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Delaware And Other Moors
uring the Civil Rights
protests and sit-ins in Baltimore City, we used a strategy that called for a white- looking Black couple to enter a restaurant or other establishment to be served. Upon completion of their meal or other activities for which they paid, organizers would then send a Black-looking couple into the same establishment to be served.
After the Black couple was rejected, the organizers informed the management of the facilities that they had just served a Black couple, to the astonishment of the white management.
The white-looking couples usually had blonde or red hair; blue or green eyes and could not be identified as Black. The white-looking couples usually came from an area in Delaware called Cheswold, located in Kent County and others located in Sussex County, five miles north of the state capitol, Dover, Delaware. Usually, everyone living in those areas were related by blood or marriage with ties to the Nanticoke Indians and descendants of Indian River Hundred “Angola.”
The town was named
Angola because slaves imported there came from Angola, Africa.
White-looking Blacks are usually referred to as being “tri-racial” or Molungeon. Historically, Molungeons were associated with the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia area which includes portions of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky.
The term tri-racial describes populations thought to be mixed European, African, and Native American ancestry.
Enclaves of these White African Americans were located along the tidewater of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts where swamps, islands, and peninsulas protected and isolated them. They also exist in groups located in Delaware and Southern New Jersey, and form at least two hundred other communities through- out America.
Said to have descended from Free People of Color during the Colonial era, tri- racial groups are also found in Maryland, the Florida Panhandle, Indiana, Louisiana, New York, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. Even though they live in different states, researchers say that each of these groups of tri- racial populations are connected going back to common ancestry in Colonial Virginia.
Isolation in their groups by marshes, swamps, or “accessible and barren mountain country,” favored their intermarriage and population growth. Other pockets of these groups are located in the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. There is a “predominance of limited surnames within each group, and is in line with the conclusion and indicative of their high degree of endogamy (intermarriage). Cheswold incorporated in 1856 after the construction of the Delaware Railroad.
Today, Cheswold boasts of a history of originally being populated by members of the Lenape Indian tribe, Scottish immigrants and African slaves. Today, they celebrate their heritage with a Heritage Day Festival every summer. Cheswold was the home to J. Caleb Bogs, who served as Governor of Delaware, three terms as a U. S. Representative and two terms as a U. S. Senator; and the Cheswold Tigers, a winning minor league baseball team (1950-1960).
Indeed, skin color does not necessarily confirm a person’s race. Taking a summer vacation to some of the Moor towns in America will prove to be interesting and enlightening.
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‘Pettifog’
ow, here’s a new word for you – fresh from the cor- nucopia of Trump-era terms of double-talk and petty-arcane. The word is “pettifog.” And it means
the habit of applying “overly-weighty values” to issues that hardly merit the moment. It reminds us wherein one voice says, “I’m not picking it up. You pick it up,” before another voice announces, “I’ll pick it up because I’m clean!”
The irony of the entire “trial” is that neither Republi- cans nor Democrats are talking about how to keep Trump or any other President from hijacking Congressional ap- proved funds again until the intended payee renders a favor. That and that alone is what we want to hear them talk about and prevent in the future.
Another bit of irony is that, if President (Barack) Obama had been caught and had done the same thing, based upon how Republicans treated and terrorized him for the eight years he was in office; he would have been impeached months ago and sent home to Chicago.
To hear pettifoggers tell it, nobody would ever be clean. Consequently, Republicans and Democrats in the current impeachment debate have fallen in love with Pet- tifogging, talking about everything except for the reason for his behavior and proof that Trump did what he was accused of doing. Yes, Trump was caught with his hand in the cookie jar and expects Americans to believe he stole the cookie because he thought Joe Biden may have eaten cookies, too. How smart does that sound?
REALLY! Obviously, they still can’t figure out “who should pick it up.”
State
Senator Perry Thurston Designated 2022- 2024 Leader Of Democratic Caucus
TALLAHASSEE – In a unanimous vote of support, members of the Senate Demo- cratic Caucus on Wednesday designated Broward Democ- rat, Senator Perry E. Thurston, Jr., as their leader for the 2022-2024 legislative term.
Senator Thurston said, “I am deeply honored by the Caucus’ vote and confidence they have placed in me. The 2022-2024 will be a critical time for the state of Florida as new districts are drawn, every seat in the legislature is up for election, and Democrats con- tinue their push for bolder leadership in the Sunshine State.”
A native
Floridian,
Senator
Thurston
was born in
Pompano
Beach. He is a
graduate of
Morehouse
College in At-
lanta, Geor-
gia, and the
Miami School of Law. He is a former public defender, and now practices public finance and criminal defense.
Senator Thurston was first elected to the Florida Leg- islature in 2006, and served in the House of Representatives until 2014, rising to become
House Minority Leader in his final two years. He was elected to the Florida Senate in 2016.
Senator Thurston has been an outspoken proponent of expanding affordable healthcare to the people of Florida, as well as voting rights restoration for ex-felons, mar- riage equality, and a more di- verse judiciary.
He has been married to Dawn Thurston for the past 32 years, and they have two children, Alison and Perry, III.
His term is expected to fol- low Senator Gary Farmer, who will take the helm as Sen- ate Democratic Leader in No- vember, 2020.
SENATOR
PERRY E. THURSTON, JR.
University of
FYI
Massive Grocery Giveaway
True Prosperity Outreach Ministry will host a Massive Grocery Giveaway on New Year’s Eve, Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 5:30 p. m. The event is free and there will be free food, clothes and other give- aways – five pounds of a variety of fresh produce, frozen meat, dry
goods, and bread and bakery items.
The giveaway kicks off at 5:30 p. m. at 8751 N. 40th St., Tampa
33604.
For additional information, contact Apostle Cornelius and Pas-
tor Devlyn Hamilton at (813) 965-7796 or (813) 380-0258, or go to tpeo.org., or trueprosperityoutreach@gmail.com.
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