41. "Yeah, I read about him recently, during all of this." In response to In response to 36
I pause about him, because looking at him when he was younger, one could have made that mistake. The abuse he received as a child for his (and his brother's) looks... make me wonder if one of his parents were not telling the truth about their own parentage.
And it doesn't seem like he was legitimately trying to deceive people. As far as he knew, he had 2 Irish parents, but the black people embraced him in a way the rest of society didn't.