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Clinton paid tribute there to Americans descended from slaves brought from Africa.
Paul Berman seems to suggest in "The Refractory Ones" that the case of Timothy McVeigh is somehow analogous to the trial of Sacco-Vanzetti, in that a misunderstood radical faction was descended upon by a bigoted majority that then executed the sacrificial lambs.
Some Indians already resent suggestions they are descended from ancient Asians--such contentions fly in the face of their creation myths.
As for Hanks, let me say that I think he's still a wonderful actor but am sorry that such a heavy spirit has descended upon him.
Several New Mexican women who descended from the early Spanish settlers of the region wrote personal life histories that incorporated the traditional way of life of the Hispano community of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.