[Ohioan]

I have dealt with this same spurious claim about Jefferson in Civil War Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today & in correspondence with Lucian Truscott IV, over his efforts to ram this claim down the throat of Jefferson's other heirs, in Correspondence.

This, as the article you post suggests, is all part of an ongoing attack. Conservatives need to be aware of how this battle is being fought, not only for this issue, but to understand what is happening on a lot of other fronts in the ideological war as well.

William Flax

[mrustow]

Thanks for the links. I read your eloquent article, but have yet to get to your correspondence. But I know what a devil Truscott is. He sought to force black non-descendants upon the Thomas Jefferson family association, thereby burying the real descendants in fraudulent, perpetual minority status, and destroying the Association. He has contempt for the truth and for established rules, and yet glories in the privileges that have been handed down to him by his ancestors almost as much as he glories in abusing those privileges and dishonoring those ancestors. In short, he's the perfect house Southerner for the Times.

"Yet hate begets hate, as ill will, malice."

[mrustow]

I just read your correspondence with the man who has been "a published author for 33 years," blah blah blah, been on Oprah, blah blah blah ...

Well, one thing's for sure. Truscott is narcissistic enough to drown ten men. And there's really no substitute for family connections, since none of his blah blah blah would otherwise have come about. "Fatuous" is the word!

I notice that he emphasized the story about the elderly Sally Hemings tending to Jefferson's grave three times a week, being from the Hemings family oral tradition. I think we can thus safely discount the story, as a prop fashioned to hold up the myth that she was Jefferson's lover. Keep in mind, that Truscott is at best indifferent to the truth. He's just interested in whatever will support the story he's peddling, so that he can continue playing the Great White Father.