Thomas Jefferson Meets Sally Hemings - SNL

Thomas Jefferson (Robert De Niro) meets his new slave, Sally Hemings (Maya Rudolph), and quickly becomes infatuated with her. His fellow statesmen (Jimmy Fallon, Chris Parnell) comment that he's known for only dating "black chicks." [Season 28, 2002]

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[dolomitefan]

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

[omegablack]

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

[porschemcginnis]

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

[representationmetaphorique]

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

[kiiera]

"Round and flat like Hamilton's wife"

whAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ELIZA

[stephenhall]

"Your hair is so unusual... May I touch it?"

Uh, never touch a black woman's hair!

[marlenaforbes-reidy]

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

[steelhere]

"I'm just happy to be indoors."

[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." 😂😂😂

[royaldavis]

Wow this is a little edgy even for snl

[kingtaharqa]

De Niro is actually married to a black woman

[tonyazzaro]

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

[bigums]

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.

[millz]

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

[marshacreary]

"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]"

[mscoyote]

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

[barbaraallen]

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

[norwaysummer]

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

[elliem.]

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

[ramonmcgee]

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!)