...George Washington’s name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation’s history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities — and people.
In a puzzling twist, most of these people are black. The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American, a far higher black percentage than for any other common name...Now didn't I learn in elementary school social studies about slaves taking the master's surname.....????
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Or-- taking the Washington name because they admired the man?
ReplyDelete... waiting for the reference to Washington being "the father of his country."
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