The fairness of the 'most feminist religion',

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vQdnB-JgA&t=105s

"Why put descendants in inverted commas?"

Because it's an estimate based on a presumption.

Do you know any of these Africans had children?
They certainly wouldn't have married White women at that time.
Did their children survive? Child mortality was high then.

I think I'll give OLO another holiday for 6 months or so.
Maybe a few more hundred people will have been run over by angry men with strange names by then.

But that won't make *any* difference, will it?

Hi Shockadelic,

As to Africans and African-Americans marrying white women, yes, it certainly happened in the nineteenth century. They also married quite a few Indigenous women down here in progressive SA, and had children by others as well. A West Indian woman married an Indigenous bloke up the Murray.

Quite a few Chinese blokes married Indigenous women in SA as well, my late wife's gr.-gr.-grandfather, Ang Hee (Angie), for instance.

Cheers,

Joe

Foxy and SM,
I never was RC but knew a lot of kids that were, I was born in 1942.

The RC kids often spoke about the cruel Brothers and Nuns at school and sometime mentioned stories from the boarding schools about peadophilla and stuff like that. Obviously the kids had a fair idea of what was going on at their schools.

Many kids were sent to the same schools their parents went to. So I have a question for the kids parents. If there was sexual or other abuse when you went to that school, why did you send your own kids there?

It also seems that RC parishioners are now asking 'what about the girls' as the inquiry seemed to concentrate on abuse of the boys. It seems likely that there is need to inquire further about the treatment of the girls, and older females. Did many hetrosexual priests use confidential information to blackmail and coerce females for sex?

These matters seemed hardly to get extensive airing in the inquiry.

It seems Australia is not one of the 23 countries where the priests and nuns sex scandal occurred.. That may come up again.

Banjo,

Why pick the Roman Catholics, were none of the other Catholics involved?

Shockadelic,

"Do you know any of these Africans had children?
They certainly wouldn't have married White women at that time.
Did their children survive? Child mortality was high then"

John Randall married a convict woman, one presumes that she was white; John had children (see Births, Deaths and Marriages, NSW)
Some of their children survived, that's why their descendants are around today.

You really should broaden your mind and read the reference; who knows you might have John Randall as an ancestor, which would place you among the ranks of that happy band "The First Fleeters"!

Jayb, 'A prime example of Deflection'

Or Red Herring and from the direction the posts have taken it worked again too!