Clint Black’s Surprising Heritage
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2021
- In one of our biggest surprises, Clint Black discovers his diverse roots from his fourth or fifth grandfather.
#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In the February 23rd episode, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores Rosanne Cash and Clint Black’s family secrets.
Watch the full episode at: www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your...
This is so cool! I too am 2% Subsaharan and West African. A cousin from Wales contacted me and sent the paper trail. My 5th great grandmother was born in West Africa in 1740. She was brought to Jamaica originally as a slave to work the sugar cane fields. She had a child by my 5th great grandfather who then freed her. If we only looked back at our ancestry to realize we are only one race.
@Aumacsnigrand
Your 5th grandmother was graped by the colonizer. That wasn't consensual.
@callmebyyourname2015
No, that wasn't beautiful. Her 5th great grandmother was graped.
@@TheLobocantaore "How do you know?? for sure ?"
Hahaha. It's common sense.
@@TheLobocantaore "Maybe they loved each other ?? but you wanna hate"
Dude, what are you talking about?
You are replying to the wrong person. Even ealier you've been doing that.
@@TheLobocantaore are you deranged? You're not making any sense in these comments. Stay on topic.
I have always loved Clint
Wonderful! American ancestry is truly diverse.
What a thoughtful guy.
🤣
Yes Clint is just that way
He seems down to earth
Soul brother Clint!
😂
He does... play a mean blues harp. Not many "so called" Country artists include a Blues in their set.
I had a blonde blue eyed co worker had had a full black great grandparent she mentioned she only tells people who ask her because she doesn’t appear black but has come to be proud of it
I know someone from the Army who who appears fully caucasian with natural blonde hair but kind of greyish eyes. I've seen pictures of her parents. Her dad is a white American and she got her looks from him, while her mom, who is fair skinned and dark haired, is from Puerto Rico. I bought her a 23andme test as a Christmas gift some years back, not knowing that her parents had already also done it. Her non-European comes all from her mom's side. And she has an indigenous maternal haplogroup (as something like 60% of Puerto Ricans do), and she was estimated to be about 6% sub-Saharan African with about 5% indigenous and (if I remember) like 2% Middle Eastern/North African (which a lot of Spaniards have apparently, and therefore also Latino Americans). You'd never know by lking at her.
@lovejones2179
Having a full great grandparent doesn't make you black.
@@maryjs4878 So ?? It makes you Human !!
@@TheLobocantaore Do you not understand common sense?
No wonder I loved him as a kid and Waylon
When he asked is that a lot 😂
For the most part it’s a halving process for each generation (20-30 years). So 50% = parents, 25% grandparents, 12.5% great grandparents, 6.25% two greats, 3.13% three greats, 1.6% four greats,
I’d agree with you, except for the fact that my Native percentage of 2% comes from 6th great grandparents on my great grandmother’s side. They were from Denmark. But if one looks at archaeological studies, especially burial practices, the Scandinavians and Norwegians were in North America at the end of the last Ice Age and the Eastern Woodland tribes are descendants of those darker skinned European northlanders. Ancestry is more complicated than DNA tests, but these analysts just rely on the DNA results and don’t dig further into origins through archaeological finds.
You should look into Greenland and it's native peoples. That's more than likely where it stems from.
I grew up listening to him bc my grandmother was a huge fan. Really great music.
I didn’t know 1% from a race means that at some point you had an ancestor who was fully from that race, and not from that far. People make fun of white people who claim their 1% of a culture but after learning this I think that it matters. It doesn’t mean that you should walk around acting like you understand what it means to be that race but you can certainly celebrate your ancestors by learning more about their culture and being tolerant.
To put it into better perspective... you only share 12% DNA with your first cousin if there parents are both different ethnic backgrounds. So its not hard to believe that 1% is a *LOT*
@@boshvasara1868 their
@@tianalowks2490
Imagine being a English Teacher on RUclips comments section.
Lol if that guy had black features on 1% the One drop mob would be calling him Black.
