What is disturbing is that this person appears to be educated. Actually in Washington DC, working in a Law Office? You have to wonder who they are impacting on a day to day basis.
Anita
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:43:51 +0000
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> Subject: Re: Yojsouth
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> Thank you, BRENT!
> To "delete-without-reading" is a convenient option.
> -Melinda
>
> --
> Melinda C. P. Skinner
> Richmond, VA
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Yojsouth's message earlier today about Thomas Jefferson and Sally
> > Hemings has brought me several private requests and demands that he be
> > expelled from the list.
> >
> > Va-Hist has always operated with as much anarchy as possible. The
> > sponsors at the Library of Virginia have believed that the best remedy
> > for improper speech is more speech. We have encouraged a civil dialog,
> > that being the best way for intelligent discussion to proceed.
> >
> > It is not a violation of any unstated Va-Hist rule that your know what
> > you're writing about (John Smith did not marry Pocahontas; Sally Hemings
> > could not legally have married anybody).
> >
> > Or that you can't believe that "an educated, cultured" white widower
> > might have had a sex life.
> >
> > Or that you be free of prejudices (Sally Hemings, an enslaved African
> > American woman, has not been shown to be "skanky," which the dictionary
> > defines as repugnantly filthy or squalid or of low or sleazy character,
> > although perhaps yojsouth believes that is the default condition for
> > women of one-fourth or more African descent).
> >
> > Or even that you not gratuitously publish an assertion as if it were a
> > known fact (nobody here as asserted that Sally Heming could not keep
> > track of the fathers of her children, although perhaps yojsouth believes
> > that is a common condition for women of one-fourth or more African
> > descent).
> >
> > We cannot require that people hide their defects if they insist on
> > parading them.
> >
> > Please do not let these comments unnecessarily goad us into equally bad
> > or worse behavior.
> >
> > I, for one, do not propose to respond to yojsouth (who does regularly
> > violate a Va-Hist rule that we used to state from time to time that all
> > postings be signed with the author's real name), and I hope that other
> > people will not, either.
> >
> > You don't have to read him. I, who am the list moderator, do.
> >
> > Brent Tarter
> > The Library of Virginia
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