Thomas Jefferson Meets Sally Hemings - SNL

[@dolomitefan1767]

Thomas: “What time do you get off work?” Sally: “Ummm never.”

[@claudiadelaosa7125]

Dolomite fan #1 dead!

[@edbenti5007]

What DNA testing exists proves that Thomas Jefferson did NOT father 6 of Sally Hemmings children . This skit is BS. There were 8 Jeffersons who could have fathered Hemmings children and the DNA testing proved that Thomas Woodson, one of her children, was NOT Jefferson's child.

[@ohana-bordi]

@@edbenti5007 it actually proves it, the evidence is there, it was a common practice at that time no need to be surprised.

[@sensusfidelium9510]

Réka Bordás-Simon I know this is long but informative read ! Genetic DNA paternity testing requires the testing of a Y chromosome from a male descendant of the subject because the Y chromosome in males remains virtually unchanged from generation to generation. But Thomas Jefferson had no male descendant s from which to take a DNA sample. His only son had died at birth. Since Jefferson had no male descendants ,researchers chose to test the Y chromosome from the descendants of Field Jefferson, Thomas’s uncle. Researchers found that the configuration of the Y chromosome in the descendants of Field Jefferson- a general configuration common to the entire Jefferson family-was indeed present in the descendants of sally Hemings youngest child , Easton. Therefore on the basis of DNA testing the most that the researchers could conclusively say was that some Jefferson Male and there were 26 Jefferson males living in the area at the time! -Herbert Barger,the Jefferson family historian and genealogist who assisted in the DNA testing,explained:my study indicates to me that Thomas Jefferson was NOT the father of Easton or any other Himmings child. The DNA study... indicates that Randolph [Thomas’younger brother]is possibly the father of Easton and maybe the others...three of sally Hemings children,Harriet,Beverly,and Easton (the latter two not common names), were given names of the Randolph family. -the Scholars ‘ commission arrived at the same conclusion.significantly, that group had not been composed of Jefferson supporters ; in fact, several of the scholars had believed that Jefferson might be the father of hemings’children. But after a year investigating the evidence they all concluded that Randolph , Jefferson ‘s younger brother was indeed the most likely father,explaining: The circumstantial case that Easton Hemings was fathered by the president’s Younger brother is many times stronger than the case against the president himself.among the considerations which might point to Randolph are: -In”memoirs of a Monticello Slave” former slave Isaac Jefferson asserts that when Randolph Jefferson visited Monticello,he “used to come out among black people,and play fiddle and dance half the night...” in contrast, we have not A single account of Thomas Jefferson spending his nights socializing with the slaves in such a manner - we have Jefferson s letter inviting Randolph to come to Monticello shortly before Sally became pregnant with Easton. It was common for such visits to last for weeks!

[@Kimmy29121]

Really fucking funny

[@omegablack7135]

Sally Hemings was actually Jefferson's wife's half-sister (they shared the same biological father).

[@summerbabetoo]

Yep, Ole Nasty Massa

[@Preservestlandry]

And she was 14, so there's that.

[@katrinafox2750]

Yup

[@sensusfidelium9510]

Truth's Ronin Thomas Jefferson did not father Thomas Woodson DNA results have proven he has no Jefferson DNA. That means all the books and made for TV shows about Jefferson and Hemmings In Paris are BS! Also they had a blue ribbon panel go over the evidence and they concluded Jefferson’s brother was the likely father of Hemings only other child linked by DNA to The Jefferson family Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: The Search for Truth ...

[@edbenti5007]

B. Gaudin, the DNA evidence NEVER proved that the President fathered ANY of Hemmings' children. He had a younger brother who had 5 sons who were in their teens and early 20s when Hemmings had her children. Those other Jeffersons shared the President's DNA.

[@tonyazzaro6717]

"when will you get off work?" "um, never" LOL!!!

[@sheribrooks8205]

bwaaaaahhhhaaaaa

[@ralphgoodman4670]

Yeah, New Yorkers denying the blood on their hands.

[@booginas]

Tony Azzaro LMAO

[@cornellhoward3757]

Tony Azzaro, you cannot say no to the slave master, it means your life!

[@queenbeethatme1009]

Tony Azzaro White people.

[@porschemcginnis2764]

Except Sally was like 13 or 14 and didnt have a choice so there is that.....

[@WAlkONRebel]

Preach! This skit is gross

[@destinipegus8200]

Wiliam Forsythe or educate yourself about this disgusting situation. Thomas was 44 and sally was 14. She could not refuse him or do anything abt it because she was just property

[@YuSPYINonME]

@Wiliam Forsythe you sound like a trumpist; a fiery idiot.

[@janet.oboutte1349]

Sally was a little confused about self respect she slept with every single man

[@jerrywitaj]

Yeah ok KZbin historian

[@representationmetaphorique]

The fact that Sally was an infant when Jefferson inherited her....

