Slaves helped build America it’s important that people own that fact.

@storyluis5633

5 жыл бұрын

Slaves did more then help..They did it!

@deniseandrews113

5 жыл бұрын

@@storyluis5633 They did the thing! Others participated...as overseers

@kyradunston7624

5 жыл бұрын

Help. They built this country with their bare hands all because they wanted free labor.

@sw01237

5 жыл бұрын

@@kyradunston7624 exactly

@severalpiece7105

5 жыл бұрын

Drake???????????

His white grandson is very woke and a great example of many white Americans who don't live as racist, because he understands the truth and doesn't feel like it's a bad thing to acknowledge it

@adithalee8660

5 жыл бұрын

maisen santiago America would be 200% better if they had the same attitude of Thomas Jefferson’s white great g.....grandson.

@duckydarkstar38

5 жыл бұрын

@Tiger Lilly it's not that simple. White people have caused pain to all ethnic people in America tho not just the blacks . To the Chinese ,Japanese, Hispanic, Native American tribes, and to the blacks. Face reality ,face the facts. Its like the villain in the movie is totally convinced they're the good guy - but EVERYONE else is like " no your not" 🤔🤔🤔🤔😑

@nolmets9397

5 жыл бұрын

When I hear “woke” it cracks me up.

@retiredtidepodeater3339

5 жыл бұрын

@@lesleenbarbour-jack6136 Ehhh, I feel you... But we can definitely be racist too . Just because we lack the power and social structure that whites possess doesn't mean that we can't exhibit certain characteristics of stone cold racism. ....But most of the time when we are accused of being "racist" it's actually just "prejudice" like said. Iunno why it's so hard for people to tell the difference though.

@chocolatecapricorn9418

5 жыл бұрын

O Taite That’s the part they don’t understand.

These people are what America and the world needs. Not trying to obliterate the past, but coming to terms with it, embracing each other, healing together and moving on - united - into the future.

@davi66urtin

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@onedayatatime7022

3 жыл бұрын

@Arid but all of ours where, that is history... Knowing history is a way to learn from it and heal.. accepting out past, learning from it and creating a new and brighter future ❤️ please God

@MacJaxonManOfAction

3 жыл бұрын

@Arid For all we know, one of your ancestors could have killed one of mine, or vice versa. Let go of the hatred. As James Joyce said, "History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake". The sins of the father do not pass to the children. If you believe otherwise, then I'm afraid I can't go down your path. Peace and best wishes

@chasity2554

3 жыл бұрын

Steven McBrien That’s not necessarily how I understood Arid’s comment. When you’re on side of the equation, particularly in American’s history, that pain and emotion is visceral ... it’s raw ... it’s innately familiar so I think “coming to terms with it” is a different and many times more difficult journey for some of us.

@Solisium-Channel

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck telling that to black people

The black descendant looks more like Thomas than the white one.

@migosmetro265

3 жыл бұрын

Bulldog Brower don’t say that to loud

@ardithbard857

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@thaynealexander

3 жыл бұрын

No, not really. The White man has his nose and eyes. The Black guy doesn't.

@retro4454

3 жыл бұрын

Daveed Diggs is actually Thomas Jefferson’s descendant.

@thaynealexander

3 жыл бұрын

@mrbooglesopus Read my post again, slowly. The White Descendant.

I am so glad the 6th great-grandson used the word rape because that's what it was.

@bwalto21

5 жыл бұрын

That's rt

@drehunt7798

5 жыл бұрын

Every family has rape in their history.

@drehunt7798

5 жыл бұрын

Umm.........you'd be surprised how many regular mfs have raped generations of family members and gotten away with it. Black and White.

@edbenti5007

5 жыл бұрын

Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."THE DNA TESTS PROVED ONLY THAT HEMMINGS' SON THOMAS WOODSON WAS NOT FATHERED BY THE PRESIDENT. The DNA tests were impossible to use as proof because Jefferson had no legitimate male heirs. The Y chromosomes necessary to prove paternity follow the male line. Jefferson had 5 nephews and a younger brother who could have been the fathers. But one thing is certain, Thomas Woodson has NO JEFFERSON DNA in his line.

@popbaby103

5 жыл бұрын

You can feel how uncomfortable the white grandson was

Jefferson’s black grandson is ..well...absolutely gorgeous

@hzjohnson1632

3 жыл бұрын

👏🏾😂👏🏾

@AnitaD28

3 жыл бұрын

@@hzjohnson1632 - well he is 🥳

@wheelinthesky300

3 жыл бұрын

And gay.

@laiminhmabulay7529

3 жыл бұрын

i agree

@jesscarlacraig8358

3 жыл бұрын

He's biracial

Sally must of been absolutely gorgeous. Her descendants are so beautiful.

@annmitchell4663

3 жыл бұрын

She was the half sister of his wife so they may have looked alike.

@asjones169

3 жыл бұрын

She looked just like her sister, I think thats why Thomas Jefferson was so taking with her.

