Charlie Peacock's Redbone Family Secret

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[@CharliePeacock]

Danielle, I've had time to watch the episode. Thank you so much for having me on NYTN. You're a well-prepared host with good questions and analysis-and a compelling personal story of your own. I commend you for hosting a public space where the topics of racial and ethnic identity, multiracial ancestry, specific nods to Melungeons and Louisiana Redbones, and so much more, are discussed with kindness, curiosity, and empathy. And in my case-imperfectly addressed. As I listened to myself on your show I was reminded again of how difficult it is to speak about my family story in public-get the words in the shape I truly want. I so wish there could've been a flashing light with letters saying, "Viewers please note, guest is a man in process." Thankfully, I perceived that many of your viewers empathetically picked up on this-at least so it seemed from their comments. For those viewers who are interested, I'll reiterate that my family story (though abbreviated) will be included in the new upcoming book Danielle referenced, Roots & Rhythm: A Life in Music. Then for the sake of clarification, in addition to my multiracial ancestry and DNA confirmations, in the Texas Supreme Court record, Hillebrandt v. Abner Ashworth (May, 1855), my 3rd GGF, Tapley Abner Ashworth, tells the court that he is a man of "African descent." While there are critics eager to catch a white person trying to coopt identity they don't think belongs to them, my interest is in trustworthy stories (and I would include genetics here too). I'm working to aggregate the most accurate story of our family ancestry to leave to my children and grandchildren-and the topics NYTN addresses are one part of a larger story. For example, I find my mother's family equally interesting, but you'll have to read the book to see why. :-) Peace to you Danielle and all these many good people that support your work.

[@carolwoodward6141]

Hello from Virginia👋. So you are of Irish, Italian, and African heritage. All of those groups have been reviled, discriminated against, and attacked criminally physically. Thank you for all of the research and sharing.

[@LynnHarris-zq2or]

Yet, Irish became white and treated us like 💩

[@mariahill2788]

Were not Afrikan Amerikkkan it's about time you all know the truth about the slave trade

[@nytn]

Good morning, Carol!!

[@ginahall5805]

I saw a clip of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith finding out he had a black relative in his genealogy and his reaction was so cute and funny. He was happy and said knew it! He said he always felt different and that his musicality came from somewhere else.

[@rogergrant9605]

Yes his grandfather three times removed. He was a drummer also.

[@jayregal6478]

His story is a very common one in America and soon most will be proud to tell this wonderful story!

[@masehoart7569]

Very common worldwide. The only difference in Europe, South Africa & Namibia is: It’s not even worth talking about it - if you look white you are white & have always been

[@annelousteau9799]

Born and bred in New Orleans, grew up marinating in Creole culture! I especially cherish my music and rhythms, that I claim from osmosis. It's got ahold of my soul! ❤❤❤😊

[@Ice-c-o8q]

Danielle, your channel is the most interesting on KZbin bar none. It's amazing that fact is stranger/more interesting than fiction. The stories that you share are so revealing and I love your point of view. Keep telling these stories and I'll keep watching both here and on Patreon. 😊

[@nytn]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@dynel.dillard]

Born in Louisiana New Orleans from a Creole Family the Mimmitt/Mimmitte and yes RedBone folks and yes MultiRacial Family and yes the lighter skinned were Passé En Blanc I'm 62 and knew about the family that did. Absolutely love your Channel

[@JimmyFara74]

Guys, it's interesting listening to you. I'm from West Africa and I'm sickle cell trait because my father was sickle cell trait. That sounds amazing! I'm from Sierra Leone. Shout out to you

[@celeste5607]

Yep! there are thousands of American White families that have African in them. Some of them will not disclose. I can usually spot any European that would have African ancestry. 5% that would be he has 1 great great grandparent that was 100% African. So nice to see that he is all good with what he found out.

[@Visionary0001]

Danielle, THANK YOU for once again presenting us with a heartfelt, honest, well-researched, and informative video. Your material is always so sincere and meaningful. You are creating an "awakening" for people all over the United States, and probably around the world, regarding ancestry, and self-understanding.

