Episode 88: I Got Indian In My Family

Another Round

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're trying something a little different: we team up with our friends at WNYC's Only Human podcast to find Tracy's roots. Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, she always heard that her ancestors were, in her mother's words, "black, white and American Indian." But, like many black Americans, she's found it hard to trace her family heritage with ancestors forced into the American slave trade. So Tracy turns to DNA ancestry tests, and experts on DNA and race, to find out where she comes from.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm heaven. I'm Tracy and you're listening to another round with heaven and Tracy. Oh, and we're so Tracy today
0:08.4	Every time I try my MPR boys are like my public radio voice. It wasn't that
0:13.4	I feel like you have to say I'm more like a yoga teacher. Why are we doing a okay great?
0:17.3	Public radio voice story because we have a public radio friend here with us
0:22.3	We are in the studio because we're doing something a little bit different this week, okay?
0:25.7	Yeah, no that we have feelings about white dudes and who gets the comments of the studio
0:29.4	True disclaimer. There's a white dude here
0:32.3	But it's a moment at this very moment. His name is Kenny Malone or as we like to call him
0:37.4	Kenny Malone
0:39.4	Hi, Kenny Malone hey guys
0:41.7	This is the best this is the best introduction I've ever had
0:45.9	You're welcome. You're welcome. So Kenny has reported with the amazing podcast only human from W and W
0:51.6	Studios they have these very very deeply reported stories on science and medicine you came to us for the science because we
0:58.3	Needed the science right because I can't science by myself. We science together. We've been science. Yeah
1:04.4	So we've been working on the story for a year it involves all kinds of amazing twists and turns and most I think most significantly
1:12.1	Tracy's mother Velva
1:14.2	With who I've become great Facebook friends Tracy's not friends with her mother on Facebook
1:18.8	We talk about you all the time. So at any rate you guys are gonna play the story that we've been working on and I'm just here to
1:25.2	To say hi
1:27.2	And PR it out. Oh, oh, can you give us an MPR closer?
1:31.7	For only human I'm Kenny Malone. Oh, man. Can I do that with another round?
1:40.1	But another realm I'm chargacy Clay
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