[email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/6/99 1:07:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] > writes: > << So the Spanish rood comes from Arabic, not Latin. >> > > Merriam Collegiate Dictionary: Mu*lat*to (noun)....plural (-toes or tos) > Spanish mulato from mule; from Latin mulus. First appeared in 1593. > 1) The 1st generation of a black person and a white person; > 2) A person of mixed black and white ancestry. > > Certainly a discussion of ancestry is *on topic* for Lists devoted to > genealogy. > > However, a List devoted to genealogy is not the proper place to discuss the > topic *as raised* in the manner that <<[email protected] (Jon Grimes)>> has > introduced it ... ie to settle a dispute filled with sociological, political > and historical perspectives and persuasions. > > As Russ suggested, there are better venues for that type of discussion. > JMO, folks. 8-) > > Gloria > [email protected] > > ==== WVA Mailing List ==== > -snip--- > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, computer questions, political announcements, current events, personal messages,flames, religious messages etc. (in other words - Spam) is NOT ALLOWED and > will be grounds for removal and exclusion from this mailing list. Spam crashes our servers and we have to take a stand. > ---snip--- God knows no colors, his love is for all of us. Trust in his name and no one can hurt you. Margie Blankenship Salazar