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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
