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But Banks chooses to begin with the medicine men and priests in Africa, who are, he asserts, the ancestors of contemporary African-American intellectuals.
Cultivars (domesticated varieties) have been selected by humans in the last 10,000 years and inevitably represent a subset of the variation found in their wild ancestors.
Imagine how they'd feel if tests revealed their ancient ancestors were white men . Worse, imagine how Ken Burns would feel.
While bumps (1592) as `gestures of concupiscence' (1340) are now automatically associated with grinds, our ancestors used many words to describe lumps (1475) in the skin.
So before the next time one of these language elitists rolls up into a 7-11 and talks trash about the Indian guy behind the counter speaking broken English, he should instead thank the Indian guy because his precious English language was "invented" by the Indians' ancestors.