever] Nobel prize."
I know a woman who I think had negative feelings about blacks, who learned, as an adult, that her father was black. She'd always thought he was Hispanic. She was a little upset by it, but mostly thought it was a funny story to tell people.
One original publication is in the Feb. 8 2008 Nature Genetics. I don't have it. Articles citing it here. None of the titles mention race.
-wtf am i reading-
that "1/6" black came from a funky genetics test.
A reasonable test for percentage of blackness, is going back say, about 5 generations, and seeing how many black people are in his ancestry.
There were none, since his parents/grandparents,yada yada came from Europe.
Wonder how he felt about it? He understood it was a bullshit media piece.