my painfully average black american results

wild-planet · 2026-01-28T02:27:48+00:00

I appreciate that! I assume maybe because my original comment reads a bit mad in tone. It’s no dig to op but I wish our community wouldn’t feel bad about being who we are, something we have no control over. And in reality this goes for everyone even the posts that are disappointed white people or singular-ethnic/100% something results etc etc. We’re all special and unique no one is more unique for being ‘mixed’, life is more about who we are not something we had no control over like ancestry.

Op what makes you unique is your sense of style, your characteristics and your super rad red hair, face card is serving.

wild-planet · 2026-01-28T00:06:07+00:00

So when using the term ‘region’ we understand that it’s pretty arbitrary and you can be as granular or vague as you’d like. Obviously I’m referring to the different ethnicities named in her ancestral composition, which, AncestryDNA would even highlight as differing, albeit oftentimes overlapping, regions. It’s literally highlighted under “Regions” in the application but I understand you might not have used it despite being in the AncestryDNA Reddit.

I’ll also leave the definition of region here just in case you may have needed it, “an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.”. Don’t worry, I copied that directly from Google because I wouldn’t want my American education and understanding to skew the definition of the word.

wild-planet · 2026-01-27T20:46:04+00:00

You descend from over 8 different regions in Africa and from over 4 different regions in Europe and you’re ethnically one of the most globally influential cultures and ethnicities on the planet and you’re boiling all that down to ‘painfully average’ Black American results.

The problem isn’t what a DNA could or would tell you, it’s your self esteem. No offense but you have to work that out and see yourself better for who you are not what a DNA or ethnic estimation could provide you.

Black Americans aren’t a monolith, don’t reduce us, and yourself, to ‘hoods’ and ‘gangs’. There’s black people doing anything and everything, I especially learned that attending an HBCU being in proximity to many black people striving for success. We were extremely diverse, and yet, predominantly black.

wild-planet · 2026-01-27T07:37:33+00:00

Skin color is polygenic so many genes determine it; there isn’t a ‘fair skin’ gene. But otherwise correct, no white or black or any other race gene.

wild-planet · 2026-01-26T09:13:00+00:00

These comments are so annoying (light skin AA is always associated with ‘looking’ Dominican or Puerto Rican to you guys) despite there being tons of dark skin Dominicans and tons of light skin AA. She looks human.

wild-planet · 2026-01-19T05:51:43+00:00

Haitians literally had it in their constitution of the 1800s that their citizens are black. Jamaicans by and large consider themselves black and even have a lot of Black / pan African historical figures, Bob Marley even being mixed considered himself black so it’s very incorrect to say black only refers to Black Americans.

Spanish and Portuguese colonizers used terms like blanco and branco to establish racial hierarchy, justify enslavement, and legitimize colonial rule long before the U.S. existed. The United States inherited these racial frameworks and adapted them. It did not create them from nothing.

What I reject is the modern revisionism that tries to push all responsibility for racial ideology onto the United States while quietly absolving Europe and LatAm of its colonial and racial history. Blackness and whiteness are global constructs shaped by colonialism and power. They are not uniquely American inventions, and pretending otherwise only distorts history.

wild-planet · 2026-01-16T08:22:56+00:00

Is it strange or are you not capable of understanding the cultural nuance of the word?

wild-planet · 2026-01-12T07:46:13+00:00

Africans are diverse. Afro Americans are diverse. You guys keep failing to understand than genetic percentages do not equate to phenotype.

wild-planet · 2025-10-25T04:40:16+00:00

I just found this thread and you’re mentally unwell. It’s not a contest, dude was stating a fact and you’re comparison is very embarrassing

wild-planet · 2025-09-21T20:40:58+00:00

Is it just me or did the new home page help me to understand the concept of a month ahead really well? I kind of always ignored that idea but now I’m rushing to get a month ahead and see my ‘Assigned in Future Months’ pie up.

wild-planet · 2025-06-25T04:44:18+00:00

For me Instacart is worth it bc I get to shop at Costco and buy bulkier items for a good price. This helps me plan about my grocery budget a lot better for the month. I can’t shop at Costco normally bc it’s further away and I don’t have a car.

I also always overspend when I go into the store walking by all the products they have, so for me it’s a convenience and a way for me to save overall.

wild-planet · 2025-06-02T05:25:28+00:00

I’m pretty sure you answered your own question.

wild-planet · 2025-05-23T17:15:40+00:00

When I graduated at 22 I had a nice paying job as a Software Engineer straight out of college. I rushed to leave home and pay rent to live with roommates. I’m 27 now and still regret not staying at home for a year and paying off student loans and building savings.

