Umm, I believe it is called Free Speech.
Anita
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:14:45 -0400
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> Subject: Brent Staples NYT "again" "bad mouthing" Thomas Jefferson
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I note that Brent Staples at NYT is at it again, stating that Thomas
> Jefferson fathered slave children. He has NO proof of it and just seems
> to go back to the earlier NYT articles when the media was believing the
> Nature article. Why does he not go to the Scholar's Commission Report
> (www.tjheritage.org) and read the truth about the study.....NO proof of
> TJ fathering slave children? In my opinion, he needs to drag it out
> again every time he writes a slavery or African American story.
>
> Herb Barger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of S. Corneliussen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] NY Times essay
>
> For Brent Staples to presume the Hemings-TJ paternity is nothing new. He
>
> mentions it at a rate of once per year or two or so. In my view, what he
>
> wrote today about the Loving case, however, merits attention. It also
> seems
> to me that what Jon Kukla contributed about General John Hartwell Cocke
> may
> merit attention too, though I note that Cyndi Burton's book also has
> some
> interesting things to say about that. What I, for one, believe does not
> merit any bandwidth is a resumption of what Brent Tarter recently called
>
> "the annual shouting match about Thomas Jefferson and sex and race."
> Thanks.
> Steve Corneliussen
>
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