George Turner in reply to dragonfrog says:

The Taino on Hispanola are upset that we keep claiming there was a complete genocide and that they no longer exist. They say it’s yellow journalism from the Spanish American War, and for some idiotic reason we keep putting it in our textbooks. Perhaps the KKK wanted to keep it in our textbooks to show that Spanish and Italians are both mud people who lack morals, and that Catholics are the greatest threat to life and freedom that mankind has ever known.

There are still Taino tribes that stayed intact in the hills, while the rest blended their own culture with the Spanish, and with us. Caribbean culture is largely native. They taught us to barbecue. Even the word “Cuban” is Taino. About a third of Cubans have Native American maternal DNA, and a majority of Puerto Ricans do. In the Dominican Republic it’s about a fifth.

But that’s not what the Klan wants you to believe. They want you to believe in a total Spanish genocide, because Indians aren’t a threat to white people, Catholic immigrants are. So no more statutes of mud people, because we must fight racism…Report

George Turner in reply to dragonfrog says:

Study of Puerto Rican DNA

It’s interesting because the interview takes you through the history of realizing the Taino weren’t wiped out.

Considering that the history of Puerto Rico suggests that there were no Amerindians on the island by the end of the 16th century, how did you identify such descendants?

According to historian Salvador Brau, the censuses of 1777 and 1787 recorded the existence of some 2,000 Amerindians in the areas of Indiera Alta, Indiera Baja and Indiera Fría. These were descendants of a group of Tainos who, in 1570, decided to intern themselves in the mountainous regions of central Puerto Rico in order to protect themselves from Spanish colonization.

So they got some samples from the few groups suspected of having Taino ancestry and found Amerindian DNA.

What did the analyses of these samples reveal?

More surprises. Of the 18 samples from the Indieras, 10 presented Amerindian mtDNA (55%); of the 5 samples from Miraflores, 4 were Amerindian (80%); of the 33 from the UPRM, 25 were Amerindian (76%). The high incidence of Amerindian mtDNA among these three groups was not in itself surprising because we had intentionally sought out those people who had reason to believe they were of Amerindian ancestry; but it was surprising to find that there was a higher incidence among the university students and personnel than among the inhabitants of the Indieras –who were considered pure Amerindians by the census of 1777 and 1787. This led us to request hair root samples from additional students regardless of their ancestry.

And the students turned out to be mostly Taino. That wasn’t at all expected. So he got another NSF grant to do a representative and random sampling of Puerto Ricans based on the 1990 census.

What do the analyses of these samples suggest?

The results of the analyses of approximately 300 of these samples identify 62% as Amerindian, 30% as African blacks and 8% Caucasian.

Prior to his study, the assumption would’ve been something like 0.1% Amerindian, 30% African blacks, and 69.9% Caucasian – because the Spanish wiped out the Taino. But that’s obviously not what happened because they’re only 8% Caucasian.

The accepted history was a myth, a remnant of a bitter Protestant vs Catholic and English vs Spanish propaganda war, re-emphasized by the yellow press during the Spanish American War, and in part spread by the Klan to make sure Americans rejected Catholics, Italians, and of course Hispanics.

Tearing down monuments to Columbus is buying the racist lies and being a useful tool for the Klan and their historical inventions.Report