[@bohemiansparrow]

@Levis. H actually men having sex with girls young enough to be their daughters was not as common place back then as people think. For example, on average women back then married in their late teens or early twenties. Among the lower classes in Virginia (where Jefferson lived), the average age of brides was 23, with grooms averaging 26; so you can see the average bride and groom were very close in age.

[@TheRealCcE]

Jefferson inherited sally from his father in law who shares DNA with his wife. Sally was groomed to be a sex slave.

[@martingraham5879]

@Levis. H...because funny enough it's disgusting to actually own a human being and then take advantage of her while she's still a minor?

[@kennychaster]

So sally was a friggin 15 year old who married a 6-something male

[@kennychaster]

Also Thomas Jefferson did not have a beard

[@steelhere5519]

"I'm just happy to be indoors."

[@tributeandmusicvideocenter1758]

Every introvert's motto. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@traceylennon1204]

LMAO 😂😂 @Steel Here

[@sharakanelson6965]

That shit was funny

[@sharakanelson6965]

@jeff lockaby I understand your stance because I come from slavery lineage but its a comedy show and that is how I'm viewing it as just a show.

[@fashionfirst_]

That is not funny

[@PiCheZvara]

Maya Rudolph is beautiful here.

[@nordmark16]

Slow down there TJ

[@sheilapate7604]

PiCheZvara just there

[@diamondj1979]

Maya Rudolph is beautiful everywhere

[@mamc1986]

she sure is, in temperament as well.

[@ericday4505]

Maya is always beautiful.

[@kiiera]

"Round and flat like Hamilton's wife" whAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ELIZA

[@vinista256]

Yeah, really! And consider what Hamilton himself said about what he wanted in a wife: "She must be young, handsome (I lay most stress upon a good shape) ..."

[@KaixoDenek]

ELIZA IS A PRECIOUS BEAN AND MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL TIMES

[@livindeadghoul]

*The Hamilton fandom wants to know your location*

[@Glittergasm]

kiera HE MUST BURN

[@godiraonasetlhabi7992]

@beanie_ eyelash 😂😂I was ready to fight too when he said that about Eliza!

[@stephenhall509]

"Your hair is so unusual... May I touch it?" Uh, never touch a black woman's hair!

[@SCSilk]

I cringed. This part was too real.

[@OnlyFai740]

Stephen Hall why?

[@queenbeethatme1009]

narutoasas. Respecting personal space. Black women have this strange idea that they are people and like most people, they do NOT want strangers touching them, their hair, their bodies, etc unless invited to. Humans pet animals and "touch" inanimate things as a matter of course. DECENT humans recognize the sanctity of personal space and so do not assume they can pet random humans like they are animals or a coat.. Plus. You never know where strange hands have been.

[@OnlyFai740]

@@queenbeethatme1009 is it acceptable to ask for permission, or is that considered rude too?

[@chingchingchingching2064]

Rahr which part of africa dude?, coz in my country thats a no no.

[@millz8084]

DeNiro’s love for black women is legendary😏😏🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@JordanWilliams-ix2td]

no i was just about to say this, they literally have the perfect person playing Thomas Jefferson because that man LOVE black women 😂

[@sendmeyourlocation1145]

He took this seriously and now he's crying 😂

[@sendmeyourlocation1145]

​@@nick56677Nice joke but sally wasn't even blk

[@MontagZoso]

@@sendmeyourlocation1145Um…check your history.

[@coquinegra]

@@sendmeyourlocation1145 According to the laws of the country, she certainly was.

[@marshacreary9771]

"Sally Hemings came to Jefferson's home as an infant with her mother and siblings as part of his wife Martha's inheritance of slaves from her father. Hemings was the youngest of six siblings by the widowed planter John Wayles (slave trader) and Betty Hemings, a mixed-race enslaved woman; Sally and her siblings were three-quarters European, and through their father were also half-siblings of Martha Jefferson.[3] In 1787, Hemings, aged 14,[1] accompanied Jefferson's youngest daughter Mary("Polly") to London and then to Paris, where the widowed Jefferson, aged 44 at the time, was serving as the United States Minister to France. Hemings spent two years there. It is believed by most historians that Jefferson began a sexual relationship with Hemings in France or soon after their return to Monticello.[2] Hemings remained enslaved in Jefferson's house until his death. In 2017 a room identified as her quarters at Monticello, adjacent to Jefferson's bedroom, was discovered in an archeological restoration. It will be restored and refurbished.[4][5] The historical question of whether Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children is known as the Jefferson-Hemings controversy. Following renewed historic analysis in the late 20th century and a 1998 DNA study that found a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Hemings' last son, Eston Hemings, there is a consensus among historians that Jefferson fathered her son Eston Hemings and probably all her children.[6]A small number of historians disagree.[7] Hemings' children lived in Jefferson's house as slaves and were trained as artisans. Jefferson freed all of Hemings' surviving children: Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston, as they came of age (they were the only slave family freed by Jefferson). They were seven-eighths European in ancestry, and three of the four entered white society as adults. Descendants of those three identified as white.[8][9] Hemings was "given her time," and lived her last nine years freely with her two younger sons in Charlottesville, Virginia. She saw a grandchild born in the house her sons owned.[10]"

