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[wombat]

Now that I think of it, I believe that a female cousin of mine is living as a lesbian couple with a woman who used to be a man.

I know, that doesn't seem possible, but I swear that someone told me that. I can't imagine I made it up.

[littlefallsmets]

Nah, see, that's the thing, though, A-CAP.

Once she "decides" she's black, all the gender-sexual identity stuff will go out the window for a while, she'll be so immersed in constructing a "black" identity and her first access to creating that new self will be images of heterosexual black women.

Maybe EVENTUALLY she'll start forming some variation on her attempt to make herself happy by finding the right identity pidgeon holes to shove her sense-of-self into... but usually, they gotta go through one phase before they get to the next.

Sounds like some kinda borderline disorder thing.

[Nabubrush]

It'll last a lot longer than all the other phases, probably until their early middleage when they're finally "burnt-out drunk".

So, I call you a modern Mark Twain, and this is how you repay me.

[jaydub]

My bet is that she begins to identify as a person of color. She hasn't yet (she's Italian in ethnicity) but she's started talking about how her great-grandmother was a light-skinned African-American. She knows this from pictures.

Tell her she's a "sedecaroon".

[smick]

Recently my mother uncovered several things about my lineage.   

I'm part Native American.   I have no idea what tribe.   Apparently its enough for me to register on tribal rolls or some such.   When I heard this, I didn't have much reaction.     That's so not any part of my cultural identity, and it would be horrible of me to start aping it.

She also discovered that on the other side of the family, we took part in some nautical portion of the slave trade. 

Even more recently, while attending my grandmother's funeral, I learned that her father fought in both world wars for the Germans.

Surprisingly, I'm not a real 'get back to my roots' kinda fellow.

"Don't mention the war!"

[littlefallsmets]

Tell her she's a "sedecaroon".

Oh, man... I sure hope that she'd reply "that's my FAVOURITE kind of Girl Scout cookie".

[theinevitable]

all I know is, I'm 1/2 hispanic (my grandmother clarifies that this is Spanish, because we don't have any (insert an offensive south american word for Native Chilean) blood) and half good ol' american irish/scottish/british mix.
this results in my family drinking tea, and the fact that the church we don't attend is a Catholic church.

[KeithHernandez]

I am both Jewish and Native American but I don't really relate to that because, well, my granddad would never admit to being Jewish and I don't really have a ton of either in my ancestry.  Besides that I am French/British/Irish.


Nathan Hale is my direct decedent, but he couldn't learn me.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I am both Jewish and Native American but I don't really relate to that because, well, my granddad would never admit to being Jewish and I don't really have a ton of either in my ancestry.  Besides that I am French/British/Irish.


Nathan Hale is my direct decedent.

1. You are a decedent of Nathan Hale, he is not a decedent of you.
2. A native american jew? Did college just throw bags of money at you or what?

[Nabubrush]

Nathan Hale is a decedent. You aren't.

[Carlos del Vaca]

1. You are a decedent of Nathan Hale, he is not a decedent of you.

Perhaps Mr. Hernandez has a time machine, and he went back in time and boned Nathan Hale's mother.  Haven't you seen The Terminator?

[AugustWest]

Perhaps Mr. Hernandez has a time machine, and he went back in time and boned Nathan Hale's mother.  Haven't you seen The Terminator?

Or Futurama?

[Nabubrush]

You are Nathan Hale's descendant. Perhaps also a Descendent.

[linnea]

Ahhh, decedents. I will never forget my first "dead call" where I had to deal with a decedent.

[jay-ell]

Anyone else read Savage Love this week?