I just noticed that I wrote the "29th century" in one of my earlier post to this thread. I would hope that by that century-if there is "still" such a thing as different races, folks will consider them as nothing more than valueless descriptors.

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That said, the past is still not that long ago and personal racism still exists as does institutional racism. Ron Davis, I looked up the words to Henry Clay Work's song in the Digital Tradition. Here the link to that song.

I can well imagine that it took a lot of courage for Work to be an abolitionist. I can also imagine that this song was very forward looking for its day. But if you are asking me does knowing the background of that song make the dialect and the "darky" references easier for me to stomach, my answer in a word is "no".