@@boshvasara1868 Or being a wannabe biologist, like you seem to think you are. You got those cheap "stats" from 23andme, and considering how much of a fumbling idiot company that is, nobody should believe anything coming from them.
Like a wow wow ooo wow cowboy! Great speech hey! 👏👏👏🎶🎵👏👏👏♥️💜👍
That was cute. I liked that!
I've always said that if you can trace your family history in the US to at least your 3rd great-grandparents, there is a strong chance that you are not 100% of who you think you are.
Love it.
I'm south African on my dad's side
I might be related through his father's family. My 3x great grandmother is a Black.
explains the last name
Don't be silly
I wish besides celebrities Dr. Gates would do a random person.
Apparently it's for the next season. Regular people can submit to participate
I agree 💯%...
cost too much...........
One percent is alot genetically and scientifically. We are all African descendants, but that shows significant heritage.
Mine shows "zero" African decent.
1% African is not a lot at all. Even the average Mexican has more than 1% African ancestry and most people would not say that Mexicans on average are Black.
@@josephimperatrice5552 that is because of Columbus bringing over Africans to Central America.
I wish we could find out who his Black Ancestor is.
James brown
@@rustyshakelford1279 Lol!
@@rustyshakelford1279 Damn Rusty LOL! That ish is hilarious!
@@marthaalexander7362would make sense❤
Are we all just gonna ignore how that probably happened? :/ work out the timeline that his black ancestor was alive...
:(
As soon as he said it, I knew exactly why, and it was more than likely non-consensual.
Just do the math and BOOM there's your answer.
Nothing to work out really. That's a lot of people's ancestry in this country. Mine included.
Slavery isn’t the reason all humans are related lol
FR...He's dying 1000 deaths inside. 🤯
"Is that a lot??" 😳 🤣🤣🤣
I caught that too 😂😂
@@MSONNA80 I thought I was the only one😂😂
😫😫😫🤣🤣🤣
wow a bunch of mind readers in this post
Lol. His reaction says it all, "We've been a great big melting pot, and uhh I don't mind uhh being melted." In other words, "I have no choice but to have african ancestry." Huge difference between accepting who you are and being proud of who you are.
One blacks know and especially Southern blacks, is when a "white person" has some "black" in their ancestry. I always felt that Clint Black had some black ancestry. I also feel that deep down he felt he had a black ancestor, too.
Love to find out my heritage from PhD. Gates
Right!💯
Being 52% Sicilian I expected to be sub Saharan African, yet I’m not. I can’t believe it!
If you got North African that was the Moors
Some Italians have it not all
Sub-Saharan African, really rare in Sicilian. I'm part Sicilian too. North African, yes, anywhere from 5% to 20% depending on where on the island. I got Egyptian and Anatolian coming out of my Sicilian side from Messina.
My grandmother was Sicilian and my shows "Zero" African but it does show Greek and probably a cave man, lol.
@@ask4theupgrade359 the Moors are more in Spain not Italy or Sicily.
Oh wow. Im 1.6% arabian Egyptian. I didn't know that was alot. I havent found the ancestor yet doing my family tree 🤔
He is about to shyt!
We had white colonist in Africa all throughout that doesn’t mean he’s actually related to Black people
That’s interesting. My DNA results came back 5.9% African from Benin / Togo. I was expecting to see Native American but it turns out they were just Claiming that since the time of segregation. DNA is amazing.
We all originated from Africa. Once upon a time.
No, we didn't. That "theory" has been thoroughly debunked. Please look it up...
@big tornadoes NO we do NOT "all go back to Africa." That "out of Africa" myth has been flatly disproven.
White people come from Europe, and have some Neanderthal DNA. We are descended from the ancient European people. Black people do NOT come from Europe, and have no Neanderthal DNA. They are descended from the ancient African people.
We do not have "the same roots", not even remotely; no matter how far back in time you go.
@@TomStedham , right.
@big tornadoes we are not from Africa. We are from Europe. Again, the "out of Africa" myth has been debunked.
