A story from Private Eye. Two Daily Mail hacks, that being a notoriously racist paper (see "Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies), were sent to trace the slave-ancestry of the black one of the two. One of them was a black man, David Williams, one was a white women, Suzanne Moore.
The editor liked the idea, but he didn't like the price of sending them both off first class to the Americas. An obvious solution presented itself: she would travel first class, he who was only the descendant of slaves would travel steerage.
Goat class, as Private Eye put it.
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