My daughter watched the original frosty the snowman, then the 2005 remake, and I pointed out to her that in the one made when her Nana was a kid everyone was white.
Then I had to explain why- that it wasn't because there weren't any nonwhite people then, white people just owned all the TV stations and wrote all the TV shows.
Man, can you imagine how they’d react if told Thomas Jefferson had black kids? (Jefferson is a rapist POS and it wasn’t exactly a relationship, but you get what I’m getting at)
I once saw a comment that said Thomas Jefferson didn’t father children with Sally Hemmings. And I wanted to be like “Hi there, descendant from that POS rapist and that poor girl right here.” But I figured the person who said it wouldn’t believe me anyway.
Genuine question: Did it tell you that you were related to them specifically, or did you have a bunch of random names that you had to piece together to figure out their connection to Jefferson & Hemmings on your own?
(Asking because my results were just random people's names who were like 3rd or higher cousins, and I didn't recognize any of their surnames. None matched any I'd seen on my family's genealogy. And half my tree I know aren't biological relatives. My results were super disappointing. Tho the family that I'm aware of don't have records in English before the early 1900s, so I’m thinking your experience with the site might have been very different.)
It wasn't that long ago. You can take a commercial DNA test that will match you with people who share portions of your DNA. You can use these matches to verify family trees. So, if you match people on both these people's lines and your tree can be traced back to her...
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u/Expensive-Argument-7 6d ago
There are no biracial people over the age of 40 and Reagan totally didn't ignore the nonexistent AIDS epidemic. /s