Redheads

Is prejudice against redheads, the last acceptable prejudice?

Simply red

In 15th-century Germany, redheads were seen as witches - 45,000 were tortured and murdered. Meanwhile, Egyptians burned gingers alive, and the Greeks reckoned they turned into vampires when they died.
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t the same time there are fears that gingers may be extinct by 2060 because only 2% of the world's population are gingers, and that number is shrinking.

Maybe it was the first. 

Just little more than a year ago, ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals revealed the gene for red hair and pale skin.

Now maybe, probably, there was as much variety in skin and hair color among Neanderthals as we find in humans, but no one knows why they all died out.  Did both humans and Neanderthals evolve the MC1R gene?  Or was it the result of intermarriage?

Did the famous redheads in history,  Napoleon, Lizzie Borden, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson, James Joyce, Vincent Van Gogh. Elizabeth I , Winston Churchill and Lucille Ball, carry with them genes from a non-human ancestor?

Mark Twain, another redhead, wondered about the same thing, only he concluded, "While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."