City has to pay $65K to white cop who says he was taunted for saying he was part black

[Stuart G]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/us/police-lawsuit-african-ancestry-settlement-trnd/index.html

By Nicole Chavez and Janet DiGiacomo, CNN
Updated 3:36 AM ET, Wed August 1, 2018

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(CNN) — A white police officer in Michigan who says he was taunted by fellow officers when he told them that he was part black will receive a $65,000 settlement, his attorney said.

Sgt. Cleon Brown, a 19-year veteran with the police department in Hastings, Michigan, said a series of taunts began in 2016 when he took a genetic test through Ancestry.com and learned that he was 18% African.

His colleagues at the police department were whispering "Black Lives Matter" while pumping their fists as they walked past him and his police chief referred to him as "Kunta," he said. (Kunta Kinte is a character in Alex Haley's novel, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family."

"It was almost like a disgraced type of reaction that I got from them like, 'Why are you proud of this type of thing?'," he told CNN affiliate WDIV.

[marble falls]

1. My wife found out she was 1% Bantu and her familiy (in thier 80s+) had such a coniption...

My grandfather wrote in his autobiography that my grandmothers family had Jewish blood that made her family angry. My sample showed he was right, he picked the wrong country - he said Germany - the test said Netherlands, and my father brought me Jewish genes from Belgium. And from someone somewhere 1% Middle-Eastern/Jewish blood.

I think these tests are a good way to help some of us come to terms with identity and race.

My father's family had detailed stories of our native American ancestors, that we were Cherokee. I remember telling a Navajo man I worked with in Phoenix that I was part Cherokee and he started laughing, "All you white people are part Cherokee!"

The test said: Not a drop of any native/American blood..