The ConWeb has some serious issues with the idea that Thomas Jefferson might have fathered a child with black slave Sally Hemings. Accuracy in Media called it a “smear,” while the Media Research Center’s Matt Philbin declared that Jefferson must be “exonerat[ed]” of the accusation.
Now, Les Kinsolving joins the freakout in his Dec. 26 WorldNetDaily column. He declares that the alleged Jefferson-Hemings hookup is “one of the most outrageous libels in American history,” then quotes at length from some book on the topic. Kinsolving concludes by calling the story an “unconscionable smear of the third president of our country and author of our Declaration of Independence.”
It seems Kinsolving is protesting a bit too much here. We already know he’s a raging homophobe; is he a not-so-secret racist as well?