Re: Renegades
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Re: Renegades
Marion Pezzullo 1/20/07
Joanne,
No logical researcher has dismissed the historic context which explains your unanswered questions concerning these two individuals from the the area where the "melungeon" name calling initiated.Logical researchers do not dismiss the common surnames and circumstances shared by those individuals referenced by the racist terms "redbone" and "melungeon" at a time when all bonafide histories mention renegades unacceptable to all established cultural groups.Logical researchers do not dismiss any of the many small ethnic populations which likely melded into the mingling back country tribal groups during the centuries preceding the Indian wars.No logical researcher should dismiss the compromise such ethnic admixture created for the Native American cultures which attempted to practice tolerance of cultural influences from all the areas affected by Portuguese navigation prowess.Our disagreements seem less a matter of right and wrong than a matter of affinity for logic.
Larry