Jefferson publicly condemned interracial sex while privately engaging in it with Hemings

Evidence

Even after his measure was defeated, even after his relations with Hemings began, and even after the relations matured and he had time to reflect on his own hypocrisy, Jefferson did not stop proclaiming his public position. … Like so many men who spoke out against “amalgamation” in public, and who degraded Black or biracial women’s beauty in public, Jefferson hid his actual views in the privacy of his mind and bedroom. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 311

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates Kendi’s core claim that racist ideas are performances justifying policy/behavior, not honest beliefs — the book’s central inversion as applied to Jefferson’s hypocrisy.
• SEED: Angle: the ‘privacy defense’ of racist thinkers — how publicly constructed racial ideology coexists with privately contradicted practice, and whether hypocrisy invalidates or actually reveals the function of the ideology.