Granted, there aren’t that many teeth left to grind with some of them, but you know this has gotta sting

Pope Leo, King of Mardi Gras and leader of Jazz Parades. Krewe of Immigrants. The Big Easy Indeed.

Rage on MAGA world. Hate is all ya got going.

heritage. New meaning to t calling for more people from Norway. Would enjoy introducing them.

I mean, I am 1% Seneglaese according to my DNA. Am I "black?" Well... no. I am human, and so are people from Senegal. I am very distantly related to some of them. But WE're all very distantly related to each other. WHat would make him "black" is not just DNA, but cultural experience. Race is a social construct...

For me it is the distinction between lived experience and ancestry.

He had black/Creole grandparent who passed. They had a very different lived experience - which may well have included early experiences in a family/community in which they lived and we're perceived as black/Creole and anxiety about being found out when they later passed as white, struggle with the choices they made and how it impacted their relationships with their families (all things I have read about from first hand accounts). That is very different from being two generations removed from that experience.

I am thrilled that he has that ancestry - and for the representation it gives people is those communities - and would even love to hear him speak about how that played out in his life. I am less thrilled with people putting words in his mouth about how he perceives himself.

Africans from Haiti - that is hardly one drop.

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Any bets there is a direct connection to Haiti and movements during the Revolution.