@big tornadoes , how?
I recently did a dna test and found out that I am .2% sub-saharan African , .1% Western Asian & North African and .3% East Asian and Indigenous American with 69% European British/Irish(Welsh) and 23.8% German.
chill people it's just 1%
That's 1% too much! He'll have to start touring with Hootie and Beyonce 😂😂😂✨
We are all a (Dukes mixture) as the old saying goes. And I will emphatically state that I personally have zero tolerance of ethnic prejudice. We all walk this rock and we all should walk hand in hand while live on this land. 🌏
He is my 22nd cousin that is far down the line
Do anyone remember gates said he couldn't find his ancestor's in Africa after he took his DNA test
What is the point of your comment? Most of us can't find our ancestor's in Africa. We were stripped of that right.
He wound up finding a connection to the Yoruba people via his Bruce family line.
So what this finding really means is that one of his ancestors was black and also one of them decided to pass 4 white and did it successfully. So successfully that nobody knew or they did not pass on that history purposefully.
No such thing as passing as "white" considering there is no specific white phenotype. I'm Irish and people mistake me for mixed all the time despite me being 100% Irish
@@Sean-jc6cu Actually there is such a thing, just not for you.
oh oh America, your roosters are coming home to roost
Honest, those lower numbers like that can change when another close ancestor does their DNA, it happened to me.
No reason to be racist.
Then don't.
Everyone on the Planet is at least 1% African (Sub Saharan is a misnomer)
DId Henry tell him why he got that?
According to 23andMe, I'm .01% sub-saharan African.
Bring the potato salad for the cookout 💕😂
@@wanleigh lol...:)
@@wanleigh I've had black potato salad before and it wasn't good
@@Sean-jc6cu Funny, I prefer my potato salad a bit yellowish, from the mustard mayo mixture. I don't think I would eat black potato salad.
@@lumbeeman01 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏾
“ there goes my fan base “ you know he was thinking that.
Sadly
@@tinytowz4471 Nah, he loved that he has some black roots,
Charles Pride was a black country singer and whites loved his music.
Guess who created Country music? You can’t tell me ppl are that ignorant. Jeeeeeez!
@@raamyasharahla535 cpuntry music is mostly white music with some african influence
Clint Black is black
He's not Black. He would stick out like a sore thumb in every Sub Saharan African nation. There are no Black people in The Congo or Senegal who look like him.
No he is not black.
@@maryjs4878 he black
Uh-oh. Wait until his fans find this out. They'll drop him faster than a can of Bud Light.
Their loss.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Elvis Presley is a Melungeon.
Are you trying to imply his fans are racist?
@@jiovannijones6869 unfortunately, many country music fans are. I say unfortunately because I listen to country music myself. It's gotten very right-wing, even more so than usual
It’s funny this show is more black than most Americans
Hes a cutie
Clint didn't look too happy.
He didn't look upset
Do they ever?
I'm sure Clint Black and everyone who agreed to come on this show had been told to be prepared to be surprised. If he was so ashamed, he wouldn't have agree to do the show.
@@mbrower3304 Why do you think he asked if one per cent is a lot, he isn't happy about that percentage of African DNA. UK
@@Jenjen-qc5eq No he.might want.to understand what the percentage means as if it is a close relative or this is in his dna 500 years.ago showing up.
This is what the 1 drop rule was created for. He would still be considered black/mulatto in old days.
Wrong. It would’ve been too remote, even during the one drop era to trace. Most of the states drew the line at one great grandparent anything more than that too many white people would’ve been included like Clint Black, which was not the desired outcome! One drop rules don’t work the way most people today thinkthey worked. And they didn’t appear until the 20th century so you had a whole period of reconstruction before that where many multiracial couple of openly.
still is, I have two cousins, that passes off as white until they are around me, I'm old school, and they know better
So if 1% of sub Saharan is a lot for clint, my 1.9% Indigenous American is a lot too!
