[Jamestown1630]

I have always believed that if a Jefferson man was involved with Hemings, it was Randolph. It’s in character for him, but not at all for Thomas.

[nathanbedford]

This account is not scholarship but a regrettable example of disputation emerging in support of the desired premise. The real truth is that the great weight of evidence is that Thomas Jefferson in fact conducted a long-term relationship with Sally Hennings and fathered several children with her.

[coloradan]

I don’t understand how leftist historians can use sexual dalliances as a smear against anyone, when they simultaneously hold all such activities to be sacred. Maybe Jefferson was just polyamorous, if not also some other letters of the alphabet.

Oh yeah, double standards. Forgot about that. Nevermind. Sexual dalliances are only sacred when they are undertaken by those on the left. Otherwise they are symptomatic of bad moral judgment and should subject the participants to cancellation, etc.

If it weren’t for double standards, some people wouldn’t have any standards at all.

[sauropod]

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[JBW1949]

So the left openly admit that they have a problem with interracial sex... They openly admit that they are racists....

[Whatever Works]

The truth is we don’t know. The facts are, there is a genetic tie to the Jefferson family. The lie is to create a fact where none exists (pick the Jefferson you wish to be related to or was destroy). People believe what they want to believe. It has always been so.

[Tired of Taxes]

The rumor about Jefferson and Hemings didn’t start with the Left. The rumor started way back in Jefferson’s lifetime.

[Vaduz]

“The title of our study was misleading in that it represented only the simplest explanation of our molecular findings”, as they put it.

Media being the media when busted some things never change.

[higgmeister]

You guys can talk about this all you want, but I am convinced this happened in my family line.   When this story first came out decades ago, there was a very prominent Black man in the news with my last name and I was shocked by the resemblance to my Dad in every way.   Even the same unusual hairline and forehead.   Both of our family lines came from Virginia in the same area as Thomas Jefferson.   A couple of my ancestors were mentioned in Jefferson's writings.

With all the modern day sex scandals frequently in the news, with the knowledge that women in the 18th century were only a step up from servitude, it is likely the truth.   Then the fact that Sally was the daughter of his father-in-law makes it almost a certainty.

I can imagine Martha Jefferson on her deathbed telling Sally, her half sister, to take care of Thomas.

[laweeks]

Never was any direct Evidence linking him to Sally, but this has been going on for hundreds of years.