[MR] Asian Personas

[M'lady Foxy]

We were not there to know there were not English longbowman that were from African-american decent...I would think that if you were defending home and country that all hands would be put into service defending no matter what background is.Using the civil war as an example you had the buffalo soliders that raised arms to defend.But this isn't a racial issue yet a point that you are free to explore cultures and live them as well.If we didn't then how would we learn???

Although several African-American regiments were raised during the Civil War to fight alongside the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the "Buffalo Soldiers" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.

On September 6, 2005, Mark Matthews, who was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, died at the age of 111. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[4]

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, sigrune at aol.com <sigrune at aol.com> wrote:

> From: sigrune at aol.com <sigrune at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Asian Personas
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 8:22 AM
> 
> Yeah, it is almost as bad as the norse personas that wear
> glasses, drink beer out of cans and wear converse footwear.
> 
> We gonna start critisizing people that their race does not
> fit the culture they are portraying now?
> You know, I never have heard of someone critisizing my
> friend James (of african-american ancestry) from portraying
> an English longbowman form the hundred years war... 
> Should I call him up and tell him people are disturbed by
> that?
> 
> Get a grip people, I though we were above racisim.
> 
> -Takeda (a white guy protraying a samurai)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M'lady Foxy <angellfoxx at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 9:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [MR] Asian Personas
> 
> 
> I personally like the Asian personnia with blonde hair blue
> eyes myself...though
> just goes to show you can be anyone you want to be in the
> SCA...
> 
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