Breeding Quote by Ishmael Reed

“For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.”

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Breeding Comedian Cousin Firsts Generations Grandpa Jokes Knows Made Marrying My own Scots South Stuff

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