[@ladypilliwick8179]

Marsha Creary thank you for you comments

[@pambisugar8286]

Thank you for the information. I dint understand why people can comprehend grooming and child molestation or nit having an option to refuse when slavery or black history is involved. He could have ANY kind of sex and sexual act with her. This was just sad to me. Goodness!!!! Her bedroom was next to his. FRIGHTENING! So sad.

[@omggiiirl2077]

Sexual relationship.......hmmmmm.....she didn't have the option of consent. It's not a relationship, it's rape. If refused there would be threat of consequences, it's rape.

[@omggiiirl2077]

Furthermore, she came as an infant, as property.....so she was probably groomed for that role like so many. On the surface it's funny, and comedy....but when you really think about it, it's quite disturbing and creepy how his behavior is excused because he was a prominent historical figure it's actually molester behavior. Colonial US history is filled with characters that we've been given these lies about, and it's not about being politically correct, but more about telling truths, and stopping myths and delusions. You know like how George Washington was a great Man.

[@krillin876]

charlene hughes-peseta George Washington was the greatest American ever.

[@kingtaharqa1016]

De Niro is actually married to a black woman

[@MyraAhmedCopywriter]

Yeah the joke is that in real life De Niro is into black women

[@sheribrooks8205]

yeap

[@MJ-fm4wy]

King Taharqa His second wife of color that is. His first was back in the 70's...

[@aliciasciarrillo1022]

King Taharqa the creepy thing about Sally hennings was like 14 when he met her and was his wife half sister

[@atis3062]

duh I guess the joke went right over your head

[@thegworlsarefighting]

This Mf said call him TJ 😂😂😂😂

[@cherishtheday2223]

I was done 😂😂

[@sensusfidelium9510]

barbie doll Thomas Jefferson did not father Thomas Woodson DNA results have proven he has no Jefferson DNA. That means all the books and made for TV shows about Jefferson and Hemmings In Paris are BS! Also they had a blue ribbon panel go over the evidence and they concluded Jefferson’s brother was the likely father of Hemings only other child linked by DNA to The Jefferson family Search for Truth - WallBuildersWalJefferson and Sally Hemings: lBuilders :Thomas

[@vidalsmith8979]

Lmao😂😂

[@shinyminunthetheatregeek2036]

@MEGATRON She was around 15 or 16. Still way too young but check your facts

[@elichiamoore5634]

barbie doll lol 😂

[@bigums21]

He actually met her when she was a baby and she was 16 when she became pregnant. He saw her grow up and then had babies with her. This so reminds me of Woody Allen and his child bride.

[@candacecasey5634]

Disturbing

[@MarianDouglasUngaro]

Emmy P, think you mean Woody Allen’s “child/ STEPDAUGHTER bride.” In other words, Woody Allen’s then-PARTNER’S (Mia Farrow’s) adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Ms. Farrow then broke up with Mr. Allen (they never actually married or lived together). I would’ve, too. Makes me gag just remembering back in 1991, 92, when Woody Allen did these really, really WEIRD things.

[@tuber420]

14 not 16

[@Araseli-s3n]

Or Morgan freeman who adopted a little girl with his wife and saw her grow up then started an intimate relationship with her that lasted years until she was beaten to death by her boyfriend who was jealous of Morgan’s continued hold on her. No babies. I think Morgan did not want any. Then took the house back after her death which he had gifted her. Nobody ever talks about that.

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

Robert de Niro and Maya Rudolph have a lot of fun in the rehearsals as Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, a real legend they ask to come!

[@DhavalShukla]

Maya looks gorgeous here!

[@summerbabetoo]

Beautiful like her Mama🙏🏽RIP Minnie🎤🎤The Perfect Angel🎼

[@thehoneyeffect]

She looks more like white woman here

[@TheAaronChand]

Maria was Thomas Jefferson daughter name keep in mind The America mother Country England was ruling our ansctors in India at this time India was ruled by the East India trading company in 1790. But not completely .

[@elainesmith7512]

@the honeywesteffect: Imo, in this sketch, Maya looks like her mom, the late, great, gone-too soon, Minnie Riperton her skin is just about two shades lighter. I remember everyone was shocked and so sad when Minnie died because she was so young and at the pinnacle of her career.

[@T-Rizzle808]

She always does

[@marlenaforbes-reidy9876]

There’s a sadness about this piece of history, she was only a child without choices.

