Eartha Kitt’s Biracial Daughter Kitt Shapiro Is Tired Of People Questioning Her Race 

I agree

She looks NOTHING like her 'Mom'! Different height,bone structure,hair,facial features-Nothing!

@@keresahalstead1306 What? She is white

Eartha kitt was bi racial that’s why her daughter is so fair skinned she’s only 1/4 black

@`keresa halstead I so wanted to say that, but being pasty, I decided not. I always tease my friend about that as she is now 80 and still just fabulous

Who would play her?

@@stephaniepeebles8142 Adrienne Warren!! 😊

@@Designinganewme oh wow! You are so right!!! I say we petition this!!!

Maybe her family don't want her life exposed like that. You see how her daughter is being treated. Ppl want a movie about her life to have comments

@@stephaniepeebles8142 Thandie Newton. Hands down

Me too, very good interview.

Exactly!

If we let go of the one drop rule, then 90% of black Americans wouldn't be black. Black Americans are multiracial people. Michelle Obama isn't African American but black American. She has Irish, American Indian ancestry.

Yes! The one-drop rule is not genetic.

No she was not biracial. She made that up cause she wanted to be half white. Anyway, she was smart, beautiful and a true role model.

@@mirquellasantos2716 We will never truly know.

I only have white children but my daughter is 5'2 and she has blonde hair and blue eyes. She's got huge breasts and and the cutest butt. I'm 5'7" brown hair and brown eyes flat chested and no butt. When you look at us side by side we look nothing alike yet my other daughter looks exactly like me so I think it's extremely amazing how our genes work...

In my family . We all look the same.

@@amandarickert7789 maybe daughter on dads side family

WHY THESE BLKS CONSTANTLY TALKINC BOUT RCE???? YALL KNOW THEM PEEPS WHO QUESTIONED HER WERE PROB BLK....LETS ALL KEEP IT REAL WITH THE COLORISM WITH BLK PEEPS.

Yes, ignorant people will stay ignorant always. My boys are blonde hair and blue eyes and I am a POC. When they were little and walking next to me, I would observe people looking at them nervously as if they were lost and obviously not walking right next to their mom. Got used to just saying , “don’t worry, I’m mom”!

You are right From the moment I saw her speak about her life I realized she was a kindred spirit and family!

No she not

Their smiles look very similar, they both have wide mouths with pronounced smile lines and sharp cheek bones, it's not obvious but she clearly has stuff from her mom

And if she wasn't claiming her that would be another story. You just can't win with human beings.

How are those extremely hurtful comments??? They are normal questions. Her image just sparked natural curiosity. It sounds like extreme sensitivity to human nature...

Some people are amazingly ignorant.

@@flo-dd5sw She's been passing for White all her life. Not many people even knew about her when her Mom was Alive. Glad she's now this late in life standing up and owning her Blackness.

@@sarai373 *_That's the Problem she is JUST NOW claiming her Mother all over Social Media now that she's gone. She's been passing for White all her life._* None of those comments are Hurtful. People are Curious. She needs to tell them the truth that she's 25% Black with a Mixed Mon & White dad and that's why she looks so White.

Absolutely ❤

She has always looked like her mom to me

@@donnawilliams3872 Nah

@@sharonlee4773 In fact, if you look at the eyes and much of the facial structure --- yes, it is apparent! I also see the Irish. For those of you who don't know, this is called hybridization, and it almost always improves. . .

Absolutely. Kitt could have easily just stayed quiet and blended in but she chose to speak up

@@blackmagic6 Hush up. Stop creating division in the Negro community. Her mother was a grown woman. She gave birth to a mulotta daughter. During Slavery many of the female ancestors gave birth to mulotta boy's and daughters. Know the history of our people. 🌑⚫🖤🤎💛

Classy?

Amen

She looks just like her mom to me.

@@moniquewrites9046 I agree! She does look like her!

I can’t believe how young she looks. She’s one year younger than me, and wow she makes me look bad. I thought she was in her 40 s.

Cool story!!❤

My favorite too spoken from one cat to another!

Thank U for that, didn't know this detail. Wondering if it's possible to translate the song Waray Waray today with accuracy.

She was also a basterd like me, an unwanted child. We are a majority!

What book?

And? Did anybody care about your skin tone in Paris? I don't think so. Except yourselves, maybe.

Beautiful story❤❤ n phuck these haters

Oh my goodness. What an honor!

@@hermanubis7046Be quiet

Even her husky voice is similar!

It's not "uneducated" they are educated alright, educated in racism, it's a learned behavior.

Very Well Said! 😊💜

Uhhhhh...that's a Caucasian woman - nothing wrong with that, but Kitt Shapiro is basically white. Embrace it!!

