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A good story reminds us that we are all more connected than we think.

I'm Danielle Romero and my content is all about exploring the nuances of American identity and unearthing hidden historical narratives. My great grandmother Lola left her heritage behind in Louisiana when she moved to NY in the 1930s. Last year, I decided to uncover our family story and begin finding our roots. I'm still on the journey of hidden heritage, genealogy and finding out how our family history fits in the context of community history!

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Russian Immigrant on Solving Racism in America
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Growing up Italian- American in Chicago
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What are you? The Mixed Identity Debate
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Who are the Cajuns?
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Are Louisiana Creoles Black?
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Are Mexicans Native Americans?
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Melungeon: America's hidden heritage
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1910 Lynching of Italians in Florida
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Do Creoles Reject Blackness?
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How Greeks Became White (in America)
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Are ITALIAN and SICILIAN the Same?
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Why You Shouldnt Do Genealogy
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White Passing in Louisiana Creole History
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Can I say these impossible Louisiana names?
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Is Johnny Depp Melungeon?
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The Unexpected Story Behind My Black Barbie
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Growing up Italian in New Orleans, Louisiana
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I REACT: Italian American 23andMe Results
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My Grandmother's Shocking DNA Test Results
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Комментарии
@BeautifulTinySavages
@BeautifulTinySavages 28 минут назад
This is a beautiful conversation , everyone has so much truth to tell,I wish this conversations were spoken more in History class 🙏😇💃Our history has been corrupted but the Truth Should Set You Free ❤️‍🔥
@raffles7556
@raffles7556 48 минут назад
Blood distinguishes her from being white….
@zigm7420
@zigm7420 Час назад
My parents’ generation would have been the ones depicted in those photos. Coming from a “passing” Southern family, I can tell you several things. 1. Passing was seen as safety. 2. The people most afraid of being found out would be the loudest and most racist. 3. People don’t change their opinions, they just get better about hiding them.
@kofiarthur3749
@kofiarthur3749 Час назад
Still the same today. Coward, Jealous Western Whites! They're Afraid of any Competition because they are born uncompetitive.
@LeLeebell55
@LeLeebell55 2 часа назад
She looks multi racially mixed for sure....like my family from New Orleans.
@siddaye
@siddaye 2 часа назад
No shes not black
@dragonm.mystic8260
@dragonm.mystic8260 2 часа назад
True Americans are copper colored Aborignal Indians. Pale ones are mixed or foreign all together. Truth hurts, but truth is still truth.
@robertomoreno5526
@robertomoreno5526 2 часа назад
Dum ass question we brown Mexican people of course we are one of the original from the Turtle land.... Turtle land . ..
@franciscophile6281
@franciscophile6281 2 часа назад
My school system in Columbus, Ohio didn't desegregate until 1977-78, 24 years after Brown v. Board.
@positiveforce470
@positiveforce470 2 часа назад
They're not ethnic Jews. European Ashkenazi are khazars converts. The real Jews are Ethiopian Jews, Arab Jews, Samaritans , Palestinians and Arabs. They're khazars converts
@jaggg.3821
@jaggg.3821 3 часа назад
Louisiana? Hey my family immigrated out of LA after WWII too The Bay Area, in California The Second Great Migration. My point your grandmother coulda been her Twin Sister no there not related Shreveport, LA.
@aleksandrwebb9921
@aleksandrwebb9921 3 часа назад
Melungeon ❤️ 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
@Donetelloissmart
@Donetelloissmart 3 часа назад
My daughter looks pure white, as do I. I have less African ancestry than her. She looks just like me. Her Daddy is a dark skinned black man. His Mom looked over her entire features, she has his features. I put black and white on her birth certificate. Since that now is an option. However I'm always hearing about she is not mixed. Even from my own family. That's why this subject is so interesting to me. Just because she looks white. I would never tell her that she is only white. It's not true. My one ever told me I had black in me until I was older. Then everything about myself made sense. I never related to full white. Nor was I accepted by a lot of white people. I was called a disgrace to my own race. Not even knowing I had more than just white in me. So I will tell her the truth. Also judging these people off of their skin color with your ancestry is a bit offensive to me. But, hey. I have four nieces and nephews. 2 are white passing with black features. 2 are darker with more white features. They came from a black woman so there's no questioning their race. Idk I have a lot of feelings regarding this matter. I may seem judgemental because of my biases if so I apologize.
