Riverdancing Black woman accused of "cultural appropriation", so Riverdance team asks her to dance
Great video!
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"I was always the only one ever in my class"
But not the last I hope!
The folks who went after her never heard of "Black Irish?" 
They were so much more than just "The Boys are Back in Town".
Paul McGrath is an Irish legend. What's more; he's my hero. Before I knew my own middle name, Paul McGrath was entrenched in my mind as my hero. My first hero. I can't explain why, or how but he is. I was a simple 6 year old just realising that there was an outside world when Paul McGrath entered my consciousness.
Paul McGrath is rightfully revered as one of Ireland's greatest players. He's had some tragic struggles in his life, but his public heroics on a football field were fantastic. He was a humble and shy player despite his legendary play. He's still a humble and shy man, and is someone Irish football is grateful to have had.
https://www.balls.ie/football/163426-paul-mcgrath-birthday-tribute-163426
Why is that??
"I got thrown out of 'Riverdance' - I moved my arms......" 
Loved Stephen Wright
Well, ironically, now you can!!! 
as did sweet potatoes, chocolate, and chewing gum, plus many other plants and some animals.
What we call yams are really sweet potatoes, which are native to the Americas. (I use "Americas" instead of "New World" since the term "Americas" is more geologically accurate and less Eurocentric because the Americas are not new to their Native inhabitants.) Yams are native to Africa and are more yellow in color and less sweet. Americans picked up the word "yam" from enslaved Africans who used their own word for the sweet potato which looks so similar to what they were familiar with.
I mentioned Italian in reference to tomato sauce for pasta because their sauce with the spices they use for it have become well identified with them.
The word "chiclet" as a brand name for gum came from the Native American (Nahuatl, I think) word "chicle" which is still the word for gum in Mexico. The word chocolate is from the Nahuautl (Aztec) word "xocolatl."
Although the potato is apparently from Peru originally, it spread to some other American regions before Columbus stumbled into the American continents. The word came into English from Spanish. Spaniards got the word from Native people of the Caribbean region.
The history and pre history of human beings has always been full of cultural exchanges of foods, languages, religious beliefs, customs, technologies, etc. I'd bet that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals borrowed from each other, too.
on his mother's side.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/rediscovering-obamas-irish-roots/amp
..."In the tiny village of Moneygall, on the border of Offaly and Tipperary, the Kearney family turned to shoemaking. By the arrival of the Great Famine, they’d joined millions of fellow-citizens who were hungry for a restart. When, in 1850, the Kearney family learned that a relative in America had bequeathed them a parcel of land, Falmouth Kearney, then nineteen years old, set out from his twelve-and-a-half-foot-wide house for Liverpool. There, he boarded a New York-bound coffin ship, so named for the high mortality rate among passengers. From New York, Kearney, an intense-looking man with a pressed-down mat of dark hair, made his way to Ohio, and married an Ohio woman named Charlotte Holloway. They had children and resettled, eventually, in Indiana, where Kearney worked as a farmer. Their youngest daughter had children of her own, and those children had children, and those children had children. One of the little Irish babies was Barack Obama."....(more at link)
But I think more because the hair style had been denigrated for years by "society" and resulted in many schools banning black students from wearing it, like what continues to happen with wearing dreads or twist styles today or afros in the past, where "Karens" will be sure to enforce it -
And then Bo Derek appears... and it somehow "legitimizes" it. 
and came back and took classes at the YMCA for awhile!
Morgan Bullock is Spectacular.. I really enjoyed this.. Mahalo, Takket!
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She's a fantastic dancer. The Riverdance Company showed great good sense in tapping an enormous new talent.
Go Irish or go home! 
I will be watching for Morgan Bullock performing with the Riverdance team.
