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Originally Posted by Gravdigr
At first I thought this was gonna involve the Black Irish...And I was gonna say "Colored!? Dat's wacist!".
But, it doesn't. So, I can't. Cuz, it isn't.
Carry on. |
Yeah, my grandmother would sometime go off on the damn Black Irish, and it had nothing to do with complexion of the skin, but complexion of the heart.
Referring to all the black people with Irish names, Michener mentioned in Chesapeake that the south had large plantations with hundreds of slaves. But the tidewater area and Delmarva, had hundreds and hundreds of Scots and Irish who had 4 or less slaves. Many of these slaves took their master's names when emancipated.