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⌈ Secret Post #2786 ⌋

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[Legend of Korra]

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[Digger]

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[Transformers: Animated]

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[World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor]

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[Marvel]

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[Benedict Cumberbatch]

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[Orange is the New Black]

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[Hemlock Grove]

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[Hardy Boys]

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[The Remains of the Day]

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I don't know why people think this is racist or a troll. It's true with my last name so I don't know why it wouldn't happen with others. I'm not colorblind, so it's impossible not to notice that I've never met another white person outside my family who has my common-English-word last name.

And by common I mean as a name it isn't extremely common (which is why I can remember it whenever I meet someone else who has it) but as a word it is.

Nor can I. I don't think I've ever noticed surnames that were exclusive to black people, but I have noticed a lot people share.

That's because most black people in America are descended from slaves, and a lot of them chose the same last name after they were freed.

OK. I am not American, and my ancestors were not African. However. My ancestors were conquered by Europeans, who forcibly baptized them into being Catholics or Anglicans (depending on whether Catholics or Anglicans got to a certain tribe first), and gave them names like White, and Blanchard (think the French "blanc" -- yeah, these would be the ones who were caught by Catholics), in order to forcibly Anglicize/"purify" them, etc.

IDK if the same holds true for the slaves, but it's entirely possible, that that is where these surnames came from.

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