Baba,
The Mandinka say  "Sulu tambita Ninsiring filta". I guess, when we 
noticed a calf missing as soon as the hyena passed by, we have plenty of 
reasons to second guess what happened. That said, I believe the 
Professor's record on Black in America goes way before the famous beer 
summit!

Malanding



Baba Jallow wrote:
> Dr. Jaiteh,
>  
> Interesting stuff indeed. Please forgive my cynicism here. I can't 
> help but observe that I'm not at all surprised that Henry Louis Gates 
> Jr. is claiming a bit of white ancestry on St. Patrick's Day. Not that 
> there's anything unusual about the choice of day itself. Just that our 
> learned professor will have his drop of white blood. Tis important for 
> his Harvard ego and to show the cop who arrested him sometime ago that 
> he's not all black after all. Bet he has other points to prove too. 
> I'm sure Malcolm X would know exactly where to place our eminently 
> learned Dr. Gates - among the extremely brain-washed negroes!! Yes, 
> beware white dude. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has some golden Irish blood 
> in his veins!! What a strange thing to brag about! Thanks for sharing.
>  
> Baba
>  
> > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:36:51 -0400
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Who's your Daddy?
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Courtesy of http://www.theroot.com/
> >
> > Interesting read and some food for thought. You wonder how many Jaitehs
> > are Fula or Jahanke; how many Njies are Giande or Mam Yallah; how many
> > Darbos are Joula? Any genealogists among us?
> >
> > Malanding
> >
> >
> > Who's Your (Irish) Daddy?
> >
> >
> > On St. Patrick's Day, Henry Louis Gates Jr. reflects on an unknown
> > Irish ancestor.
> >
> > * By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Posted: March 17, 2010 at 5:08 AM
> >
> >
> > Getty Images
> >
> > So how do we find this guy? Well, this is where the fun starts. Our
> > genealogist, Jane Ailes, has spent that last few years trying to find
> > the name of the man who owned Jane Gates. She has searched wills,
> > inventory and appraisals, account settlements for estates of slave
> > owners between 1820 and 1860 in Allegany County, Md., and nearby
> > Hampshire County, W.Va., and the Slave Schedule of the 1850 and 1860
> > federal censuses for those same counties (remember that her son, Edward,
> > was born in 1857). So far, no luck with the paper trail.
> >
> > There were a lot of white people living in Allegany County in 1850, some
> > 21,633. A ton of Irishmen moved into the Cumberland area in the 1830s
> > and 1840s to work on the railroad, and in the mining, glass and steel
> > industries, and in the 1850s to work on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
> > (In 1850, in Allegany County, there were only 724 slaves, and 412 "free
> > colored.") Like finding a needle in a haystack, right?
> >
> > Well, it turns out that the men sharing that Ui Neill haplotype tended
> > to have certain surnames. If we use those surnames, we narrow the number
> > of possibilities in Allegany and Hampshire counties to 178 men born
> > between 1800 and 1830 bearing 22 surnames.
> >
> > What's so exciting about this? Well, it turns out that the men in the
> > Gates family line have a particular mutation, a slight variation, in our
> > Ui Neill haplotype. And we inherited that slight mutation, a spelling
> > variant in that DNA signature, through one of those 178 guys. If the
> > father of Jane's children, my Irish great-great grandfather, has any
> > other male descendants walking around on the planet, he will have
> > exactly the same y-DNA signature, with this particular variant, as my
> > father, brother and I do.
> >
> > And so, we are advertising for any male descendant of one of these 178
> > men to contact us and take the DNA test. With a (wee) bit of luck, one
> > of the millions of unsolved genealogical mysteries facing African
> > Americans today can be solved.
> >
> > Malcolm Little took the last name of "X" because he said it signified
> > our lost last names, names buried deep within the African continent. For
> > me, St. Patrick's Day, one of the most joyous holidays up here in
> > Boston, is the day I spend contemplating another "X" than the one
> > Malcolm identified: the name of my white great-great grandfather, the
> > man who fathered one black woman's five children, the man who connects
> > me (and millions of other black men) to a lost Irish heritage just as
> > surely as other ancestors on my family tree connect me to Africa. Did he
> > rape her? Did she love him? Could such a relationship ever be defined as
> > love? Did she see him following slavery? Did he give her the $1,400 to
> > purchase a home in a white neighborhood in 1870, just five years after
> > slavery ended? What was that all about? Until I can answer these
> > questions, I'll remain on the sidelines at the St. Patrick's Day parade.
> >
> > /Henry Louis Gates Jr. is editor-in-chief of *The Root*. /
> >
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