Running from Race
As I watch “Finding Your Roots” on PBS, a weekly habit, I am reminded that all of us who claim ancestry of “Melungeon” or “Cherokee princess” ancestry need to recognize the genetic truths — many of us have Black ancestors. I can document hundreds of “white” folks who moved around Appalachia, from places in East Tennessee and/or SW Virginia into various counties of Eastern Kentucky, to escape labels of “colored”.It has long been documented that the poor white (English) indentured…