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Thread #78748 Message #1421384
Posted By: GUEST,milk monitor
26-Feb-05 - 07:28 AM
Thread Name: Padstow Darkie Days
Subject: RE: Padstow Darkie Days
For generations Padstow folk have taken the opportunity to "black up" and parade around the town and its pubs singing minstrel songs which, although well-known, have not lost their politically incorrect words which some people have described, along with the tradition itself, as racist. "
A direct quote from The Cornish Guardian. Sorry there's no link to this either. Maybe the confusion lies in Cornish people having differing views on the tradition?