[@SarahYusra-s7l]

Right why are they turning this into a love story

[@Aliharuno]

I was expecting Maya to say: I know who you are, you were married to my half-sister 😂

[@abueloorgulloso]

"He likes his women like he likes his coffee, hot black and first thing in the morning." TJ: "Hey, what time do you get off work?" Sally:"Um...never." 😂😂😂

[@houstonrebel4449]

The Real Machine Gun Kelly And thats NOT rascist or sexist???

[@TheGrahamHam]

Texas Rebel no because it’s a sketch. A joke. It’s not supposed to be serious or a message.

[@itsyagirlashleytv]

That’s funny?

[@nessydelight470]

At 1:54

[@luckyjasonfan]

THIS IS SICK!! Raping girls first thing in the morning!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@mscoyote50]

Not very funny when you really think about it - but then rape never is.

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

It's funny when Ghengis Khan does it.

[@xandro2445]

No evidence that it was rape

[@cremebrulee419]

@@xandro2445 her being so young would be statutory. But she was also property. The lines are blurry with the time period. But it's so sad and so wrong regardless.

[@mabelpines5011]

Bruh it’s still funny and I already know the whole story

[@johnhein2539]

@@Dennis-nc3vw And is a grandfather to like, 10% of us?

[@norwaysummer8874]

This is a great joke on DeNiro...he's a good sport.

[@jrsmith1998]

NorwaySummer how is it a joke on Deniro?

[@cjhill4130]

John Smith He only dates black people

[@237schibe_]

@@jrsmith1998 he loves his women like his coffee black

[@jrsmith1998]

@@cjhill4130 😂 really. I didn’t know that

[@JM-fo1te]

His kid is crazy ug tho

[@kitty6720]

Jimmy Fallon is so young here.

[@kathiarequena5814]

Kitty he’s sooo tall!!!

[@luckyjasonfan]

And his lines are the grossest!!!! Raping first thing in the morning... jungle fever 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@moviedude22]

:it's not really an option for me"

[@elliem.3035]

He likes his women like he likes his coffee, hot, black, and early in the morning 😂

[@silverspeed1960]

69 likes

[@liasilva8916]

XD

[@ic5994]

old jokes are the best. In fact I think this joke is older even than coffee

[@percyperanamus7432]

i wonder how he had his coffee against it's will

[@percyperanamus7432]

Dee B exactly, the writers of this sketch found the violation, rape and torture of black women during slavery as grounds for humor compared to the fetishism of black women today - it's a dated unfunny skit

[@ramonmcgee2240]

TJ: "You have a beautiful voice. Have you ever thought of being a singer?" SH: "That's really not an option for me." You have to admit that was funny (LOL!)

[@royaldavis640]

Wow this is a little edgy even for snl

[@AmethystEyes]

Royal Russell this was before Twitter and internet outrage becoming popular.

[@morpheus6749]

Twitter is being sued by two separate parties on very solid grounds and for shit tons of money. I hope it'll bankrupt them. They're destroying this country.

[@kellyrobinson6543]

@@morpheus6749 twitter is destroying this country? Not racist WHITES acting like victims? Yeah, ok🙄

[@traceylennon1204]

I know right!! @Royal Russell

[@morpheus6749]

Kelly Robinson The only people who accuse others of racism at the drop of a hat are those who are racists themselves. Take a good long look in the mirror.

[@festus569]

The best part is when Thomas Jefferson asks Sally Hemings to call him T. J..

[@rashb3994]

"Haven't you heard, he only dates Black chicks" 😂😂😂 TJ has mad game. I love Sally's responses.

[@Thepiedpiper-dl8np]

Has mad game? She was a baby when he got her and first got with her when she was 14

[@Bryce-l1j]

​@@Thepiedpiper-dl8np Bro this was 6 years ago. What documentary did you watch to compell you to go on every piece of Sally hemmings Thomas Jefferson media and comment 🤣

[@barbaraallen8439]

Do more research on sally Hemings. She was a slave he got her pregnant at 15 when he was in his 40s. Horrible

[@tommyisrael6038]

Barbara Allen he was fooling with her at 14

[@CupKanime]

They try to romanticize this story so much

[@CupKanime]

@suny123boy1 You shut the Fuck up

[@ashlynn5390]

yeah she was also Martha Jefferson's (Thomas' WIFE) half sister

[@xandro2445]

15 was acceptable in the 18th century

[@Rachel-xh9ui]

He called Eliza flat. Of course it’s not a Jefferson impression without calling out Hamilton. Lol

[@safiyajamali565]

0:10 Don't you disrespect my Eliza

[@madeleinewalters1374]

S.B. Jamali THANK YOU.

[@thea1107]

How dare they insult the precious cinnamon roll!

[@kai326]

That insult hurt my core. SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE HAMILTON FANS OUT THERE!

[@thestylishnihilist8039]

I guess you could call that... a BURN

[@kai326]

I'm laughing and crying all at once.

