The Policeman And The Professor - Family Feud?While many in this country, both black and white claim Irish lineage, Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley both go back to the same Irish roots.
As a black man with well documented Scottish-Irish ancestry, this is simply fascinating. There are those that may not look like me, act like me, may even be adversarial to me, and we could be from the same big family.