[@jeffreymassey5541]

We are all connected one way or another. Especially those of us born in the 'New World". Very good guest and conversation. ✅💯👍🏾

[@keisha4620]

Wow. ❤ Charlie Peacock. Thanks for sharing.

[@nytn]

You are so welcome, how cool!

[@tzefirayah_700travelmore.]

Another spectacular & fascinating topic! Great interview. 👍

[@doylecole]

Excellent conversation. Charlie Peacock has provided context for many of your videos. He is a great talent and wonderful character!

[@batya7]

Danielle and Charlie, wow! I loved this conversation. It was fascinating to hear the parallels your families experienced. I also like how Charlie explained the importance of mentioning African ancestry to the medical providers - with the anec dote of sickle cell trait.

[@StirUpYourPurpose]

17:59 Yes, it is a relief when you let Truth flow unhindered. To live a life of "lie" whether consciously or unconsciously kills the soul.

[@gazoontight]

Once again, another fascinating video. You are wonderful.

[@ketafromthebayarea]

I definitely see redbone in Charlie Peacocks. Cousin I’m very proud of your channel. 💜

[@carrgip]

I have some information on the original term, use, and description of the Mullotto, Melungeon, Red Bone, and Creole.. I've been meaning to put a video together and upload it to KZbin, but i work so much and dont have time.. I'll probably come back and post some of the links to the books and archives on here.. I just wanted to be the one to present it is all.. lol But you're doing great work.. Keep it up! 💪🏾🪶👑

[@staceepayne8787]

I did a study once on the Melungeon's and it was rumoured that Elvis may have been a Melungeon since they had very distinctive looks. But the people I learned about were from the mountainous areas of eastern America.

[@vannessatrippett7750]

I'm emotionally crying with you🥲. I totally understand. As I always say, being black in America is an experience. If you're a "conscious" person, when you connect to that experience, it will leave you very emotional. But many of us take pride in our resilience and love of life in spite of it all. This is our "soul". I know of relatives that have or could have passed as well. Even among my own siblings.

[@vannessatrippett7750]

Thankfully, I grew up learning and knowing about the amazing history and achievements of our ancestors, going back centuries. Our joy. Our pain. How we overcome... Disregarding the white washing of history and the evil propaganda that was mostly being portrayed about us. People like Walter White, Lena Horne and others understood this. For many of us, there has never been any self hatred, we have always been loving and proud.

[@lamontpearce170]

I went to school in DeRidder and Rosepine. And had teachers named Ashworth and Goins. And my maternal family lived in no mans land in La.

[@Juliemorgana]

Each video is so interesting. They are getting better and better.

[@nytn]

That’s so kind of you!

[@ngonsainti]

Indigenous Americans were deported to places like Angola early on, before Africans were deported to (North) America… there is a great need to study that, because that also could explain some DNA results that turn out strange. 14:13

[@ngonsainti]

20:01 « black », I have recently learned, is not necessarily synonymous with African and it’s also time we start to differentiate these references because that confusion has led to land dispossession for indigenous Americans who were classified as black… they are now classified as African ! Or they were classified as white and think they are from Europe… this is cultural and racially motivated genocide !

[@goodmeasure777]

They don't want that known because it would question the "out of Africa" theory, for melanated Indigenous.

[@9ilvkdrms]

Thank you, Danielle, for posting this interview. I came across your channel recently, and have loved viewing your content. I also come from a mixed heritage, but because I am viewed as a woman of color, I am immediately placed into the black person box. Thankfully, both of my parents did tell us that we came from a mixed heritage, on both sides. My heritage is complex as well, and it is so true, our genes do speak to us regarding our ancestral roots! I know I have felt this. I appreciate your interview with Charlie Peacock, what a surprise! I and friends were fans of his music back in our college years, in the 1980's!

[@nytn]

That is so cool! Thank you for sharing this

[@reallycharlie3605]

Love this story. Ms Romero you are doing an outstanding job

[@nytn]

Thank you so much!

[@Kwameking1]

Thank you so so much and a great Holiday

[@nytn]

Same to you!

[@yolonda7486]

It's unfortunate that your channel isn't part of a school curriculum.

[@bamboosho0t]

The system will not allow the truth. They want us to believe what they have told us about history.

