no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee

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• no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea

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no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee

1. One's blood quantum (percentage of person's ancestors who are full-blooded Native Americans) does not nullify indigenous identity.
   • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.