Which Reminds Me

Oh, I did not know that televangelist Pat Robertson was directly descended from King Ferdinand of Spain. Yes, and I suppose that perhaps even Queen Elizabeth herself and all of the monarchs of Great Britain are somehow connected to the Spanish monarchy as are all of those Royal Houses of Europe interconnected after all of these centuries. So it sort of makes sense that the Spanish conquistadors would seek an alliance with the Southern slaveholders in their bid to stamp out the last sparks of those reticent Yankee independents, as if the being reticent and independent-thinking were somehow a problem. I really don't understand what the problem is. That sounds so, um, racist to even think of it let alone say it. As if oppressing redheads in that the Spanish do that would somehow accomplish that? Illogical. It is hard for them to pigeonhole whites who are neither Scottish nor Irish. It is more complicated than that.