When I was 7, my family moved to Maryland from New Jersey and I had to do a report on an Afro-American hero, and I was assigned nat turner. The encyclopedia entry was short...
Nat turner led a slave revolt killing 66 people, men, women and children, while they slept.
It was hard for me to accept any heroes after that.
If Nat Turner qualifies as a "hero", then so does every school shooter and jihadi suicide bomber.