[@gagoomt4076]

American school curriculum has done so much to bury the ugly parts it comes as a shock to most wts to hear it that’s why they reject it as adults - it’s the first time they heard of how things were in this country for blqs. It’s quite sad - history should be truthful in all its parts.

[@baileyva]

In today’s society, they cancel this channel and its messenger… I personally am very proud of this young lady and her message of truth…. Keep up the great work, it’s means a lot

[@yolonda7486]

@@gagoomt4076 very true

[@SandraPerkins-h7l]

I agree this type of education is desperately needed for Black students. Because our history and legacies are erased by mainstream culture.

[@trenae77]

One of the best things I encountered about joining the DAR was engaging with a group of individuals who not only were extremely knowledgeable about digging into family research, but weren’t offended by the scuffs and black spots that came up in the search. Your ancestor had mixed races? Awesome! You had slave holders? There may be defendants of those enslaved individuals who could benefit from the records you have in their own research. I personally learned my Great Grandfather was deemed ineligible for draft to WWI because he was on parole from State Prison. Haven’t had the time to follow up on WHY but it’s on the bucket list. And I’m am currently working on getting my parents to take a DNA test because I’m a generation removed from Native American DNA showing on my family line.

[@sheliamayes8171]

I enjoyed the interview. My maternal people are from that area and landed in Beaumont, Texas.

[@staceepayne8787]

Oh Hello! I am from Orange Texas! Very close to Beaumont ,Tx. & the very last city in Texas on interstate 10 before you enter into Louisiana!

[@sheliamayes8171]

@staceepayne8787 Hi. The " Golden Triangle" . Very familiar with Orange. My grandmother lived off of 11th street in Beaumont. My sister and I spent 2 weeks every summer. Howdy 👋🏾

[@jimcrawford3221]

In the mid 80s I had a 9th grade homeroom class at DeQuincy High School (southwest La) where half the class was named Ashworth. I grew up near New Orleans. I didn't know it at the time but I was probably related to them via relatives that moved from southwest Mississippi (Hancock County) to Imperial Calcasieu in the 1880s and married Ashworth, Perkins, Bass, Goins and other prominent surnames in the area.

[@philamoureux675]

Goins Here, what's up Cuz?.

[@jimcrawford3221]

@@philamoureux675 Howdy cuz! My ancestors (surname of West) married into the Goins family. My son married a Goins (from Beauregard Parish).

[@dr.sherryleonard-foots4200]

I’m related to Perkins from that area!!

[@jimcrawford3221]

​@@dr.sherryleonard-foots4200Cool! We probably share some relatives. I still live in the area. A small community known as Hargroves just north of DeQuincy.

[@marypharris7629]

My home town is Singer, La. I grew up literally between some of the Ashworths and the Goins family. I never knew about the Ashworth Act...interesting stuff.

[@kingdoc3262]

Very cool🎉This whole program including low key calm attitudes and possible historical connections to declaring truth fir truth not political correctness...has me with a joyful feeling. I too sense I have land somewhere by my ancestors.

[@SouthernGeniusPodcast]

Great video! I really appreciated the dialogue and the liberty of thought. I will be checking out Mr. Peacock's book. Thank you for sharing!

[@OreoTime1]

Great interview! Great video, Danielle. Thanks for the sharing. Saludos!

[@Kim-mo2ji]

I have watched a couple of your videos. I love what you are doing here. Self love and acceptance is so important for all of us. I have worked on my own family history for nearly 30 years. I have deep roots in Virginia. I am white, but have always known that I had some Native American heritage. It wasn't until I took my first DNA test that I knew of my African heritage. As a parent of multiracial kids, I am proud to know of my own mixed background. I am personally not a fan of the word race because I see us all as the human race. We are all equals no matter what our ancestral makeup is. Love and peace to you.

[@staceepayne8787]

It is fascinating gives new meaning to the phrase " if walls could talk" !❤

[@patriceesela5000]

Fascinating discussion, thank you, Danielle and Mr Peacock 🙂

[@bamboosho0t]

Wonderful interview. I'll be picking up Charlie's work! 👍🏻

[@AustinB.3322]

Hey Danielle, so glad to see you post today. About to watch.

[@nytn]

Hi Austin!

