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

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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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