Why didn't I think of that?
Posted on 05/22/2020 12:20:02 PM PDT by knighthawk
LEHI, UT—Popular for-profit genealogy company Ancestry.com has revoked the family heritage of any African American who says they would not vote for Joe Biden. The company said they made the changes to reflect prevailing social beliefs about race and culture.
"It used to be if your ancestors were from Africa and your skin was a darker pigment, then you were considered black," said Ancestry spokesperson Sheila Reinold. "Times have changed. What really determines a person's blackness now—beyond genes, DNA, family trees—is Joe Biden. Any other determiner of race is pure malarkey at this point."
A frustrated Ancestry.com customer, Brian Jennings of Log Ridge, Kentucky says he logged in to find his account had been wiped clean and years of ancestral research had been deleted all because he said in a recent Facebook post that he didn't think he could bring himself to vote for "some 80-year old, white, dementia-riddled uncle creepy" for president.
Reinold says that Ancestry is not abandoning customers like Jennings. "We are working with non-black blacks to places them into all-white genealogies free of charge."
Jennings says when he began seeking ancestral matches in his new account, his first match was a guy named Jethro Reginald Tinbucket who owned a cotton farm in West Virginia in the 1800s. After resubmitting his DNA, Jennings says he has come around to the changes receiving a huge amount of new matches to long lost relatives that are still alive today. "I plan to fly out to Colorado Springs to meet my real mom next month," Jennings said. "Her name is Belinda and she didn't blow her top when she found out I like Ben Shapiro. Thanks, Ancestry."
These guys are fast.
You SAY it’s only humor.
Hahah. That’ll teach ‘em. Better yet, tell them they are from really from Poland...not Africa.
LOL, The Bee ROCKS!
Glad to see they worked-in the word “malarkey”.
Hahahahahaha! No kidding, that was my first thought.
Boy, I sure do respect those folks over at the Babylon Bee...I am sure they would (and occasionally do) skewer Republicans, but...the ground for ridicule and satire appears to be far more fertile on the side of the Leftists!
Why didn't I think of that?
The Bee should be on everyone’s one minute reading lust.
What did I miss? Did Ancestry do something Woke-Stupid?
Uh.....
reading lust? Freudian slap?
No, Joe Biden opened his mouth and insulted 12% of America. He said Black Americans who don’t vote for Democrats aren’t really Black. Because apparently, they don’t get to be individuals with diverse opinions.
If you vote for Biden, you ain’t white.
I’m old enough to remember when Babylon Bee did satire.
I saw that Biden interview this morning. Dumb me — I didn’t connect that incredibly stupid Biden gaffe to the Ancestry satire.
I did see the other Bee satire where Biden says you aren’t a real woman unless you let him sniff your hair.
About a year ago, according Ancestry.com, I became whiter and lost about half of my African DNA.
They found a lot of German ancestors and my # of African Ancestors/DNA stayed the same.
So, I went from 6% African American DNA to 3%!
Three years ago my Ancestry DNA said I was 3% Ashkenazi Jew. Surprise to this Irish-Catholic woman, lol. Then they revised it and now I’m 50% Irish, 48% English, and 2% Swedish.
“....the ground for ridicule and satire appears to be far more fertile on the side of the Leftists!”
Like a large manure pile of fertile!!!!
” “some 80-year old, white, dementia-riddled uncle creepy” for president. “
I am so stealing that
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