@brendaflowers2847

2 жыл бұрын

She was beautiful!

@MoswaldOsley11.

Ай бұрын

They are disgusting

Glad to see Lucian still standing by his convictions. That Oprah interview was almost 20 years ago. He still maintains the same stance. That's a man with morals.

@robertandhollyscorpiofan2697

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching that show. At one point, a white man (no connection) stood up to voice a complaint, that the Hemings descendants should NOT be buried in the family plot. Lucian challenged him with, “I AM connected, and it doesn’t bother me. Why is it bothering YOU?” The man flustered by saying, “they are black, they have no business being there.”

@MoreOnPleeez

5 ай бұрын

​@@robertandhollyscorpiofan2697that was an act for the show.

I'm African American. My grandmother's maden name is Wallace. I contacted the Alabama Wallace's years ago and of course they never heard of my Great Grandfather. However, DNA results have proven that my grandmother and George Wallace Jr are first cousins. Aint that a kick in the pants.

@brandonnixon5865

3 жыл бұрын

I can help you. You and I might be a cousin. My grandmother is a Wallace. The Wallace family is from York and Cuba Alabama. Do you have a Facebook? My Facebook name is deacon Brandon Nixon. My email is ben66990@yahoo.com. if you have a Facebook we can keep in Contact.

@brandonnixon5865

3 жыл бұрын

What is your grandmother name too

@brendajoycewhite5747

3 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@ayeyo5097

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow

@curvelgeorge3959

3 жыл бұрын

@@icantletyougetclose1678 what are you talking about ...I am afro Caribbean ..black comes from the continent of Africa and anyone with majority African genes can claim their African ancestry..my hairl is curly, my nose is wide and my skin is black ..this I share with Africans and as such I am able to say I am afro something

It's uncanny how much both men look like Thomas Jefferson! Their facial structure is almost identical to each other. Different color, but still family! Amazing story!

@BudandBloomWithBlossom

5 жыл бұрын

They really DO look just alike!

@kiyandradavis89

5 жыл бұрын

@learning sharin lol 😂😂😂

@edbenti5007

5 жыл бұрын

Did you know that Sally Hemmings could have been impregnated by 8 Jefferson males and that 5 of them were teenagers and early 20s when she became pregnant and none of those 5 were Thomas Jefferson?Hemmings son Thomas Woodson was proven by the DNA tests to NOT be a Jefferson descendant. His line of descendants had NO Jefferson DNA. Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."To believe that 43 year old Thomas Jefferson was sexually aroused by a 13 year old girl is ridiculous. The DNA tests and human nature more likely presume his nephews or younger brother were the sperm donors.

@reginarobertkrystyn

4 жыл бұрын

It’s said that Jefferson’s sons with Hemmings essentially looked like younger brown (“sable”) versions of himself.

@gmailemail7321

4 жыл бұрын

genetics trump pigment... periodt

If this family came together with all this horrible history.. American we can do it..

@ddr8215

3 жыл бұрын

Jordan vanburen Vvalker you’re a bot.

@thyjuanc8728

3 жыл бұрын

Jordan vanburen Vvalker is funny that you say that.. but a lot of the people that live in America are immigrants or from families that immigrated to America .. so stop with the immigrant stuff.. maybe your own ancestors where immigrants..

@amyellen3845

3 жыл бұрын

Honesty and recognition are sorely needed. The Jefferson's have set a wonderful example for us to follow.

@thyjuanc8728

3 жыл бұрын

Swarthy One Yeap that’s true..

@thyjuanc8728

3 жыл бұрын

Jordan vanburen Vvalker first of all when I reply to you I did not call you a bot. I just stated facts. So if you got mad or upset is on you. Second of all you can definitely run your mouth cause that all you doing.

Imagine not being allowed to be buried with your family because it makes the owners uncomfortable

@parkermartinez3787

3 жыл бұрын

Right

@ellebelle4094

3 жыл бұрын

Not his family. Read this. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mo6E2dqDoLvbqZs.html&lc=UgxZhwheVD-_ysWygF54AaABAg.8wwKku8nJUt9GsCGXajCUN&feature=em-comments

Those men are a beautiful example of what America started as and has the potential to be if the truth is acknowledged.

@jaboy0978

4 жыл бұрын

It started as rape... but I guess

@kingbIIIr

4 жыл бұрын

Started as colonist engaging in total war on Natives (man, woman and child...also food stores)

@forgetful9845

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingbIIIrIt depended, some colonists were more friendly.

@kingbIIIr

4 жыл бұрын

@@forgetful9845 appropriate profile name. Think whatever you want if makes you feel better. However, facts are facts and the extirpation of natives based on racist ideologies is well documented in American history....by white historians. I'm simply telling you the truth but based on your delusions I am sure you will interpret my reply to you as being anti-white somehow. Look both ways before you cross the street and remember to chew your food before you attempt to swallow! G'day.

