Re: Reparations: i dont see how the halycon say that

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 02:32:40 MDT


Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/9/2002 2:54:09 AM Central Standard Time,
> samantha@objectent.com writes: Ah. I am from North Carolina. One of my
> aunts is half Cherokee. Supposedly I have some small percentage of Cherokee
> in my makeup.
>
> Samantha,
> I am going to pick on you. <G> Because I'll bet you repeated something
> you have always heard without thinking it through. "One of my aunts is half
> Cherokee." That implies that either your mother or father is also half
> Cherokee. In turn, that makes you a quarter Cherokee.

The aunt in question is an aunt by marriage. She married my
mother's brother. So no.

- samantha



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