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from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3642777535d1.htm
So, Now Will Clinton Submit to DNA Testing
for His Own Reported Black Son?
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By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources
www.originalsources.com November 5, 1998
Is America being set up to accept another Clinton "Lapse of
judgment?" It would appear so, based on the odd timing of a 200
hundred year old bit of political mudslinging. Suddenly a couple of
days before the election, which some thought would be a referendum
on Clinton's deplorable lack of morals, we hear a news report that
claims to have DNA evidence that, U.S. News and World Report calls
"proof...beyond any reasonable doubt that Jefferson had a long-term
sexual relationship with his mulatto slave" Sally Hemings.
While there appear to be a number of people who claim to be
descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the only one
that DNA found any kind of familial match was a male descent of
Eston Hemings, Sally's last child, who was born when Thomas
Jefferson was sixty-five years old, and Sally was 35.
While generally all we hear about Sally is that she was a "slave"
of Thomas Jefferson, she also happened to be his sister-in-law.
Jefferson was 29 years old when he married a young widow, Martha
Wayles Skelton in 1772, who brought into the marriage a large piece
of property - Monticello. Sally Hemings was born a year later at
Monticello to Elizabeth Hemings and, most historians believe, John
Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law. When Martha, and then her
father John died, Jefferson inherited all the property which not
only included the land, but also 167 slaves that lived on that
land. When Jefferson's wife died in 1782, leaving Thomas Jefferson
with three daughters to raise, Sally Hemings was 9 years old
While the 200 year old gossip on this subject, which was published
when Thomas Jefferson was running for President, claims Jefferson
fathered six children by Sally, the DNA evidence, supposedly only
found an x chromosome match to descendants of Eston, her youngest.
While US News and World Report is concluding that this match
"proves" Eston was Thomas Jefferson's son, in fact it probably only
indicates that another story about Sally may be true - that she had
a sexual relationship with one of Thomas Jefferson's nephews.
Thomas Jefferson was 30 years old and recently married to a woman
he loved deeply when Sally was born in 1773, and would have been 65
at the time of Eston's birth.
However, don't expect logic and facts to cool this story off. Why,
do you suppose, we are being fed such garbage as "proof" that
Thomas Jefferson was not the decent man we have always believed him
to be? Apparently it's because there is another Clinton scandal
lurking out there in the dark and we are being set up to accept it
as "OK" because supposedly "Thomas Jefferson did the same thing."
Wesley Pruden, editor of the Washington Times, recently put it this
way: "Eric Lander, a DNA expert at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the author of the article in Nature magazine setting
out the evidence -- proof, most people are calling it -- of Mr.
Jefferson's very own personal democracy project, wants everyone to
draw the parallel between Messrs. Jefferson and Clinton. " 'Now,
with impeccable timing,' he says, 'Jefferson reappears to remind us
of a truth that should be self-evident. Our heroes, and especially
presidents, are not gods or saints, but flesh-and-blood humans,
with all the frailties and imperfections that this entails.' "True
enough, and who among us doubted a self-evident truth? The parallel
is not between Miss Hemings and Monica Lewinsky, but it may be --
now that Mr. Clinton's friends bring it up --between Miss Hemings
and Bobbi Ann Williams.
"Bobbi Ann Williams, for those who have difficulty remembering what
happened on the day before yesterday, is, or was, a Little Rock
hooker who is the mother of an effervescent little boy named Danny
whose daddy, according to Arkansas lore, is Bill Clinton. Some
black folks in Little Rock tried to make this an issue in 1992, but
Mr. Clinton, like Tom Jefferson before him, denied the accusation
by ignoring it. In the photographs circulating at the grittier
edges of the '92 campaign, little Danny, an endearing little tyke
in an Arkansas Razorbacks T-shirt, does in fact look a lot like a
Clinton. He would be about 13 now. A lot of "respectable" news
organizations spent a lot of money in '92 trying to find Bobbi Ann
Williams, and never did. Miss Williams' mother -- little Danny's
grandmother -- talked to reporters but wouldn't tell them much.
"Bobbi Ann Williams just disappeared, like a lot of people whose
paths crossed Bill Clinton's in Arkansas, and Bobbi Ann sightings
have been reported in places as diverse as San Diego, Salt Lake
City, New Orleans. But no Bobbi, no Danny.
"The Clinton campaign worked mightily to suppress the story, which
in its calculations did not rise to the level of an official 'bimbo
eruption.' Betsey Wright never had to concern herself with it. The
word was put out that anyone who asked about her or the boy was a
'racist,' though how such a question could be construed as racist
was never explained. The racism, if there was any, would seem to
have been in the Clinton campaign's suggestion that their man could
not possibly have been involved with a black hooker. Well, that was
then, and this is now. Rutting stories about Bill Clinton that were
dismissed out of hand then are routinely accepted as credible now.
Even his friends concede that the 42nd president of the United
States, though doing a swell job as the leader of the free world,
actually prefers the sleazy, sordid, shabby and shoddy in his
private life."
Obviously America was not ready for this story in 1992, but today?
What the heck! What difference does it make if we have another sex
scandal in the White House? This one would give the talk shows and
soap operas lots of material. What is the politically correct - or
say even, the "right" thing for Bill Clinton to do about Danny?
Should he divorce Hillary and marry the boy's mother so he can have
a son to carry on the Clinton name? Should he go on TV, shake his
finger in our faces again and declare, "I did not have sex with
that woman!" Or should he volunteer to have a DNA test, and if it
is positive go on TV and tell us that he had another "lapse in
judgment" but that it DOES enable him to proudly say that, as the
father of a black child, he is, indeed, America's first "black
president" just as some in the black community have claimed?
If, as it appears, as a nation we have come to the conclusion that
nothing this president does is bad enough for us to send a
disapproval message, should we just stipulate that position and be
done with it? Do we have to destroy the reputations and character
of long dead founding fathers to provide Bill Clinton with cover?
What ever became of that once finely tuned American sense of fair
play? Thomas Jefferson isn't here to defend himself. If he were,
and was willing to talk about it, we might find out how he dealt
with a situation in which he owned his own sister-in-law, who was
so fair-skinned that at least a couple of her children were able to
move away from Virginia, and pass as white people in other states.
Much is made of the fact that Jefferson never "freed" Sally. If he
had freed her, of course under Virginia law at the time she would
have had to leave Monticello and the state and never come back.
Thomas Jefferson would have done whatever was best for his wife's
half-sister in a very difficult family situation. It might not be
considered the politically correct thing to do by today's
standards, but Jefferson clearly treated Sally generously, even
having her take lessons in Paris in reading, needlework and other
"arts" of refined young ladies in the 1700s. Recent archeological
findings at Monticello clearly indicate the Hemings were literate.
James Callander, a disgruntled journalist, published the charges
about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings during a bitter
presidential campaign and because Jefferson really believed in
freedom of speech, he never responded to the false charges then or
later.
However, for the Clinton spin doctors to use a 200 year old tragedy
in the life of Thomas Jefferson, that was not of his making, to try
to justify totally amoral behavior on the part of the president is
a new low, even for him.
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This should be on the cover of Time and Newsweek. No wonder they
call him the first black president.
Posted by: CharlieChan (emailname) *
11/05/98 20:13:38 PST
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