[@lennie1512]

"May I touch it?" Boi you already touchin it-

[@lilyrose324]

Thomas Jefferson creator of "once you go black you never go back"

[@edbenti5007]

The DNA evidence is inconclusive as to which Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemmings' children. There is no proof Thomas Jefferson was the father.

[@strawberryseason]

@@edbenti5007 Well tell that to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. They accept the evidence and so do the historians who are privy to it.

[@laughingstalk1343]

Thomas Jefferson, the original "R. Kelly." As were all of the "Founding Fathers," for that matter. Sally Hemmings was 15 or 16 when she met Thomas Jefferson.

[@jonothandoeser]

Where's his statue? GET A ROPE!

[@Native722]

He's also a pedafile

[@FrFrijole]

“He likes his women the way he likes his coffee, hot, black, and first thing in the morning” I love these kinds of Jokes

[@nessydelight470]

At 1:54

[@Cocoarunway]

Thomas Jefferson: What time you get off work? Sally: Ummm...Never.😂

[@anthonyellis4915]

There's so much awkward in this sketch! lol

[@bryanskscion2229]

You could say that.

[@joeking6534]

And that's why everyone says Mad TV is better than Snl

[@quirkyjerseygirl9584]

I agree

[@stilllearning2855]

There's so much racist in this sketch... Thomas Jefferson was a racist pedophile.

[@georgethompson3763]

Yeah, very awkward writing, can't believe the actors agreed to be in it.

[@steffiepoole7878]

Life liberty and the pursue of brown sugar😂😂

[@scintila1518]

life liberty and the pursue of happiness

[@seoulkidd1]

Now thats a t shirt

[@edbenti5007]

You do know I hope that there exists no proof that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with a 13 year old Sally Hemmings? The DNA evidence only proves that A Jefferson was responsible for at least one of her children, and there were EIGHT Jeffersons who could have done that.

[@sharakanelson6965]

😂😂😂😂

[@caseyjones831]

Pursuit ****

[@Phoenixspin]

I'm not sure this was really funny. Like she said, she didn't really have options.

[@goodgirlkay]

Kathryn Dorsey What history are you reading?

[@mjohnson5030]

This. When a woman is a peice of property, she cannot say no. Slave rape is not funny.

[@ConwayFreelanceDetective]

1 2 mutual slave mutual rape is though

[@jenjanea]

She wasn't even a woman. She was 14 - 16 years old when he began raping her.

[@percyperanamus7432]

I heard even younger, someone commented saying she was less than 10. It's a little tone deaf to make a skit about a person who owned people and then raped them in the light of " this is just some funky white dude who likes black chicks " It trivializes what a monster he was and it would have been better if they made jokes at his expense instead of chuckling at the concept that a little girl who was beaten and starved and raped by a much older white man. There is a way to joke about jefferson being a piece of shit, this sketch did not do that.

[@osamabad3597]

I had a black female coworker ask me how I like my coffee, and I made a long awkward pause, because all I could think of was that line, and it took me a few seconds to think of anything else to say

[@allim.5941]

Sally Hemmings, the first #MeToo

[@jordynb8582]

What did you say about my wife, Jefferson?

[@minimuffin7399]

Alexander Hamilton lmaooo

[@angelalunsford4546]

lol

[@avery7062]

AHAHHAHAHA defend your wife plz

[@sophiewells7318]

I don't know what you heard but whatever it is Jefferson started it.

[@holystonks]

Sophie Oh well he resigned this morning

[@Whoeverheardof]

“I’m just happy to be inside.” LMBO

[@morpheus6749]

She said "indoors". Although funny enough, “I’m just happy to be inside” is always my answer to women who ask me what I'm thinking during sex.

[@gtavsmsg10]

It's funny because this is what everyone says about De Niro.

[@alluringbliss4165]

It's not what they say, he has only married black women

[@dalekelly7639]

Thank you Captain Obvious.

[@ReneCarmonaCaimito]

2:44 "life, Liberty and the pursuit of...Brown Shuggggah!" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@skeletorment]

I like how he keeps looking over at the cue cards every two seconds.

[@ijeleo92]

🎶What ever the hell it is you do in Montechello" 🎶

[@johnstriker480]

"Call me TJ" ROFL! xD

[@soulxblugamer]

"Round and flat like Hamilton's wife" Angelica: *Bursts in* Angelica: WHAT TF DID YOU SAY

[@porsche911sbs]

TJ and Angelica were actually good friends in real life

[@SCSilk]

But Angelica loves her sister more te than anything in this life. She’ll choose Eliza’s happiness over hers every time.

[@renatagross5959]

Sally Hemmings was Thomas Jefferson's sister-in-law.

[@cokopy]

Renata Gross oh she was-

[@Gamergirl-.-]

And a child when he raped and impregnated her.

[@kasunex1772]

@@Gamergirl-.- or was in a completely consensual relationship. Also she was 14 which was a 100% normal time to get married back then.

