Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about how racist the representation on this money is.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. Didn't I didn't know,
Speaker 1: I didn't go. Now we know that here in the States,
Speaker 1: pretty much all of the currency features racist presidents. I
Speaker 1: mean there are some exceptions. Benjamin Franklin, he's on the
Speaker 1: hunt done and he wasn't a president. We still ain't
Speaker 1: saying Harriet tub And on none of these twenties that
Speaker 1: would cap. But in season one we talked about racist
Speaker 1: George Washington on the one dollar bill and how he
Speaker 1: would take the slaves teeth out of theay mouth and
Speaker 1: put him in his own. If you owned enslaved individuals
Speaker 1: and felt that black people were inferior, you're racist. And
Speaker 1: please don't try to justify it on the harshness or
Speaker 1: lack thereof in the treatment of the enslaved individuals. Oh,
Speaker 1: we were nice to our slaves. We were cordial to
Speaker 1: our slaves. Cordial would have been letting him go free.
Speaker 1: I don't care how you try to dress up. Do
Speaker 1: to put it on a stick, put in some fancy
Speaker 1: rapping and tell me it's a fudge. Pop when I
Speaker 1: tasted that dude on that their stick. George Washington one
Speaker 1: dollar bill racist, Thomas Jefferson on the two dollar bill racist. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was an architect and an archaeologist and a wanaficionado.
Speaker 1: He was obsessed with books, but he also owned over
Speaker 1: six hundred enslaved black people. And some accounts say old
Speaker 1: t J. Might have had a couple of kids with
Speaker 1: his enslaved teenager and said it was either him or
Speaker 1: his brother Randolph, but it were definitely up the Jefferson line.
Speaker 1: Now Sally Hermans. She was born into slavery in Virginia,
Speaker 1: but then they master died so her family was inherited
Speaker 1: by the daughter of their master. The daughter was Martha,
Speaker 1: who eventually ended up being Thomas Jefferson's wife. In seventeen
Speaker 1: eighty four, Thomas Jefferson had a work trip in Paris.
Speaker 1: Sally rose shotgun and she wasn't but sixteen as a
Speaker 1: companion and made to his eight year old daughter Maria.
Speaker 1: Sally and her older brother in Paris as Jefferson's personal servant.
Speaker 1: Because they were free in Paris, they got paid a
Speaker 1: monthly wage. And where it has it that Sally and
Speaker 1: t J start doing that little thing on the sun
Speaker 1: and teacher shot the club. But now, even though she
Speaker 1: was free in Paris, she agreed to go back and
Speaker 1: be in bondage with t J under the provision that
Speaker 1: her children get their freedom. Sally ended up having six children,
Speaker 1: four of them lived. Listen, not a true of t
Speaker 1: J fathered them kids or not. But these two things
Speaker 1: we know Thomas Jefferson owned enslaved black people, and that
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson hated race mixing because he felt that black
Speaker 1: folks were inferior to the whites and the endowments of
Speaker 1: both body and mind. And we know that because he
Speaker 1: said it. Here's an expert. I advanced it therefore as
Speaker 1: a suspicion only that the Blacks, whether originally a distinct
Speaker 1: race or made distinct by time or circumstance, our inferior
Speaker 1: to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure why I heard him talking like that,
Speaker 1: but that's how it registered to my ear drums when
Speaker 1: I read it. So take that to school and work
Speaker 1: with you. A racist on the one dollar bill and
Speaker 1: a racist on the two dollar bill. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't either,