I was always told that "Wops" came from the south of Italy and "Dagos" from the North (NOI!!!!) or vice versa, can't remember. This was used to explain to me why mom and dad's very good friends were Italian, yet blonde!

The only real prejudice I feel I grew up with was towards sheepherders, esp. Mormon ones, because of a dispute my cattle ranching greatgrandfather had with them.He killed one in self-defense in a shootout, they tried to get the court to hang him until the widow came forward and testified that it was the best thing anyone had ever done for her. Her son became my grandad's best friend. (this original material is one of dad's many stories which will be in a book I am working on.)

When people ask my daughter if her husband is black (when they see her twin baby boys, who are mixed) she says, "He is Antiguan". To her, and the rest of us, there is no colour; as she puts it, "We are all of the human race".

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