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Originally Posted by BrooklynGal
@Breadfruit,
@Back in the day, I watched a very interesting documentary whose thesis was that Black Women the world over, were the carriers of all brands/strands of DNA and that they (Black women) inherited this matrilineally… or rather, through their Black mother’s DNA.
Meaning that if a girl is born of a Black mother who was born of a Black mother, who was also born of a Black mother…. all the way back to the beginning of time, then she possessed this DNA. In essence, the documentary was saying that Black woman possessed the DNA of every single ‘race’ in their Blood and it is only they who could pass it on.
The flip was that no other ‘race’ of women had the type of DNA Black women have…
So Breadfruit, assuming I remember correctly, this means that DNA stops being ‘Black’ when a child is birthed by anything other than a Black woman. You dig? I hope that my explanation was somewhat clear…
So, the only way we can be ‘Black’ is by being the children of Black women – regardless of our father’s or her father’s ‘race’. Our entire maternal line has to have been Black all the way back to the beginning of time.
That’s the scientific side and I hope to track down that documentary again. It was on PBS here.
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What is also striking about this is that in every single African traditional spiritual system I have every heard about or studied, I have found that the priests and priestesses all state that it is impossible for anyone other than a Black woman to ‘birth’ the African spirits (DNA). And that African male priests always inherited/inherited their spirits from their mothers.
That means that crackers, Latinos or other interlopers cannot ‘birth’, form, call, speak to or interact with African spirits (despite the fact that you got a lot of them in the West claiming to be ‘African shamans’…). I recently went to a talk here in Brooklyn in which a Yoruba Babalawo said that the biggest problem African (Black) spiritual leaders face in the West is foreigners (crackers etc) who want to be ‘initiated’ to African spiritual systems and traditions.
The Babalawo said “how can we give these spirits to people who don’t contain them in their blood”?
I thought that was striking, considering the genetic information presented in that documentary about Black folks. That is, you can’t be Black unless your mother is.
@Shemsi,
Yeah, if you could get a link to that thesis, it would be great to read.
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Thanks BrooklynGal,
Just looking at your post, would an African who's great grandmother was european, but who's mother was African still have the orignal potential of an African who's matrilineal line was African, right back to "Eve"?
I would suggest that she would definitely be African (Black), but is this how geneticists begin saying that someone is 34% european, 4% mexican, 1% asian and 61% sub-saharan African??
I'm feeling you on that doubt with european science and their historic ability to create "facts" without truth, but until our Academics refute the out of Africa argument as nonsense, I'll stick with it for now.
Truely though, these people have made lying something planet earth will always be infamously known for LOL!!
Peace