IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK DUTCH ANCESTRY OF THE MESTEE (MIXED BLOOD) GROUPS OF MY ANCESTORS. MELUNGEONS, CAROLINA PORTUGUESE, BRASS ANKLES, LUMBEE and REDBONES
Some Redbones in the past have even called some other Redbones "Redneck" and "White Trash" and also "N-lover". This was during a time when the African ancestry was called into question a couple of years back.
What else were they going to call them...."Redbones"?
{Note: Redbone Historian Don Marler replied that Redbones would go after each other like their Dogs go after a Feral Hog in a fight. They were right, and so do Melungeons, Lumbees, Carolina Portuguese, Black Dutch and others. Temperament is these groups run high.}
In this regard, those terms were used in the same fashion by the White population in the 1800's calling people Melungeon or Redbone. No different at all and what a shame to use those terms for their own cousins.
And "Redneck", is a derogatory racial epitaph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
Sadly, the use of derogatory racial terms continues even in Mestee communities and even though we have tried to turn those terms into a moniker of pride and identity in our mixed ancestors.
The Mestee Communities were called several racial epitaphs. Redbone, Melungeon, Brass Ankles, Marlboro Blues, Cooperhead people, Guineas, Dominickers, Dominos and many many others these are just a few.
However, there were only six terms that the Mestee Maroon Communities used for themselves and all six would take a separate article that we will not go into at this time.
These six terms are....
1. Black Dutch (meaning Black German) a term used to explain dark racial phenotype features such as Black hair color by far the most popular term
2. Portuguese (a historic term used by various Mestee communities throughout the United States) Used by several Maroon communities
3. Black Irish (meaning a Dark haired person of Irish ancestry) rare but sometimes used in Mestee communities
4. Indian (Native American)
5. Blackfoot (Eastern Native American)
6. Cherokee (Native American)
We will look into these terms later....right now our focus is on the term Black Dutch which my family used
http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/164/1/The-Elusive-Black-Dutch-of-the-South/Page1.html
According to Wikipedia...
Black Dutch
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Black Dutch is a term with several different meanings in United States dialect and slang. It generally refers to racial, ethnic, or cultural roots, but its meaning is different in different parts of the nation. A few different groups of people have used the term "Black Dutch," often as ancestral reference. 
Black Dutch is an American ethnic designation no longer used officially but often found in the lore passed down in certain families of mixed ancestry, especially those of
Cherokee descent. In common usage, it does not imply African admixture, although some families that use the term are of tri-racial descent.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dutch
My family has used three terms 1. Black Dutch 2. Cherokee and on rare occasions 3. Portuguese.
During a family reunion once my father replied when the question of ethnic ancestry came up in our family "We are Black Dutch, Cherokee and Black (African)".
Because our phenotype ranges from Northern European to Mediterranean, this shocked some family members (the younger ones) the older generations did not say a word, no denial, nothing.
We were always brought up with being of partial Cherokee heritage, my Uncle used the moniker of "Squatche" for me saying I was "a little Indian crapper" (laughing and remembering) yet he was not far from the truth as my DNA is very high in Mestizo ancestry.
The only time I do remember being signaled out was once being called a "Guinea Wop" by a guy in Houston. When I asked mom and dad what was a "Guinea Wop" Dad immediately went out and beat the guy up. And that is the thing with racial epitaphs, when it is among family and cousins that is fine, but you never know when someone is going to be offended. What was Dad mad about? It was because the person used it in a derogatory manner.
Some say this about Redbone and Melungeon terms, but why not use those terms, if (like the term Redneck) you can use those terms as a source of pride I say why not? The terms today are not used in derogatory manner are they? What greater way to recognize our mixed blood heritage by turning the terms around and using them as a source of pride?
So I say,
You know what, I am damn proud to be a Guinea Wop Black Dutch!
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