Leonard Pitts, The Miami Herald

October 15, 2008

Leonard Pitts
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693

RE: “It Ain’t Necessarily So” – A different take on your column in today’s Miami Herald.

Mr. Pitts,

“Accurately, it turns out” is what you said in re Thomas Jefferson “fathering a child by a slave”. Like I said, “It Ain’t Necessarily So”.

I hate to be turd in the punch bowl particularly when the author is a Pulitzer Prize winner – I think neither Walter Duranty nor Janice Cook will mind – but what you wrote is, at the very least, not accurate.

Facts are hard things. Either they are true or they are not. “Close” counts only in horseshoes and nuclear weapons.

It – Thomas Jefferson’s fathering of a child by a slave ain’t so ‘cuz you say it is. Look it up.

Touching on another slave matter would it be “fair” to say that Barack Husssein Obama’s connection to the slave trade would have been on the gathering and selling side? Arab traders – Barack Hussein Obama is an Arabic name, isn’t it? – made and still make a good living trafficking in human flesh. It was not unusual for Arab corsairs to raid Europe for treasure and slaves. There are 5 Muslim majority countries in Africa today that countenance slavery within their borders. Sudan, Mali, Chad, Mauretania, and Nigeria have never heard of the 13th Amendment.

Will an Obama Presidency see an end to this?

KS

PS – California has its coldest October since 1893. Oregon has its coldest October since 1890. The Alaska glaciers grew this year. Does that mean that Global Warming is no longer a campaign issue?