Talkin' 'Bout Miscegenation

The Sunday Times of London ^ | 7/21/02 | Andrew Sullivan

[Ohioan]

The scandal mongers have been trying to impute this affair to Jefferson for almost two hundred years. But there is no real evidence of it, and there is a mountain of reasons to suggest that probably nothing ever happened between them, of that if it did, it was not a major event, and did not result in any illegitimate birth.

The rumor has been revived lately because it suits Leftwing purposes, both Clintonesque and in general. For my analysis, see Civil War, Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today, which deals with it in the context of other issues, and Correspondence, which deals with it in certain correspondence, which I had with the one Jefferson descendant who has chosen to accept the idea. (The family, in general, has rejected it--and given sound reasons for that rejection.)

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Kermit]

Women rule the sexual roost. No doubt about it. For a fuller version of this theory, read Camille Paglia.

[camle]

Disagree that there is a lot of difference between teh Democrats of 1800 and today. The Civil Rights bill was passed with overwhelming Republican support, and Democrat opposition. And it is today's DEmocrats who seek to keep minorities on the plantation with federal bailouts (welfare) so they can't compete and take jobs from whitey.

Further, who appointed the first black supreme court justice (Nixon?), the first woman (Reagan?).

I don't see much diff, except in clever marketing. How many minorities live in Chappaqua? Hyannisport?