So what our grannies told us is true😮
Yall grannies don't even know who the father of their kids are. But want to be nin black so bad. 😂😂😂
Black name is on my mom's side of family tree
I had a feeling he was Black.
He's not Black. He would stick out like a sore thumb in every Sub Saharan African nation.
He isn't black.
@maryjs4878
Yes 2% Black does not equal Black. The one drop rule is no longer legal law in The United States ever since Jim Crow died. There is no law that says Clint Black has to self identify himself as Black in The 2030 U.S Census.
Gates: "One-percent African."
Clint Black: "Reparations."
Reparations would be completely legal in that capacity! One drop was the law in multiple states.
he received it already
That Sub-Saharan African could be from any number of empirical takeovers. I have North African on my mom’s side, and I think it stems back to Alexander the Great’s empire. I have West African on my dad’s side, and I also have a smidge of Italian in that same genome panel, and it’s probably from the Roman Empire. Louis likes to grasp at straws without digging into history for those who have a majority of European DNA in their results. No matter what DNA test you use, upload your raw data to Genome Link. They have the most accurate readout, especially when it comes to tracing your DNA back 3,000+ years through samples from archaeological dig sites. My True Ancestry is another good one.
Do you notice how the white person except it?
I'm pretty good at math and...1% is not a lot.
in this case, it very much is!, spread out
@@anthonylakey9735 You don't know what 1% of something is or you wouldn't say that it is a lot.
@@paulascott5701 ok
Hence the name Black.
Nothing to do with it
I'm sorry, but I've taken a lot of genetic genealogy classes, and what they aren't saying is that percentages of 1%...or even more...anything under 5%...can be merely "genetic noise" and not accurate. You can spend your life searching for some small percentage and never find it in your paper trail. You can also do some compare/contrast with other known relatives...and NEVER find ANYONE else amongst your cousin matches that share that same small amount of supposed genetic material...and thus determine that it's merely "noise".
Furthermore...doing multiple DNA tests amongst other companies can produce completely different results, depending on each company's algorithms. And beyond that, those small percentages can--and do--disappear with the same company's next update.
Personally...I've had 3% Iberian morph into 4% Norwegian in my various Ancestry updates...and I've done my paper trail enough to know that there is nary a "-son" or "-datter" in my family tree prior to 1600...so the ONLY alternative would default to the Danelaw period in Great Britain's history...and that ended before the Norman Conquest in 1066 AD. That's 3-4 times the DNA and not a chance in Hades of ever being able to find documentation for it because it's 1200 years old--or older. And...who knows what it might morph into in the next Ancestry update?!?
All I'm saying is...be careful in setting too much stock in these small percentages in your ancestry profile. They may only be genetic noise...and disappear with the next update.
An African American ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿😭😭
It’s like he coaches white folks to say that shit 😭😭😂😂
I have a little West African DNA, as do many "white people" from US colonial stock.
Wonder what Trump’s ancestry is????
German (Trumpf)
@@SaintSeja
his mother was from Scotland
With his eyes and cheeks bones I would’ve put money on Native American
Funny how none of these people have Native American ancestry? Most of the slaves coming to America were men and I’m sure there was some hooch kochi going on there. Natives were also sold as slaves.
@Enano that’s true, however they still were sold and shipped to other parts of the world.
Natives also owned slaves.
@@BUHNANUHBREAD that’s true , as did blacks,
No one will ever know because America doesn't want to hear any of that. No 'critical' discussion. Thoroughbred race horses can trace their genealogy back to Arabia but African Americans can't. Its disheartening and disgusting.
@@missladyanonymity I'm not sure I understand your comment. The reason most African-Americans aren't able to trace their ancestry is due to lack of records with names. The best they can do is look at slave records of the age/gender/owner. I wouldn't say America doesn't want to hear it. The complete records with names isn't there. Most slaves were illiterate or lack putting names in a bible. It is a shame for sure.
I don't think Clint cared....
