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- Dec 26, 2011
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You didn't even look at the link? It's the definitive source for the history of Jefferson. Of course you didn't...
But don't worry Eddie, I certainly don't need your money and you clearly could not get by without it.
Next time though, don't let your big mouth write checks your ass can't cash. Making stupid bets like this when you don't know what the hell you're talking about. I understand that you are not a native American, so I get it that you might be unaware of the well known details of the Jefferson-Hemmings relationship, but those of us who studied American history are well aware of those details, and do not look down on THAT relationship any more than we do the one between Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Smith. The two men were both great Americans and the color of their lovers' skins means nothing to most of us.... Certainly not me.
And only the sounds of crickets chirping, as Eddie slinks away breathing a sigh of relief that he didn't have to join the welcher's club along with Liability!![]()
Shortly after the DNA test results were released in November 1998, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation formed a research committee consisting of nine members of the foundation staff, including four with Ph.D.s. In January 2000, the committee reported that the weight of all known evidence--from the DNA study, original documents, written and oral historical accounts, and statistical data--indicated a high probability that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, and that he was likely the father of all six of Sally Hemings's children listed in Monticello records--Harriet (born 1795; died in infancy); Beverly (born 1798); an unnamed daughter (born 1799; died in infancy); Harriet (born 1801); Madison (born 1805); and Eston (born 1808).
Since then, a committee commissioned by the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, after reviewing essentially the same material, reached different conclusions, namely that Sally Hemings was only a minor figure in Thomas Jefferson's life and that it is very unlikely he fathered any of her children. This committee also suggested in its report, issued in April 2001 and revised in 2011, that Jefferson's younger brother Randolph (1755-1815) was more likely the father of at least some of Sally Hemings's children.
The committee commissioned by the heritage society had WHAT qualifications with which to reach their different conclusions?
I KNEW you'd tap dance away from your foolhardy wager. She went with Tom to Paris, for crissakes and he was present at Monticello where she was, or with her in Paris when her children were conceived. And her kids have Jefferson DNA! Baby brother Randolph becomes the scapegoat, does he? Either way..a Jefferson boy was dipping into some dark meat.
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