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Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
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Mr/Ms Jenkins,

If you are so "proud" of being a 14th generation southerners, I suspect the 
arrogance is on your side, not mine. It is you who seems to be thinking that 
one side or the other is superior. It is not the first time that someone has 
implied that southerners are to be considered superior to those "D-Yankees". 
When one sets aside the centuries of human abuse known as slavery, and looks 
at the continued abuse under the reign of Jim Crow, one cannot find a single 
redeeming grace. Last month I added Mildred Loving to my Famous Americans 
website (http://www.educationalsynthesis.org/famamer )so that children can 
learn to what extent people went to, to extend the arm of the government 
into the personal lives of the governed (or at least those not lucky enough 
to be born into the "right" race). Hopefully children will learn the horrors 
inflicted on human lives when governments, federal or state, interfere where 
they dare not tread. Perhaps Mildred Loving's story will convince more of 
our youth that setting laws as to what race or gender can marry whichever 
other race or gender, is unacceptable in a Land of Freedom.

Anne




Anne Pemberton
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From: "Hist Docs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa


"The War of Northern Agression"

And why, might I inquire, would that be so "stupid" to many of us who have 
VERY deep southern roots?   I find a certain arrogance in your attitude that 
suggests to me you believe yourself, and the "north" in general, superior to 
we Southerners.

Glad we Southerners could provide you with a you laugh.

R.B. Jenkins

Proud 14th generation Virginian
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anne Pemberton<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:26 PM
  Subject: Re: Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa


  Tom,

  I have described the bitterness I have seen in Virginia since this "D****d
  Yankee" moved here forty years ago. I call it the Civil War, but have 
heard
  any variety of names, including the stupidest: The War of Northern
  Agression. A sister moved to Texas a few years ago, and we had a good 
laugh
  over the way southerners try to make it sound like they were not at fault
  for that bloody conflict.

  Anne

  Anne Pemberton
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Excalibur131" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
  To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
  Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:14 PM
  Subject: Re: Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa


  > Anne,
  >
  > I'm just sitting here wondering, are you bitter?
  >
  > Also, what name would you have us call the "Civil War?"
  >
  > Tom
  > Eastern Shore & More
  > http://easternshoremore.com<http://easternshoremore.com/>
  >
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