Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
Originally Posted by sactoller
Originally Posted by JamesJr
Originally Posted by Morewood
I don't know how many black Frenchmen ran dog sleds delivering mail in the Yukon but I imagine there weren't many.



Political correctness in the year 2020 means that you have to include at least one Negro in every movie, television show, commercial, or anything else that the public will see. The authenticity of the scene being filmed does not matter, as most of the people who pay to watch that stuff have been so brainwashed, that they don't know the truth anyway.


Yep...you nailed it!

It's not at all far fetched. A black frenchman running mail in real life is entirely possible. The book is fiction and London didn't assign any race to the man. If London wanted the man to be an Indian he would have said so but for the rest of his characters he said nothing. A black is entirely possible.


Some people are shocked to know that Sandwich Islanders aka "Kanakas" we’re employed in the fur trade in the NW early on like 1810-11 ish. Lots of em!

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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester

"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

WS