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
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> Subject: Who's your Daddy?
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> Courtesy of http://www.theroot.com/
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> 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
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> 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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