Are some african americans 100 percent sub saharan african ancestry?

Question

because in african american lives dey are all mixed none of them are 100 percent sub saharan african ancestry

Answer 1

Some are.

An awful lot have some European ancestors, thanks to a slave owner who trifled with the help. It was an ugly fact of slavery most history books gloss over.

If you read old southern wills, you see the phrase "treat with considerable kindness" crop up a lot, as in "I give my Negr0 boy Moses to my daughter Polly and her husband and entreat them to treat him with considerable kindness" .

I am convinced it is code for "He's your half brother. Don't sell him down the river."

Note 1, Most people spell "dey" "they", unless they want people to think they took elocution lessons from Butterfly McQueen.

Note 2, Y!A aster-spalts a word that meant "Black"  in the USA from 1607 to 1967. Not the one that rhymes with "trigger" - the one I used with an a "0" instead of an "o".

Answer 2

Instead of guessing, opt for the educated view of genealogy.  E.g., read "Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes" by Steve Olson.  On page 55, he states: "On average, one-fifth to one-quarter of their DNA (i.e., African Americans) comes from Europeans."  He further notes that all humans mix constantly (interbreed), so there is no such thing as 100% ANYTHING, including sub-Saharan.  On pages 51 - 53, he explains how the sub-Saharan tribes migrated south along the west coast of Africa, spread east to the east coast of Africa, some of them then migrating south along the east coast.

He further states that everyone on earth today is descended from people living only 1,600 years ago; that is all the further back one needs to go to find a common ancestor.

A DNA test will bear this out.  I used www.familytreedna.com, but there are others out there.

One further comment: one of my sons does a lot of text-messaging: he uses "dey" in lieu of "they", "tc" for "take care", etc., for brevity.  Still, proper English on this site makes it easier to understand what one is saying.