Thanks, Anita,
I am not going to let smarmy folks dictate to me, whether it is snide
remarks on the list or shouts into my personal mail.
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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http://www.erols.com/apembert
http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anita Wills" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: oral history
Anne,
Please continue to share and not let these personal attacks get to you. The
attacks just show that this person has nothing of substance to add. This
list is made up of diverse groups and differing opinions, and some folks are
not used to that.
Just continue to post your information and respond to those who have
something informative to add.
Anita
> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:18:49 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: oral history
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Kathleen,
>
> Your post is an example of why such heated arguments prevail on the list.
> It
> is obvious that I did not remember what you wrote between the time I read
> it
> and when the story came to mind. No one is saying that an absence of DNA
> evidence proves paternity, but an absence of evidence that he did NOT
> father
> those children, coupled with the DNA evidence that A Jefferson did - at
> least one - gives credence to the oral history that Thomas was the father
> of
> some or all of Sally's children. All of them were too light to have been
> fathered by a black man, that is why some of them "escaped" and blended
> into
> the white populations in DC and Baltimore (or wherever the did end up).
>
> The last part of Kathleen's note was extremely offensive. If she really
> wants to find out what kind of teacher I was/am, she can go to the website
> that is listed on the last line of my signature file and collect hundreds
> of
> pages of "evidence" that are more telling than her smarmy comment.
>
> Anne
>
>
>
> Anne Pemberton
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.erols.com/apembert
> http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kathleen Much" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: oral history
>
>
> > ----
> > Obviously Anne did not understand what I wrote.
> It is even sillier to say that
> > an absence of buttons could verify the claim. [Taking us back to
> > Hemings/Jefferson, where an absence of DNA evidence is being used to
> > make
> > a
> > claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered any or all of Sally Hemings's
> > children.]
> >
> > If Anne's leaps to false conclusions are evidence of her teaching
> > skills,
> > I
> > am glad my children are past an age when they might have been subjected
> > to
> > her ministrations. I hope that she merely read too hastily and drew
> > faulty
> > conclusions.
> >
> > Kathleen Much
> > The Book Doctor
> >
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