By N.S.
The most thorough, relatively short version on the Sally Hemings hoax:
Giving Thomas Jefferson the Business: The Sally Hemings Hoax.
RTJ #36: Book Review: Hannah Spahn's Black Reason, White Feeling
Nov 17, 2024 "The Real Thomas Jefferson, Episode 1: The Revisionist Fictions Today of Thomas Jefferson"
"The title bespeaks just what Spahn is aiming to argue. Using white Thomas Jefferson and black Phyllis Wheatley to be representative of two distinct movements in America's Enlightenment, she argues that Jefferson bequeathed an epistemology of feeling, not reason, and that Wheatley and her black disciples, as it were, play rationally off Jefferson's confusion to give us a hermeneutic grasp for today of his Declaration. Confused? Just wait till you watch the video!"
Is it reasonable to assume,that the farther from history we travel from,the more the lies are mixed in with actual history?
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Especially when the people during that time are not offering live testimony anymore.
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ReplyDeleteIs it reasonable to assume, that the farther from history we travel from, the more the lies are mixed in with actual history?
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That's the way it appears to be, GRA. But that would mean that history is dead as a discipline.
Even though we witness what's happened during our lifetimes,we can't trust the narratives about most of it--let alone over 100 years ago. Names,yes,but how and why events unfolded--less and less--unless you stick to older history books.
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The picture on the book is pure BS to start with--she was 3/4 white--"very fair" "nearly white" etc.--no way she looked like the Negro on the book cover.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has spent any time working in a restaurant or other retail establishment has probably experienced the black con job. A black comes in and asks for change of some bills--then changes his request over and over until it gets so confusing that the black leaves with more money than he came in with. Blacks appear to be masters of BS--and the intimidation factor certainly helps in their favor. Looks like black academics practice the same talents for BS and intimidation.
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