30% OF BLACKS ARE WHITE !!!!!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: www.sploid.com
February 04, 2006 at 09:04 PM

American blacks lacking information on their pre-slavery backgrounds have embraced DNA testing to find their real ancestors.

In some cases, the results can be terrific, like finding out it's really true that your ancestors came from Angola or Nigeria or Mozambique.

But the results aren't as comforting for 30% of black Americans who pay for the DNA tests, because the tests reveal those people are descended from European whites.

Those stories of white slaveowners getting slave girls pregnant have proved to be all too true, thanks to DNA testing.

Because of the likelihood of finding white ancestry, Melvyn Gillette of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California says the DNA tests are "not for the faint-hearted."

"Before you go opening any door, you need to ask, 'Am I really ready for what might be behind it?'" Gillette told USA Today last week. "Not everyone is."

A member of Gillette's group in Oakland was stunned by her test results, because they showed her male ancestors traced back to a white Italian. Family lore had her expecting to find a black man from Madagascar.

"She couldn't get past it," Gillette said. "She ordered more tests."

President Gina Paige of AfricanAncestry.com said one client was furious when he found his male ancestors were not only white, they were German.

"He was especially upset that (the ancestor) was German," Paige told the newspaper. "More so than white, he had a problem with being even a little bit German."