@forgetful9845

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingbIIIr Yeah, of course. Many colonista were horrible people and subjugated people. And genocide was carried out. But at first there wasnt systematic genocide, at first most of the death was from disease I believe, thats most though.

Think about it: MOST of the founding fathers last names (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, etc.) sound like African-American names today.

@NoName-zi9st

4 жыл бұрын

@Vivien Ola it's a he not a she. Christopher 😂😂😂

@capoislamort100

4 жыл бұрын

Abidjanaise maybe those guys were African Americans, it doesn’t make sense that 99% of people name Washington, jefferson, Jackson are black...in a majority white country

@shelleysteva2251

4 жыл бұрын

capoislamort100 why not?

@franmellor9843

4 жыл бұрын

Washington is BRITISH..the other surnames Scandinavian

@robmartin217

4 жыл бұрын

Diaz,phd....with a stupid comment like that.....yeah right....

Watching this July 7 2020....just like this family has come together, and that Monticello has started telling the whole story is awesome...praying that our country can find a way to come together, not let things drive the races farther and farther apart. We, the people can make America real again...Don’t delete history, just tell it like it really was..

@mariannebaskerville-hillia406

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@frankignatius2507

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100%. There is a difference between deleting history and telling the full history. The Left plays on the emotions of African Americans to help delete history by demonizing White historical figures. This furthers their agenda to delete, so they can replace it with a Marxist version. The Left has sabotaged the BLM movement with propaganda and rhetoric. Innocent people (Black and White) have suffered the consequences of unbridled rage. Every human being is tainted. We all have these "shades of gray" within the pages of our life story. The Scripture says we all have sinned and have fallen short from the glory of God! Confronting these issues can be a societal purging of awkward feelings that have been boiling inside a historical pressure cooker for centuries! This can be a wonderfully cathartic moment in American history that can help unite a newly healed American identity common to all!

@IanP1963

3 жыл бұрын

Well you beat us Brits in 1776 so Americans have had enough time to get it all together - it's not too late !!!!

@IanP1963

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankignatius2507 The Marxists left Poland in a right mess in 1990 when I first visited it with my wife, who has Polish ancestory, it was like a third world nation, fortunately it's the jewel in the crown of East Europe now! Commies/Marxists are no better than Facists, ask my MIL who witnessed the Communist regime in action in Poland during 1950's - GULAGS, etc !!!!!!

@ellebelle4094

3 жыл бұрын

Can't come together on lies. No definitive proof that Jefferson fathered any of Sally's children, plenty that one of the many other Jefferson men around did, including some testimony by one (or more) of his slaves who was a witness. The line from one son that always claimed it was descended from Jefferson was shown by DNA to be unrelated, period.

Fun fact: Thomas Jefferson's wife (Martha Jefferson nee Wayles) was the half sister of Sally Hemings.

@lawtraf8008

3 жыл бұрын

really ? so Sally was already half white. do they had the same father ?

@justineharper3346

3 жыл бұрын

@@lawtraf8008 yes. They had the same father. So I guess they would all be double cousins through the female line as well

@constancedenchy9801

2 жыл бұрын

@@justineharper3346 wow...just wow

@abcccdd1211

Ай бұрын

@@lawtraf8008 nah fam she was quarter white. her mom was already half white

I love that white man. He is telling the truth. Blacks built White house, CAPITOL , Geogre Washingtons house

@IWantToMature85

5 жыл бұрын

Against All Odds it wasn’t just us who build it. A lot of people did. I thought the same, but research stated others.

@34Jazzi

5 жыл бұрын

@@IWantToMature85 who then

@34Jazzi

5 жыл бұрын

You will be by yourself loving him🤢🤮

@filethisinformation3277

5 жыл бұрын

The enslaved Africans did all the work!

@storyluis5633

5 жыл бұрын

@@IWantToMature85 Our blood sweat & tears are in every part of the WHITE house , & the engire south for tht matter the others helped through a volunteer process , a paid process,and brother hood with others prospering together inventing, creating ,gaining and leaving your mark on the world..... We were slaves, misused,mistreated ,and lied on...we were forced to build that place and trust me I wasn't there but I feel safe In saying they did most the work.

I'mma be honest, I teared up when he said Sally Hemmings was one of the founding mothers

@12omle

3 жыл бұрын

you know damn well you did not tear up

@laurih.t.8723

3 жыл бұрын

Truth ❤🙏 She was

@Brayan-rm6ti

2 жыл бұрын

@@12omle haha this guy 😂😂

@Welcometothenow

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, but at what cost?

@breeoniebrooks217

2 жыл бұрын

I did too, I had watched Oprah's interview first and cried.

The American educational system needs to re write the history books and start teaching the truth to their citizens about all these American figures.

@BananasAndChickens

3 жыл бұрын

Yez

@ellebelle4094

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but this story is not true.

