BjornP wrote: Wed Oct 17, 2018 1:32 am
MilSpecs wrote: Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:15 pm
There is no such thing as genetics politics. The DNA is or it is not.
Science is real.
Genetics cannot tell you what
culture you belong to. Even if you knew your ancestors came from some place or tribe, that doesn't make you a part of that tribe
now. If you had some Cherokee ancestor nine generations ago, yet do not speak a word of Cherokee, know nothing of Navajo culture and were never part of a Cherokee community, how could you be - and expected to be accepted as - Cherokee?

You cannot simply declare
yourself a member of some ethnic group just by wishful thinking and a useless genetic marker.
I posted the same thing about culture earlier in the thread, and you’re misdirecting by conflating genetics with ethnicity. Warren claimed to have an Indian ancestor, not to be a member of that tribe.
What is interesting is that Trump, who is not an ethnic American, attacked Warren, who is an ethnic American, on the basis of American ethnicity. Only in America.