In a message dated 2/22/02 10:36:01 PM !!!First Boot!!!, [email protected] writes: > Traci, > > It isn't one message (sheesh....) Chaps routinely sends these sorts of > racially-biased political messages to several genealogy lists (that I'm > aware of) routinely. Go to the Rootsweb archives and search the Coosa, > Tallapoosa, Alabama and other Southern lists for his email address and > you'll find that this is a pattern , unrestrained by the list managers. > > This is not the place for advancing whatever we perceive to be our social > and moral vocation - it's the place to learn about our ancestors. > > Respectfully, > Nancy Pressley > > Nancy-- > > ENOUGH, is ENOUGH!!!! I AM A (MAN) AMONGST (MEN)!!! Therefore, I will > NOT remain silent any longer and let you LIE on me. I read this article yesterday, in the USA Today newspaper and thought it would be a GREAT article to post. However, it appears I have a lot of Caucasian like yourself, upset me. You would believe ALL the HATE e-mail I have received from this List: [email protected] however, I did NOT say I agree or disagree with the article, it was being posted for INFORMATIVE, GENEALOGICAL, and HISTORICAL purposes ONLY!!! I have e-mail stating slavery has nothing to do with genealogy, well they are wrong. Slavery was genealogy and history. I am researching the history of my family, therefore, if that's NOT genealogy what is it??? My point is, there's still a lot of ignorant folks in American and on this List, which descend from slave owner ancestry, etc... If America can pay REPARATIONS to the Japanese, Jews, etc.. They can certainly pay for African-Americans and Native Americans. The federal government created the Freedmen's Bureau in the 1860s to provide assistance to former slaves. It also promised the former slaves parcels of land and the loan of a federal government mule to work the land. The federal government NEVER lived up to its promise of "forty acres and a mule." Nevertheless, some African American farmers were able to buy or lease parcels of land under these programs. However, during Reconstruction under President Andrew Johnson, many of the powers and activities of the Freedmen's Bureau were dismantled and much of the land that had been leased to black farmers was taken away and returned to Confederate loyalist. Peace & One Love, Chaps