@TheSilverPhoenix100

3 жыл бұрын

They do...the founding fathers are complicated just as any person. Thomas Jefferson for instance understood the hypocrisy of saying "all men are created equal and entitled to equal rights", while he owned slaves. In fact he wrote 3 paragraphs in his original draft of the DoI, condemning Britian for "inflicting the sin of slavery upon her colonies". However it was 1776 and slaves were seen as a necessary evil by the majority of people. You cant simply teach "the truth" as you put it while ignoring context and nuiance that comes with studying the past. Its easy to condemn people when you have 20/20 hindsight but to actually put yourself in that era you realize the world is alot more grey

@ellebelle4094

3 жыл бұрын

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@j.daniels1548

3 жыл бұрын

America needs to pay reparations for the atrocities it has committed against Foundational Black Americans.

“This country wouldn’t exist without slaves” that resumes everything Great story

@leonhenry4861

3 жыл бұрын

It would exist it just would be at the bottom of the pile and it's more like the continent as South America also had slaves.

@audreyf9092

3 жыл бұрын

Leon Henry It wouldn’t exist as we know it today

@gizmocrue73dw

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they would have still built structures and homes even if they had no slaves, but the slaves definitely stepped up the progress.

@MrMisterdc

3 жыл бұрын

@John Staples It most certainly would not, It's funny how you try to discount all the hard, free forced labor that was done by the slaves, you're delusional.

@MrMisterdc

3 жыл бұрын

@John Staples I don't care what you say, slaves built this country, if they weren't essential why did the south fight so hard to keep slavery legal, killing almost 6 million Americans in the Civil War in the process???

I get mad thinking about the fake history I learned while attending public school in Mississippi. I'm happy this family is coming together

@edbenti5007

5 жыл бұрын

Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."There were 5 young Jefferson's of sexually active age, from Randolph Jefferson's side when Sally Hemmings became pregnant. The DNA tests did NOT prove the President fathered any of Hemmings' children. He is believed by some historians to have fathered Eston hemmings, but even that cannot be proved scientifically.

@dshepherd107

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. It really riles me, the pack of lies we were fed.

@itzkrepo4103

4 жыл бұрын

Finn even California if I wanna be honest

@yaj1v

4 жыл бұрын

Totally random tidbit: Mississippi is the only state that hasn't condemned the Armenian Genocide.

@penne_5573

4 жыл бұрын

this is why i do the research on my own bruh

There is genuine family love between these two men.

@jawallin8734

4 жыл бұрын

Facts that's how it felt

@sharersale6480

9 ай бұрын

I felt it too!

I love the two cousins coming together and sharing our true history United

I cant imagine how difficult the family dynamic is for them. But its great to see a family be able to put bad history behind them and come together. Family is family no matter what

The black man LOOKS like Thomas Jefferson. You can see it in the facial structure. Look up Jefferson's official presidential portrait. No doubt about it.

@signalfire6

5 жыл бұрын

Both of them do. Very handsome indeed. I wish we had a painting of Sally but I believe we don't. At the time, it was well known that the 'house slaves' at Monticello, children of Sally, looked so much like Thomas Jefferson that the lineage was undeniable. It was quite the scandal even then.

@davidjones6894

5 жыл бұрын

He sure does

@deniseandrews113

5 жыл бұрын

@@signalfire6 Quite the scandal, even back then. His political opponents tried to use it against him, but he was a 'Teflon Don' I guess...

@renitawilliams

5 жыл бұрын

He sure does...i was thinking the same thing

@MrNathan791

5 жыл бұрын

redcomic619 When I saw this video I was thinking the same thing. He really does.

That white brother really spoke out. There is a chance for this country.

@leonhenry4861

3 жыл бұрын

1 man against millions of biggety fuckers. good luck with that.

@IanP1963

3 жыл бұрын

Well you beat us Brits 240 plus years ago it's about time you got the country sorted out Lol !!!!!

@ctbt1832

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonhenry4861 Maybe you misunderstood what I said or meant by it

@ctbt1832

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanP1963 I totally didn’t understand what you wrote 😂. You confused a few people

@ctbt1832

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonhenry4861 sometimes it only takes one to make a change to come for many. Now George Washington family got to tell the truth instead of hiding it

This is so beautiful. America and the world need more people like Lucian.

I had a literature professor who was obviously a Jefferson descendant. He had the nose, freckles. Nearly looked like Jefferson. He was an excellent professor in many ways, like introducing us to Sally Hemmings and experiences from teaching Seminole students. Beautiful soul. Unfortunately, he became ill and was unable to teach the full semester.

It sometimes takes time, but the truth always comes into the light. Family is everything and acknowledging all members shows grace and acceptance.

@ericworiax1277

5 жыл бұрын

Regarding everything this story offers ,you got to love how the truth will find us out. So w regards to BLM who gets punished and how? Does the left get the chance to tear up anything?

@fredabodin9614

5 жыл бұрын

@@ericworiax1277 History is something to learn from be it pleasant or painful. Punishment for whom? What needs to be torn up? The Jefferson family has accepted the past and the Hemmings relatives as family. What more should they do? They can't change the past. Thru acknowledging their past they have done the right thing.

