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spooky3

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2. I may be in the minority here, but...

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 01:41 PM

Nov 2017

Debating this seems like arguing over whether someone is the biological father of a certain child.

There are reliable and inexpensive DNA tests available. If Sen. Warren wants to have these tests done, she can, and then decide whether she wants to release them. It is also possible for someone with a NA ancestor to have no DNA from that particular person.

I have no doubt that she was told the stories she describes. Even if her DNA test results show no evidence of NA heritage, that does not change the stories or whether she believed them.

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Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage [View all] DonViejo Nov 2017 OP

IT DOESN'T MATTEER moda253 Nov 2017 #1

Yes exactly Orrex Nov 2017 #4

I may be in the minority here, but... spooky3 Nov 2017 #2

At 1/32 or less DNA may not show it csziggy Nov 2017 #19

Since, as you correctly say, someone could have a NA ancestor but no DNA from that person pnwmom Nov 2017 #24

I believe that the services such as ancestry.com provide spooky3 Nov 2017 #28

I've taken the test and it's very unreliable for amounts under 6%. It was fun to see that the pnwmom Nov 2017 #39

Shades of one drop rule Generic Other Nov 2017 #27

Youre missing my point. Nowhere did I say that spooky3 Nov 2017 #30

Like I said, it is insulting to ask Generic Other Nov 2017 #32

Excuse me for nitpicking, but 1/16 is a great great grandchild jg10003 Nov 2017 #33

Damn I edited it to fix it Generic Other Nov 2017 #34

Nope torius Nov 2017 #29

I think you will want to explore that more fully. Nt spooky3 Nov 2017 #31

The poster is right. Just as two siblings can inherit very different mixing of genes -- pnwmom Nov 2017 #40

It doesn't matter JI7 Nov 2017 #3

Climate change will wipe us all out soon and this is what THEY want to talk about Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #5

This is not an issue in the real world Gothmog Nov 2017 #6

The aggrieved party is the veterans exboyfil Nov 2017 #7

SPOT ON. One final point... Hekate Nov 2017 #14

Oh, there you go, talking sense again! Maeve Nov 2017 #23

Thank you, Maeve Hekate Nov 2017 #25

+1000. n/t pnwmom Nov 2017 #41

I agree - it doesn't matter moose65 Nov 2017 #8

For most nations, percentage of ancestry does not matter Ms. Toad Nov 2017 #9

How sad that her birth mother will acknowledge her. dhol82 Nov 2017 #26

for a while she did - Ms. Toad Nov 2017 #44

It shouldn't be an issue at ALL awesomerwb1 Nov 2017 #10

What makes you think the stories are inaccurate? BannonsLiver Nov 2017 #11

The fact that the issue could've awesomerwb1 Nov 2017 #12

Suuuure. Just like Obama's citizenship was "put to rest" by the release of his birth certificate Hekate Nov 2017 #15

Birth certificate would be vastly different awesomerwb1 Nov 2017 #16

Don't give in to the ratfcking. It never, ever stops, and nothing will satisfy the haters Hekate Nov 2017 #17

I just have a different take awesomerwb1 Nov 2017 #18

The RW declared war on us, and no lie is too big or too petty. Kerry was a Swiftboat HERO... Hekate Nov 2017 #20

Stop it? lol awesomerwb1 Nov 2017 #43

The only thing that matters in this is the racist slur. chowder66 Nov 2017 #13

Well Dotard still thinks Obama was born in Kenya ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #21

This is the part that's being debated. icymist Nov 2017 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author Generic Other Nov 2017 #36

Isn't the issue with her ethnicicity Motownman78 Nov 2017 #35

I think Trump needs to take a lie detector test Generic Other Nov 2017 #37

Lie detector tests don't work well on sociopaths. Caliman73 Nov 2017 #38

How about sodium pentathol? Generic Other Nov 2017 #42