@derrickcobb5360
@derrickcobb5360 3 часа назад
You are a UNITED STATES citizen, with AMERICAN heritage 🤔 research that 🤷🏿‍♂️
@gazoontight
@gazoontight 3 часа назад
You need to read about what really happened in Little Rock, and how the Arkansas National Guard was Federalized and then "reinforced" by the 101st Airborne Division.
@kingmaafa120
@kingmaafa120 3 часа назад
Thank you for bringing this to light as others have as well.. Sadly as I write in my books…it’s still not enough evidence for 🇺🇸to pay up them long overdue historical reparations … But for sho..will keep a lot of Flks esp the Blk ones ..btw..WHO ACTUALLY STILL CARE..sadly some are so indoctrinated they DGAF… just facts Again for the ones who still care …it’ll just keep em .so..riled up about all the still unaddressed injustices 👍 All 🇺🇸will keep saying is show us more.. ✔️🖊️ Even more interesting as I watched the recent protests.. ✡️🇵🇸demonstrations.. I COULD’NT HELP BUT CONTRAST MANY OF THE IMAGES from these demonstrations TO THE ENCOUNTERS BTW THE BRO & SISTERS DISPLAYED IN YOUR VIDEO..all 33 of em.. then it dawned on me .. in spite of the ABUSES RAPES LYNCHINGS AND OTHER UNIMAGINABLE ATROCITIES.. NOT ONE OF EM EVER SHOUTED ……”DEATH TO 🇺🇸” or “BURN 🔥 AN AMERICAN FLAG .” as I saw many of the protesters in the recent demonstrations did ..& but more shockingly actually were able to do it round 🇺🇸over and over again…. Now for show …had one of the victims in one of these 33 images did this.. they’d definitely would have disappeared 👻 **** pls understand this .. in spite of all the 💩these ppl are they still are the most loyal and patriotic 🇺🇸and forgiven I know I’ve spoken to a lot of em TBC My perspective See at that time way Blk when🇺🇸missed the mark ..thus by not 💰 ⬆️ when they were initially going to & … Over time only made and has made the reparations issue more contentious ….ALL BY DESIGN ✔️deep But since that time..🇺🇸has had no problems essentially dishing em out in other ways to other ppl and countries sadly & more diabolically …ones that have largely in many respects have REPLACED…… THE OFFSPRING OF MANY OF THE TRAUMATIZED VICTIMS DEPICTED IN THESE IMAGES…… in their own communities.. EVEN DEEPER 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸SPENDING BILLIONS OF $$$ promoting its gay & trans ideologies WHAT…both domestically and internationally.. TELL ME How is it that? in the past 20-40 yrs this agenda has (TRUMPED )🤫🤐👍over 200+ yrs of unaddressed blk historical issues NAMELY MANY OF THOSE WHO PERPETUATED THE VIOLENCE IN THESE IMAGES yet WERE NEVER BOUGHT TO JUSTICE …or if they did were never fully Prosecuted.. 🤐👍🤫🔥🔥🔥 TBC From Uganda 🇺🇬 🦾 See what Peru 🇵🇪 just did ..
@jessimynails
@jessimynails 3 часа назад
@NYTN I’d really to like to know how I can get in touch with you as I have so many answers to your questions. I too am I distant cousin and knew nothing about my dna until I tested and discovered my Louisiana family. I traveled there too in search of answers and I found quite a lot. Please reach out to me. This is insane. - what is an email address where you can be reached?
@kaiyakershaw1028
@kaiyakershaw1028 3 часа назад
For context on the water hoses and Birmingham bus boycott, the movie Selma (2015) is amazing. Bring tissues, for sure, but it’s a mixture of old footage and new recreation of events and it’ll tell you more than you ever wanted to know about George Wallace! Also, I agree completely with you that it makes no sense how we can freely talk about all other kinds of history in different periods, but trying to correct the (sanitized and agenda-laden) education that students are being taught is “stirring up trouble.” I know a man who is 80 years old and lives in Texas whose grandfather (no greats, just his father’s father) was a physician practicing in the Civil War! Yet this same man who is only 2 generations removed from the worst violence our country has inflicted on itself, claims that everything would be fine if the “race-baiters” would just shut up. 🤦‍♀️
@t.nelson9345
@t.nelson9345 4 часа назад
American conservative elites don't want things to make sense. Because they monetize on the destruction.
