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the white or black races. I have never seen a single case of reversion to either [illegible] mulatto or negro.
4) "Mulatto + mulatto. Is this usually a mulatto in colour? Our theorists say 25% are pure white skins, 25% pure black skins, & only 50% mulattos" K.P.
This statement of those whom you call the "theorists," is the most ridiculously incorrect of the lot; indeed it would be very comic to make this statement in public before persons who knew. There are now other slight variations from the usual mulatto-brown or mulatto-yellow, but you may be quite certain that no pure black skins or pure white skins come from mulatto + mulatto. You can state this dogmatically.
I trust I have made myself more or less plain. I have to write guardedly in one respect, as I have no experience of hybrid races except in Jamaica, but we have plenty of experience of them here. I came here as an infant of 5 months old, & except for 5 1/2 years spent in London struggling for my M.B. have lived here all my life. I mix with all sorts and combinations of colours, have a large but poor practice, & come into contact with them every day. What I have said is fairly correct.
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