Progressives (Liberals)

The average American has more Injun blood than that.

(I sometimes wonder if this is true of everyone posting here.)

Amy is teaming up with Stacey Abrams, the founder and chair of Fair Fight Action, in a new video calling on Americans to support voting by mail and other measures like early voting and recruiting and training poll workers. These measures will make casting a ballot safer during the pandemic.

Voters in Wisconsin were recently forced to choose between their right to vote and their health. It is irresponsible and dangerous to refuse to make changes to the voting process, as many Republicans including President Trump are doing, when there are simple, achievable ways to make voting safer. Will you watch Amy and Stacey’s video and then share it with your friends to spread awareness about the additional measures that will allow all voters to safely cast ballots on Election Day?

Amy recently introduced a bill with Senator Ron Wyden that would allow all Americans to vote by mail and would create a 20-day in-person voting period to prevent crowding at polling places. These measures would ensure that Americans can protect their health while also exercising their constitutional right to vote.

People should not have to choose between voting and their health and safety. That's why it's critical that every American has the ability to vote by mail or to safely vote in person.

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The average American has more Injun blood than that.

Nope. There is no way to categorize the "average American" as having a certain percentage of genes which reflect particular races or ethnicities.

A 2014 study by Harvard University and 23andMe found that European Americans tested overall for 0.18 percent Native American ancestry, while Ms. Warren’s results show she has anywhere from 0.09 percent to 1.5 percent.

“This means that the DNA test shows that Warren is actually LESS NATIVE AMERICAN than the average American of European ancestry,” said Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson on his right-tilting Legal Insurrection blog.

The 2014 report, which appeared in the American Journal of Human Genetics, involved DNA testing of 160,000 people and was billed as “the largest study of its kind so far.”

Ms. Warren released her DNA results and an analysis by Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante, who told the Boston Globe that “the results strongly support he evidence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor” dating back six to 10 generations.

At the same time, the article noted that genetic data from Native Americans is sparse, and that Mr. Bustamante filled in with samples from Mexico, Peru and Colombia

Washington Times. Right.

The big question is: What percentage of "european Americans" have Native American blood? 5%, 50%, 100%? If its less than 50% she definitely has more NA genes than thae average EA.

What!? In this context "average" refers to the mean, not the mode. Learn up on some stats, boy.

Almost every American has a sliver of Native American ancestry

It should be noted that these are averages across populations that say nothing about any individual.

Latinos as expected had significantly more Native American ancestry with the average Latino genome being 18 percent Native American, 65.1 percent European and 6.2 percent African.

The title of Carl Zimmer’s New York Times article on the research “White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier,” seems to suggest that the genetic data show that racial divides have significantly blurred as populations have mixed

Think about your family tree back nine generations ago, which would mostly be in the 1700s. You have 512 slots in your family tree nine generations ago (two to the ninth power). The 23andMe numbers suggest that for the average white American, 1 of your 512 ancestors nine generations ago was black and 1 of 512 was Native American....That doesn’t seem very murky to me.

Almost every American has a sliver of Native American ancestry

Living conditions on the reservations have been cited as "comparable to Third World," (May 5 2004, Gallup Independent)....Typically, Tribal and Federal governments are the largest employers on the reservations. Many households are overcrowded and earn only social security, disability or veteran's income. The scarcity of jobs and lack of economic opportunity mean that, depending on the reservation, four to eight out of ten adults on reservations are unemployed.

There is a housing crisis in Indian country. Despite the Indian Housing Authority's (IHAs) recent efforts, the need for adequate housing on reservations remains acute. One legislator deplored the fact that “there are 90,000 homeless or underhoused Indian families, and that 30% of Indian housing is overcrowded and less than 50% of it is connected to a public sewer.

Abraham Lincoln imprisoned my four time great grand father,

A "half-breed" was shunned by true Americans. They never liked terrorists.

“Chief Openchancanough and his warriors attacked the new settlements near Jamestown - Kecoughtan, Henrico, and Charles City - on Good Friday 1622. They came into the villages under the guise of peace and even pretended to sit down to eat with the white settlers; then, at a prearranged signal the Indians launched the attack. In the surprise raid, 350 settlers were slaughtered, including women and children; this was one-third of the English population in Virginia….after the conflict, they did not feel bound to try to be friends with the Indians and were more open to just taking their land.”

Historians estimate that Opechancanough spent between one and three years planning the attack in 1622, despite maintaining overall friendly relations with the English. On the morning of March 22, 1622, the Indians who had visited the colonists and stayed overnight joined others who entered the James River settlements, some using boats to cross rivers, to launch well-coordinated surprise attacks. The Indians entered the settlements unarmed and when the time came to attack they used the colonists’ own tools and weapons to kill the 347 English men, women, and children that lost their lives that day. Colonist Edward Waterhouse recounted that the Powhatan were “so sudden in their cruel execution that few or none discerned the weapon or blow that brought them to destruction."

Kinda like Hitler, circa 1934, eh?

layman wrote:

Kinda like Hitler, circa 1934, eh?

Did anyone invade Germany in 1934?

Are you really trying to claim that the English "invaded" anybody?