Thursday, August 26, 2010

Sally Hemings; by Barbara Chase-Riboud.

I remember seeing the episode of Oprah when the various branches of Jefferson family were on the show post the court decision of all branches of Jefferson family having equal right to the burial at family burial ground, which had seemingly disturbed some people other than "white" half of the family.

There were some people on the show who looked white enough but were actually part of the black or African American (why don't people think they have a right to say European American? After all Europeans are not native to the land and are far from default choice of the word American, whether US or anywhere else in America) branch of the family. Their ("white") neighbours did not know this about them until the court decision about the case for right to burial in the family plot, which is when they reportedly uncomfortable with them - I forget after all these years if they stopped talking to them actually but that won't be surprising.