@missly4633

5 жыл бұрын

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@marlastevens9036

5 жыл бұрын

@@fredabodin9614 The foundation that runs Monticello has accepted the relationship but too few of my Randolph/Eppes side of the family have to say we have "done the right thing" despite what people like me and a few other Randolphs, the Truscotts, many of the Carrs, and miscellaneous Works, Roaches, and Taylors have done to provide them with the best evidence available. The Randolph/Eppes side of the family simply doesn't deserve the kind praise you've offered -- yet. Attrition and the weight of history on time will make the change sometime in the future. In the meantime, sad to say, my side of the family will largely not enjoy the great joy, love, and honor in having family interactions with our Hemmings/Woodson kin.

@fredabodin9614

5 жыл бұрын

@@marlastevens9036 What negative comment did I make?

It's people like this man that will change America for ever!

@vivek27789

5 жыл бұрын

@queens woman No it isn't.

@ifonlycainwereabel2110

5 жыл бұрын

"This man" or these men...

@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361

4 жыл бұрын

It’s good to acknowledge the bad things that white people did in the past, but to degrade ourselves and have white guilt is not going to help either

@hamburgerhamburgerv2

Жыл бұрын

@@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361 您的中和定于 2022 年 12 月 31 日。大家为中国共产党欢呼！

I really like the statement that she made, there is more that unites us than divides us. I wish people spoke like that more often

@georgealderson4424

3 жыл бұрын

I like the statement and hope it is true

Those cousins really respect each other and that's really touching to see... I think too many people would have been satisfied to just go with a "lets just not talk about it and act like its all good until its true" but they really researched their famous ancestor and incorporated more truth into tours and family life.

Sally and Jefferson's wife Martha were half sisters.

@paulamarii1899

5 жыл бұрын

La India Fisherwoman holy moly! I didn’t know that.

@289rory

5 жыл бұрын

I remember I researched this months ago, my history teacher mentioned it. She inherited her father’s slaves, but of course it goes to the husband since women weren’t allowed to own things. I think, if I remember correctly they had some white passing children who were let free and the others were kept.

@kikigam7113

5 жыл бұрын

@@paulamarii1899 there's a documentary about it just type in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings and click on the first thing that comes up it talks about their whole relationship

@stuartperry1047

4 жыл бұрын

Which means that- it is entirely possible that they resembled one another.

@asdfghjkl-oo7lv

4 жыл бұрын

@@kikigam7113 thanks. I will watch this tonight.

FUN FACT: Sallie Hemmings was the FIRST black FIRST Lady of the United States. Fight me!!! 😂😂😂

@LuvDaSkinUAreIn

5 жыл бұрын

Half black!

@marissawilson4644

5 жыл бұрын

@@LuvDaSkinUAreIn black is black my dear.

@glamour101girl8

5 жыл бұрын

Dra O stfu troll

@amasion2882

5 жыл бұрын

Sally Hemings was Jefferson’s Mistress. Not legal wife. She was no more a First Lady than Marilyn Monroe was Kennedy’s First Lady. History is interesting enough without distortion. It’s entirely possible Jefferson would have married Sally had he been legally able to do so.

@ask4theupgrade359

5 жыл бұрын

A Masion - She definitely would’ve qualified to be his Common Law Wife.

I love Gail and her warmth and sweet smile . She makes it a pleasure to watch the news . Her kindness shines forth. Shineth .

This is the best history lesson I've EVER heard. I wish I had been taught this in school. I will be passing this on to my children and grandchildren.

THIS story is so very important!!!!! I look forward to the day that America’s entire history is taught in history books so we can understand that America is not a “white” nation. Time to give full credence of the history of black people (and native Americans) as a HUGE foundation of these United States. Excellent reporting 👏🏻

@IWantToMature85

5 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Stubbington seems like you’re just a white person that’s saying things so us black people can like you

@AKing69

5 жыл бұрын

@@IWantToMature85 Seems like you're just a person (no matter your color/ethnicity/race) whom no one likes.

@HM-gm8bb

5 жыл бұрын

@ Zachariah Cameron you are an idiot for writing that stupid comment. You should applaud her and many others for speaking the truth even though some will cower and hide behind the truth. She doesn’t know you to want you to like her.

@CreoleLadyBug

5 жыл бұрын

+H M ~ He’s not Black. He’s Russian. Or he might be a Black Russian 😂😂. Those were very tasty back in the day.

@CreoleLadyBug

5 жыл бұрын

+Jennifer Stubbington ~ Thanks Jen❣️

I went to high school with Shannon Lanier very smart, talented guy with a beautiful family❤ he wrote a book about this.

@armanhockerproject1404

4 жыл бұрын

AngieHairBeast crazy right.

@laurettelaliberte8864

3 жыл бұрын

I hope that teacher apologized to him at some point. (I realize that was in elementary school though)

@mentak2593

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he has so much charisma, I wonder if Jefferson was that charismatic or Ms. Hemmings, or both!