[@Gamergirl-.-]

@@kasunex1772 Just because it was normal back then doesn’t mean it was okay. Thought that’d go unsaid since we are talking about a time of slavery. 1. Shes 14, can’t consent, and it would be fucked up either way. 2. She is a slave, she’s not in a position to say no.

[@kasunex1772]

@@Gamergirl-.- you can't judge people who lived hundreds of years ago by modern standards. Also, she could have said no. She had the choice to go free and she turned it up.

[@xandro2445]

They began their "relationship" in France, where slavery was illegal. If a slave were to announce their freedom, the master had to accept. Her older brother was with her in France as well. She willingly went back to the states with TJ knowing she would be going back to a life of slavery. She only went back on the promise that her children would be freed at the age of 21.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Willingly? A teenage girl who has been enslaved all her life, whose mother and grandmother conceived to,their masters? TJs father-in-law and grandfather-in-law. Who was close to her mother and wanted to return to her? A 60 year old man, who in her own country owns her? Is there no limit to the lies Americans will tell themselves about their history? 🤦‍♀️

[@aoka5464]

Declare her freedom and then what? You racists never answer that question. She went back because she had to. She and her brother had literally nothing in France. Nothing. They’d be “free” and homeless. Probably doomed to a life of prostitution or worse. Also, she was a 14 year old child who looked like a younger version of Thomas Jefferson’s dead wife. He wasn’t letting her go, and he had the money and resources to make sure he got what he wanted, period. She was brought to France to be raped.

[@anothercarttogo1819]

0:26 Thomas freaking kept his eyes on Sally right when she walked in.

[@THOMAS2910able]

Its funny because in real like De Niro has quite the liking for black woman.

[@tdsims1963]

Thomas Thas He's a smart guy. Always liked De Niro.

[@Yumyumhoneybun]

Thomas Thas Art imitating life

[@Yumyumhoneybun]

Traci Sims Me too

[@ItBe_Kanti]

With good reason

[@ItBe_Kanti]

@john thonig OK.

[@jeezelaweeze1483]

Looking at a lot of the discussion here on Sally's age when Thomas started "courting" her. Yes, she was indeed a child. Keep that in mind, folks, when you start bashing the founder of Islam for being a child molester that one of America's "Founding Fathers" was one too.

[@kasunex1772]

Actually she was 14 which was a totally normal age to get married at for the overwhelming majority of human history. The age of consent in colonial America was also 12, so.

[@arrynwilliams2842]

@@kasunex1772 bro she was a slave this was not a consenting relationship.

[@kasunex1772]

@@arrynwilliams2842 you don't know that. Actual historians will point this out. Go read up on what they actually have to say on the subject. I've not yet found one who said it has to be rape, the most extreme I've seen is one that said it could have been. There are more historians who don't think it was ever a thing then ones who think it was rape.

[@arrynwilliams2842]

@@kasunex1772 she was a slave it wasn’t like she could say no

[@kasunex1772]

@@arrynwilliams2842 yeah she could

[@sheilasprattley1898]

"life , happiness,and the pursuit of brown sugar" 😂😂😂

[@mackenziefrith9286]

Hamilton’s wife was named Elizabeth

[@TheactressCJ]

Dude..this was written beautifully🤣🤣 only Maya could pull this off

[@Raine_Raine]

Thomas Jefferson: "Sally be a lamb, darlin'...."

[@TheManInTheMasks]

They nailed this with De Niro as TJ. Wasn’t even acting watching him chase a black chick.

[@katieydiddkatieydidd7269]

Jefferson: Have you ever thought about being a singer? Hemmings: That's not an option for me.

[@reginaphalange2637]

2:31 Jefferson says it’s because he used to live in Paris he forgets about slavery. He knew Sally before though. Sally Hemings travelled with the Jeffersons when his only child surviving to adulthood, Maria, came with him to Paris. Sally was her older mistress / companion. Sally was basically Maria’s chauffeur in Paris. Maria and Sally’s relationship was more of having to take your sibling with you and watch them. Also, Maria hated Sally. Maria and Sally were actually related however. I can’t remember how, but they were blood. A great book to learn more is a book called “Jefferson’s Sons”. I don’t remember the author. Although it is a ya fiction book, it tells the true story about the lives of Sally and her & possibly Thomas’s (illegitimate) children. The book only takes artistic liberties when it comes to small day to day details that are not able to be known. I’m 17 and have read the book 3+ times. I love it. The main character is Sally’s 2nd oldest (surviving) child, a boy named Beverly and how he is treated, not only inhumanly of course, as a slave, but also was able to get out of hard manual labor and was able to get away with a lot more as it was never said or acknowledged, but everyone knew the Heming’s kids were Jefferson’s. I realize this is a long and fact-filled post for an SNL skit, but I am fascinated by history and while “Jefferson’s Sons” may be a ya book, it is influential to any age group. That’s all. Sorry for the long winded post.

