I don’t see it as a smear and I don’t think it achieves any political goal.
Most of her children moved into white society and have been very successful.
The ones that stayed within the black community were very accomplished also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Madison_Roberts
Back up a minute.
I said the articles first came out in the fall of 1998.
From the source you cited, the DNA was not even studied until 2000.
There is no question that the media trumpeted the alleged Sally Hemings affair with TJ to help Clinton in 1998, before any definitive proof was even presented.
That was the subject of my last post.