Monticello making TJ hip
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Monticello has launched a new website (that has a signature graphic showing Thomas Jefferson listening to an iPod) called Jefferson Today (www.jeffersontoday.org), which will highlight how TJ’s ideas are still relevant today. It also appears to be an aggregator of all things remotely Jefferson–the site includes a story from Newsday about the recent crash landing of a passenger jet into the Hudson River, which mentions that one of the ferry boats that came to the rescue was named the Thomas Jefferson. The featured topic on the site is the election of Barack Obama, with commentaries by Julian Bond and Annette Gordon-Reed, who won a National Book Award this year for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. As we witness the election of America’s first African-American president, Gordon-Redd discusses the paradox of a slave-owning Jefferson penning the immortal words “all men are created equal.”
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Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer 
Maybe now that we are getting our first black president, the TJ family will finally accept their african roots/ancestors, I mean from what I hear, TJ had a little jungle fever. And his family has been denying it. Well times are changing and peeple can to.