On Sat 21 Jun 2008 02:15:14p, Kathleen told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> On Sat 21 Jun 2008 10:14:44a, George Shirley told us...
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>>>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>>>On Sat 21 Jun 2008 05:51:43a, Kathleen told us...
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>>>>>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>>>>>On Fri 20 Jun 2008 10:19:51a, Kathleen told us...
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>>>>>>>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>>>>>>>No, I wouldn't. However, I see no reason why whites would
>>>>>>>>necessarily celebrate the end of slavery. We weren't slaves.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Not *then*. But it's certainly a scourge that might have spread
>>>>>>>based on various bogus racial or socio-economic standards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I doubt that would have ever happened in the South where black
>>>>>>slavery predominated and there was far more racial distinction than
>>>>>>class distinction.
>>>>>
>>>>>But what happens when racial lines blur? There were slaves whose
>>>>>fathers and grandfathers were white.
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>>>>For many years I believe there was a law that a certainly very low
>>>>percentage of "black" made you totally black. This was true long after
>>>>the Emancipation.
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>>>It was certainly true in New Orleans until well into the Twentieth
>>>Century. White and black could not marry, even if the so-called "black"
>>>had only 1/64th black blood.
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>> Yep, that's the fraction I couldn't remember.
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>
> I guess the modern day equivalent would be the Cherohonkee - a white
> person with a teaspoonful of native american blood going around wearing
> buckskin, beads and braids.
>

It's easy to witness that in the Phoenix area.

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Wayne Boatwright
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