So Booker is less black than Obama?

[Blue3]

According to this:

http://ethnicelebs.com/cory-booker

Booker took a DNA test for the “Finding Your Roots” show, and the results showed:

47% African
45% European
7% Native American (higher than Elizabeth Warren   )

It says that both his parents were black, and mentions only one white great-grandparent.  But if he’s 45% European, then he must have more white ancestry than that, though where that comes from is not explained anywhere.

It's quite obvious.


His African-American great-great-great-great-parents were probably the offspring of their white slave masters.

Most African-Americans with roots in slavery are 25-50% European.

Unlike the more recent African immigrants.

It's also why African-Americans are varying shades, and not all the very-dark skin tones of most native African citizens. (It also depends on country of origin... but hardly any African-Americans are purely African).

[Blue3]

Obama's father was from a quite homogeneous area, whereas Booker's parents were not from there. Most African-Americans with roots in the country dating back into slavery do not have a solid African or black bloodline. Some of Booker's white ancestors wouldn't be recorded, because the slave masters didn't claim their children with slaves. For the most part, Obama is blacker than most African-Americans by genealogy.

Oh, I'm aware that there's plenty of non-African ancestry in most African-Americans, but "Obama is blacker than most African-Americans by genealogy"?  You mean *most* African-Americans are actually less than 50% African by ancestry?  That would surprise me.  I mean, even if there was a massive amount of cross-racial child creation, I'd assume that below a certain threshold of African ancestry (20%?  25%?) many (most?) would just identify as white.  And so they wouldn't even be counted as African-American in surveys.

The "blackness" of Obama being questioned is more about how he's not descended from anyone black who lived under slavery or Jim Crow.
(except for the very first slave in America, on his mother's side, but they've identified as white since the 1700s).