White Supremacists Are Using DNA Tests To Prove Their Whiteness

Andrew remembers feeling a “tinge of apprehension” when he logged on to 23andMe.

Several weeks earlier, he’d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers’ DNA to estimate where their ancestors came from.

But when he clicked on his color-coded ancestry chart, he felt relief: 99.7 percent European.

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