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Some critics attack the testimony of Madison Hemings that his mother was Jefferson's concubine. I like Annette Gordon Reeds response "“The notion of who gets to pronounce a historical truth is very, very contested territory,” she said. “The heresy was believing black people.”

Thanks I have Annette Gordon-Reed's books. I watched her videos.

Louise Midgley has long attacked Fawn Brodie's book on Jefferson. Try to discredit both her writing on Joseph Smith and Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson Reconsidering the Jefferson–Hemings Relationship: Nationalist Historiography without Nationalist Heroes, Racial Sexuality without Racial Significance. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04f602a21b0f909de70147a6b3fdcbe6d224c6e0 Jefferson did not respond to...

I have been reminded by Shades about my lack of punctuation. In a book i read: A panda walks into a café and orders food. The panda eats the food shoots a gun into the ceiling and leaves. The owner calls out "why did you do that?." The Panda calls out "Look it up". Panda bears "eats shoots and leaves.

Just curious Smith said the word "Mormon" meant "more good" Wesley P Walters in his Mth said it mean "frightening" based as an adjective for "mormo" means hideus face or mask. or "Mormo (Greek: Μορμώ, Mormō) was a female spirit in Greek folklore, whose name was invoked by mothers and nurses to frigh...

Dan quotes a passage from a book by David Brookes. I regular watch him on Newshour and he comes across as a moderate conservative: "Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you. (61) https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2024/05/how-to-know-a-person.html In ot...

At least there is one Mormon who speaks the truth about Trump, Romney: "You don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you."

The pastor and the prophet: The airwaves have exploded on the internet with a pastor willing to attack the crass commercialism of Trump pushing his Bible with political literature inserted. He needs money, he claims it is his favorite book which he has many. Interview he was asked which was his favo...

We have a crucial decision coming if the US President can be held liable. Some say if approved makes him a King:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... is_joseph/

Was Smith crowned as king?