[@AustinB.3322]

@@nytn I am familiar with the feeling of doing something and being completely alone in it.

[@tiredoftrolls2629]

Watching this quickly before it disappears

[@wizardofahhhs759]

🙄

[@richardwilliamswilliams]

Good morning neighbor lady, from Copperhill Tn. 😊😊😊

[@AjjDatsAjj]

Great story! Empathy and love unites and creates understanding 👍🏿⭐️❤️

[@ByOsunbukola]

Love your work, and totally understand as I’m completely obsessed with my family’s rich history & ancestry!❤

[@cynthiacarr2093]

Very interesting and great Interview with yiu both thank you so much for sharing ❤❤

[@stephenjames2690]

It's interesting that some commenters suggest you talk about other people. Their families probably also have interesting stories that they can post. Studying and learning one's history isn't a competition. The farther back in history one can trace one's ancestors, the more likely it is that some were enslaved or slave owners, Native or European, etc. The question is what we do with that reality today.

[@jerrymitchell77]

Race is way too simple a concept and it is embarrassing to be put into a category by some random groups of people. I'm 65 and I lived through the whole process. The color of my skin is only a tiny part of the problem. I was in my 40s when I finally accepted my heritage and was okay about it. I think going back to school and getting my Master's more than anything made me feel like I belonged. That's how powerful the inner turmoil was for me.

[@Vernon1960]

Danielle! Thank you very much for this one. I have a great grandfather whom was rumored to be "black passing" vs the way he looked and the women that he loved. I have no photographs but when I was rather young, the people who had seen him would not accept him as black. I found that to be rather curious(and dangerous) in the rural 1930s Old South.

[@amberkuehn9115]

That's interesting. I like unusual stories like that.

[@banksofchaos93]

I have someone in my family tree who was born in Louisiana, his father being a captain from France who came to LA via Illinois and whose mother was also French. The records of his youth show him as the white son of white parents. The sons of these families often had mulatto or quadroon mistresses until they got married. If they could afford it, they might keep the mistress after marrying, so have the genteel white wife and kids at home and the mulatto mistress and their children, whom he provided with an apartment or house. Well, my ancestor skipped the genteel marriage to the white wife part, and he skipped putting the mistress in private apartments. (He didn't have to - she was a free person of color and had inherited a house from her mother.) So he just moved in with her, and they lived together with their many children for many years, until his death. What's so fascinating is that the census at first records him in her household as the only white resident in a houseful of mulattoes, indeed the only white resident for at least a couple of blocks. But over the space of a few decades, he became mulatto on the census paperwork. He had fought in the War of 1812, and when he died, a local paper reported that he had served in Major D'aquin's battalion as one of the San Domingo men who fought in the Battle of New Orleans. The San Domingo battalion was composed of free men of color, Dominican Creoles who'd fled Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. So he spent his middle adulthood becoming mulatto and then his mature years apparently becoming *Haitian.* All the example you could want to satisfy the argument that race is a social construct, as well as the observation that Louisiana has always done things its own darn way :) Living the way my ancestors lived probably wouldn't have been possible a generation later, as New Orleans became part of America, white American settlers flooded in, and American categories of race, ethnicity, and class took hold (along with American laws). But for a little while at least, some categories of "race" or "color" were not as important as categories of culture, so the worlds of white French Creoles and free Creoles of color were mutually familiar, had permeable boundaries, and had attitudes toward race and color that were unlike anything else in North America. It wasn't just possible to "cross the color line" in the other direction -- in at least one case, it was positively desirable.

[@banksofchaos93]

But it would have been harder to manage in any other state. Where did your ancestor live, and when? I live for this kind of thing :)

[@joannjoann3449]

I’m from New Orleans also and maybe some of us are kin I have also did an DNA test and the things that you have learned I’m still finding my roots with it this is a great video ❤

[@reggiedewitty2921]

My family was enslved at the Overton Traverlers Rest Plantation in Nashville. Migrated to Austin Texas after the Civil War and host the DeWitty/Overton NAACP Annual Banquet for 59 years.

[@PatriciaValentini-r9w]

Thanks again for an enlightening history lessons.

[@Lady_Clare4]

Always informative! Thank you❤!!!

