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A Family Get-Together of Historic Proportions (Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings?)
NY Times ^
| July 14, 2003
| JAMES DAO
Posted on 07/14/2003 10:33:43 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: crazykatz
Interesting historical perspective. I was actually making a joke and didn't expect this level of detail. I was referring to George Jefferson, of course.
I apologize for having injected a bit of confusion into the forum.
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posted on
07/14/2003 7:52:55 PM PDT
by
davisfh
To: Sabertooth
Thanks for the heads up!
To: Sabertooth
That's why anyone who says Thomas Jefferson slept with Sally Hemings is speaking on the basis of something other than science.I know some of the "extended Jefferson family" quite well. The belief is akin to a religious one, a prideful attitude and one that developed virtually exclusively within the black community of a couple hundred or so years back. As is the case with many issues, science will provide the facts, but people will provide the beliefs. The challenge from science is about as welcome to these putative descendants as would be Drawin at a creationsts assembly.
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posted on
07/14/2003 8:46:19 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: Sabertooth
Very interesting. I actually watched this debated on CSPAN several years ago.
There were heated cries of "racism" being vollied forth from the black side.
But then as now, there is no conclusive evidence of Jefferson doing anything improper.
To: Sabertooth
Anyone know just why Monticello Association has benn fighting this? I mean it was a long time ago.
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posted on
07/14/2003 9:48:02 PM PDT
by
Valin
(America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.)
To: Sabertooth
Have you seen that 1995 movie "Jefferson in Paris"? It portrays the Jefferson-Hemmings relationship. It's about to be released on DVD.
Direct from Hollywood, here is Thomas Jefferson -
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:42:17 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: crazykatz
Right. And Paul Revere warned the entire city of Boston of the British invasion...
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posted on
07/15/2003 6:37:50 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(RUN AL, RUN!!!)
To: presidio9
Why should he have done that? Don't be silly. LOL
To: HAL9000
Hollywood projects immorality everywhere they look, to justify its own.
To: connectthedots
Personally, I find what my ancestors lived through, and conquered, to be a testament to the human ability to survive. Those people were, to quote a fellow researcher, "blue twisted steel."
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07/15/2003 7:22:31 PM PDT
by
Rose in RoseBear
(HHD [... before you can plan your destination, you have to possess a good foundation ...])
To: Rose in RoseBear
Maybe so, but inspirational stories don't have to be those within your family, so the fact that they may or may not be true of your early relatived does not make them trure for you.
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