Unwonted Realism

[Susan McKendrick]

BILL wrote,

> Amusing vignettes in which "historians" attempt to rewrite history
> and project PC politics into the "tainted" psyches of Southerners.

> The theme of most of these exercises is to pretend that past humans
> were not able to perceive, define, and discriminate the various races
> of humans. For a reader of history and genealogy, these are laughable
> exercises, indeed.
>
> I have read over many thousands of Federal and State census sheets
> sheets. No delineation is made either in boiler plate text of the
> sheet nor in the Census Taker's hand to the effect, "This negroe is
> possibly an octaroon or maybe high-yellow". Nor, in ancient VA and NC
> censuses were clerks unable to discriminate white from black nor were
> they slow in so stating.

And, I see that "the experts" heavily censured you for this and other
attempts to inject realism into an examination of history and the
South, BILL.

No, BILL, you must come to understand that it is NOT American history
under discussion. It is profitless to have spent thousands of hours
researching history and genealogy in the original county, land patent,
newspaper, church records. That will NEVER do. These folks here
understand far more than that. You see, they've read the politically
correct histories so often put out by Eastern European and other
foreign persons who had NO part in genuine American history. Please
let them illuminate your history, instead.

Don't encumber us with letters from your grgrparents who actually
lived the period --no talk of time spent under siege by invading
Federals, torture and murder of CSA prisoners, nor time spent in
northern Prison camps. Certainly, don't quote to us verbatim the
words of your ancestors and relate it specifically to newspaper
stories of the times nor entries in County record books. These
"anecdotal" evidences must be swept aside as alien personalities
--who are now Americans, you see-- define your history for you.

[Kevin Jordan]

Susan McKendrick <s...@phyto.no.spam.net> wrote:

> Don't encumber us with letters from your grgrparents who actually
> lived the period --no talk of time spent under siege by invading
> Federals, torture and murder of CSA prisoners, nor time spent in
> northern Prison camps. Certainly, don't quote to us verbatim the
> words of your ancestors and relate it specifically to newspaper
> stories of the times nor entries in County record books. These
> "anecdotal" evidences must be swept aside as alien personalities
> --who are now Americans, you see-- define your history for you.

Ah so, Mrs Johns I presume?
Kevin Jordan