I heard her say he was a German man,they tend to 've strong features,, she did pick cotton in the south Just bzz u thought slavery official ended in 1865 did not mean compliance...Texas, Kentucky were resistant di mot when want to tell blk fks they were free ..ho study Juneteen

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Eartha was no beauty queen and neither is that daughter.

Drop the mic! Best comment of ALL times. You damn right she don't owe No One an explanation! We all should find better things to do with our time than to be poking at this woman as some lab experiment! People are just people, people!!!

Yes

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Her daughter has the exact same voice almost,but I hear Eartha Kitt

That's facts

I feel the same.

💖🏆🕊

Watch Eartha and her daughter on Sally R. in 1990. Be inspired by her past. She’s a conqueror!

@@theresa467 Thanks🏆

yawn...she is a "suburbanite" doormat too...

She does. Same facial features.

@@shay5839 no, she looks like her dad! She hardly resembles Eartha but there's nothing wrong with that!

@@gloriaortiz1227 I think the cheeks are Eartha’s. Her mannerisms are definitely Eartha’s.

@@shay5839 Especially the eyes.

Eartha herself is biracial

What is a jaded person

@@andreajones6613 understanding the topic all too well because of personal experiences

@@shable1436 ok

@@shable1436 Thank you so much for that definition of 'Jaded" as it relates to people. I guess that we are all "JADED" people when it comes to understanding of racist practices..😂

@@andreajones6613 have you never heard of Google??? Look it up

Yes,blacks will

@@bullet5596 Agreed!!!

@Saga Yes, some will definitely try.

Ok but at the end of the day this daughter is WHITE! This lady is primarily white with a tiny black DNA part! Genetics are a mixed bag especially concerning mixed people. I'll explain - black people in the US are unfortunately mixed with white because of the atrocious history of slavery and that's why black people in the US in general are a bit lighter than people from Africa. And Eartha clearly had a lot of white genes mixed in as was evidenced by light/mid tone skin color. And when a baby is made genes aren't passed down 50-50 it is literally random for example let's say one parent is from Africa/Egyptian ancestry and the other parent is from Native American and Japanese ancestry, you might think that the baby would get DNA from all of those! And they might get a bit from each, BUT it could also be random where they get a lot of African ancestry, a lot of Native American ancestry a little Japanese ancestry and zero Egyptian ancestry, and then a sibling with the same parents might get the Egyptian ancestry but zero Japanese ancestry even though they have the same parents! It also depends on how much ancestry the parents have themselves. If a person has 50 % African DNA and 50% Native American DNA then their child can have any percentage of those ancestries that add up to 50% from that parent but no more than 50% and Eartha clearly is not 100% black and is mixed with white and then this woman on the show clearly got the white genes and that's totally fine and whatever but she can't go around claiming that she's black - at least not by DNA. She can do a DNA test and figure out the actual small percentage of black DNA she got from Eartha and the white DNA she got from Eartha and her white father and the fact is she's mainly white with a bit of black DNA. She might be culturally African American but she's definitely not primarily black in regards to DNA. She clearly has white features and she needs to stop trying to erase actual black people with black features by trying to demand that her primarily white DNA genes be "recognized" as "black" 🙄

Oh well. She is white passing by society and y’all need to accept that.

She looks like her too! The more I look at her I see Eartha

Absolutely she looks fantastic and definitely has her mother’s eyes

Agreed . I wasn't surprised it was people in this new Tik Tok age who questioned her because Kitt was always with her mom . Nothing new that she looks like this .

Right their faces are practically identical

She looks mixed

It's not December until I hear "...Tonight"

I think she sounds a lot like her mom....

It came out in Christmas 1953😋 I'd like a 54 convertible light blue

I like when she played in boomerang with Eddie Murphy and Grace Jones... Eartha Kitt you can tell that her daughter looks just like her mom

Like when she visited south Africa and did shows, her and her daughter went to amusement park and the white only signs were up and they told Eartha she couldn't get on ride with her daughter. Her daughter started flipping out, and Eartha said now's not the time, you will know when it's the time. So later on there was a school opening ceremony ribbon cutting and Eartha had done benefit for it, and the press was there, crowd was there and the donators we're there one being that park owner, and when Eartha found out, she nodded at her daughter like this is the time. So she got on the mic and told the story of what happened, and he got so embarrassed and promised that it would never happen again, so Eartha said so you promise, and he said he would do anything he could, so she said how about doubling your donation and opening up another school in twice the time, and he said of course anything he could do to make up for what happened. This teaching Kitt about not screaming and reacting in public but choosing the correct most effective for change time to bring up things. Btw he insisted they come back to park next day, and all the white only signs were gone, and the park was open to everyone all rides equal

@@shable1436 Yes! And she invited students from the schools who were not white to join in the fun at that park. Love her!

