someone enlighten me?

Question

is it true that even white people have black ancestry?

Answer 1

this stems from the analogy that the earliest known remains of a human being were from a skeleton they found in Africa ... they calculated she lived over 150,000 years ago..


and once they did the DNA tests on this skeleton and compared them to the genes of over a large percentage of people of ALLL races whites included it turned out that the DNA results of this skeleton also matched the genenomes of all the participants of the study .. this is how they tracked the path of life on earth STARTING in africa and then showing the path made to each area of the world... the mediterranean first making its rounds to asia europe and america... all stemming from the remains of this one african woman ...


rent the documentary titled The Real Eve "5 billion people from one woman" at the library or blockbusters.. or buy it online



and youll get your answer

heres a couple links to information on it


http://www.mediacorpradio.sg/promos/therealeve/page2.htm


http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=3978


http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu5akmGFG8i0AWVZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB2ZHEzZ2FsBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2UEdnRpZAMEbANXUzE-/SIG=12dglbnml/EXP=1180887588/**http%3a//www.amazon.com/Real-Eve-Danny-Glover/dp/B00006AUKZ


and heres an excerpt from the documentary:


"Unfolding like a scientific detective story, THE REAL EVE enlists top scientists and cutting-edge research to prove that everyone on the planet today can trace one part of his or her genetic heritage back to one woman who lived in Africa, more than 150,000 years ago, through a unique part of our DNA. Unlike the DNA that dictates height or eye color, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) provides the chemical energy in nearly all human cells; humans cannot survive without it. The mtDNA of "mitrochondrial Eve" has come down through evolution, from mother to daughter (men are carriers but don't pass it on). Although she was not the only woman living at the time, nor necessarily the most fertile, this "Eve" had the one successful mtDNA type - it was the only strain to survive. Genetic evidence, combined with recent archaeology and oceanography, shows that a small group of modern human ancestors, including later female descendants of this "Eve," left Africa 80,000 years ago (earlier than was originally thought) - and that from this exodus, the rest of the world was populated. "




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Answer 2

Yes, ALL white people have some genetic material associated with those from Africa and Asia. I saw a programme where the DNA of 10 white English people was tested and apparently they can trace DNA to several regions like Northern Europe, SE Europe and so on. The people in the programme all had a majority of Northern European DNA but the percentages varied quite a bit. One woman threatened to sue the makers because she was told that much of her DNA originated in South-Eastern Europe (she was racist).

There is no such thing as a "pure" anything and that's why racism makes no sense.

Answer 3

That depends on how far back you are asking and what you believe.
There's the evolutionary belief that everyone came from some parts of Africa and evolved into different races from there. That, I believe is possible.
Then there's the belief that since the American "melting pot" came into effect, all people have traces of black ancestry in them.
This does not apply to everyone, myself included. Whether it was a preference thing or if they were xenophobic or they simply feared a scandal, I don't know, perhaps there was a bit of all of that, but my family tree has stayed white down to me and my kids. Though who knows? Perhaps my kids or my niece will someday add some colored plumage to the tree someday.

Perhaps since the world has gotten smaller in such a short amount of time, the "melting pot" will indeed be on a more global level in a few hundred years and everyone will have a little bit of this and that, but we are not there yet.

Answer 4

Sure it happens all of the time. I know a lady who found out at the age of 50 something that she had black ancestry. It didn't bother her.

Answer 5

Yes it is possible for a white to have black ancestry as possible as it is for blacks to have white ancestry.

Answer 6

Generally no. It's much more likely the other way around, that is, American Blacks have white ancestry.

Answer 7

it is possible, it seems to be accepted that humanity started in Africa, so more then likely we all started black but then there was the ice age and having too much pigment in your skin would keep you from getting enough vitamin D. what i think happened is this (keep in mind i'm just a writer with too much time on his hands) after the ice age we all were at sort of a half way point with our skin (lighter then you but darker then me) and where your people left for warmer areas with more sun mine strayed farther north where we didn't need as much protection as it were. don't ask me to explain asians i haven't gotten that far yet

Answer 8

that's confusing to talk, and notwithstanding if i think of I understand your place, you're nonetheless no longer totally clarifying the meaning of 'enlightenment.' Re: "Oneness is the top of the guy id" is the complicated section. many human beings have moments the place they have a feeling of dropping their guy or woman id and journey some form of expertise of oneness with the All or Absolute, and presume that's enlightenment. in specific circumstances it is barely the beginning up of the religious journey, and in specific circumstances it is as severe as they are able to (attracted to) going - so it is their version or expertise of enlightenment. to characteristic my "2 cents well worth" to the communicate, enlightenment is the top of the egoic 'discovered' id and an inner cognizance of oneness with the essential nature. (solidarity with the All is going with out asserting) cognizance of the reality concerning one's genuine Self and solidarity with 'the genuine' happens after ego dying. it is a dissolution of the delusional self and a long-lasting stabilizing of one's expertise of being the observing genuine Self - now no longer on the mercy of ego ideals/illusions. that's the undeniable fact that gadgets us unfastened, the reality of who we are and why we are right here. i don't be attentive to what "specific, solutions" you're bearing on, of direction. you would be good that all of us is claiming enlightenment through fact they have had non everlasting solidarity reports they experience as an expertise of "oneness." if that's the case, I believe the rant, yet 'solidarity expertise' isn't an uncomplicated subject count for many individuals to talk or understand. thank you for bringing it up.

Answer 9

Probably so even Heather Locklear has black ancestry

Answer 10

Yes, because the human species originated in Africa, when we were all black. Eventually some migrated up into Europe during the last ice age, and needed light-colored skin to absorb more UV rays. Gradually, their skin lightened.