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Yup. Ofc had that conversation with mom as a little kid when people at school were talking about family trees, histories, records and the like, part of a history unit or smth.
"Do we have anything like that?" "They didn't really keep records for where our family came from honey"
Yeah, all I know is that my biological grandfather was Choctaw and that's just cause my dad told me. I don't know shit else about my family tree like that. Would I like to? Sure, but I've always felt uncomfortable with sending my damn DNA to a company with the history of Black people being used in experiments and shit...that's a no from me
I also don't really fw my family like that they're pretty toxic aside from like a few lmao 🤷🏿♂️
Fuckin real talk. Similar situation actually in that I know my great grandfather was chickahominy from old pictures & newspaper clippings (I'm not about to do the white american thing and claim I'm part of that culture though), and there's some afro cuban history but that's about all I know. Plus half of my family are toxic no masker antivax black republicans so yeah, the value of extended family to me is.....lol.
And I am 100% not sending my DNA to any of these companies, you're right about the shady shit they could easily get up to
I'm not surprised there's a lot of Native Black folks considering that we certainly had a shared interest, lol. I would love to learn more about the culture, respectfully. On my mom's side I'm an islander (was born there actually) so I know about some of it but it doesn't go back that far
It kinda sucks we don't have a lot of options for exploring our ancestry like white people do 😑