Mr. Brothers: Which American Indian community do you belong to? The reason that I am asking is that I am just comming in on this discussion because I have been quite busy working with my niece who just entered kindergarden two weeks ago. Plus I also assist my mom in babysitting her. Thanks. Jane Steele.
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>From: James Brothers <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sep 4, 2007 2:20 PM
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>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Gov. Kaine Pardons Prosser's Gabriel
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>Anita
>
>It is too bad that you see it as an "attack on you". It was meant
>more as a cautionary comment. You frequently don't see where people
>are going, or coming from, with their posts because you don't read
>them you react to them.
>
>Mr. Browning was responding to your "flaming" him, because you did
>not read what he posted. And contrary to what you claim you did
>"attack" Mr. Browning. And it is not the first time you have jumped
>on another poster. You have a tendency to go off half cocked, over
>react, and relate almost everything to slavery. There is and was more
>to Virginia history. My point was that while you are legitimately
>proud of your African heritage, you wear it on your sleeve. That is a
>potential problem because you let it influence your posts and it
>detracts from what you are posting.
>
>While we are all interested in our ancestors. One's race should not
>be an issue in an historical discussion. It shouldn't matter that Mr.
>Browning knows that you are African-American (everyone does as you
>make such an issue of it) and you don't know his race. Just because
>you are of African ancestry, does not make statements you make about
>slavery or life in the South any more valid than Mr. Browning's or
>anyone else on the list. It does, as you had slave ancestors, give
>you a personal connection. But that is all. Are only descendants of
>people who owned slaves allowed to comment on their history? Can only
>people of Indian ancestry, like me, legitimately comment on Indians?
>Much of what we know about the life the American Indian or Africans
>is due to the work of lily white Europeans or Americans. Does their
>"race" invalidate their work? Your posts often leave the impression
>that you think so.
>
>Mr. Browning may be White. So what? He knows at least as much about
>Virginia history as you, perhaps more. As he has spent his life
>studying it. He certainly knows more about some aspects, as you do
>about others. We cannot know everything because we are compelled to
>specialize. Lists exist so we can exchange information.
>
>If you go back far enough the present theory is that we are all
>African. Race is an artificial and somewhat arbitrary way to separate
>people. This is particularly true if you take it to the extreme of
>skin colour. While most (about 75%) of the people from India are as
>Caucasian as a Norwegian, many also have skin as dark as Africans. We
>should judge people by the contents of their minds, their
>utterances, and especially their deeds, not by the colour of their
>skin.
>
>James Brothers, RPA
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>
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>On Sep 4, 2007, at 12:42, Anita Wills wrote:
>
>> I don't know where you are going with this post. I responded to a
>> post in which the person said, their ancestors fought in the Civil
>> War to free, "My" people. I stated that the poster knew I was
>> African American, and I did not know what his race was. Now you are
>> sending a post saying that the I am focusing on the color of
>> someones skin. In the first place my immediate family contains
>> almost every race in this nation. My lines have changed races
>> several times since it's inception. I also pointed out that I have
>> direct ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812,
>> and in the Civil War. This was again, in response to the posters
>> message, which was directed at me.
>>
>> So I am puzzled as to your attack on me (UMMM).
>>
>> Anita
Lillian Jane Steele
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