Attempting to justify the rape and child molestation of a 14 year old Black girl is something America is no stranger to. Violence against Black women is “not important”. It is you who is choosing to pick and chose history. Sally Hemings wasn’t some girl he took to France on vacation. She was his PROPERTY. Slavery and the brutal raping of Black women to breed more enslaved humans cannot be whitewashed no matter how hard America tries to do so.

It is interesting that you say both sides should be told but yet you want to control HOW it’s told because you don’t like what is being said. This is the reason conservatives are fighting so hard to eliminate any historically correct context about slavery or anything that paints America in a negative light.

Your argument is not new or surprising in the slightest. It is the consensus of most of White America. White men in particular, who still feel as if they have sole ownership of this country and the right to control everyone’s narrative.

But my ancestors have their own stories via slave narratives that tell what really happened. Those will never be included in history books. So before you “attempt” to check me, why don’t you look up the words of my ancestors so that YOU can have the whole story.

White people are not America’s entire story. And what they subjected Africans to for the purposes of greed with no shred of humanity deserves to be taught. There is a reason racist Whites feel Black people are inferior and worthless- it’s because those ideals are baked into the fabric of this country.