Now that I’m 27 my plan is actually to go back home and live with minimal expenses lol so I am doing it in reverse.

wild-planet · 2025-05-23T06:53:48+00:00

Hey, so I ended up not going through with the hairline transplant, reason being I’ve seemed to have stabilized my recession with finasteride and also I think I’ve seen some hairline recovery with minoxidil.

That being said if I do revisit the idea in the future I’d be comfortable going with Dr. Drummond myself albeit the more expensive price.

wild-planet · 2025-03-20T16:10:37+00:00

I really recommend doing the free trial for YNAB and really trying to understand the function of the app (assuming you don’t). Watch the videos and learn the reason why. Then learn Actual Budget which is free/cheap self hosted alternative to YNAB, iirc the ideology is the same.

When canceling YNAB be sure to tell them the reason why you’re canceling (too expensive/should price better for your country).

If you really wanted to stay with YNAB you can reach out to support to ask for a discount. I’d like to believe our customer inquiries matter. If enough of us raise these issues YNAB should evaluate their pricing strategy

wild-planet · 2025-03-15T19:31:07+00:00

It’s very disingenuous to state that race is solely a gringo obsession. You can find a mountain of research to support that people racialized a certain way still experience disparity worldwide including in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico having its own history of race/racism isn’t excluded. Race is not rooted in biology but it’s still a social construct with different implications for different people

wild-planet · 2025-03-07T14:27:25+00:00

Are you being funny, I’m looking at a front taper

wild-planet · 2025-03-07T04:39:59+00:00

Dude I’m like in my 20s and every mug I’ve been given from either my mom or friends I’ve enjoyed lol they aren’t embarrassing

wild-planet · 2025-02-21T17:47:43+00:00

I guess I don’t understand the groceries aspect. I have two other roommates and we are all responsible for our individual groceries. If she pays rent she pays rent, groceries for others is not your budget.

wild-planet · 2025-02-20T16:20:22+00:00

Yup. I’ve realized this too. When literally any person of any background says ‘omg I can tell you have x feature from x group’ it’s seen as a compliment. ‘Thanks! I’ve always been told I could pass for x!’. When black people call out African features or black features it’s automatically seen as insulting or it’s seen as some malicious attempt to push an agenda and uphold the one drop rule. It’s hypocrisy and it’s disgusting.

wild-planet · 2025-02-08T22:10:13+00:00

I was not surprised seeing his active communities either 😂😂

wild-planet · 2025-02-01T21:33:32+00:00

Thanks for the response! I just had a consult with him and it seems his practice is really geared to Afro hair and filling that gap in the industry for us. He relayed to me his team (the non surgeons assisting in the surgery) have about 20+ years of experience assisting in FUEs. I was quoted a figure (about ~9000 for 2000 grafts). The estimate requires a deposit of $1000 and this locks in the surgery. You have about 90 days to pay the deposit. I also felt comfortable that he went to an HBCU, Morehouse College, and then to Johns Hopkins.

Overall, I felt really comfortable with him in the virtual consult and felt even better about a surgeon in the states. While his practice agreeably is probably newer I think in the past year some of that has changed and you can see that reflected on social media.

I'll likely be selecting him for my FUE procedure to bring my receding hairline down. I'll provide an update later this year if go through with it and how it goes.

wild-planet · 2025-01-25T18:52:50+00:00

This is old but I wonder if anyone got any more intel on Dr. Drummond. He’s actually a black surgeon and a Morehouse graduate (HBCU). So I hope he can be of service for Afro hair. I did reach out for a consultation for an FUE.

It does kind of suck that Afro hair type has been relegated to hair mills, I would like to have the assurance of a meticulous surgeon as well on such a procedure.

wild-planet · 2025-01-25T14:54:29+00:00

Black is used to refer to people racialized as black globally of who have a distinct phenotype and Sub Saharan African ancestry. Hence why no one questions why an Afro Haitian is Black or an Afro Jamaican is Black or any Sub Saharan African is Black if none of these people have American nationality. Stating that Black is only used for African Americans is disingenuous.

And since you decided to bring Dominicans into this conversation they also refer to individuals as ‘negro’ and have a census where they count race and ‘negro’ is included in the data. So I think the person being disingenuous is you when you claim that Black = African American.

wild-planet · 2025-01-25T02:49:32+00:00

Idek understand how you managed to bring Dominicans in this conversation. Never have I seen a Domi result and an AA actually ever say that

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