Article written by Olympia Meola
Here is an article about a possible relative of hers:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/23/as_police_close_in_man_kills_self/
Detectives had tried to arrest him on assault charge
A Revere man shot himself in the head outside his home yesterday and later died after police tried to arrest him on assault charges, officials said.
Kenneth Meola, 57, shot himself while sitting in a pickup truck parked across the street from his home on Mountain Avenue, according to the Suffolk district attorney's office.
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It may or may be a relative, but, heck, let's don't pass up an opportunity to use a sound byte. He COULD be a cousin or even a 6th or 7th cousin. They may even share great-great-great grandparents.
No - having injected himself into the discussion in such an inflammatory manner -- whatever the merits of his arguments -- he invited this kind of scrutiny into his on familial background.
And here I thought Juneteenth (June 19, 1865) was a celebration of the day the slaves of Texas found out the Civil War was over and they were free. What the heck do I know...
Didn't see if this had been posted yet:
omeola@timesdispatch.com
It would be a good idea if Virgina's sons drop old Olympia a line and tell her race baiting isn't a good trait even for a carpetbagger.
And the fact that the editors of this rag would even publish this is beyond the pale.
This article written by Olympia Stallsmith.
Could Stephanie be Olympia's sister (or perhaps sister-in-law) -- or may her daughter? There's GOT to be a connection (you know, same last name and all!):
http://www.thestumponline.com/female_may_2005b.htm
Second photo!
Don't miss this page. It is a hoot!
And my great-grandfather ran bootleg liquor between Beirut and Damascus under the guise of selling clay pots and jars.
Next?
Ok, forget ancestors.
How many DEMOCRATS owned slaves themselves?
Now, how many REPUBLICANS owned slaves themselves?
If you don't know at least the relative magnitude of the answers, you don't know history.
hmmmm.... this sounds fair: investigate aLL OTHER members of congress to see whose relatives once owned slaves.
My grandfather was an alcoholic... am I responsible for his drinking (I never even met him - he died before I was born)
That's not the original title.
A couple of my ancestors were pirates (for real); seriously nasty guys, nothing like Johnny Depp. They were probably involved in the slave trade at one time or another. We have no proof of that except the documentation indicating that pirates who operated in the South Atlantic during the 1720s frequently did engage in the slave trade as well. There is no reason they wouldn't have. It wasn't as if they had any ethical compunctions or feared the hardships involved. It was legal, the profits were enormous, and it couldn't be as dangerous as tangling with HM ships.
None of this is my fault, needless to say.
Didn't Mohamed own slaves? How many people claim direct decendancy from Mohamed with pride? Do those slave owner decendants get scrutiny?
How about modern turkey? Their ottoman empire was powered by slavery...
MSM free passes.
Del. Dwight Clinton Jones, D-Richmond, chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, called Hargrove's proposal "out of sequence."
"Certainly we all want to celebrate the end of slavery, but not if it means ignoring the actual fact of slavery," Jones said. "We all want to celebrate the end of slavery, but the issue here is it's being proposed in order to get around dealing with the inhumane institution of slavery.
"We know that nobody here was involved in slavery, but it's a recognition that it was a terrible system," he said.
How could we celebrate the end of something without acknowledging it's existance? How is an apology "dealing with" slavery? Is Jones so stupid that he thinks anybody DOESN'T recognize the evil of slavery? Do I have to apologize for something I didn't do in order for people to know it was wrong? Abortion is evil, do I have to apologize for it?
I would have no problem with the resolution celebrating the end of slavery also stating exactly what Jones said here.
While commemorating the end of slavery is worthwhile, it's more important to acknowledge that the importation of Africans to the United States started in Virginia in 1619, said the sponsor of the slavery apology resolution, Del. A. Donald McEachin, D-Henrico.
"Virginia had almost nothing to do with the end of slavery," he said.
I also think that the acknowledgment mentioned could be in the resolution celebrating slavery's end. However, the implication that, because Virginia wasn't on the union side, that somehow Virginia now needs to apologize for slavery, is silly.
If I had owned a slave, it wouldn't matter whether I released my slave voluntarily, or was forced to do so, I should still apologize for ever having a slave. So whether Virginia ended slavery or not is NOT the point, the only question is whether citizens of virginia today should apologize for something done by other people over a century ago.
BTW, if I was standing on the floor of the house and I heard Jones make his rediculous statement that we can't celebrate the end of slavery if we haven't already apologized for it, I might well be tempted to tell him to "get over it". Maybe Hargrove was just tired of the absurd statements made in support of the resolution, and couldn't take it any more.
This from the party of slavery, the party of the KKK, the party who honors its senior member who was a KKK official?
Party of liars, party of traitors.
Okay. Let's see. If my great-great-great-great-great grandfather killed someone in a fit of rage, that IS MY FAULT??? I SHOULD BE CONDEMED FOR IT??? So, like I should have done something to prevent him from doing it???
His great-grandfather would be furious if he had ever found out that his descendant had aligned himself with the party that abolished slavery.
I am descended from slave owners on both sides of my family. My father's family had a big plantation in Georgia with over 60 slaves, and my mother's family had a sawmill in Texas with around 40 slaves. It was legal to own slaves at the time. When slavery was abolished there was no effort to recompenese my ancestors for the money they had legally invested.
He is right. Celebrate the end of the institution.
Give every living freed slave their 40 acres and a mule and call it quits, already.
Send interns to video every public appearance by the opposition. If nothing else, it will rattle them. If you get lucky you just may have a "macaca" moment.
2. Geneologists, private eyes, anything goes. Get the dirt on the liberals. Given their predelictions it should not be all that hard.