Thanks Cats, you bring much education to this thread.

I would simply make the point again and again and again; Some people are uneasy and some people are offended when white people black up.


I would go with Jim Lad:

"Those who don't know any better, should.
Those who do know better and still continue this sort of behaviour are guilty of bigotry."

If the "Darkies" have become "Mummers" why can't the rainbow up?

I think it is academically, in the true sense of the word, unsound to seek knowledge from the alledged history of most Morris.

I am glad that the ealier abuse has left this thread. It was begining to feel if some of those people were just simply abusive.