aria_star says in a thread in

inbetweenies On my mom's side, I'm a direct descendant of Pocahontas and of a black slave... thus making this officially the stupidest "I'm not racist but..." argument I've ever seen in my life. Mind you, the whole post is made of crazy, so there's more than just race wank, there's size wank too. Enjoy!

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mary_mac
2007-04-28 07:16 pm UTC (link)

Exactly. Personally am of the opinion that both sides needed to grow up, preferably before they managed put massive holes in their national heritage, but I am a historian, and thus biased. Between the Penal Laws and the national streak of imbecility, Irish genealogy is way, way more harder than it has any right to be. OK, nobody could spell, but its not like anyone ever went anywhere!

It gets even more fun when, like my aunt, you apply for a job in the British Foreign Office and they want your parent's birth certificates, and your parents were both born before 1921...these are the kind of enquiries which prompt the nice lads at the National Archives to offer to photocopy some ashes on a page and/or tell the people concerned where they can put their birth certificates.

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