Evil is what it is. Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: well the original article I posted had none of that, not a word, it was purely a look at the history and genealogy of a group of American citizens. Anything else is what you and others read into it. BTW "evil" by whose standards? Yours? Mine? "Evil" is a pretty strong word. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Clara Callahan wrote: > Nope, two totally different animals. I would, however, have an > issue with "Cardwell History Month," and organizations aimed at > forcing society as a whole to discriminate on behalf of descendants > of Catholic recusants. > > Sunshine49 wrote: So I guess my looking at > the circumstances of Thomas Cardwell's life > and his family being Catholic recusants, a relative who was hung, > drawn and quartered by the Crown because he was a priest, and why > Thomas came to Virginia, the life of an indentured servant, is > beating a dead horse? The Crown no longer executes Catholics, English > can emigrate to America like anyone else, there are no more > indentured servants, maybe I should just get over it. Maybe I'm just > trying to keep those old wounds alive. Or does one assume that > looking into one's slave ancestry must mean a demand for sympathy, > apologies, reparations? The article I posted said that nowhere- it > was an interesting look back into the history and descendants of a > group of people, that's all. I see nothing at all objectionable in > that. > > Nancy > > ------- > I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. > > --Daniel Boone > > > > On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:31 AM, Clara Callahan wrote: > >> Hopefully at least 90% of it is history. I understand what the man >> is saying and it has nothing to do with racism or white people who >> think only they are or have a right to be interested in their own >> history. What comes to mind is that old saying about beating a >> dead horse while miraculously keeping it alive by using it to >> garner sympathy and special treatment hundreds of years after the >> fact. He may not have said it as politically correctly as some >> would like, but his view has as much validity as any other view >> here. Furthermore, one thing he is NOT doing is rewriting history >> as in painting savages who murder and mutilate as wholesome and >> respectable, which brings to mind another old saying about making a >> silk purse from a sow's ear. >> >> Sunshine49 wrote: It's history. If all >> history is to be "gotten over", why are we even >> in this group? Why do any one of us read any record or account, or >> write any book or paper? Let's just burn it all, it's over, forget >> about it. >> >> Why are YOU in this group? Or are only white people allowed to have >> an interest in their history? >> >> Geez, lighten up... >> >> Nancy >> >> ------- >> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. >> >> --Daniel Boone >> >> >> >> On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Basil Forest wrote: >> >>> Get over it. Slavery has been dead since the 13th amendment in 1865. >>> >>> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >>> instructions >>> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >> instructions >> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >> instructions >> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html