Their are no 'yellow skinned people' GSS. Please read what Dave wrote above it's the best post on the racist nature of this issue I have ever read.

As for the historical issue I repeat the question - will Border Morris acknowledge the historical link to Minstrelsy? If not why not?

"Les, I doubt many Border sides would know what Minstrelsy is let alone base their blackface on it."

They seem quite well versed in the link with the 'disguise' hypothesis and so to much earlier folk Art events. Where did they, and other defenders, get that from whilst being totally unfamiliar with the much more obvious evidence of the link to Minstrelsy.

Thanks very much to Dave above - well evidenced, argued and written.