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Bucky

(54,087 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 08:04 AM Nov 2013

Newser: DNA Test Stuns Man Who Wants All-White Town

http://www.newser.com/story/177397/dna-test-stuns-man-who-wants-all-white-town.html

[font size="4"]DNA Test Stuns Man Who Wants All-White Town[/font]
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff | Posted Nov 12, 2013


(Newser) – A neo-Nazi who wants to found an all-white enclave in North Dakota has been shown evidence of racial diversity where he least expected it: in his own DNA. Craig Cobb agreed to the test as part of the Trisha Goddard Show's "Race in America" series, but he rejected the result as "short science" and "statistical noise" when it revealed he is 14% sub-Saharan African and 86% European, the Daily Mail reports. "Sweetheart, you have a little black in you," the show's British host told Cobb, who recoiled when she attempted to fist-bump him.


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Newser: DNA Test Stuns Man Who Wants All-White Town (Original Post) Bucky Nov 2013 OP
This has been posted about 500 times already RandiFan1290 Nov 2013 #1
I check DU morning and night TexasProgresive Nov 2013 #3
+1 nt snappyturtle Nov 2013 #12
ty Bucky Nov 2013 #19
It is not the end of the world if a story avebury Nov 2013 #7
It's the first one I saw Renew Deal Nov 2013 #17
Why don't you just hide dupes and let the rest of us alone? Generic Other Nov 2013 #18
well I haved laughed at that putz each time irisblue Nov 2013 #2
Uncle Ruckus? bmn Nov 2013 #4
Is there anyone who *doesn't* have a little African DNA in them? Flatulo Nov 2013 #5
One Drop Rule Heather MC Nov 2013 #8
No they didunt, GAWD made us and he made us white rustydog Nov 2013 #15
New rule for being accepted into Leith: You are welcome and considered "white" if your SDjack Nov 2013 #6
He can't do that Heather MC Nov 2013 #9
We are all related. MadCrow Nov 2013 #13
All of your ancestors played around Bucky Nov 2013 #20
Bump oasis Nov 2013 #10
A real life Clayton Bigsby.... ecstatic Nov 2013 #11
Too bad he can't have his own town and the people there banned him rustydog Nov 2013 #14
If you believe the best asset of yours is the color of your skin. MythosMaster Nov 2013 #16
Ha! Bucky Nov 2013 #21

TexasProgresive

(12,159 posts)
3. I check DU morning and night
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 08:17 AM
Nov 2013

and this is the 1st I've seen of this and am happy to read it. 500 times, really!?

avebury

(10,952 posts)
7. It is not the end of the world if a story
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 09:51 AM
Nov 2013

is posted more than once. Not everyone spend all their time on DU and, if one post drops down far enough, not everybody might have seen it. People need to lighten up. As things go in this country, duplicate posts really are not worth making a big deal about.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
18. Why don't you just hide dupes and let the rest of us alone?
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 10:52 AM
Nov 2013

We are not all on DU 24/7. Stories slip beneath the radar. It is not necessary to shame people for reposting. How often do the rest of us have to say this before the post police lay off?

 

Flatulo

(5,005 posts)
5. Is there anyone who *doesn't* have a little African DNA in them?
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 09:06 AM
Nov 2013

I mean, that's where Homo sapiens first appeared, right? Then they spread out to the European and Asian land masses.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
8. One Drop Rule
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 09:56 AM
Nov 2013

I am sure this guy is a card carrying believer in the One Drop Rule.

One Drop of Black blood makes you black. Well turns out he has 14 drops. So He is no longer allowed in his own all white conclave ha ha

SDjack

(1,448 posts)
6. New rule for being accepted into Leith: You are welcome and considered "white" if your
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 09:22 AM
Nov 2013

"black" content is 14% or less, thanks to Craig Cobb, who lowered the entrance bar.

MadCrow

(155 posts)
13. We are all related.
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 10:07 AM
Nov 2013

I had a DNA test on Ancestry.com and they gave me the names of some people who may have been related. I clicked on one name who might have been a 4th cousin and her racial background was 87% African. My ethnic background is 97% European and 3% unknown. Now I know my great-grandparents on my father's side came from the West Indies, so all I can say is that some of my ancestors must been "playing around".

Bucky

(54,087 posts)
20. All of your ancestors played around
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 12:03 PM
Nov 2013

Sadly, what that 3% probably means is that some were raped.

MythosMaster

(445 posts)
16. If you believe the best asset of yours is the color of your skin.
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 10:43 AM
Nov 2013

Then you haven't been doing much with your life have you....

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