Re: OT: Is New Orleans finished ?

I read in sci.electronics.design that Richard Henry <rphenry@xxxxxxxx> wrote (in <Ae2Te.166231$E95.62660@fed1read01>) about 'OT: Is New Orleans finished ?', on Mon, 5 Sep 2005: 

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There was a kid in my entering class, a Rockefeller/Roosevelt (??), on
scholarship ;-)


Sounds like a tax dodge.


Those names are not exclusive to the famous families. And slaves often took their master's surname, and the by-blows of European sailors in the Caribbean often bore their (departed) father's name; the kid could have been Afro-American or Caribbean-American.
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