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[SouravMay]

I really do not want to be combative, but there are some things I do want to point out to you.

First of all YOUR genetical make-up in its totality perfectly fits the bill of the ethnic group "African American", it is a very typical result for "African American", your personal DNA is not that of "Melungeon" people, nor is your experience growing up that.

So it would be really weird if someone could actually see Melungeon in you when you don't have the proper admixture of racial ingredients. Anybody that thinks I look Nigerian, I don't take him seriously, because I simply do not. My genetic admixture is absolutely atypical for a "Nigerian". Every ethnic look essentially is made up of a certain melange of ingredients. And you yourself do not have the proper proportions of ingredients to be Melungeon. From what I read, Melungeons could actually pass as white or native, which you could not. 

And looking Haitian does NOT equal looking Melungeon. The typical Haitian look is 85-95% black, Haiti is known to be the only true black nation of the Caribbean, because they killed off almost all the whities over there. So when somebody says you look Haitian, they probably think you look very very Subsaharan African and not "tri-racial", what Melungeons essentially are, who I am sure form a little minority in Haiti, and people do not think of when thinking of Haitians.

So you might have Melungeon in your family but neither genetically nor culturally, do you fit the bill. Matter of fact you perfectly make up the unique and intricate admixture of "African American", splashes of white, native, Creole/Melungeon, and a whole bunch of West African. And that is also your culture, African American. Now if you really want to travel to these places where Melungeons today reside, talk to them, learn the habits, culture, proverbs, cuisine, and then figure out if this is really who you are, I believe, THEN you can talk about claiming stuff.

For right now it should be a little sidenote, not a the main headline. If we are being pedantic and consqeuent.

You're pretty intelligent, Malcolm. It's amazing how polarizing you can be with it though. This post made all the sense in the world, but then you turn around and say all African Americans need to sound like Harriet Tubman

Just don't know how to feel about ya

I prefaced the accent comment with some sort of warning, acknowledging my ignorance. We are all conditioned to a degree, and that is just what crossed my mind. I might have been taught so by the media though.

[Herb.]

okokokokk faggots now lets get in formation

[Herb.]

earned all dis got dat money but they'll never take the ghetto owt me

[SouravMay]

i'm mad the very link you posted described them as "white for voting" and "Indian for education", and only legally black in some states, yet you typed up a storm about how they in fact are sooo inherently black. They are not a black sub-group like you put it. You did not even read that damn link. The author him/herself says she has "little evidence of black ancestry", but in fact is Melungeon. The name itself is a European name.

[SUPREME]

They didn't come here in a cruise

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sorry but

you girls are hilarious when youre upset

[SouravMay]

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[SUPREME]

I love how you dragged, educated and provided receipts of the ignorance so eloquently!

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[SUPREME]

Btw Left Eye was prettiest

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[Herb.]

The name itself is a European name.

Wrong.

Kimbundu-speaking Angolans who, like Angolans in Brazil, described themselves as "malungu". Within a decade of arriving in Virginia, after serving about 7-10 years of indentured servitude, these Angolan ancestors of the Melungeons were free to move from county to county. They were free as early as 1640 to own property and to name their community in their native Kimbundu language.

The name "Melungeon" was not applied to these first Africans by white outsiders or slave owners. It was a name they called themselves.

http://www.eclectica.org/v5n3/hashaw.html

[SUPREME]

I've also seen documentaries ....

Just please for the love of God shut the hell up

Faggot. lol

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[Herb.]

but yea. form' KNOCKS. sss

[Herb.]

Btw Left Eye was prettiest

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GODlli's in the middle for a reason lolz

[Herb.]

I resigned from my job this week.

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well get it in then, prince!
let's formate to celebrate.

[SouravMay]

The name itself is a European name.

Wrong.

Kimbundu-speaking Angolans who, like Angolans in Brazil, described themselves as "malungu". Within a decade of arriving in Virginia, after serving about 7-10 years of indentured servitude, these Angolan ancestors of the Melungeons were free to move from county to county. They were free as early as 1640 to own property and to name their community in their native Kimbundu language.

The name "Melungeon" was not applied to these first Africans by white outsiders or slave owners. It was a name they called themselves.

http://www.eclectica.org/v5n3/hashaw.html

For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies.

Nowhere are they described as black or African ethnic group.

The origin of the word Melungeon is unknown, but there is no doubt it was considered a slur by white residents in Appalachia who suspected the families of being mixed race.

It was a slur used by whites. And the true etymological background is uknown. But I am pretty sure it comes from the French melange, which means mix.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dna-study-seeks-origin-appalachias-melungeons-201144041.html

[Herb.]

The heritage is inherently Black. Which is something they seemed clueless about until receipts were printed.

It all started with Angolans. Period.