Does anyone remember the EEOC announcing any European heritage equals black ancestry?

SoreShoulder

Does anyone remember the EEOC announcing any European heritage equals black ancestry?

I seem to recall there was some sort of announcement.  

Maybe some commentator was saying that's what the latest genetic research should mean because chances are pretty high that anyone from Europe has some East African ancestry. 

nmyers

I recall someone with no scientific credentials saying something on the subject, but the EEOC was not involved.  Nor would they ever.

Neal

chme

When our two oldest were in grade school, got a call from one of their teachers.  Discussion of ancestry, our son had INCORRECTLY declared that his grandma was African.  I advised the teacher that was correct- she was.  Oh.  Silence.  Thank you.  Click.
My wife is British.  Her mother was a child of a Brit military family.  She was born at the British Army compound in Pretoria, South Africa.  Yep- granny was an African.  Figure that one out.   

SoreShoulder

chme said:

My wife is British.  Her mother was a child of a Brit military family.  She was born at the Bristish Army compound in Pretoria, South Africa.  Yep- granny was an African.  Figure that one out.   

Simple.  Her people moved there after the races established their characteristics.

nmyers

About 10 years ago, a boy whose Boer family had immigrated to the US from South Africa when he was young applied for, & won, a college scholarship reserved for African Americans.  When school officials saw his skin color, they tried to revoke the scholarship.  When the publicity became an embarrassment, they relented.  I'm guessing that they changed their school's definition of "African American".

We can't get away from illegal attempts to subvert the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  See Bakke v University of California (1978).

Neal

kimi

I did some genealogy research on my Wallace/Wallis family for a cousin a year or three back and made considerable headway on taking it back a couple of generations earlier.  I do have at least one of the Wallace/Wallis bunch on my mother's side who married a Cherokee Indian down Alabama way in the mid(?)1800s, and this line produced lots of children.  I'm thinking, but I have to check, that this line had two Indians in it, one much earlier than the other which goes back to the mid(?)-1700s in North Carolina.  The man's first name was Israel, and there has been a long standing discussion that he was Indian, part Indian or married an Indian.  The primary clues that have me almost certain that he was white and a second(?) wife of his was Black and not Indian, is that there is no evidence that he was any race other than white, and this woman's first name...which I forget at the moment, but according to my research means, black female or words to that effect.  Now, it's possible that this woman could have been part Indian and Black or, perhaps, a dark skinned Melungeon.  It's even possible that she could have been all Indian, but I highly suspect that she was a Black woman.  All of my lines go way back in American history.