This is how America should be reserving the past, not destroying it.

@hmann4531

3 жыл бұрын

@laina STFU

@comedytv2832

3 жыл бұрын

@laina yes nececssarily .

@IanP1963

3 жыл бұрын

Well you've had enough time to get your act together, you beat us Brits in 1776 - Lol !!!!!

@kiyru

3 жыл бұрын

Burn Lincoln’s memorial he wanted to keep slaves This is a joke lads

@Rob774

2 жыл бұрын

Destroying racist statues isn't the same as coming to grips with racist forefathers

There is only one race , the human race. We're all family

@teli4155

3 жыл бұрын

what about nascar

@angelica_29394

3 жыл бұрын

@@teli4155 🤣🤣🤣

@jacobmojapelo2448

3 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Harris Well Said!

@kiyru

3 жыл бұрын

Or the mecha family

@laurih.t.8723

3 жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏❤

I have seen Shannon for years, representing the Hemming side of Jefferson's decendants. He has always been an inspiration! So glad these two men are a family!

@Take-mk5zc

5 жыл бұрын

Can you help me with connecting to family?

@marlastevens9036

5 жыл бұрын

@@Take-mk5zc Monticello can help connect you with the Monticello Families group, the group that meets periodically connecting both sides of the Jefferson descendants as well as others such as descendants of other slaves who worked and lived at Monticello plus the Levy family who so lovingly cared for Monticello after it had to be sold to pay Mr Jefferson's debts after his death.

I'm so glad the great grandson is loving to his family and is telling the truth.

@Wareaglegirl9960

4 жыл бұрын

Dakota C I believe both men are loving towards their family and both are telling truths.

@marlastevens9036

4 жыл бұрын

​@Gavin Lim Luc is a Jefferson Randolph on his grandmother's side -- she married the general. Luc and I share descendancy from the same Thos. Jefferson Randolph who held hereditary control of the upper graveyard at Monticello that is in contention and are thus part of the most Randolph-y branch of Mr. Jefferson's descendants. Only our branch of the family controls the old section of the graveyard where Mr. Jefferson is buried. No new burials are permitted in it. It is attached to the new section which the Monticello Association controls and where family burials are still permitted. We are both massively displeased at the Association's anti-Hemings attitude and policies.

@ls200076

4 жыл бұрын

@Unapologetic White Male, Proud Colonizer What, next thing you say is that Spanish people aren't white, the world is flat and that the moon landing never happened.

@marlastevens9036

4 жыл бұрын

@Unapologetic White Male, Proud Colonizer Surely you jest.

That was so Beautiful what he said about Sally Hemmings being a Founding Mother. I truly enjoyed this🌺

People arguing about Jefferson fathering Sally's children in the comments and denying it just cause they wanna be ignorant is hilarious like how ignorant do you wanna be? ✨

@dantdt4693

3 жыл бұрын

Where are they lol

@symaniea.5013

3 жыл бұрын

@@dantdt4693 If you scroll down, read some comments and the replies to those comments you'll see it most likely.

@mentak2593

2 жыл бұрын

It’s sad when they can’t even understand concepts from Maury Povich.

@sr2291

2 жыл бұрын

They have proof in the DNA.

Can we appreciate how cute the Sally Hemmings' descendant is...

@torytrice4016

5 жыл бұрын

I'm gladly willing to appreciate that with you. He's a cutie!

@sweetgal3575

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

@msconcreterose93

5 жыл бұрын

Fine af 🥰

@FlyingBalcony

4 жыл бұрын

FREE HONG KONG

@penne_5573

4 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingBalcony y e s

America still has a LOT of work to do...

@duckydarkstar38

5 жыл бұрын

America's roots are in racism it will never end

@8thwonder0608

5 жыл бұрын

And that work will NEVER get done. The one's who need to do the most aren't willing to.

@vijayjagpaul459

5 жыл бұрын

Cotton is out.

@duckydarkstar38

5 жыл бұрын

The U.S. Dollar has an old white racist on one side and an Egyptian pyramid on the other side 🤔😉👌🏼 you ever look at it lol

@TheInroad

5 жыл бұрын

How so?

There is grace and respect and genuine affection between these two men. A small example of what America can be.

What a great update to a long family story. These are gentlemen ... and they seem to like one another. Talk about refreshing!

I really respect this. Collectively, they've helped to make history more honest, more accountable.

@MM-vs2yu

5 жыл бұрын

History is what it is, facts cannot be changed. Lies can cover things up but don't have the power to change fact. People chose to ignore fact all the time. The fact that white power is so threatened by black truth they lie to their own children from day one speaks to their fragility. Each person repeating the lies is accountable regardless of what they were taught. Racism is too obvious to blame anyone but yourself for enabling it.

Wildest part is that Sally was Jefferson’s wife sister 😭😭

@PunkPopik

4 жыл бұрын

Sunshine Baker They had the same mother or father?

