One of the myths of America is the myth of the "meltingpot." In some cases it's accurate. The Scottish and Scotts-Irish immigrants to Kentucky and Tennessee, for example, often freely intermarried with the local Indian tribes.
So it happened that my grandmother's great-grandmother wasa full-bloodied American Indian named--believe it or not--Pocahantas.As a child my mother and her siblings use to play, pretending that their ancestor was THE Pocahantas. But, clearly, if you add up the time involved for the generations, these were not the same person, for most woman do not give birth at the age of seventy.
My mother's family migrated first to East Texas, then to WestTexas. Thus I emerged 1/32 American Indian, and proud of it. One ofmy brothers and I used to drive our father crazy by insisting on ridinghorses bareback--Indian-fashion--which wasn't the cowboy way of doingthings. But he understood the sentiment behind this behavior.
discount hotels in Canico A friend of mine who lives in the East Village of Manhattancomes from a family that, during the 1800s in Kansas, split off intotwo branches. One branch became--to all practical purposes--entirely White and the other branch became entirely Black. So my friend, who is black, has distant cousins who, he tells me, are "about as Redneck as you canget." My friend is greatly amused by this whole family saga, and wants to do a movie about it.
Not everyone holds this point of view. Take the Mellon family,who--from the beginning--have been pulling the strings on the VinceFoster affair. The Pittsburgh Brahmins are like the Boston Brahmins when it comes to genealogy. Perhaps that is why the line of black Mellons--William Mellon, Jr., married into a black family by the name of King--arecarefully avoided in polite conversation at the all-white organizationsto which Richard Mellon Scaife belongs. This is simple hypocrisy and perhaps not terribly important.
What is important, however, is the Mellon involvement in thesame crimes of which they accuse the Clintons. Not that the Clintonsaren't guilty of about everything (excepting the actual death of Vince Foster) of which the Mellons have accused them.
But it is clearly a case where the pot is calling the kettle black.The crimes of the pot will begin to emerge in the RICO-suit against Mellon Bank for money laundering that starts Monday, August 28, in Pittsburgh.
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