Posted on 07/23/2004 1:57:16 PM PDT by Coleus
-PJ
Thats what the other bio, (that I could have quoted,) said. Personally, I have to take your word on it, being relation and all. Just curious, but are you as black looking as she is?
Tony's...Zatarians...Louisiana...a couple whose names slip my memory...and even (forgive me)McCormicks. McCormicks also makes a seven-pepper blend that I like to use in place of ordinary table salt and pepper.
This is like the Theory of Evolution!! It's called a THEORY cause it's not a FACT!!! Idiots.
Tony's for french fries.
I take it then, that you are even more black looking than Heather, (if that is possible!)
"probably"???? geesh.....they can have him.
It makes a lot more sense that he's Jewish rather than African American!!
Louis Farrakahn alert....everyone is actually black and the all bear the number 19....ding ding ding...I need tin foil in aisle 45
Tell that to Nan Britton.
Here is the article I was thinking about--and one paragraph:
Hamilton was born January 11, 1755, on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, a merchant from Scotland, and Rachel Fawcett Levine, a doctor’s daughter who was divorced from a plantation owner. His unmarried parents separated when Hamilton was 9, and he went to live with his mother, who taught him French and Hebrew and how to keep the accounts in a small dry goods shop by which she supported herself and Hamilton’s older brother, James. She died of yellow fever when Alexander was 13.
http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=Alexander+Hamilton+Smithsonian+Magazine&ei=UTF-8&n=20&fl=0&u=www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues03/jan03/hamilton.html&w=alexander+hamilton+smithsonian+magazine&d=CC9A7CA759&icp=1
I have no idea where the symbols on our money come from. The early Pilgrims studied Hebrew. In fact, they debated making it the official language of their settlement but found it lacked sufficient vocabulary. They also wanted their legal code to track the rules of the Old Testament. The motto of Yale, begun by their Congregationist heirs is in Hebrew and Harvard has one of the largest collections of old books written in Hebrew in the world.
LOL! --- of course I never saw much importance in embracing any roots --- or else it's better to embrace the melting pot roots of the USA --- just jump in and embrace Americanism and forget the past. For example -- if one of my ancestors who came from Ireland I thought somehow really came from some place else --- how does that affect who I am or what I do with my life here?
Thanks for the info!!
Your thread reminds me as to how skewed the racial construct in this country is. I am reminded of a story which was aired by 60 minutes some years ago of a woman in Louisiana whose racial classification was altered by the local county government when it was discovered that she had 1/32 black genealogical ancestry, but had been raised as culturally white all of her life by a white family. She had to sue to get the classification changed back to white.
The racial construct in this country, insofar as determining one's genealogical blackness, is also a political one, and has little to do with science. It is safe to assume that one of the primary reasons for racial segregation was to minimize the possibility that blacks and whites would intermix their gene pools.
to appreciate the singular distinction as to how most people consider what makes one black, cosider the manner in which we regard persons of other than Black-Caucasian ancestry, such as Keneau Reeves. It is very common for whites to advertise some small admixture of Indian ancestry, yet they regard themselves as and will be considered by most as Caucasian. Should a person reveal any admixture of Negroid ancestry been most in this society will consider them has entirely black. Those whites with racist inclinations want them identified as such as so has to continue an attempt to isolate them, and blacks do it so as to be able to enhance their strength in the population, and stake a group claim on those with a measure of celebrity such as Mariah Carey.
I firmly believe that race in this country, as understood in the popular sense is a cultural and political construct and not a scientific one.
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He was a bastard?
Does this mean that Clinton may soon appear on one of our denominations?
Who William Blythe? I certainly hope NOT!
Remember, the only nonwhite Vice President was a Republican, Charles Curtis, an American Indian who served as Herbert Hoovers Veep. Read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
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