why besides george,doesnt any white people have the last name washington or davenport?not being racist?

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Answer 1

Sorry, but the whitest person I've ever met in my life has the last name of Washington.

Answer 2

I know several white Davenport families in southern Illinois, but no Washingtons. Why is it that when the slaves were given the opportunity to pick a last name so many picked White?

Answer 3

Not a tennis fan, are you. Check out Lindsay Davenport -she's white. Actually, I've never known anyone named Davenport who was black. I've known more people named Washington who are black than white, but a few whites with that name as well.

Answer 4

Washington by no skill had any legally known babies. With the top of the Civil war, slaves -- whose surnames, if that they had one, indicated their possession -- have been in a position to come to a decision on names of their very own. on the time, Washington replaced into probable the perfect-hassle-free and respected call a individual ought to take. while the African American Civil war Memorial, which lists the names of the extra desirable than 200,000 united states of america colored Troops who served interior the war, replaced into unveiled in Washington in 1998, Edwin Washington of the Afro-American historic and Genealogical Society calculated that a million,885 of those squaddies have been named Washington. almost a million/2 of them have been named George Washington. yet another 15 have been named many times used Washington. Why so few white Washingtons? It wasn't that hassle-free a acceptance to start with in early united statesa..

Answer 5

I know two people with the last name of Davenport, they are both white, so is the rest of their family...I don't know any Washington's...at least not personally.

Answer 6

I know plenty of white people with the name Davenport.

Answer 7

Didn't know about Davenport...only two Davenports I've known in my life were white.

Have you ever noticed that...in sports...anybody with the last name "White" is almost always black, while anybody with the last name "Black" is always white?

Answer 8

I think when slaves were freed many of them chose last names for themselves and many picked names of former presidents. I didn't know Davenport was common so I don't know about that.

Answer 9

I have also wondered about this exact question and also have no good answer for it . "Jefferson" also seems to be a mostly black name as well. Presumably, a lot of slaves took the names after George and Tom. The first name "Otis" is also mostly black, it seems. I am white and so was my uncle, Otis, but when I spoke of him to someone once, he asked me "You have a black uncle?" Now that's stereotyping!

Answer 10

I know a Lincoln Franklin Washington who is white, not.