Miche ([identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] browngirl 2007-11-14 07:15 pm (UTC)

As someone who may or may not be part-Maori, but is not in a flap about it either way, I find this interesting. That people get in a flap about it, that is. Their DNA, wherever it came from, is a part of what makes a person who they are, and once it's all combined it can't be _un_combined, so if your KKK member finds out he's part black, that can't be undone. Better learn to deal, hey? And, even better, think.

(I remember a discussion I had with some of my friends about the fact that nine of my fingerprints are of a type almost unknown among Europeans but very common among Polynesians, and I have this one thumb with a European-type thumbprint. One of my Maori friends cracked up and said "that's your Pakeha thumb!")

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