@gazoontight
@gazoontight 4 часа назад
Quite interesting.
@lewzee2066
@lewzee2066 4 часа назад
Danielle can you prove that they brought so-called black people from Africa here to America? You keep repeating that narrative when in actuality only a very small number of so-called black people were brought from Africa... So called black Americans had thriving cities throughout America... When we were off to ourselves we thrived and the federal government wanted a way in to our cash flow so they desegregated the people . This wasn't done to help so called black Americans this was done to destroy us as we see today.. Detroit was a so called negro thriving city,Durham,Tulsa and every other city..How did Africans obtain all that and if you don't know look it up... What ships did they bring these millions of slaves on? A one way trip would take months how did these slaves survive at the bottom of these ships??? Africans have no story of the white man taking millions of slaves from west Africa... Did the slaves fight back or did they just walk onto the ships? If so-called black people were brought here what about the language barrier? Did black Americans already know the land and soil here in America... And if these slaves were property the ones that survived the ship ride were sick and close to death!!! Make it make sense please!!!! Millions of slaves yall say smh .. The whole story make no sense they drove that lie in your head through movies (Hollywood) So called negros were already here and are the only true Americans... Paper genocide is what they did.. They made so called black Americans stop calling themselves indians even killed the ones that didn't.... My family has 500 arces in Arkansas on fathers side and mothers side has 350 in South Carolina... The lies nust stop native Americans that we see today are NOT Indians. Those are 2 different groups of people... The Trans Atlantic slave trade did not happen as we were told
@willowwale2000
@willowwale2000 4 часа назад
You do not know what you are talking about. These photos are not what you think they are about
@timothymyers735
@timothymyers735 5 часов назад
America was taken from people of color by palm colored people
@Haseeb2Forever
@Haseeb2Forever 5 часов назад
I think the glaring elephant in the room here is "social exclusion". The Jews were socially excluded in WW2. The Africans were socially excluded in slavery and Jim Crow Segregation. The Africans were socially excluded by apartheid in South Africa. Now the Palestinians are being socially excluded by the Israeli Government. The difference between the later and the others is that the oppressors came to realize that social exclusion does not work. All it does is enrage the people you are excluding..
@user-sf3cq2yb7c
@user-sf3cq2yb7c 5 часов назад
Yow turned it into a giant Argentina .
@HairHoFla
@HairHoFla 5 часов назад
My grandma was only half- Cherokee...born in the Carolina's 1888
@bridgetveralidaine3761
@bridgetveralidaine3761 5 часов назад
I had an ancestor that came over, not on the Mayflower, but one of the first ships to land at Jamestown. She was an indentured servant. And she ended up marrying another indentured servant at the colony.... who was a native. Another ancestor, nearly 200 years later in New Hampshire, had been pleading with the judge to allow her to leave her abusive husband. Her brother-in-law had even testified on her behalf, but the judge would not allow it. She, and a couple of her children were captured by natives at Oyster River. She chose to never return to her husband and stayed with them for a time before being sold to the French in Canada as a servant, where she eventually remarried. History is wild.
@DTD110865
@DTD110865 5 часов назад
The false notion of desegregation as communism gave the fight against communism a big black eye. Because it gave people the false impression that everybody who was against communist tyranny was automatically a racist.
@MrBenbaruch
@MrBenbaruch 6 часов назад
I am Jewish, the holocaust was real but people still deny it. Thats the mentality of those who do not want the history of Jim Crow taught or how much land was stolen from indigenous people, because they want to continue to do it those in power that is. Read Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow. I hope that helps.
@rodneyoneal8428
@rodneyoneal8428 6 часов назад
Thank you so much for everything you are doing young lady you and your family be bless and stay safe ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@barbaraayarza5352
@barbaraayarza5352 6 часов назад
I just had an epiphany.... Every President in the last 150 years or more was alive during Jim crow/segregation. I wonder how things will change once every person that experienced it first hand is no longer living. When our country only consists of people who have only known diversity in life. Will they continue to focus on color, race, or ethnicity. Stop dividing and excluding. Stop checking boxes. Maybe we can all just be people.
