US Representative,NY-14 (BX & Queens). In a modern, moral, & wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. 
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Before everyone jumps one me - yes, culture isn’t DNA. But to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of: African Moors + slaves, Taino Indians, Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others. We are all of these things and something else all at once - we are Boricua.https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1071940840296198144 …
Just because one concrete identity may not be how we think of ourselves today, nor how we were raised, it doesn’t mean we cannot or should not honor the ancestors + stories that got us here. I was raised Catholic, & that identity is an amalgam too - especially in Latin America.
If anything, the stories of our ancestry give us windows of opportunity to lean into others, to seek them out, and see ourselves, our histories, and our futures, tightly knit with other communities in a way we perhaps never before thought possible.
People ask all the time if I’m Puerto Rican and I’m always like “I wish I was that cool.” #sisepuede #vamanos
No worries. We are a welcoming bunch. We can make you an honorary PR. I do it in baseball season all of the time.
Do an DNA test you’ll never know untill it’s examined
And even then - DNA testing an ancestory analysis is an extremly difficult science and might get things totally wrong. Unless protein folding is solved, we can't model how DNA affects who we are and they might be 100% wrong about the relevant categories.
Clearly, http://Ancestry.com & http://23andMe.com would agree with you.
Good morning AOC 
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