re: #38 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Since I confessed one sin from when I was 5, here I will confess that in 2000 I encouraged my wife to list her race as Native American in the census because her family tree showed that she is a descendant of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. I now realize that was insensitive, but fortunately Mrs. Aagcobb is unlikely to run for a high office.

My great-great grandmother was an Oglala Sioux. Married a white man. Faced HORRIBLE racism. Their daughter married a white man. By the time my grandmother was born she could pass…she had black eyes and dark hair that she curled and I do not remember that woman ever going near the sun. She refused to say she had Indian blood….”I’m not a dirty Injun.”

I suspect my family’s experience is very common.