@jasminedawson4883

4 жыл бұрын

LadyBizarre father

@karind7513

4 жыл бұрын

@Sunshine Baker I think Sally was 3/4 white. Her mother was already half white.

@macanmurda2001

4 жыл бұрын

That's even crazy then them telling us this story how did u know that tho??????

@jamiemohan2049

4 жыл бұрын

@Sunshine Baker Sally was 1/4 black 3/4 white, her mother was half black. Both she and her children looked white from all descriptions of their appearances.

It’s great that they have met and acknowledge her side of the family.

I love this story. It's great they come together as one family. God bless them!

this is so awesome. you can literally see the resemblance in both of them and jefferson as well. crazy

@laurih.t.8723

3 жыл бұрын

Totally 🙏❤

This is an amazing. Sally’s children deserve to be as special as Jefferson other children and all his offspring should be treated as the equals they are.

I grew up with one the Hemings. Great family and knew as a child the true history of this news segment in the 1960’ and 1970’s.

I was struck by the thumbnail, and how each man really seems to resemble Jefferson in the face but in different ways. Absolutely love this story!

It's beautiful that the descendants are coming together. It's amazing how much these two men look alike. The bone structure is nearly identical. I'm glad to see these men together, being friends. Love and unity are wonderful.

@marlastevens9036

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, far too few of my Randolph and Eppes cousins recognize the Hemings as our double-half-cousins. There's still a great deal of work left to do.

I Dont watch news. So Refreshing to see a beautiful coming together of history and family.

It is great that the family is telling the truth instead of trying to make a fake legacy, this is wonderful! I love these men!

What a great story! This shows that America can still do it and bring people together... More of this please

This is the way relationships between people who look different should be 😊

@leebee5132

4 жыл бұрын

They family ❤️

@em4315

4 жыл бұрын

You're one in a million. Earth definitely needs more people like you. Namaste 💗

@mercwindow

3 жыл бұрын

Gemma Sanders well said beautiful to watch and feel the warmth respect and love 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@addiebrook2517

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, fawning over a pos rapist.

This made me cry for all sorts of reasons. God bless them all.

Just watched that episode, glad Lucian kept his word, and they all are making efforts and strides towards something that would have been unimaginable just couple of decades before.

This is a wonderful story!!! So happy and proud that it is being told!!

I say we let the Hemmings cousin jump on that bed.

@marlastevens9036

4 жыл бұрын

Luc used to as a little kid.

@mariecharles212

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@icemike1

3 жыл бұрын

Funk that bed give me the bag$

@mentak2593

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that would right all the wrongs 😂

Wonderful story. We as Americans need more of this.

I LOVE THIS!!!! So happy that the truth is coming out and that ALL the descendants are being honored for their place in history. ❤️

Bless this family. They are very incredible people

Now this is totally awesome! Lucien told it like it was, and that's how we need to hear it in the USA.

I'm in my early Fifty years young and I still feel the anger and sadness of slavery. I'm angry and I cry often. It still affect my physical and mental health. Even in the year 2019.

@andyvanm1

5 жыл бұрын

Seek help.slavery is not a color..

@yizraeladiyaofyahua9784

5 жыл бұрын

@@andyvanm1 Is that what you would have me believe? I actually believe it. I actually believe they was Hebrews. The Isrealites. The chosen tribe of GOD. According to Deuteronomy and the prophecy on how you would know the identity of the LOST TRIBES OF ISREAL. Thanks!

@eileensimon9252

5 жыл бұрын

I think reppreation will help ..when people get recognise for what they generation's have done i do believe it will take alot of the pain aways .. As a person from the Caribbean i share your pains..

@DONNYPESO

5 жыл бұрын

@@eileensimon9252 I sure hope you do because this country was built off of slavery not illegal immigrants

@MrStoptheEU

4 жыл бұрын

It didn't happen to you personally. See a doctor.

There is genuine family love between these two men.. There is genuine family love between these two men..

We Americans are, always have been and always will be family ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿🇺🇸

This is a beautiful example of wise mind and the integration of two histories. Lucian is right: their lives are greater for it.

Beautiful story ❤️💜❤️ Love it!!!

@ericworiax1277

5 жыл бұрын

Acknowledgement is everything, but the need for a grave site key... crazy.

@bobby12348

5 жыл бұрын

Rape not beautiful.

@empresszaire2305

5 жыл бұрын

Please let explain how this is a beautiful story.

@locgama3630

5 жыл бұрын

in my understanding, when you say "beautiful story", it's about all the descendant who come together as one family and share peace and love! still they will be someone angry who will not see the true meaning of your message and only quickly drop the allegation of rape and niah niah niah without thinking that they may have been at that time people from different race that was in love, or just had a consent night together, or was just in a common willing to have a children, ... those who cared less about the stupidly oppressing strategic systems yet malicious the government in that era had put in place to increase their power over everyone (people of color, native, white with weak and blind mind,... )

@ro992

Жыл бұрын

@@ericworiax1277 *YOU are NOT a descendant, so your thinking is YOURS, not THEIRS. Understand that* , and stop calling people crazy.🙄 Blessings!

