Daniel Canada aka Obsidian
‘Finding
Your Roots’: Why White Family Refused DNA Test for Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada from the PBS series "Finding Your Roots
with Henry Louis Gates, Jr."
Harlem educator Geoffrey Canada
made some startling discoveries in his family tree as part of the PBS series
“Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”
“Every black family believes that
they descend from the white man who owned them, and it turns out that we have
never tested an African American who was a hundred percent black,” Dr. Gates
told reporters during a press conference for the series. “Every African
American has a significant percentage of European ancestry. So do you know what
we did this time? We actually tracked down the descendants of the slave master,
white descendants, and matched their DNA against the DNA of our guests.”
Gates said in two cases out of four
this season, DNA tests proved that the guest was descended from the white
ancestor that the family believed was kin. In Canada’s episode (scroll down to
watch in its entirety), he learned there was a significant amount of European
blood in his DNA.
But sadly, Canada will never have
the identity of his white ancestor confirmed. On camera, Gates informed
him that the descendants of the slave master believed to have fathered Canada’s
family line refused to take the DNA test.
Below, Gates explains why they
refused and their initial reaction when he first made contact.
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Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2012/04/finding-your-roots-why-white-family-refused-dna-test-for-geoffrey-canada/#HlxsrTUl5bo6WdYW.99
