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 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Yojsouth > To: [log in to unmask] > > 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 > > [log in to unmask] > > > > Visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.virginia.gov > > > > ______________________________________ > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live SkyDrive lets you share files with faraway friends. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_052008 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html