This is amazing to see people coming together

Yall family.. thank you for embracing each other appropriately, it means a lot❤

This makes my heart swell. Family isn't defined by color. The truth can be hard to swallow, but its worth the love that can come about from it.

I would love to visit this place.

This story made me cry

An wonderfully inspiring story. So glad the truth has been allowed to be told.

It is important to tell the full story of such an important historic figure of our heritage. It makes me happy that all descendants are coming together as a family. It is important that they all get the same recognition and respect, and therefore, all descendants deserve to have access to and be buried in that same graveyard.

Smh we don’t have real history in the history book. The truth is to hard for people to except.

@NoliMeTangere1163

5 жыл бұрын

Actually...this story was in my public school's history textbooks. 3rd-8th grade. 1990s. I've known about Sally for most of my life...

@ifonlycainwereabel2110

5 жыл бұрын

Then you read the wrong history book

@edbenti5007

5 жыл бұрын

Best not to believe TV news if you want truth. TV news tells lies.Robert F. Turner (Editor) (2001). The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, Report of the Scholars Commission (Reprint and updated, 2011 ed.). Carolina Academic Press. p. 17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) "... [w]e have found most of the arguments used to point suspicion toward Thomas Jefferson [as the father of all of Sally Hemings' children] to be unpersuasive and often factually erroneous. Not a single member of our group, after an investigation lasting roughly one year, finds the case against Thomas Jefferson to be highly compelling, and the overwhelming majority of us believe it is very unlikely he fathered any children by Sally Hemings ..."READ THAT SUMMARY REPORT. CHECK OUT THE CREDENTIALS OF THE SCHOLARS, many with Ph.Ds. There were 8 male Jeffersons around Sally Hemmings when she became pregnant at 13, 5 of them were in their teens and early 20s and presumably more sexually active than the 43 year old statesman. The DNA tests PROVED only that Hemmings' son Thomas Woodson (birthed when she was 17) was NOT a Jefferson. It is highly unlikely that a 43 year old Thomas Jefferson was sexually aroused by children. NOTHING is his life's work indicates he was.

@dshepherd107

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. We were all basically fed propaganda, all the while being told about how dangerous the Soviet Union was when I was growing up, & the communist propaganda they were supposedly pushing on us. Nothing but bait & switch.

@ticiao

4 жыл бұрын

If only Cain were Abel I don’t read the ones they provide to all of the schools. I’m Native American anfd black and we learned very very little about black Americans or Native American history.

What a unique angle of this report! Thank you for sharing the beautiful story

I love this story. I love how our history still has the chance to unite us, instead of divide us. If only we’re willing to listen.

@shondarenee3186

3 жыл бұрын

❤

Founding MOTHER. Thank God for that woman! WHOA

@quinton01

4 жыл бұрын

How? What did she do? She founded what, exactly?

Wow, this is an amazing story! Would love to see more of this kind of reporting. Thank you!

They're double cousins. Sally Hemings and Martha Wayles were half sisters and 21 years apart.

me: No... My brain: **smirks** Me: NO PLEASE!! My brain: "THOMAS JEFFERSONS COMING HOOOME!!"

I visited Monticello about 25 years ago, and I don't recall seeing a room, display or acknowledgement about Sally Hemming. To have a Jefferson family reunion was in itself historical, so I hope they got a good photograph of all in attendance. Sometimes convincing teachers and other adults of the truth is hard when the truth had been suppressed. But eventually it comes to the surface. With DNA testing results, evidence of ancestry cannot be denied. ☮️

One of the best stories I heard this year

Thank you for sharing this, when history class in school overlooks these poignant themes and history that we should all be educated on. The truth.

This is such a beautiful story ❤️

You see, "this is a huge start to how we as a society began the real healings"

@DerekDutton99

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

This is a really good segment, thank you!

This is IMPORTANT to KNOW! This is a BEAUTIFUL story!

He left a legacy for us to learn from

Beautiful to see these cousins together.

will someone please pay all these black people for their dedication to this country that has so often let them down!!!!!!!

@EllBeeCUSoon

5 жыл бұрын

02278426 say it again!!! Reparations all day everyday!!

@02278426

4 жыл бұрын

LOLLL I'm laughing at your stupidity/ignorance not the evil nature of your comment@Gaius Julius Caesar Plenty of people living safe, abundant lives in Africa, a huge continent with many countries....

@thesenate9275

4 жыл бұрын

02278426 no black person alive today in the USA has experienced slavery like their ancestors did. reparations is a waste of tax money

@02278426

4 жыл бұрын

@@thesenate9275 zzzzzzz

How wonderful that family can come together now like it should have been able to do before .

I’ve seen Shannon in many videos/interviews about Jefferson and he always seems so happy to be talking about his ancestors