On 01/04/2021 03:55, rbowman wrote:
On 03/31/2021 12:38 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

Judging by looks, I'd say he was 50/50.* I'd say "halfcast", not "black".

I was an avid reader as a kid and after tiring of 'Look Jane! See Sally
suck Dick!' I moved on to my mother's collection, one of which was a
Civil War era novel by Frank Yerby called 'Foxes of Harrow'. It enriched
my vocabulary. My 7th grade teacher was puzzled when I submitted
'octoroon' as a new word since she didn't have a clue what it meant. She
probably didn't need to know that Stephen Fox was screwing an octoroon
on the side. There are also quadroons and the more familiar mulatto.

I used to know a man who married an octoroon... (No, it isn't the start
of a joke.)

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Max Demian