[@TheMissashcakes]

They’re related bc Sally Hemings was the half sister of Thomas Jefferson’s wife. And that man definitely sired her children. There’s DNA proof. That book sounds interesting

[@Apetrain138]

Regina, I'm just now reading your post of four years ago when you were seventeen, and as you probably know by now, Sally was the half sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha; the two having had the same father. Also, Maria, aka "Polly," who lived to be in her twenties, was not Jefferson's only surviving child. His eldest daughter, the sturdy, Martha, aka "Patsy," had eleven or twelve children, and lived somewhere into her sixties. She is the one who was disapproving of her aunt, Sally's relationship with her father, but had no control over it; he would do what he wanted to. One of the books I've read is, "Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate History," by Faun Brodie: an excellent read! ~Margie Murphy Crom

[@faithcaroline6514]

"Round and flat like Hamiltons wife" FIGHT ME BRO!! wait you know fight Peggy and Angelica watch out.

[@LynRuiz]

Do people realize that Sally Hemmings is the sister to Thomas Jefferson’s wife? She’s his sister-in-law as well and that’s why her children with Jefferson are so closely related. They were more than 1/2 siblings but 3/5 because the maternal line was from the same father.

[@FerdinandCesarano]

This well-written sketch was beautifully performed and also beautifully costumed. Bravo all around.

[@glocktopps319]

Tf is wrong with you

[@scotta7809]

No, it was not well written, and it was not funny. Robert De Niro is a total pile of horse manure.

[@sheilapate7604]

Why am I not surprised that my pretend husband is playing this part lol

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

You were okay with him wearing those breeches which leave *nothing* to the imagination?

[@paige4128]

😂😂😂. Hell, Robert DeNiro only dates/marries black women too. The shadddddde... lol.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

Paige I am a straight guy but Robert De Niro is quite a charmer.

[@morpheus6749]

You got a problem with that?

[@waynej2608]

It's true, for the most part. But he did have an affair with Uma Thurman once. Yum.

[@sld1776]

In reality she was 13 and accompanying his young daughter (HER niece) to France.

[@ernest747]

bill clinton of the 19th century

[@rasnac]

+ernest747 Wasn't Clinton a chubby chaser?

[@shutterfirestudios6554]

Clinton didn't rape a 15 year old slave

[@Dj.Hylanda]

Nope!!! Boi do ur homework.

[@Evelyn-bs9is]

haha

[@thingfish000]

To compare Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, to that philandering horse's ass Billy Clinton, is totally absurd and disrespectful.

[@goodcitizen7207]

Isn't it funny that these "men" said "All men are created equal" while owning slaves.

[@andrewgabor2.0]

People really don’t know anything about African American history. Maya Rudolph is biracial. She has a black mother and a white father. Sally Hemings was a quadroon. She had a mixed mother and a white father. Sally Hemings more than like resembled someone like Mariah Carey. She would be a person who is so fair skinned, you wouldn’t be able to tell they had any black in them by looking at them. Many people didn’t even know Sally and her siblings were slaves because they were so fair skinned. Sally’s children were octoroons. They would have been so light you wouldn’t have been able to tell they had any black in them. In fact, when they were 21 and became free, they were able to pass. Maya would not be able to pass. You can look at her and tell she’s mixed. You wouldn’t be able to tell that from Sally and her children.

[@arunimachatterjee7796]

Hamilton in heaven be like ' You said what about Eliza!!!!!'.

[@bkmaster8495]

I spent 3 hours watching and rewatching this for a college paper on Thomas Jefferson.

[@NiVi192]

You got amazing research skills. 🤣

[@werdna1969]

No Maya, you really do have a great voice.

[@lilcousinpamelamitchell1265]

If u knew who her mama is you'll know why she can sing

[@jesse_cole]

Got four more payments left on this coat.

[@KNakanishi]

SNL could never get away with this skit today.

[@tragiclifeform347]

"Oh, he's never actually seen one, but he's heard descriptions, and it drives him crAzy." *Dies*

[@morpheus6749]

It's mostly because of their horizontal vagina.

[@KDL861]

Sometimes you just gotta laugh at a situation or subject. 😂

[@asterism3275]

My dude have insulted Eliza we bout to fight

[@TheBc99]

Wow, SNL actually taught me something. Lol.

[@peggysue9633]

Yeah, that's the USA: TV does a better job of educating its citizens that the school system... And, the TV does of terrible job of educating citizens...

[@thingfish000]

There is nothing factual about this skit.

[@shawnpreston1639]

Uh, Thomas and Sally are real people who had children together. But, I guess that part isn't important.

[@thingfish000]

I take it back. The costumes seem authentic.

[@nialcc]

Gibran Lewis - Yeap, kinda like Ryan Reed is trying to will it not to be.

