January 18, 2019 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
I dunno…
1¡SAD!
Makes me wish I were there more every day.
¡Think I pop in down to the taco truck por lonche!
Sad, all right! the same approach can be taken with say, people of different religions. Heck. It did happen. Catholics generally got it in the back of the neck when they showed up in different place, like the U.S. My ancestors were Irish and French and predominantly Catholic. The stories of persecution let alone mere shunning that have come down through my family are horrendous.
2DNA tests for everyone! Prove you’re a member of the human race. snacilbupeR can save their saliva. We already know they’re missing whatever it is that makes a person human.
3I had a friend who told the story about a departed family member known as Mexican Joe. At one of their gatherings as they looked through photo albums some wondered how he came by the nickname Mexican Joe.
An older relative overheard them and clued them in, “he was Mexican! From Mexico!”
4‘don’t believe I’d do it (the DNA test). I’m afraid I’d find out that I’m related to some of those people. THAT would be some frightening shit!
5That’s a hoot.The ignorance is always a bit disheartening, but I love the idea.
btw I’m 2% Neanderthal. My husband is 3% Denisovan (comes down through the Native American side of his family).
6“Yeah, I’d go to Mexico if they had Taco Bells on the street corners….” I nearly rent my garment.
I wasn’t aware that DNA tests were that precise. I did like a story a while back about a genealogical research library somewhere in the South. “Some of these people find out they have African-American ancestors, you just about have to call 911.”
7When my people first came to Texas, it *was Mexico (and *we were the non-assimilating immigrant problem). I wonder what they’d say my percentage was…
8Rhea…global dna testing is a treasure trove! Once you receive your test results you can share them with geneticists around the world who are studying specific regions or tribes. They will send results to you if in fact your DNA has ancestry they are studying.
They are able to hone in on our ‘out of Africa’ ancestors. My African Eve was Pygmy from the Bantu Tribe. I also have 2% Neanderthal as posted above as well as an exciting result from having submitted my DNA: pre-human DNA linked to bones found in a cave on the coast of Greece.
The most exciting result from submitting DNA: finding out my DNA ancestry from a tribe of Baluchi in Iran …decades after I had lived down the road from them when living with the Afshar tribe.
9My wife and I have started digging into our family trees on ancestry.com, and I have yet to find any connection at all to Mexico though we’ve been in Texas since the 1830s. There’s still some cause for hope, though. We haven’t yet received the results from our DNA tests.
10My DNA test results from 23 and Me were a hoot, as were the ancestry.com. I already knew a lot from the genealogical research my cousins had done. My oldest (so far) identifiable relative left Wales for Maryland colony in 1645 as an indentured servant. Our time in Texas is now just five generations deep, from the late 1890s until today. We are collectively, Mexican, Native American, English, Scotch, Welsh, and Korean. With the odd Columbian, Vietnamese, and Japanese thrown in to spice the DNA stew.
11I second what Oriscus said.
slipstream’s great grandmother was a refugee from a horrible civil war in the land of her birth: Virginia. She fled to California, which at that time was part of Mexico. My great grandmother was warmly received by her new Mexican neighbors.
12I worry that all of this DNA testing in the wrong hands could lead to mass genocide.
13Funny!
14Although most of my DNA is from what is now Ghana and
15Nigeria my family managed to get a 3 percent hit from a Jewish ancestor in Romania. I want a discount to anywhere in the Europe Union!
Oops. European Union. Already got a great rate to Ghana.
16In travel news
17After the demented one grounded speaker Pelosi and claimed to have stopped ALL congressional travel Miss Lindsey flew to Turkey on a US Gov. plane.
Gee does this mean there is an empty senate seat or that they are both so ignorant that they do not see the senate as part of the Congress?
Our son did Ancestry (now who has access to his DNA and what will they do with it?) It was pretty boring, actually. Bridie and Tom from Ireland and Pasquale and Evelina from Italy – pretty much what we knew back 4-5 generations before them. And I was hoping for some Viking.
18I knew about the English, Irish and Scottish, was delighted to hear about Spanish and Italian…and, of course, the 2% African that we all share from the beginning of humanity.
No Mexican, which no doubt explains why I am forever struggling to become fluent in Spanish.
19No ‘white’ Jesus here, am a swarthy variety of Jewish with 85+% Mediterranean mixed with some Persian and African dna. Was disappointed to find no Native American roots; do compassion and empathy with the First Nations count?
But if Jesus was a girl, Jane might be eligible as she’s buckets of Scandinavian, touches of western European with a little sprinkling of African. Maybe. Megyn Kelly didn’t specify how ‘white’ her Jesus was this side of albinism. Would probably explode her sciency head to learn the preponderance of albinism is found in southern Nigeria.
Based on y’alls intelligent comment history would safely say the human race is well represented at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
20@Phoenix Justice #13,
That scary idea has occurred to me as well. We really have no control over our DNA when we give it out freely. It could be used for noble or nefarious purposes.
21Jane & PKM #20,
Never had my DNA tested, but there are extremes in complexion variations in my family. Like our father, my sister is dark complexed with olive skin and had almost black hair in her youth. Her coloring inherited from the German side of our family. I turned out to be the other extreme – fair skinned,tall, sandy-hair and blue eyes. I’ve tracked our family history back four hundred years at this point. All I’ve found is Scotch/Irish (Vikings in the wood pile, likely), English, German and the odd family drunk who was arrested for doing the Lady Godiva thing in a small TX town.
22I am 100% human. Are you?
23Haven’t had my DNA checked by anybody, but I can tell you that genetics is a pretty weird crapshoot. They teach in biology classes that traits are dominant or recessive and it’s real simple. Well, it ain’t. Like most things in biology, or in most other fields, it’s a lot more complicated than that.
Example from my life: red hair is a recessive trait, they tell me, so in order to get a red-haired kid, you need a red-haired trait from both parents. If one parent isn’t a redhead, they must have inherited a redhead gene from one of their parents, but the color was suppressed by a dominant gene for darker hair.
But my father said nobody on his side of the family had ever had red hair as far back as anybody could remember. So how did he, with a red-haired wife, wind up with two out of two red-haired kids? Beats the heck out of me. Possible, but statistically very improbable. (And before anybody starts snickering about the milkman, those kids were 12 years apart, so that’s unlikely too.)
PS It’s suggested that the reason Ireland and Scotland have so many redheads is that’s often foggy and rainy there, so skin cancer doesn’t kill us off before we can breed.
24I like how they were all “Screw that place and those people” until they found out about their history and a discount. Just like a Republican. Hate it until they find they can get it for free. Then it’s like Hell, yeah!
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