MEMO TO NORM:
STOP DRINKING THE WINE. OR IS IT KOOL-AID?
And as for slaves being deported, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY WANT TO RETURN TO AFRICA??

The fact is that the modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now dumping on America, preaching Black Liberation Theology and/or calling for reparations need to remember something:

They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE!

Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa – many by Muslim slave raiders --the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the generation's-old rival black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be "plaintiffs" would not even exist.

And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by muslims) and Asia today.

95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.

And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to, for example, paying reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?

And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. For those who don’t know, that word means “slave.” Do I qualify for reparations? From whom??

The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. BOTH were BLACK Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-"Selling Poor Steven", American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90

Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a telling of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers' Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378

And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!

At the height of his remarkable boxing career, Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), once declared “I’m glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.”

And author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them observed a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.

Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”

So do I. So do I.

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic but will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction." Thomas Jefferson

The Roulets date back to Switzerland, in the late 1400s.

Roulet roots

The
Roulet family has its legal origin ("commune d'origine" or "Heimat") at
La Sagne and Les Ponts-de-Martel, adjacent villages near La
Chaux-de-Fonds in the Neuchâtel mountains. The founder of the family, Rollet Bayard,
lived at La Sagne, and died before 1512. He had no sons, so his
daughter's husband, Claude Jaquet, adopted her name, and their children
used Rollet-Bayard as their surname. Subsequent generations shortened
this to Rollet, which later became Roulet.

Our
tree contains about 900 of Rollet Bayard's descendants down to the
present day, mainly living in and around La Sagne, Les Ponts-de-Martel
and La Chaux-de-Fonds.

We have traced our own branch of the family back to Blaise Roulet of Noiraigue, who died before 1615.

Another
branch of the family is found in the lower part of the canton at
Rochefort, Peseux and Neuchâtel itself, but we have not yet established
how they are linked to our tree.

François Roulet of Neuchâtel (1768-1845) was ennobled by Friedrich-Wilhelm III of Prussia, and took the name de Roulet.

My father's side of the family seems to have come through New Jersey to Toledo, where they founded The Roulet Company, still in existence today. From The Roulet Company website,

George U. Roulet

Founder of The Roulet Company.