Did you by any chance catch pbs last night? There was a special on tracing your roots for African Americans. As it turns out, most African Americans in the U.S. have less 'black' dna than many whites here do. Most are a mixture of European and African American dna. It was very interesting because they used the dna and family tree of a group of African Americans and traced their heritage back to before the slave trade. What amazed most was not that they had free African Americans in their ancestry (for the few free blacks during our history it was surprising the number who did), but that their ancestors who came from Africa where captured not by white men, but by warring tribes in Africa and then sold into slavery by their fellow blacks. It seems that even though we all learn it in school, most over time take on the common beliefs held (perpetuated by movies no doubt) instead of the reality.


>If Jos Pols would come to live here, would he be an African American?