‘I Would Have Fought You’: LeVar Burton Claps Back at Troll After Learning His Great-Great-Grandfather Was a White Confederate Soldier

[Luke Cage]

My family told me i have a black ancestor who fought in the civil war. Name was Samuel. He ended up having like 11 kids or something.
I imagine him looking something like this

 

[Ake1725]

Can you prove it on the baker/dawes roll? I'm no expert, but you might be able to claim Cherokee if you can.

Learned it here, timestamp

Black/native people were often kept off the dawes roll so that's not a perfect tell

 

[invalid]

But there is black people with Native American blood

No where near what we hype it up to be. Not close. Even Gates himself believed that of his own family until he did the trace and found out the hard truth

Oh them Lumbees. My grandmother's maternal side was from Ohio and had "lumbee" stock from Virginia. Actually, they didn't refer to them as that, they claimed they had "Blackfoot" blood. The actual Blackfoot tribe was somewhere around the border of Montana and Canada so I knew off rip that couldn't have been true. Did some research some years ago and found out "Blackfoot" was another nickname given to the Lumbees.


Family has done numerous DNA test on that side. Stories have been passed down that we had indian in us going all the way back to the early 1800s. In fact, I had a 4th great grand aunt named "Sarah Ann Brown 'Charokee' Surname" - the "Charokee" given to her because of the supposed Indian blood we had and in each successive generation of my family, some woman has carried the name of "Charokee" as tradition because of the oral history. Multiple DNA test came back on that side of the family and determined that was all a lie and confirmed what all the articles have said about the so called "Lumbees" to be true.

Family members been traumatized.

@IllmaticDelta Another Lumbee DNA cousin of mine.

Would've loved to be a fly on the wall when she told her parents her results.

 

[Gritsngravy]

No where near what we hype it up to be. Not close. Even Gates himself believed that of his own family until he did the trace and found out the hard truth

Hype it up?
Who is hyping it up

 

[Pure Water]

But there is black people with Native American blood

There's also black people with 6 toes on a foot.

Look, the vast majority of Black Americans are majority African descent with roughly 8-30% European DNA.

 

[Gritsngravy]

These crackkkers barely got it as well. If you visit the subreddit, you'll be a post from time to time about a white person discovering that "Indian" blood they have is actually Afrikan blood. They usually admit their family members are racists.

Personally, I’m not a believer in these dna tests, I don’t think 23 and me is enough evidence for anything

 

[Gritsngravy]

There's also black people with 6 toes on a foot.

Look, the vast majority of Black Americans are majority African descent with roughly 8-30% European DNA.

That doesn’t mean black people don’t have Native American blood, you sound like you believe in that one drop rule bullshyt

 

[Pure Water]

That doesn’t mean black people don’t have Native American blood, you sound like you believe in that one drop rule bullshyt

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".

Have a good day sir.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Hype it up?
Who is hyping it up

nikkaZ

trying to make having "indian/native american" some exotic shyt when it's really the CAC DNA in you

 

[Gritsngravy]

He has a BA in history from Yale and provided his sources/research in the article. You posted the cover of a book.

And Henry Louis gates co-signed manning marbles book on Malcolm x

 

[Gritsngravy]

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".

Have a good day sir.

We were arguing?

Need to get out yo feelings

 

[Gritsngravy]

nikkaZ

trying to make having "indian/native american" some exotic shyt when it's really the CAC DNA in you

I never heard anybody black in real life mention Native American blood, maybe them YouTube community but not real life people, I don’t think most people even care

 

[Rekkapryde]

I never heard anybody black in real life mention Native American blood

 

[Gritsngravy]

Believe or don’t
I don’t give a fukk and I ain’t got no reason to lie to internet people

 

[The Fade]

My grandfather said he had some Cherokee but it’s probably like how Joe Jackson got a Cherokee ancestor. Btw fukk that tribe