Plecker responded, “ I am unable to see how it is working any injustice upon them or humiliation for our office to take a firm stand against their intermarriage with white people, or to the preliminary steps of recognition as Indians with permission to attend white schools and to ride in white coaches .”

After Virginia passed stringent segregation laws in the early 20th century and ultimately the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 which mandated every person who had any African heritage be deemed black, Walter Plecker, the head of Vital Statistics office, directed all state and local registration offices to use only the terms " white " or " colored " to denote race on official documents and thereby eliminated all traceable records of Virginia Indians.

Not only did the one-drop rule disregard the self-identification of people of mostly European ancestry who grew up in white communities, but Walter Plecker ordered application of the 1924 Virginia law in such a way that vital records were changed or destroyed, family members were split on opposite sides of the color line, and there were losses of the documented continuity of mixed-race people who identified as Native American.

New York eugenicist Madison Grant worked to ensure his model of the " one-drop rule " was implemented by the Virginia registrar of statistics, Walter Ashby Plecker, who developed the racial criteria behind the act.

Dr. Plecker, a leading eugenicist physician who was the registrar of vital statistics from 1912 to 1946, lobbied for years to get the eugenics laws passed in Virginia.

As a follower of the eugenics movement and, by modern day standards, a white supremacist, Plecker falsely surmised that there were no true Virginia Indians remaining as years of intermarriage has diluted the race.

Once these laws were passed, Dr. Plecker was in the position to enforce them ; and enforce them, he did.

As registrar, Plecker directed the reclassification of nearly all Virginia Indians as colored on their birth and marriage certificates, because he was convinced that most Indians had African heritage and were trying to " pass " as Indian to evade segregation.

Suspecting blacks of trying to " pass " as Indians, Plecker ordered records changed to classify people only as black or white, and ordered offices to reclassify certain family surnames as black.

As the Registrar of Statistics, Plecker insisted on labeling mixed-race families of European-African ancestry as black.

Plecker oversaw the Vital Statistics office in the state for more than 30 years, beginning in the early 20th century, and took a personal interest in eliminating traces of Virginia Indians.

The Virginia tribes say that the disrupted record keeping under the racially discriminatory practices of Walter Plecker destroyed their ability to demonstrate historical continuity of identity.

Through the 1940s, Walter Plecker of Virginia and Naomi Drake of Louisiana had an outsize influence.

In 1924, Plecker wrote, " Two races as materially divergent as the White and Negro, in morals, mental powers, and cultural fitness, cannot live in close contact without injury to the higher.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Plecker directed offices under his authority to change vital records and reclassify certain families as colored ( without notifying them ) after Virginia established a binary system under its Racial Integrity Act of 1924.

In the 1920s, Virginia's registrar of statistics, Dr. Walter Ashby Plecker, was allied with the newly founded Anglo-Saxon Club of America in persuading the Virginia General Assembly to pass the Racial Integrity Law of 1924.

E. Lee Trinkle, a year after signing the act, asked Plecker to ease up on the Indians and not “ embarrass them any more than possible .”

In addition, as Plecker admitted, he enforced the Racial Integrity Act extending far beyond his jurisdiction in the segregated society.

Plecker ordered the exhumation of dead people of " questionable ancestry " from white cemeteries to be reinterred elsewhere.

In 1935, a decade after the passage of Virginia's eugenics laws, Plecker wrote to Walter Gross, director of Nazi Germany ’ s Bureau of Human Betterment and Eugenics.

Plecker described Virginia's racial purity laws and requested to be put on Gross ' mailing list.

this aspect of the total picture has been commented upon often enough.

The outcome of internal fragmentation that is observed and commented upon by customers is now visible to the rest of the world in the era of the social customer ; in the past, only employees or partners were aware of it.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

" For example, upon the defeat of Kasparov by Deep Blue, he commented that " It was a watershed event, but it doesn't have to do with computers becoming intelligent ".

David Carr of Yale University commented in 1970 on Husserl's following: " It is well known that Husserl was always disappointed at the tendency of his students to go their own way, to embark upon fundamental revisions of phenomenology rather than engage in the communal task " as originally intended by the radical new science.

In the 19th century, scholars strove for impartiality, and translated and commented upon a great variety of texts.

Hawkins dryly commented that Jahangir made his nephews Christian " not for any zeal he had to Christianity, as the Fathers, and all Christians thought ; but upon the prophecies of certain learned Gentiles, who told him that the sons of his should be disinherited, and the children of his brother should reign.

Such a story was only considered a gongan when it was commented upon by another Chán-master.

He commented that " whether there is an aether or not, electromagnetic fields certainly exist, and so also does the energy of the electrical oscillations " so that, " if we do not like the name of " aether ", we must use another word as a peg to hang all these things upon.

He says that the “ verbosity of the Plautine prologues has often been commented upon and generally excused by the necessity of the Roman playwright to win his audience .” However, in both Menander and Plautus, word play is essential to their comedy.

The magnificence of Shah Jahan ’ s court was commented upon by several European travelers and by ambassadors from other parts of the world, including Francois Bernier and Thomas Roe.

This death, as well as the subsequent acquittal of the responsible officer, were both commented upon in Adorno's lectures.

Simon Rae also commented upon Grace's eminence in Victorian England by saying that his public recognition was equalled only by Queen Victoria herself and William Ewart Gladstone.

In later life, Grace commented upon a decline in English fielding standards and blamed it on " the falling numbers of country-bred boys who strengthen their arms by throwing stones at birds in the fields ".

When Queen Mary insisted upon the importance of education, the Duchess of York commented, " I don't know what she meant.

Some Culture citizens opt to leave the constraints of a human or even humanoid body altogether, opting to take on the appearance of one of the myriad of other galactic sentients ( perhaps in order to live with them ) or even non-sentient objects as commented upon in Matter ( though this process can be irreversible if the desired form is too removed from the structure of the human brain ).

He is noted to have commented, upon meeting Picasso who, at the time, was wearing his trademark workmen's clothes, that even though the man was a genius, that did not excuse his uncouth appearance.

* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.

The judge commented " In this case ... it is simply impossible for Plaintiff to file an amended complaint stating a claim based upon these facts.

" Certain displays of their selfishness were commented upon by George Murray Levick, a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott on his ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910, during his surveying of penguins in the Antarctic: " At the place where they most often went in water, a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink.

Gerber commented to Pasko that he had not yet decided upon a name for the Wookiee-like character the network insisted be added to the series, over Gerber's objections.

His ideas were responded to and developed by some later theorists such as Archestratus, and his place in the methodological debate between rationalists and empiricists was commented upon by such writers as Ptolemais of Cyrene.

Ulysses S. Grant commented, " I believe at some future day, the nations of the earth will agree on some sort of congress which will take cognizance of international questions of difficulty and whose decisions will be as binding as the decisions of the Supreme Court are upon us ".

Although he commented primarily upon the situation of civil liberties and individual freedoms in his native United States, he believed that such things were of worldwide importance, and that:

Simon Fuller has commented that he came upon the concept of S Club 7 the day after he was fired by the Spice Girls in 1997.