10 Things Black/Hispanic People Know...

[TitanTiger 21,565]

...that white people won't admit. As well as the reverse of each.

10 Truths Black And Hispanic People Know, But White People Won't Admit:

1. Elvis is dead.

2. Jesus was not white.

3. Rap music is here to stay.

4. Kissing your pet is not cute or clean.

5. Skinny does not equal sexy.

6. Thomas Jefferson had black children.

7. A 5-year-child is too big for a stroller.

8. N'Sync will never hold a candle to the Jackson 5.

9. An occasional butt-whooping helps a child stay in line.

10. Having your children curse you out in public is not normal.

10 Truths White And Black People Know, But Hispanic People Won't Admit:

1. Hickeys are not attractive.

2. Chicken is food, not a roommate.

3. Jesus is not a name for your son.

4. Men don't wear hair nets.

5. Maria is a name but not for every other daughter.

6. "Jump out and run" is not a substitute for car insurance.

7. 10 people to a car is considered too many.

8. Buttoning just the top button of your shirt is a bad fashion statement.

9. Mami and Papi can't possibly be the nickname of every person in your family.

10. Letting your children run wildly through the store is not normal.

10 Truths White And Hispanic People Know, But Black People Won't Admit:

1. O.J. did it.

2. Tupac is dead.

3. Teeth should not be decorated.

4. Weddings should start on time.

5. Your pastor doesn't know everything.

6. Jesse Jackson will never be president.

7. Red is not a Kool-aid flavor, it's a color.

8. Church does not require expensive clothes.

9. Crown Royal bags are meant to be thrown away.

10. Your rims and sound system should not be worth more than your car.

[ellitor 34,038]

2. Chicken is food, not a roommate.

My favorite one.

[cptau 169]

The people who know for sure about number 6 in the first set, are all long dead.

[TitanTiger 21,565]

I believe DNA testing all but confirmed it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/true/

[alexava 6,976]

This stuff is offensive to somebody. Oh yea me. I had a whole dam drawer of Crown Royal bags. I was gonna have a quilt made. I also had a CRBottle full of dimes. Made a good end table decor. My wife disagreed. Bags got dumped, she fished the dimes out and rolled em.

[cptau 169]

I believe DNA testing all but confirmed it.

http://www.pbs.org/w...jefferson/true/

DNA testing keeps improving and will probably eventually prove it one way or the other. Eston Hemings Jefferson's father was a Jefferson. The other Jefferson males with that famous Y chromosome were TJ's brother Randolph Jefferson and his five sons who lived nearby. So the father of Eston is among those 7Jeffersons. TJ also freed all of Sally Hemmings children.

http://www.straightd...ead/1331/update

In recent times the question came up for another look, and it occurred to some that genetic testing might shed some light. The Y (male) chromosome changes very little when transmitted from father to son. So pathologist Eugene Foster and others decided to take the Y-chromosome DNA of male-line descendants of Hemings's eldest son, Thomas Woodson (so surnamed because of a later owner), and her youngest son, Eston Hemings Jefferson, and compare it with the DNA of male-line descendants of Jefferson's paternal uncle (TJ had no surviving sons) and of Samuel and Peter Carr's grandfather. The results: Thomas Woodson DNA and Eston Hemings Jefferson DNA vs. Carr DNA. No match. Thomas Woodson DNA vs. Jefferson DNA. No match.Eston Hemings Jefferson DNA vs. Jefferson DNA. Match. More than that: dead match. It's all but certain that Jefferson or a close relative fathered Hemings's youngest son.

True, it might not have been Jefferson. It could have been his brother Randolph, one of Randolph's five sons, etc. Looking at the bigger picture: it was a plantation, lots of sexual mixing went on--who knows how the bloodlines might have gotten crossed? On the other hand: (1) it's been documented that Hemings and Jefferson were in the same place eight or nine months prior to each known birth; (2) there's the DNA evidence, (3) there's the Woodson oral history, (4) there's the Madison Hemings account; (5) Jefferson freed all the Hemings children at age 21, something he did for none of his other slaves; and (6) the Carr theory has been largely ruled out. So the simplest explanation is that TJ was the pop.

Still, think where this leaves us. Hemings's youngest son wasn't born until 1808. The most obvious interpretation of the DNA results is that Jefferson didn't father Tom, the kid who inspired the initial rumor, but he did father the kid who was born six years after the scandal broke. Doesn't that seem odd? Uncertainty about Tom further confuses matters: Callender cited him by name, but Jefferson's records don't mention him, and other sources are contradictory. We aren't sure if Sally even had a son named Tom.