Got damn Keyshia Cole is still fine

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She actually did a 23andme genetic test a couple years ago and shared her results:


She's really mixed, but mainly Black/Mexican/Spanish and some Filipino/Asian.
Some Ashkenazi, probably stemming from her Mexican heritage (a lot of Mexicans have Ashkenazi in their blood).

What makes the "mixed race claim" complicated, is that there is a long history attached to this admixture. We also deal with sociological aspects, as she has lived her life as a Black female, as that has been her experience (or at least I assume so).

More is needed to understand her lineage and at what point in time this mixture came in. That determines someone being "mix race / biracial and having admixture". It could be her Filipino/Asian heritage came in early centuries ago, and became part of her family gene composition.

We know that some Filipino/Asian (in small numbers) were taken to the Southern parts of the 13 colonies and some wren taken to Mexico. We also know that parts of Mexico used to be what is not the USA and that Black Mexicans reside mostly in the North from what was told. This is why Jessica Alba was shocked to not have any (or little) Black ancestry, she's from the Northern part. She was even upset about it.

On average a Mexican is around 5% Black (African heritage). Not sure if this has to do with locations in Mexico. We also know that enslaved Africans were taken from Madagascar.


"Enslaved Africans came from or through major coastal regions that had been labeled by Europeans as the Grain Coast (consisting of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and parts of Liberia), Windward Coast (Ivory Coast and Liberia), Gold Coast (Ghana west of the Volta River), Bight of Benin (between the Volta and Benin Rivers), Bight of Biafra (east of the Benin River to Gabon), Central Africa (Gabon, Congo, and Angola), and the southern coast of Africa (from the cape of Good Hope to Cape Delgado, including the island of Madagascar)."



Technically all of us in the new world are "mixed" to some extent and to different varieties. I am dark skin look like Kane and Rakim, have around 20% non-African admixture from a variety of places from all continents outside of Africa. What is determining to be mixed, what constitutes that? Physically nobody considers me a mixed person.

Like Keyshia my largest set is Nigerian and second largest set is Sierra Leonian.
 
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I mean she's half African.

However also half Mexican/Ashkenazi, Spanish, Filipino, Thai and Chinese.

I don't l know a lot of folks that diverse :mjlol: :heh:

Given her genetic make-up she can come from a number of these paths:

She also may pick it up possibly depending if she's Pacific Islander:


Her results are pretty typical for an African American. The average African American is between 65% to 80% African, with researchers settling somewhere in that 70% range. So that means that a lot of African Americans are higher than 70% and a whole lot of them are a lot lower than that 70%. I have a 2nd cousin who is only 51% African. My results show that I am 85% African. I have an uncle and an aunt who are 95% and 96% African. So you can see right there how wild of a swing it is right within families. which is probably why African Americans since the days of slavery never quibbled about who is Black. At the end of the day almost every African American is a mixed race person so she is not unique. On side note Ancestry.com number is probably more correct than the other testing services, because they have the largest database of customers.


Exactly How "Black" Are Black Americans?

* According to Ancestry.com, the average African American is 65 percent sub-Saharan African, 29 percent European and 2 percent Native American.

* According to 23andme.com, the average African American is 75 percent sub-Saharan African, 22 percent European and only 0.6 percent Native American.

* According to Family Tree DNA.com, the average African American is 72.95 percent sub-Saharan African, 22.83 percent European and 1.7 percent Native American.

* According to National Geographic's Genographic Project, the average African American is 80 percent sub-Saharan African, 19 percent European and 1 percent Native American.

* According to AfricanDNA, in which I am a partner with Family Tree DNA, the average African American is 79 percent sub-Saharan African, 19 percent European and 2 percent Native American.

And for our African-American male guests, there has been still another astonishing fact revealed about their paternal ancestry — their father's father's father's line — through their y-DNA: A whopping 35 percent of all African-American men descend from a white male ancestor who fathered a mulatto child sometime in the slavery era, most probably from rape or coerced sexuality. In other words, if we tested the DNA of all of the black men in the NBA, for instance, just over one-third descend from a white second or third great-grandfather. In my own case, he was my great-great-grandfather, and he was most probably of Irish descent, judging from our shared y-DNA haplogroup.

 
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