Same face is a major stretch

Yeah, similar bone structure in the face...

She's still not black tho.

@@Xara_K1 And to a Black African, you ain't Black either...

@@Xara_K1 You missed the point, but that's okay. 🤦👌🏿

@Randy Watts Same as you I had one of the greatest privileges to see Eartha Kitt starring in the musical stage play in "TIMBUKTU" on New Years Eve December 31st 1978 at the "Pantages Theater" on Hollywood Blvd, in Hollywood, California, approximately one month before I was promoted to (Permanent Deputy Probation officer in Los Angeles County) after being a "As Needed" non permanent officer for the previous year.. My beautiful ex-wife and I were sitting in the audience approximately 10 rows from the stage when the curtains opened, and out came Ms. Kitt being carried high on some type of decorative board by several strongly built Black males as if she was a a great queen. After they lowered the board down so that she could get off, that was when she stood up very boldly, and said in a very sexy manner "WELCOME TO, TIMBUCTOO", and the crowd started this enormous clapping for several seconds before the show began to continue. That moment still seem just like yesterday to me because I was only in my 20's, desperately in need of a permanent job career to start my young life as a professional adult.. By the way, I am originally from a small Northeast Louisiana town in Madison Parish just across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg.. later bro 🙏

Lucky you. Ms. Kitt was a unique, talented & strong artist/humanitarian.

@@Muhdah1972 Yes. I had the privilege of witnessing Eartha Kitt's star quality talents. I've carried that special experience with me since 1977, And I'm so appreciative of her talents and her sharing those talents with the world....and with me. I never met her personally...but I experienced one of the greatest stars of the 20th century stage and screen! An experience I will carry with me forever!

@@etruscancivilization When I saw Ms. Kitt in Timbuktu she started off stage ( stage right ) with her purring, " I..........m ' You could not see her. She was carried ON stage to the front center...on the shoulder of the BIGGEST black body builder I have ever seen in my life. The man was the size of an adult Bigfoot on steroids! As she arrived on Center Stage, the man carrying her knelt down and several more black body builders knelt before Ms. Kitt and she stepped off of the shoulder of the huge man, and the successive males each lowered her as she stepped onto their backs one at a time ...and all the while she was purring her, "Im...........HEAR" as she stepped off of the back of the last "slave." The woman KNEW how to make an entrance!!! Ms. Kitt simply stood motionless in front of HER audience and did not move a muscle. She held the audience captive with her EYES! Eartha Kitt's eyes must have been the size of dinner plates. ONLY a star of her magnitude can stand on a stage and control the entire audience with her eyes. That ability cannot be taught. It cannot be learned. It simply IS. And Ms. Kitt WAS a mega star and her light will forever shine brightly in the sky. And I am one of the most fortunate people in the world....as were YOU...to have had the opportunity to have been in her presence and to have experienced her persona. Thank YOU for sharing your experience!

@@rwatts2155 Thank you too, and what an everlasting experience to remember..

Yes, she never held back!

She’s my fourth cousin I’m related to eartha kitt

That’s why you shouldn’t mix races, it fucks up the kids

She looks part black you can see it ..

She doesn't look black she looks white like her father her mother isn't black she's biracial be reported mainly not black stop putting his people as black when they're not

Lol, I was like I knew that was her lol.

Leans in to Eddie Murphys ear: "I'm not wearing any panties" lol.

@@brittneyfinch5990 😂

I know., right?

😂😂😂

Eartha was a classy lady.

🙏🏽

You were stared at and given drama because you were black you could have been anybody else but because that part of you of being black was so in people's face that is where the time I came in and for black people it was a part of them that they could access for a better life in society or at least a potential better life in society that they thought that you could access.

@s.o.s. diy repair everyone’s life experience is different. I’m glad you didn’t have to go through the things I did. God bless

good for you.. don't let ignorant attitudes get you down.. stick with the winners - positive uplifting loving supportive fun & open-minded people!

Maybe they stare because you are so beautiful..

Absolutely 💯 facts.

They call Eartha interesting. Same people who called Sammy Davis and Quincy Jones 'sellouts'. Funny how that works.

Agreed

Black people have two black parents. Mixed people do not. You can identify as an alien from outer space but that doesn’t make you one.

God Bless You.... That happens all the time ! There was a Black Woman in her 40s on Judge Milian... she was still BEGGING her Iranian Grandmother to accept her ! In 2019 ! She wouldn't budge off her Racism against her own Grand Daughter !

