The Tail That Wagged the Dog

Writer's note: This article was first published as a posting in the Redbone Research Group on Sep. 28, 2007.

The Redbone Heritage Foundation (RHF), which I call the Rage and Hate Foundation due to the proclivities of its leadership to attack and defame anyone disagreeing with them, is a peculiar organization. It has perhaps 25-30 members overlorded by a clique of Goins descendants (I like to call them the Goins mafiosi). These Goins folks may be bonafide "redbones", depending on who is making the classification, but they don't really know much about "redbones" per se. That's because all of the Goins cliquistas except one come from some other state where they grew up far from the cultural influences of the "real redbones", who live predominantly in western Louisiana. The cliquistas probably never saw a "real redbone" until they attended the first RHF conference at Alexandria, LA in 2005. They liked what they saw so well they hijacked it, which gives you some idea of the cultural background they came from.

Little is known of most of these RHF poobahs because while they will gladly steal your gen data, they get shy when asked for their own. In short, we have to take their word that they are who they say they are and it would appear that they're a tad self-conscious about it. That is apparently why they are constantly accusing some real "redbone", like yours truly for example, of not being one. It's the old ploy of distraction by diversion of attention. Which is even more bizarre when one considers the fact that some of the RHF board members are not even "redbones" at all. Don Marler the pseudo-historian and Alvie Walts the message thief are the most prominent in this category.

While we don't know much about the current RHF leadership, it doesn't take long to conclude from their writings and activities and the sentiments expressed therein that psychologically speaking, these must be some deeply disturbed individuals. Some of them alledgedly have criminal backgrounds, but the most characteristic flaw is their universal egomania. It takes considerable over-valuation of one's self-worth to entertain some of the beliefs they obviously hold and countenance some of the pursuits they engage in.

These RHF honchos actually believe that they represent ALL of the Louisiana "redbones" everywhere and moreover SPEAK for them!!! Four officers (President Stacy Webb, Board Members Gary Gabehart, Don Marler, and Alvie Walts) in an organization comprising perhaps 25-30 members think they speak for a population of tens of thousands of Redbones (nobody knows how many Redbones there are, but I've got 10,000 plus Ashworth and 10,000 plus Perkins folks listed in my gen database, so that's at least 20,000 right there), most of which have never even heard of the RHF much less its frenetic leadership.

If that's not a case of the tail wagging the dog, I don't know what is. ROTFLMAO!

LV the Redbone Elder