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Thread #160478   Message #3808534
Posted By: The Sandman
05-Sep-16 - 07:00 PM
Thread Name: Shrewsbury FF to ban 'blacked up' Morris
Subject: RE: Shrewsbury FF to ban 'blacked up' Morris
"Their are no 'yellow skinned people' GSS"
are you saying THERE are no yellow skinned people?
may i draw your attention to the following, yelow girl sung by leadbelly. and this
High yellow, occasionally simply yellow (dialect: yaller, yeller), is a term used to describe persons classified as black according to the one-drop rule, despite having primarily white European ancestry.[1] It is a color reference to the golden skin tone of some mixed-race people. The term was in common use in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century, but is now considered obsolete and sometimes offensive.[2] It is reflected in such popular songs of the era as "The Yellow Rose of Texas"
LES IN CHORLTON, for god sake get your facts right