The kid is not my son

Scholars argue that Jefferson didn't father his slave's children | Gene Edward Veith

According to a survey conducted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 22 percent of American teenagers did not know it was England their country separated from during the Revolution (17 percent thought it was France); 15 percent did not know what happened on July 4, 1776; and 10 percent did not realize that George Washington was the first president of the United States. Though the Foundation did not ask about Thomas Jefferson, it would be a good bet that one of the few American history "facts" they did know—whether from their politically correct social studies classes, from Hollywood, or the media—is that Thomas Jefferson had children by his slave, Sally Hemings.

A charge first raised during Jefferson's lifetime by the notorious scandal-mongering journalist James Callender, it became in the hands of Hollywood a tender saga of interracial, cross-cultural love (Jefferson in Paris). Some writers saw hypocrisy, with the great exponent of "equality" proving to be a sexual abuser of a woman he considered to be his own property.