I can't agree with your stated "purpose" for posting Thursday's info on this site. You aren't just trying to inform people, you are trying to advance your own agenda, where it has no place. When we want news, we can read USA Today, New York Times, or our local papers, on our own and form our individual conclusions. We do not need an interpreter. There is no genealogy connected with reparations. It has been many, many, decades since any former slave was alive in this country. (Although there are thousands of slaves around the world today.) I'm not looking to recover for lands, homes, cotton, food, lives, etc. lost when the "carpet baggers" invaded the South and conspired with "reconstructionists" to overtax white people in order to take over their farms and possessions. You seem to be aware of only one side of history during the 1800's. You should consider the things you are posting if you are receiving hate mail. I've never seen this type biased info put on any site, in any state, before so you must have quite a lot to do with the reactions you get in return. Get back to the basics of what people intend to do when the subscribe to this list--it is genealogy, or family research, not to be preached at! J J G > [Original Message] > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 2/22/02 11:56:47 AM > Subject: [ALCOOSA] Re: REPARATIONS for SLAVERY! > > 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 > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237