On Nov 1, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:

> Herbert you commit two sin in your post.
>
> First of all, you insist that it is possible for a son of Sandy to  
> have been the father of Sally Hemings. Inasmuch as Sandy would have  
> had a black mother, he would have carried more dark color than is  
> evident from the eyewitness descriptions of Sally's children.  
> Therefore, your Sandy theory is down the tubes, even if you can  
> prove that the Sandy listed in the Farm Book did indeed have red or  
> reddish hair. Just because sometimes slaves with red hair were named  
> Sandy does not lead to the conclusion that ANY slave named Sandy  
> MUST have had red hair.

It really and truly is time for all of this contentious and utterly  
unprovable bullpuckey to be taken off this list.

Anne, you really need to read up on your contentions before you fire  
away at the list. It is entirely possible in genetics that lighter or  
darker skin to be dominant in one generation than in another. Thus  
YOUR statement is down the tubes, not Herberts. And Herbert did not  
say that ANY slave named Sandy MUST have had red hair, only that it is  
typical. So, Anne, do the research, then make the statement.

This is supposed to be a discussion list, not Serbs and Croats lobbing  
artillery shells at one another with the rest of the list in the town  
below being caught in the crossfire. Neither side is going to convince  
the other based on the current level of information so let's just let  
it rest.

If both sides keep this going, this list will disintegrate. It is time  
to lay it to rest until better information surfaces.

Lyle Browning, utterly and totally torqued at the idiocy of the level  
of commentary

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