[shhrubbery!]

Does it really matter?

Yes. It DOES matter. The Left is systematically trying to tear down all of our founding fathers, to further their ultimate conclusion: That all of American heritage and law is based in racism and hypocrisy, and is therefore illegitimate. All hail the [Communist] revolution!

I tend to believe he did father children for Sally from what I have read in the past.

Only one of Sally Hemings's children, Eston, showed evidence of having a father with Jefferson genes.

Eston's father could have been one of many Jefferson relatives living in Virginia at the time. Suspicion has settled on two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews, both surnamed Carr, who frequented Mount Vernon and who are buried there in the Jefferson family graveyard.

It is far more likely that one of the Carr brothers fathered Eston than Thomas Jefferson, who was quite elderly and who suffered from debilitating migraine headaches at the time of Eston's conception.

[LWalk18]

The Carr were excluded by the DNA test- if those test proved anything, they proved that neither Carr fathered Eston Hemings. That is why everyone is pushed Randolph- notice that neither side mentions them after 1998.

[cyborg]

The possibility of Thomas Jefferson's fornication does not bother me. It doesn't change how I regard him as president. It does not invalidate his role in building this country. The left can believe what it wants to, but I know what I believe about this country. It is a good country, and history isn't riddled with dead,white males who were evil wicked people. Besides the left, the arbitors of the sexual revolution, have sown more oats than one dead president.