Jenny

[Pansity]

Also, perhaps DS was picking up on and utilizing in a limited way a plot twist that was running on OLTL at the time in which a [spoiler]black woman (Carla Gray) was passing herself off as white - and she could get away with it because her skin was so fair.[/spoiler]

Hmm, never saw that soap, but I'm making an educated guess that it may not have been an accident. In doing some background research for fanfiction, I did a lot of reading up on the Rom, and attitudes toward them in that time.  Interesting fact I discovered (and found that someone had also used for a different Rom character in an excellent DS online novel) is that, at the time -- a very racist time when eugenics was used as an excuse for this prejudice -- the Rom were classed as "negro' or "colored". Which, if you think about it,would have horrified our self important Collins family NO end -- not to mention the number of states in which miscegination was a serious crime.

The History work strikes again.     

Jeannie