{"id":11057,"date":"2010-12-29T03:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T03:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2016-11-11T23:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:17:45","slug":"the-limits-of-genetic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"The other thing is, as Reggie [G. Reginald Daniel] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The other thing is, as Reggie [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/daniel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">G. Reginald Daniel<\/a>] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t need a genetic test to prove that.\u00a0 I mean, we <em>know<\/em> that. Even though this can tell us new information\u2014and I think it is an opportunity for conversation\u2014it\u2019s not enough because we already know it and it hasn\u2019t been enough.\u00a0 You know that slave owners <em>knew<\/em> those brown children where their children. Did it matter?\u00a0 They knew those were multiracial children were related to them.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t make a difference&#8230; To me it is a political revolution that we need to see that we\u2019re connected as human beings.\u00a0 Genetics isn\u2019t going to do it by itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/ipr\/people\/roberts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Roberts<\/a>, \u201cA Rx for the FDA: Ethical Dilemmas for Multiracial People in Race-Based Medicine\u201d (panel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2368\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a>, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-6, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other thing is, as Reggie [G. Reginald Daniel] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t need a genetic test to prove that.\u00a0 I mean, we know that. Even though this can tell us new information\u2014and I think it is an opportunity for conversation\u2014it\u2019s not enough because we already know it and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4204,1272,142],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-g-reginald-daniel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49896,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/49896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}