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To: ROCKLOBSTER

“So you’re saying she was asking for it?”

No. I’m saying that James Callender spread that libel in the first place and Clinton repeated it hoping that logic-challenged fools would gobble it up and spread it. It’s obvious that their bet paid off.

There is no proof that Sally Heming’s kids were fathered by Thomas Jefferson. There were more than a dozen Jefferson males living near Monticello whose DNA share the same Y chromosome as Thomas Jefferson.

“He kept the kids out of sight because they looked so much like him.”

Sally Hemings was the daughter of Jefferson’s father in law. She was his wife’s half sister. Her kids resembled his wife and his own children. Callender used this fact to libel Jefferson after they had a falling out. I realize that this is history whereas you prefer 18th century gossip but I’ll post it for the benefit of others.


450 posted on 04/13/2015 4:18:01 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

I also blame Gore Vidal for these smears against Jefferson. In his fine book “Burr” he defames Jefferson with these charges. Actually, some of Jefferson’s male relatives were quite backwards. Two of his nephews chopped up a living slave to teach the other slaves “a lesson.”


454 posted on 04/13/2015 6:28:34 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Pelham
There is no proof that Sally Heming’s kids were fathered by Thomas Jefferson. There were more than a dozen Jefferson males living near Monticello whose DNA share the same Y chromosome as Thomas Jefferson.

So, you confess, that also means you can't prove it wasn't good old TJ. I guess it all depends what the meaning of "Y" is.

457 posted on 04/13/2015 7:53:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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