Yancey –1 – 8 just myself. Because you have so many more different types of interactions with folks of different cultures and that sort of thing.
Q: When you say that you’re white—and I know this is kind of a weird question. What does it mean to be white? What makes someone white?
Yancey: [09:09:02] I guess scientifically speaking, it means to be white because you are—the scientific word’s Caucasian. Exactly what that means [gestures confusion] I’m not a hundred percent sure. I know a lot of forms that you fill, you know, ask your race. And some of them ask are you white, black, Hispanic, whatever. Some use the phrase Caucasian. I don’t know that there is such a thing as pure white. I traced my ancestry back to where I know I’m part Scotch, Irish, French, German, and just a teeny bit of Polish. So, some of those may be considered something other than just pure white. I know what Hitler’s concept was and that sucked.
Q: When you say you traced it back, did you do like a DNA test or—?
Yancey: [09:10:00] No, no. I just kind of you know, followed back with the old-timers in my family and asked questions of where were your parents born? Where did you come from? And all this, that, and the other. And just learning by just asking the family questions.
Q: Why did you want to do that? Why was it interesting—?