Bill Moyers Marks July 4 By Repeating Myth That Jefferson Sired Children With His Slaves

NewsBuster.org ^ | July 5, 2012 | Tim Graham

[skeeter]

The problem with liberals is that they fail to admit that we have self-corrected our nation’s problems in a remarkably short time.

The problem with liberals is they joyfully focus on the darker episodes in our history, browbeating Americans for political purposes.

Americans need to remember what a remarkable country this is when looked at in the context of human history, and how justifiably proud they should be of their past.

I watched the 'Revolutionary War' series on the Military Channel over the holiday. The narrative was replete with sly messages and subtle hints about hidden motives and questions concerning Americans' moral character. Always with a grain of truth perhaps, but always there whether relevant or not.

I used to allow such propaganda to color my impression of the past as well. Then I dug a little deeper. And the deeper a person digs into our history, the more obvious what a good people we are. Imperfect, but remarkable.

[tumblindice]

If asswholes had their own country, Moyers and Maher would be co-presidents.

[x]

Let’s assume that he did sire children with her (which I seriously doubt in that there were some very nice looking white women around in that day). Did it improve their gene pool? You can pretty much take that for granted and they should be thanking Jefferson and not criticizing him.

Remember that next time your spouse cheats on you.

[Freestate316]

What I’ve read is that the children born to Sally Hemings could have been fathered by anyone of several Jefferson men. It merely suits America hating, race card playing liberals to put forth Thomas Jefferson as the father, so that they can draw a moral equivalency between an esteemed Founding Father and the immoral behavior of Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, et al. The question that black liberals never answer is, “if you are so horrified at America’s history of slavery and Jim Crow, why are you here?” We know the answer to that one.

[waxer1]

This is deliberate and calculated. Take away a peoples history and pride. What have you got? A compliant people.
Bastards.

[Ann Archy]

OK....I BELIEVE it.....WHY, you ask?? Because he was the FIRST DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT!!! THERE.....

[Huskrrrr]

Very true!

[LibWhacker]

Moyers is a pig.

[Fledermaus]

Moyers lives off the government teat. Always has. He’s a frickin’ hypocrite that once “outed” gays for LBJ.

He’s a monster and PBS and NPR should be cut off from federal funds.

Oh, but the GOP are to cowardly to even do that because a Dem can go “boo” by saying “Republicans hate Sesame Street” when anyone with a brain could just point out to the Henson Productions massive profits as reason they should pay for the program themselves.

Talk about crony capitalism. Oh, I forgot. The GOP-e are pussies.

[Fledermaus]

And Bush and his elite threw Tomlinson under the bus.

FU Rove.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The fact that l paid worthless propagandist Moyer’s
salary w/ my taxes makes me ill.

[This I Wonder32460]

Not only was Sally Hemings his wife’s half sister, she was raised in the Jefferson household to help tend their children. She accompanied his youngest daughter on the voyage to France when Jefferson was there on State business. Relationships between people, long dead, are much more complicated then the judgement of those living.

I wouldn’t doubt she remind him of his wife and home and if she had not been a slave, he would have married her. People back then tended to marry within the common families more often then outside them. One look at the Jefferson and the Wayles family tree shows this.

[Winstons Julia]

That was beautifully written and I completely agree.

We don’t need “fixing”. Those that look to other nations for examples on how to fix us ... they will fix us until we’re broke and broken.

[Winstons Julia]

We have a black president.

I don’t say this because I’m fixed on his race. I don’t say this because I think it’s a problem... I say this so that when one of these liberals tell me how much better it is in liberal countries like France or the UK... I can say:

“When did THEY elect a minority as leader of the nation ... or the free world?”

[robowombat]

Yes I am not aware of T Jefferson being at least an accessory before and after a murder. LBJ certainly was. Evetts Hailey’s ‘A Texan Looks At Lyndon’ cites chapter and verse. Hailey was a good newspaperman and a very good local Texas historian.

[Verginius Rufus]

Right, the DNA evidence is inconclusive. The reason professional historians seem to have jumped on the "Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally's children" bandwagon seems to be the fact that at least two of her children passed down the tradition that they were descended from Thomas Jefferson. Sally would have been the only one who knew for sure--maybe she was telling the truth, maybe it sounded better to claim Thomas Jefferson as an ancestor than his little-known brother or another obscure relative.

Madison Hemings was living in Ohio in 1870. The census taker wrote on the census form "This man is the son of Thomas Jefferson." Obviously Madison had told him that--it wasn't supposed to be noted but obviously the census taker couldn't resist writing it down. I've seen the census record on microfilm.

[davisfh]

"Remember that next time your spouse cheats on you."

Been married for 56 years and still waiting for that to happen the first time. So is she.

[davisfh]

Thanks, Road Glide. Much appreciated.