“Or we could just go back to Jefferson. But maybe it’s okay if you only do it with your slaves.”
You know, you have swallowed the Dem’s narrative about Jefferson having Sally Hemming as his mistress and fathering children by her. Read up on what decent historians say about this topic, including the fact that other Jefferson relatives frequented the farm, in particular, I believe, a nephew, and could easily have had the relations spoken of above. The Dems are so eager to tear down our iconic Presidents that they just love the idea that Jefferson could have been sleeping with a “negro”, and thus using that narrative to claim hypocrisy and other bad qualities to one of our cherished leaders, including the owning of slaves by some of the leaders; the times were different back then, weren’t they? But it was “whitey” that fought the civil war, partly to give freedom to slaves.
Don’t continue to perpetuate the Dem’s myths about that which has never been proven about Jefferson as vs. any of his other relatives of the same blood line that might havre intermixed sexually with slaves, so that the Dems can use it as a tool to indict our own country and its founding fathers with.
Bad form, especially on a conservative website.
Actually, a nephew has never been considered, just Jefferson and his brother. DNA proved there was a genetic link between Sally Hemings descendants and the Jefferson family:
“The results of the study established that an individual carrying the male Jefferson Y chromosome fathered Eston Hemings (born 1808), the last known child born to Sally Hemings. There were approximately 25 adult male Jeffersons who carried this chromosome living in Virginia at that time, and a few of them are known to have visited Monticello. The study’s authors, however, said “the simplest and most probable” conclusion was that Thomas Jefferson had fathered Eston Hemings.”
Based on the DNA findings, in 2000 a commission appointed by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (9 members of the foundation, 3 who were PhD’s) reviewed all the available historical data along with the scientific evidence and found that it was likely he was the father of a couple of Sally’s children.
According to monticello.org (you know, the organization responsible for maintaining records and properties of all things Jefferson) say they can’t say for because there are gaps in the record but:
“Based on the documentary, scientific, statistical, and oral history evidence, the TJF Research Committee Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (January 2000) remains the most comprehensive analysis of this historical topic. Ten years later, TJF and most historians now believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson’s records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.”
But I’m sure they’re all democrats so the comprehensive study is probably wrong, since you say it’s mere democrat propaganda. Still, I would think historical accuracy (as much as can be ascertained by the available information) is valuable and there’s no reason to not hold an imperfect human in high esteem. The Bible is littered with such great men and women from Noah to Saul (Paul). Godly men don’t have to be perfect but men with God on their side can do great things despite their human imperfections.
I’d think an accurate account of the historical record (even if it means some of our heroes aren’t perfect) would be important. Especially on a conservative website that prides itself on fact & accuracy even if it isn’t what we’d like to believe. All it does is buy in to the dems myth that we can’t deal with truth if it doesn’t give credence to our “beliefs”.
Bad form, especially on a conservative website.
Cindie