Dear Editor,
An old schoolmate, who after graduating MULO on Aruba, studied and worked in Holland until he retired back in Aruba, got hold of me. He told me that he follows my writing on line and congratulated me for taking a stand.
During our conversation he said something that awoke my curiosity. He explained that his Dutch colleagues would always talk about Antillean men cheating. They would argue with each other concerning cheating and eventually the consensus would be that Dutch men might cheat but they do not make outside children.
As usual my mind was off and racing and I thought back of all the Antillean families with Dutch last names, Jansen and Van Putten being only two of the many Dutch last names all over the Netherlands Antilles. By now we know that through DNA research, the origin of people from literally all over the world can be determined.
Owing to the fact that the Dutch have forever been in the Antilles and that the kingdom of the Netherlands consists of approximately only 18 million inhabitants, and with the people of the Netherlands Antilles having relatives on all six islands, how likely would it be that through DNA research it is determined that approximately 60 percent of the people of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are related?
Russell A. Simmons