[@SonOfTheRighthand7]

Too bad J. Edgar Hoover wasn't this open about his Black ancestry.

[@jacquettathomas6239]

Kudos to you and your family

[@KentPetersonmoney]

I didn't even know the word creole existed until I was an adult. My 3rd great grandfather was listed as creole but he didn't live in Louisiana. He lived in the Bahamas.

[@davidmolina7543]

Thank You for sharing this information it is so enlightening thank you.😎

[@annelousteau9799]

Hearing of the sawmill-moving families makes me think CYPRESS. ❤❤❤ xo, Louisiana native, grew up close to canefields. Sugar! J'aime le sucre. 😊

[@gloriouslove9009]

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith said something similar when he found out that he had African lineage. Deep down inside he felt something.

[@Bbristerb]

My family is from Starks and Singer Louisiana where you can find many Ashworths,Doyle’s, Perkins and Goins which I am all related too

[@Myraisins1]

Very nice. Thanks!

[@AustinB.3322]

Growing up, I always said my family was Scottish. Other people actually knew more about my ancestry than I did, and they would kind of laugh at me about that a little. My last name is a Scottish name, apparently, through my dad' side, but it's funny now because I actually don't identify much with that side of the family because I didn't take many traits in my physical appearance from that side.

[@SpeckledBird-c1w]

These Black people were not only Africans, but Israelites . The Israelites were the people that were sent into slavery scattered to the four corners of the earth. This includes the Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal, which were also Black , scattered and enslaved during the expulsion in Portugal along with the Moors.

[@louisianacreoleandproud]

Yes and Portugal in its early colonial era was an Anglo Saxon puppet state until the 1500z but England did get it back at one point. Brazil only became as mixed as it was because Brazil had more natives because, the English could profit off the native Brazilian while as Americans they couldn’t but they did plan to ??? them eventually. (I don’t want my comment to be removed so I put ??? there)

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Danielle, I love how your channel and your story is encouraging others to look a little deeper into their family stories. ❤ Thank you for sharing your story, Charlie.

[@IvanaMyers-q4p]

Growing up and hearing the term redbone it was referring to a black person who is really light in skin complexion. Now a couple shades lighter than a redbone would be a person able to pass as white, give it the features match as well. It’s a few things that are tell tells that a person may be of mixed heritage, the undertones that appears through photographs is one and another is a summertime tan just to name a couple. I think it’s so sad that people had to live a lie because they wouldn’t fit in one way or the other and they had to choose. I glad things are changing and people are open and able to say yeah my great grandparent was white or yeah my great grandparent was black.

[@kemetnubiakamp]

Yes, visibly Black people often with red or reddish brown hair and even freckles were redbones. Also light brown Black people who still would not pass for white also were redbones. But "bright" people were people often mistaken for white, especially by white people, who have recent (ie parent) phenotypically Black relatives and know they are Black but white presenting. That's not synonymous with someone interesting or actively passing for white since even darker African Americans have passed for Asian or Southern or Eastern European and can be believed as "white" while being physically darker than a bright person not passing and a redbone who cannot pass for white but is mixed ancestried.

[@AnitaMarieAlexander]

Creole 😮❤ I'm Creole for a reason for a reason- 😊

[@stephanienwadieiiamhybasia]

Very interesting story. ❤

[@thenatureways]

Yes I am a beautiful black woman ❤

[@dawnemile7499]

Ancestry can be there but not in your present DNA.

[@CaliCloud9]

My family has LA Redbone history with Ashworth marriages too.

[@barbarat5729]

I love Charlie Peacock. He's been on my playlist for a long time. Time IS a gift of love and grace!

[@hollyhock4160]

Not my heritage (or don’t think so!) but very interesting and educationally beneficial.

[@lakimgreerbloodsaw9820]

But i definitely love the research you do keep up the work.

[@zoprice4096]

And the thing is, I feel no shame and I don’t understand how some people could feel shame. There’s people in my family who passed and I don’t blame them from what I seen in history. Sometimes you gotta do what you have to do in order not to get mistreated because it still happens to this day and it is the most saddest thing on earth that is seen.