[@cynthiamadrid1430]

BRAVO SNL for reminding viewers Sally had 6 children, and the awesome photo of survivors.

[@Mahi_1904]

DID HE JUST CALL MY DEAR ELIZA FLAT AND ROUND?!!! ✨electric chair✨

[@mariellletomtom2235]

0:13 *Hamilton fans: So you have chosen death*

[@wilykat]

"Life,Liberty in the pursuit of Brown Sugar"

[@layna-heyhey]

One of the best actors in the snl skit, and they do this with DeNiro

[@sallymasitabua2585]

Likes his women like he likes his coffee! Hot, Black, and First thing in the morning! I love this Line 🙌

[@alexanderhamilton4046]

0:11 BISH YOU SAID SOMETHING BOUT MY WIFE!?

[@ashlyn97]

WHAT did he say about Eliza?!?! Those are dueling words, buddy!!!

[@treadlightlyorelse849]

That had to be the most uncomfortable SNL skit ever made 😬😬😬

[@josephharden5592]

Wrong

[@sittiealyssaabutazil5836]

MAYA RUDOLPH IS LIKE THE BLACK PHOEBE

[@cairowilson6885]

daddyrichten he know what's up he tryna save face. Y'all know she black. She has never identified as white Caucasian or Jewish bruh..lol real talk look at that ass and see what that identifies as..

[@cairowilson6885]

Big lips,big breasts,big ass, big nose, big hips, big everything...100% sista aka A princess of the lost tribe of Judah

[@cairowilson6885]

daddyrichten hey bro i dnt see any resemblance of her Caucasian ancestry. You must have just learned about her in the 21st century. As far as idenity goes i agree. I don't identify as a race color or creed I AM AFRICAN AMERICAN Mississippi mudbone to the core. My mother and father are both light skinned but im dark as a white man's past. She forseeably has rich malon in her skin. She had an acne problem growing up too so just to let cha know you can identify yourself as who you want but, black is black. She is forseeably black, she speaks fluent black linguistics, and the daughter of a very famous black woman bruh..its no way around it...

[@cairowilson6885]

What do you think rashida jones IDENTIFY as? She doesn't identify as black when she is black..1 drop bro thats it. We as black people can see our likeness in those who are under the impression that they are pure. We see our marks..

[@cairowilson6885]

And black women are the most beautiful women on this planet sucka. Deep down inside you lust for your long lost sistas, its cool though but dont everybody? Gotta go..

[@FBI-yj9xg]

"Because it's round and Flat,like Hamilton's wife." Me:OH NO YOU DID NOT SAY THAT!

[@stacyjpoliticscommunityfai359]

"What time do you get off work?" "Ugggghhhh NEVER!".....LOL

[@mccartt]

Well this just popped up in my "recommended" list. 2002 me might have thought it was funny but now? Oof.

[@aprilwalterscheid]

mccartt same

[@patldennis]

I'm sure by now that you've probably forgotten that the "racist" stuff in Blazing Saddles and The Jerk are satirical criticisms of racism as well

[@IAMACollectivist]

She was 14 and didn't truly have a choice in the matter.

[@NicotineRosberg]

It’s skit calm down

[@dannyhughes2680]

How in the hell did Thomas father so many children, how much back child support does he owe lol.

[@markajamu8356]

Legend has it that Tracy Morgan is STILL ......waiting to get PAID.....those " INTEREST Charges" are pretty steep on that Coat!!!!😅🤣😂

[@Joselitty]

Maya Rudolph looks so graceful here, I’m on a snl binge rn 🍿

[@KDL861]

Joselitty Me, too! I’ve been sick and needed a few good laughs. Belly rolls are great!

[@Joselitty]

Texxy 1 AMEN 🙏

[@KDL861]

Joselitty 🤧😷😂😘👍

[@themojisquad9749]

This is messed up though because Sally was 14 when she had sex with Thomas

[@sagqueenz7319]

I’m sure you meant when Thomas raped her

[@PeaceAndProgress1242]

That's natural, she was his concubine

[@scotta7809]

True that, back in those days, it was widely acceptable for old white men to rape a little black girls, or any little girl for that matter. Today he would be fucked up the ass with crunchy peanut butter by big Bubba in a Supermax prison go figure.

[@asfatara]

How DARE YOU DISRESPECT ELIZA. And then you wonder why Angelica didn’t love you.

[@immaware6847]

Maya Rudolph is #MinnieRiperton 's daughter , that's where she gets her lovely singing voice

[@maqq]

All the slave jokes got me cracking XDD

[@kcbh24]

"When do you get off?" "Ummm...Never!" Haha truth

[@edbenti5007]

The DNA evidence never proved Thomas Jefferson fathered any of Sally Hemmings' children, only that one of the Jefferson clan did so. There were EIGHT Jeffersons who could have and 5 who were in their teens and early 20s when she had her children. NONE of those 5 were the President.