Well well. Just goes to show you - one should never be too hasty to judge. You can't tell a book by how it's cover looks, nor how it sounds. Did you ever hear anything about those aliens they keep out at the field? ----- Original Message ----- From: jess wilson Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 9:09 PM To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] ADAM WAS BLACK Renne, Of one thing I brag is that when I applied for employment at Patterson Field ,I with others were given an examination. When I reported to start work a few days later, I was told that I had made the highest score of anyone who had applied before that time. One reason I like to brag about this is that many people regarded me as nothing more than a poor Kentucky Hillbilly just because my language sounded different. I was as good an Aircraft Sheetmetal Mechanic as ever worked at that field. That is a statement, not a brag. JESS WILSON ----- Original Message ----- From: "Renee Smith" <hrsmith40@msn.com> To: <KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] ADAM WAS BLACK > Hi Jess, > Would love to discuss more w/you about Dayton post WWII. Lots of KY folk flocked to Dayton to work at "The Field". > Renee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jess wilson > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:55 AM > To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [KYCLAY] ADAM WAS BLACK > > ADAM WAS BLACK > > By Jess Wilson > > During World War Two we lived and I worked in Dayton. Ohio. After a night shift I was coming home from work on the Third Street streetcar when a middle aged black man, probably a minister, sat down beside me. He said, "In the beginning everyone was black like me." He said it in a tone that indicated he expected an argument. > > My answer was more with a shrug of my shoulder than a mild, "So what?", which may have been because it was after my bed time or it may have been the indoctrination I had received at the Berea Foundation School. The motto of the school was, "God hath made of one blood, all nations of men." > > Anthropological findings of recent years and the tenet of "survival of the fittest" prove that the man was right. Mankind evolved in sunny Africa. Those who had more pigment in their skin had a greater survival rate. As humans migrated north, those who had less pigment in their skin had a greater survival rate. The rate may have been very slight, maybe only one or a very few individuals per century, but there are a great many centuries in a million years and we are speaking of multi-millions of years. > > The importance of the amount of pigment is due to the fact that a very important vitamin is produced in the body by the action of sunlight on the body. There are other factors as well The amount of this vitamin D is important to good health. Too much or too little is of great importance. Thus, the more or less pigment in a persons skin is important. Therefor, African races are black, Mediterranean races are brown and Scandianian races are white. > > If our Faith is such that we can read the Bible with understanding and at the same time accept the latest findings of our best thinkers we can agree with the African-American preacher that Adam and Eve were black like him.