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Wait, so there is a such thing as Black Native American DNA ?
Facts about Black American genetics they've been hiding the whole time
Chase McGhee
August 02, 2024
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Dr. Clyde Winters is a distinguished educator, anthropologist, and linguist whose contributions have left an indelible mark in the fields of anthropology, archeogenetics, and linguistics. His academic journey has included teaching positions at institutions such as Saint Xavier University in Chicago and Governors State University, where he has shared his expertise in education and linguistics. Dr. Winters is the author of numerous scholarly articles that have been published in esteemed journals such as the Journal of Black Studies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and the Journal of Modern African Studies, among others. Dr. Winters has also published several books, most of which deal with the Black presence in Ancient America, “African Empires in Ancient America”, “We Are Not JUST Africans : The Black Native Americans”, and “The Mande Discovery of America” just to name a few.
What makes Dr. Winter’s scholarship different from his predecessors however is the fact that Dr. Winter argues that not only were Blacks here before Columbus but that the true first inhabitants of America were Black. Below we will break down Dr. Winter’s case for his argument in three distinct categories DNA evidence, Bioarchaeology, and Linguistic evidence.
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First Dr. Winter’ argues that there is a sufficient amount of DNA evidence to prove that the first people of the Americas were Black or at least of partial Black heritage. Dr. Winter’s states the following:
“To insure that Black Native Americans would never be able to get their land back white Americans created the myth that the Native Americans were descendants of Mongoloid people from East Asia. This myth was solidified in the minds of people around the world through the export of American Cowboy movies, that always depicted Apache, and other Mongoloid Indians as the authentic Native Americans or Indians. …Dr. Gates tested the DNA of other famous Blacks and found that the only Afro-American celebrity to carry Native American DNA was Oprah Winfrey. Some people, took this news as a Joke, and used it as evidence that DNA testing was not accurate because Winfrey, they thought, was too dark to be of Indian ancestry These people were wrong. The vast majority of the Native Americans that formerly lived in the Eastern and Southeastern United States were Black Native Americans with dark skin, and kinky and straight hair. These Black Indians carried the major Native American haplogroups, especially haplogroups R1 and X. Dr. Gates, was hoodwinked R1, is y chromosome haplogroup carried by Africans. ….The most predominate y-chromosome of Native Americans in North America is R-M173. R-M 173 is found in the Northeastern and Southwestern parts of the United States along with mtDNA haplogroup X (25%). Both haplogroups are found in Africa, but are absent in Siberia.”
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