@atlaskinzel6560
@atlaskinzel6560 6 часов назад
You had that recent conversation with the Russian-American guy from NY and I remember you were talking about how you didn't like the idea of the government getting into people's private lives. Desegregation directly required this, which is why the people are claiming it's "communist" aka "big government".
@nytn
@nytn 6 часов назад
I thought about this a bit actually after filming today's video. I consider the desegregation undoing what the government originally did (segregating) but, what you said makes sense
@user-by2dk9ns8s
@user-by2dk9ns8s 6 часов назад
First of all, you are doing a great job on this channel and you have a unique persepective as a person trying to connect to a hidden legacy. As to your images in this video, I recommend you watch the series and read the book on Eyes on the Prize about the Civil Rights Movement. Many of the stills you have here have video to them so you can see the actual events you have photos of in Eyes on the Prize! You can see the Governor barring the door, see the water hoses washing children down the streets at full force and see dogs mauling young Black people. You can see the firebombed bus and see the brutal violence at the Pettus bridge where they beat protestors. You can see the menacing crowds trying to harm those Black babies going to school--it is a great documentary and should be required viewing to teach Black history. There is a movement on currently to try to erase Black History and that is because it puts too many people alive today and their ancestors in a bad light and also teaching and showing Black history brings up the Reparations argument. The powers that be have billions for Ukraine and money to depopulate Gaza but they claim there are no funds for Reparations for Black Americans or Native Americans even though a lot of what happened was not so long ago. BTW, father, mother and sister went through plenty of segregation incidents. My father, who recently died, actually was run out of a small Upper South town by the KKK his last year of high school. With the help of a local sheriff's deputy, my dad escaped with his life. My dad said he was so glad he lived to see a Black president--he said it was unbelievable how times have changed for the better.
@evelynclark3926
@evelynclark3926 6 часов назад
I'm a black woman over 74 years old I grew up Chicago in a all black community. Been through Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, H Rap Brown, Stockley Carmichael We saw on TV blacks in the south of Blacks being physical and emotional abused. The police put German Shepherd dogs and fire hose the police were using their sticks beating unarmed blacks in the head with intent to kill. On the news we witnessed the hate of WS. I wanted to join the groups but my parents refused to let go. But I remember when Dr. King was ass murdered and the West side of Chicago riotsted day and night. And I became fearful about going down south George Wallace was a bigot something happened to him medicaly he ended up in a wheelchair and he died I think he had a stroke. But blacks are still being selected via police and beaten. As an young adult I experienced racism which left me hating WS.
@nytn
@nytn 6 часов назад
That is so much trauma, both collective and personal. I am so sorry.
@selinaBARMAR2565
@selinaBARMAR2565 6 часов назад
This is true history. Yes, many of us are here from mixing; all kinds of mixing whether it was ancestors voluntarily choosing a partner from another race/ethnic background or it was forced upon them. In fact, humanity overall has been mixing. Yet, there's a difference too when you are the offspring of family members willfully having interracial offspring. I think Danielle for you you feel as if you are in the crossfires of a very dark and painful history in the United States of racial injustice because you fall somewhere in the middle racially yourself. Back then this racial segregation was directed towards African-Americans, and I imagine all others in between the shades of White and Black who were seen as the other. No it wasn't the Christianity of the Bible to segregate public spaces. Christianity is birthed in the Middle East and spread by converted Jews. Jesus belonged to the lineage of Shem (Asiatic). Not that the color of Jesus matters to His true followers because it shouldn't; His color didn't redeem us, it is His BLOOD. Yes, it was about color on some levels, but going deeper it seems to be about preserving the so-called "purity" of what it meant to be a true American, (white Anglo-Saxon) and that includes to me the idealogy of what it meant to also be a Christian, which I call religion instead of a relationship with our Savior. But of course, I can't sit here and judge everyone's heart back then can I, because I do believe that there were many true Christians who didn't have much of a voice then, who were oppossed to segregation. All of us others were made to feel like foreigners! To an extent depending on the circumstances or location in the U.S.A., we still do. My African ancestors were considered foreigners, my Native American ancestors were counted as foreigners (my oldest ancestors on record in the Americas), and my Catholic Irish ancestors fleeing to NYC from persecution in Ireland it took them a while to fully be respected as Americans too, and my Puerto Rican heritage isn't white protestant Anglo-Saxon, European roots, but not Anglo so no pass there either. My Irish grandmother married a Jamaican man in NYC around in the 70s, (not my grandpa) he was also the "other" though, more like Mestizo. She didn't care, so I'm here (lol). What a mess the racial history of this country. But we made it this far, and I believe we do have further to go.