[@blafiman]

I ❤this story

[@masterdelrap]

People that are mixed stop claiming a race and just say your mixed

[@Kalleeil]

everyone is mixed, this isn't only local to America.

[@masterdelrap]

@Kalleeil stop saying your a race if your mixed....

[@Kalleeil]

@I don’t classify myself by “race” I’m part of a tribal family. And I know the story of human migration, there is no “race”

[@jaycorleone3708]

@@masterdelrap if you’re mixed, your both races you’re mixed with 🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@masterdelrap]

@jaycorleone3708 mixed could mean 3 races

[@assata922]

My grandmother is a Scott. Some of her DNA matches keep going back to St Landry Lousiana. These matches always have surname Rideau. Do anyone know any thing about the Louisiana Scotts and Rideaus?

[@lisascott1422]

My family surname is Scott, but they originated from Virginia.

[@Raymond_Petit]

Did I miss something? Was there a previous video on the Ashworth family?

[@Barbiana444]

Wow He story Is Inspiring But I always Felt Like That As Child

[@mariashawver8843]

Remarkable story!

[@michaeltaylor8501]

Mr. Peacock might not like hearing this, but I think it's significant that folk know that all folk living today that have had their Y-DNA &/or mT-DNA tested have been shown to have sub-Saharan African ancestry (essentially we all have some sub-Saharan African ancestry - that is, we all likely have some Black ancestry, like it or not*). * = And really, What's not to like? After all, without every one of our ancestors we would not exist at all; &, therefore we ought to honor our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, et al.

[@kenyatacarter5144]

Having that 2-3% vs 10-25% African dna isn’t the same. Everyone will have that small amount but to have a grandparent or great grandparent who maybe was 50% or more is different. That one person in the family changed how the entire family views themselves.

[@michaeltaylor8501]

@kenyatacarter5144 True - for the most part at least.* Re: Feelings... Thinking that they're "Pure White" sometimes affects some White folk to act in a snobbish way - making them feel as if they're better than others (so to get such folk to not be snobbish I believe that they ought to know that they too stem from Sub-Saharan African ancestry). Now, not all Whites get snobbish, but some do (even some who are quite Off-White); &, likewise some folk of other races - or mostly-other races - can be snobbish towards others apart from themselves (as Whites haven't cornered the snobbery market 😁). Feelings of individuals of any & all racial make ups will differ depending upon many variables (including any legal &/or social consequences within a given environment). * = An exception could be where a One-Drop or One-Ancestor Rule is legally applicable - or at least applicable under what's known as "color of law" - & one's ancestry is known by local authorities (then some of those feelings can be shared whether 3%-or-less, or 50%-or-more, or anywhere inbetween, eh? 🤔). BTW, Re: Any race or racial admix: it's all good. ✝️😎👍

[@dawnemile7499]

Phenotype is what you display and is a reflection of your genotype.

[@lindasmith9834]

My McGraw ancestors migrated to New York from Louisiana and we're identified in census records and black/negro in Louisiana some years and mulatto or white in other years, but in New York they were identified as white in census records. With my Maternal grandparents being of mixed heritage, their features were more Caucasian than black. My mother and her siblings were all very fair complexions, white and very near white with blonde to dark brown hair and blue, green, and gray eyes. Some of my first cousins also have blonde hair and blue and gray eyes. Many of the McGraw's are still residing in New York and my 95 year old mother looks remarkably like one of my Grandmother's 1st cousins. I have some documents that confirm the family relationship to the New York McGraw's because my grandmother wrote them frequently sending her share of property tax on family land inherited from Robert McGraw.

[@brwynn]

Have you ever covered topic Cajun in Louisiana? I feel like you have but I’m not sure.

