Jack Kemp

As a pre-teen, I stopped growing at five feet, my mother's height. My parents got me to our family physician where I received growth injections of Human Growth Hormone (HGH). I shot up seven additional inches.

Only in recent years, while reading a book on the health food store and medical product HGH, did I find out that while all medical HGH now is synthetic, in the years I took it, HGH came from dead African blacks (probably from their adrenal glands). My family certainly wasn't told this and I even wonder if my doctor knew its origins.

So, if I now use the Elizabeth Warren standard of genetic racial identity, I wonder if I now can claim - without the DNA test that Warren refused to take for years - that I am part African? I suddenly have a craving for yams (I actually eat them all the time) and roasted breadfruit and oxtail soup. I may be as African as Barack Obama!

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