@kaleahcollins4567
@kaleahcollins4567 6 часов назад
Yes her maternal lineage is Africa she is literally related to Angela Bassett
@Beetwate305
@Beetwate305 7 часов назад
History is like kryptonite to these FBA fools!
@MA-yh2ko
@MA-yh2ko 7 часов назад
The overwhelming Black American population has been here waaaaay longer than the majority of white Americans.
@RhondaRachel2003
@RhondaRachel2003 7 часов назад
I’m only a partial way through your video, which is heartbreaking, but to answer your question about why white people don’t want to talk about the racist history of our country is just guilt, pure and simple. No one likes a finger pointing at them, saying you did these horrible things. that’s why they become defensive and pushback. there’s nowhere to hide and there’s no good excuse for it. And actually that a natural human reaction to guilt. Think about it, you don’t wanna talk about it, you don’t want anybody else to talk about it. Try to find excuses for it. Blah blah blah. I’ll be quiet now.
@rileyriley2313
@rileyriley2313 7 часов назад
Many of these people are still alive. Many of them think this part of history was 200 yrs ago. These people don’t want to admit many in their family are hateful. I could say so much. When you build a country with trash you can’t get diamonds 🤷🏾‍♀️
@Rn-pp9et
@Rn-pp9et 7 часов назад
"Not so much I disagree with my idea that nations should have ethnic states..." Aren't nations, ethnic states by implication. You are not Swedish because you live in Sweden, but rather the other way around. Swedes settled in land they called Sweden. In effect to be a Swede you need to be a direct descendent of those people. Only in the last few decades (since globalisation) is this idea of a multi-ethnic/cultural state being promoted, even though there has never been a successful one in the history of our species. The US was a white ethnic state until the 1960s?
@misstriciaskitchen8640
@misstriciaskitchen8640 7 часов назад
It bothers me when people act like this was so long ago and we should just forget about it. I’m 66 years old. I lived through this in Georgia. I went to segregated school, drank from the segregated fountain, used the colored bathroom, the colored waiting room at the doctors office, had to go in the back door at the dentists office. Our schools didn’t integrate until 1970. I was the first black person to work in the office of the largest employer in town in 1980. It wasn’t that long ago and I haven’t forgotten any of it and those are just a few instances, some of them were very painful.
@ronisley3001
@ronisley3001 7 часов назад
As an black American I appreciate your channel you shed like on how ignorant we are as a country when it comes to identity
@nyieshahopkins6700
@nyieshahopkins6700 7 часов назад
My great aunt is apart of the Norfolk 17 in the tidewater Va area. Betty Jean Kea integrated Granby High school with the help of Military Police in the early 1960’s. There was no school for a year prior just to keep black people out. The churches came together and educated children and trained them on how to behave before integrating. The whole family sacrificed during that time. She is still alive and has one son who takes wonderful care of her. My mother was a little girl at the time. I hope you do more stories like this.
@rickjohnson3073
@rickjohnson3073 7 часов назад
I grew up in Virginia, born in 1963. Although The Brown vs Topeka Board of Education decision was rendered in 1954, schools in VA were note desegregated until 1971. I was discussing history with my 10 year old grandson. He was shocked to learn I'd actually gone to segregated schools. People seem to think segregation was so long ago. I remember it well.
@misstriciaskitchen8640
@misstriciaskitchen8640 7 часов назад
I’m 66 years old and grew up in Georgia. My 17 year old granddaughter is always amazed to hear about these injustices. Our kids and grandkids think it was so long ago. I make sure to tell her i went to segregated school and experienced all of that.
@krono5el
@krono5el 7 часов назад
We'll never forget about Bull Conners.
@katerinaxatzi8551
@katerinaxatzi8551 7 часов назад
Tourists go to Greece in the summer for vacations, and because Greeks like to sunbathe and spend most of their time outdoors, they think this is their skin color, all year round!!! Also on the islands most are fishermen and people who work in the countryside and in open spaces and because there is a lot of sunshine it is natural that they are sunburned and not black!!!