[@renepicard8113]

I grew up and live in south louisiana and know of the singer and beauregard parish in la my understanding is Redbone was Indiana and black were as creole is black and French heritage

[@HappyForestBridge-zj4yh]

You are a gift

[@Ira.J712]

As a (black African)person myself. appreciate to see you a (white) Caucasian woman, doing this video to highlighting the unfair treatment that my people especially during those times had received. Thank you! And highlighting the fact that the gentleman in the video is a black man..( if his grandfather is a black man) because from what I've heard, "Race / Lineage ONLY FOLLOWS THE FATHER!" So as long as that's true then that's the correct way we should be acknowledging our race / ethnicity. So you guys keep up the good work spreading the truth such as this ☝🏿and let's help inform each other so we're not confused 🤔

[@seedsoftheland]

I have peacock as 3rd an 4th cuzns same as Swenson,Childs, Ross, Weston plus more how do all these names connect with me

[@juditheden3995]

💖💖💖

[@dcdoan7638]

I kinda don't like the term "white passing" because it has this stigma of denying who you are or being ashamed of who you are. But as someone who spent 30 years believing I was part black (I'm not, but was told my father was) and my first husband was 1/2 black (well more like 35%) and our 3 kids look white, one looks like she's half Hispanic or something but not black. And our experience has been that white people are willing to accept that they are part black, or than I was when I believed I was... But black people aren't. It's black people who invalidate light skinned white appearing people of black heritage, at least here where we are (aside from family and close friends)!and have the attitude of "because you don't look black, and experience life as a black person, then you have no right to claim your black heritage" so there's a lot of resentment and rejection... And for the most part it's no one's business as far as employers, school etc so like why wouldn't we claim "white" instead of "black". Though when I lived further south (NC , Fl)that wasn't the case, and we were much more accepted within black communities than we are in WV/Ohio where we are from.

[@Benita399]

Well you did have to deny who you were when you passed 🤔 you had to give it all up to pass.

[@kingdoc3262]

I simply believe in past lives...infinite numbers...and everyone we meet brief or friendship development, we met before. Thats why we should all learn Friendship Health Intelligence. I too have felt i met my past life family. No science proof. Just inside knowing 🎉

[@fayeprice5500]

As a child i knew my grandpaw born in 1880's did not go throw the same door as the ad the rest of the family at the court house. One of those trips to court house i was extremly thristy drinking from the cold water fountan by libary library would make brain freze. I wasn't aloud to drink from bathroom sink. In hall across from bathroom was a ceramic water fountan. As i was drinking from it grandmother grabed me, pulled me away telling me i was not to drink there. Grandpaw said i could drink there if i wanted. Another memory was after learning about mulatto at school, i told grandpaw, i thought mulatto's were pretty. He ancered me, if i thought that, then i was pretty. In my 30's or 40's i was reading grandpaws death certificate and saw he was negro. It was surprizing to me. I was allways told i was white. Dad and aunts sayed there was a mistake. Im glad this talked about ! ! ! Thank you.

[@mcclendonreport]

Danielle you might want to study the background of Fat Joe the rapper. He is saying some very disparaging things about Foundational Black Americans. Moreover, he thinks he can freely use the N-Word.

[@dunkmaster50inchplusvert]

Fat Joe can Puerto Ricans and domincains have black blood

[@jayste9334]

Wow...🔥 pic

[@momolovestar4207]

It makes some people very uncomfortable people when someone has black lineage when you don't look "black" also some people will see you in a certain way "white" to make themselves feel comfortable around you its an odd thing

[@geminiaqua-i6d]

do we have a pic of Lolas Black father?

[@nytn]

Ive never seen a photo of her dad! Im still looking

[@Amarukhanindiankd]

I’m Indian and European I got my last name(Shackelford) from a Norman that was a military officer for William the conqueror. They stayed in godalming surrey England and moved around before coming to America in the 1700’s and NO I didn’t get the last name from slaves they were “black” Norman’s and there’s plenty proof William the conqueror was also a “black” man

[@francoiswatson3484]

She looks like a light skinned black woman. She looks like one of my neighbors.

[@larryholland1466]

Reparations must really be getting close

[@goodmeasure777]

That part.

[@scottwillock7037]

Congratulations, you're one of the fastest growing populations in America.

[@michaelpierce3264]

hi both Latin America and Europe has a different perspective they would say mi grandfather was mixed race not I’m mixed race

[@Nanbebe7]

I’ve got cousins in the UK from my mom’s cousin who immigrated from Bermuda they are essentially “ whitewashed” as I call it.

[@RLNDO-]

amazing guest, thank you so much for bringing him on 🫶🏾 and thank you for sharing your story, charlie peacock

[@nytn]

Thank you! He’s one of a kind.