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WhiteTara

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42. So you got all the uppity genes, I'l bet!

Fri May 18, 2018, 10:59 PM

May 2018

What an interesting family. Yes, as immigrants to this country we were all fleeing from or to something. We were "the teeming refuse" and then we crowded out and killed the people who were here first.

Of course, we learned everything we could before we did that, but there is no doubt that we "wypipo" certainly have racial karma.

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In Philadelphia, instead of a hotel Bible, this was to be found- [View all] packman May 2018 OP

That's great. My great to the seventh grandfather signed the book on the right WhiteTara May 2018 #1

That's quite the pedigree! kag May 2018 #4

I'm from the Morris clan of Tinturn at Monmouthshire Wales WhiteTara May 2018 #34

hearing something like this really brings the history alive rurallib May 2018 #7

Me too - my 7th great grandfather BuddhaGirl May 2018 #10

We are quite a prestigious group! Maraya1969 May 2018 #27

Wasn't Alexander Hamilton Washington's aide-de-camp? hedda_foil May 2018 #31

Washington had many of them BuddhaGirl May 2018 #39

Thanks,BuddhaGirl. That's fascinating. hedda_foil May 2018 #43

Really? My uncle raised money for the army. WhiteTara May 2018 #32

Interesting! BuddhaGirl May 2018 #40

That is indeed a major claim to fame. byronius May 2018 #11

I'd bet DU has many descendants of the earliest Afro-European settlers DemocracyMouse May 2018 #25

So you got all the uppity genes, I'l bet! WhiteTara May 2018 #42

The real claim to fame is WhiteTara May 2018 #33

I loved the Ozarks when I was a kid. Gorgeous. byronius May 2018 #36

that's three things trump knows NOTHING about spanone May 2018 #2

You are correct! nature-lover May 2018 #13

That's because the copies in his hotel rooms all seem to be water damaged ProudLib72 May 2018 #44

Can't approve your notes, Packman, but I confess Hortensis May 2018 #3

Careful, that's the wingnut-annotated version the whackadoodle Bundy clan uses. trotsky May 2018 #28

Nice catch grantcart May 2018 #41

Great idea! procon May 2018 #5

Packman: I too have been guilty of vandalism SCantiGOP May 2018 #6

Wow, that's over the top. DemoHack May 2018 #8

ME-ANGRY-HELL NO packman May 2018 #16

When I'm bored in hotels... DemoHack May 2018 #24

*snort* sandensea May 2018 #37

I usually "liberate" whatever "literature"... NeoGreen May 2018 #9

That's an awesome sticker. byronius May 2018 #12

Right on! A danger to oneself - and our children sandensea May 2018 #15

That's the truth! Duppers May 2018 #29

You're a brave soul, Duppers. sandensea May 2018 #35

bibles for kindling kiri May 2018 #19

I now have a new slogan!... NeoGreen May 2018 #20

Very clever! BigmanPigman May 2018 #22

They day this is what we find under hotel room night tables sandensea May 2018 #14

I lost count of how many of the offensive tomes wound up in the trash when I was niyad May 2018 #17

But not state or commercial propaganda? LanternWaste May 2018 #18

i'm in Philly right now barbtries May 2018 #21

Can we start a "Gideon's Democracy" society? lagomorph777 May 2018 #23

LOL, you should leave a note about how black folks were considered 3/5ths of a person...nt ExciteBike66 May 2018 #26

From Wiki.. Duppers May 2018 #30

That's great! Most people have read those. nt Honeycombe8 May 2018 #38

Why would finding a Bible in a hotel make someone angry? IluvPitties May 2018 #45

It doesn't inspire anger DFW May 2018 #46

Because Christian dominionists broke separation of church and state sharedvalues May 2018 #47