Every time he cuts his toenails he loses more than 1%
So his black great great great grandma had a snow white baby and the white continued on the line? I wonder if that slave was raped? Sometimes they aren't but most times they were.
I doubt the baby of the 3x great grandmother had a lily white baby. Presumably the gene pool was diluted over time. Look at archie battenburg-windsor and look at grandma doria ragland.
@@missladyanonymity Who knows? It has been known to happen. It would be interesting to see on his chart.
@@BUHNANUHBREAD No, it hasn't been known to happen because that's not how genetics works.
“Sometimes slaves weren’t raped” is a false statement.
1% is not a lot. My dna has 2% Irish but I don't have any Irish ancestors going back 6 generations on all branches. My fiance Is suposively 1% Filipino. Traced her family almost 7 to 12 generations on all her branches. No asians
1% African ancestry is higher from white Americans about only about 5-10% of white Americans have that amount
you do realize that if she was not aware that she was part Filipino then that means that at some point her Asian or most probably half Asian ancestor was involved in the age old colonial survival tactic of passing for white. The Philippines were a Spanish colony 1571 to 1898. As Spanish conquistadors were want to do, they made slaves of the population, allowing them to force women they found desirable into sexual servitude of one form or another. At some point her ancestor either the child or grandchild of a colonial Spaniard was able to erase her or his female indigenous identity totally and become white. When that happens, especially in former Spanish colonies where record keepers were only too willing to play along with the desire of a colonial who could pass as white to legally become white , really only DNA will reveal it. In New Orleans you could have it done for a few hundred bucks shortly after the civil war. Ana Navarro had the same experience only her black ancestor was wealthy enough to leave a trace of his existence by publicly disinheriting his son who had chosen to reject him in his pursuit of becoming white and detailing the reason as to why in his will. If he had not they would not have been able to find the connection via public records. You should also be aware that due to the low social status of the Irish in both Brittan and the Americas many Irish also chose to obscure their identities and pass for non Irish in order to get ahead. Many Irish Americans day passed. In that they were not Irish at work or in public records but maintained an Irish identity at home and in their social circle.
Since it is TV, you know they got to hype things LOL
Have you never heard the phrase ‘momma’s baby, poppa’s maybe?’ Even without records being altered or defrauded on purpose, what’s recorded may not always be the genetic truth.
@@animalunaris yes I've heard of this. I also know how to group my DNA matches. Based on what ancestors we have in common. Ancestry DNA have a feature called thrulines. I have thrulines matches for all my great grandparents. Some even as far back as slavery. Example I have DNA matches on thurlines that are my great great great grandfather Edward Thomas brothers descendants. So I get what you're saying but my tree and DNA has been validated. So I stand correct
He can say the N word now
Publicly???
Why would he want to say that? What is the benefit of calling someone that?
@@wsmcke to fulfill the joy of belonging to a group
@@464528You really need to stop using the internet.
A lot of so-called White Americans do not look White to me, Clint looks a bit mixed to me, so does Justin Timberlake, Ryan Reynolds etc. UK
Nah. He is vast majority white and looks like it.
Lmao this is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian!!
What I understood in all this is, one of his grant mothers had sex with an african of the sub sahara decent, because women retain the DNA of every man they had sex with, and when you get pregnant, you collect all the nutrients you can get hold of from you mother, hence the 1% of the black DNA, same with people whose DNA spread across the world,
That is why the world of the Lord asked us to remain faithful to only one partner and not multiple partners, because if we do our lineage will the polluted with all kinds of blood,
Lady carry gene from one region or area to another through sex, that is how sickness , infarmity and deformation are also carried along family line until it gather enough strength to work in the life of a human being, then it will manifest in a new born or when someone with same problem meet with you again the potency become stronger. Because it now have new source of power to fuel it growth.
When you exhibit a symptom that no one in your family line ever had, you or your parent will be wondering how come? None of your parents have this type of problem,
You probably did not know it slipped in through sex long time ago and hid it self till it fully mature to attack.
That is a myth.
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