14% African ancestry indeed

There has been a lot of press reporting about a so called white supremacist submitting himself to a DNA test on the "Trisha Goddard" show in the US. Supposedly, he found out that he was in fact of  14% African ancestry. What does that mean?  This statistic is completely wrong. All the evidence suggests that Homo Sapiens originated in Africa. We are all  of 100% African ancestry. Every living person can trace their ancestry back to a mother and father somewhere in Africa. All Americans are African Americans and All Europeans are African Europeans despite their skin colour.

There is no such thing as a completely "white" person or a completely "black" person or a "yellow" person. All of us have melanin in our skin and it is an accident of genetic mutation and subsequent evolution that European people became lighter skinned than their African fore fathers and mothers. The terms "white" and "black" are simply labels of convenience as they have no real deep meaning.

To distinguish between people and call them members of different races on the basis of skin colour is irrational, illogical and ignorant.

We are all members of the same race: Homo Sapiens Sapiens. There are some grounds for believing that another "race" of mankind did once exist.  There is evidence that the Neanderthals interbred with our ancestors to produce viable offspring, so the Neanderthal is most likely to be another subspecies  or "race" of human namely, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. However, the morphological features of the Neanderthal man all fall within the range of modern man, but of course in different combinations, so we may not be a different "race" to the Neanderthal man after all.

To complicate the issue further there is strong evidence that both Neanderthals and modern humans interbred with the newly discovered Denisovan man.  So there may have been another "race" of man on the planet in recent times. The Denisovan and Neanderthal subspecies or "races" have died out to leave just one subspecies of man or "race" on the planet: Homo Sapiens Sapiens or all of us.

It might do  "racists" some good to read books about anthropology rather than appear on or watch shows such as the Trisha Goddard one.