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0 pointssumedh2y ago0 comments

> The greatest Russian writer ever was black, Alexander Pushkin.

Wiki says his great grandfather was black. I am not sure how you jumped to the conclusion that Pushkin was black.

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Isn't that the distinction used by at least some people in US - you're black if you had any black ancestors (at least in traced history)?

Not for 60 years or more. That's part of old slave laws and not popular with modern America except with the KKK crowd

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0 pointssumedh2y ago0 comments

> The greatest Russian writer ever was black, Alexander Pushkin.

Wiki says his great grandfather was black. I am not sure how you jumped to the conclusion that Pushkin was black.

Isn't that the distinction used by at least some people in US - you're black if you had any black ancestors (at least in traced history)?

Not for 60 years or more. That's part of old slave laws and not popular with modern America except with the KKK crowd

jwilk2y ago

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