You are not black, you are biracial

Myself, even though I mever met my White nor Native American relatives, I still identify as Mixed. Some things about me gets me in touch with Black, some things gets me in touch with Native American, especially my love of wearing my hair straight, and there are things that gets me in touch with White, especially most my boyfriends I ever dated are White.

Hmm so yte women can make black kids? I didn’t know blk women weren’t needed to make themselves. Being mixed is not about choosing a side. You just happen to be both.

It's very frustrating in now 2023 this is still going on 😔 I saw on Tik Tok a fair skinned Filipino being basically called a liar because she didn't look what people thought she should look like. It was really sad. No one should have to prove who they are to anyone. My daughter is biracial we have had to deal with this her whole life

Yes, I agree with you and light should also shine on the fact that millions of AA/Black people are biracial from Slavery(rape) and various unions also and multi-ethnic regardless of their skin tone. Dr. Henry Louis Gates is 50% white even though his parents and grandparents were considered AA/Black. The majority of Black Americans have 10-50% or more white ancestry and it can be seen in their appearance and with DNA tests. Biracial only means that someone is of two different ethnic groups and there are many AA/Black people with some Native American and or Asian ancestors as well.

@@sharnab3032 Your first problem is looking to Tik Tok. Your second problem is giving power to a bunch of random people. Being biracial is nothing special. The media only made it special when Obama was made President and that was on purpose. Why? Because the Black population among Black Americans were growing, while the White population was shrinking. So to tailor it for the 2010 census, that made "biracial/multiracial" into some new race at the stroke of a pen. It's called "divide and conquer." The same way they boost the white population to 70%, they include everyone non-Black from Latin America as "white" to give the appearance of numerical superiority. If they showed the real numbers, you would see drastic changes. It would be like a pit bull realizing they are stronger than their owner. Overall, they don't want children with a Black parent identifying as Black anymore. They are trying to build a "mixed" community that will act as surrogates. And here's the kicker: To deny Black people, White society will prop you up out of spite, so even though someone is Black and (fill in the blank), you (assuming you have a Black parent) is only Black in their (White) eyes when it's politically and economically convenient to say so. (First Black President, First Black Vice President, etc). They are using you and even my own kids (Black/White) as social props.

It has to be harder for her daughter Rachel to also say Eartha Kitt is her grandmother because her father is white as well so her features are really fair skin

Same. I'm happy to be biracial. I'd hate to see what will happen to my future kids if I marry someone who's not a minority. At least in other people's minds, they'll lose their connection to their Latino heritage and family. Everyone will say they're white alone. It's wonderful to be mixed!

It does not make her black, she is biracial. Biracial people are not black peoples, no matter how you all sliced and diced it. Why aren’t white people claiming them as white? No no grab and worship anything that is not black🙄🙄

Facts🙌🏽

You ain't lying

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thank you!

I'm mixed race, grew up in S Africa. I was teased bc of my fair skin tone, my siblings are darker. People are quite judgmental.

@@truezladye1893 it’s funny, for me it was the opposite! Was born and grew up in Europe at a time when there were not many blacks, let alone biracial people. People would always ask me why I didn’t look more white or even sometimes question if I was telling the truth. 🙄

@@truezladye1893 exactly 💯. By the way. Circulate petition's to have the stolen Diamonds and Artifact's removed from the British museum 🖼️💎. #starofafrica 🇿🇦 . There are petition's currently in circulation. 8k signatures.

Amen..It does not matter what color she is.

@@chelelinda6062 And some People are just plain foolish 🙄 just stay true to who you are and you will be OK 🙂

This happens with my 10 year old daughter! And then I have to remind people 52 percent of my own DNA comes straight outta Afrika.

@@MelissaLaura8989 in other words you are biracial

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THIS!!

Well dang!

@Laurie Tijerina Time really does seem to fly..

I'm biracial & my daughter is 3/4 with beautiful skin & 4C hair. Due to illness my skin turned white & I lost my beautiful curls. People think we're either friends or girlfriends, never that I'm her mom. Its funny watching people backtrack & try to say how much we look alike.Nope, shes her dads total clone, its freaky😆

I feel ya. Colorism is real.

Hella people ‘passed’ back in the day and have even kept those mindsets and efforts to have their families remain that way even today. My brother in law and his siblings are biracial. Some of their spouses are black and others white, so all of their kids phenotypes range anywhere from looking mixed to looking white.

It's very annoying, people are very ignorant.

Ok but at the end of the day this daughter is WHITE! This lady is primarily white with a tiny black DNA part! Genetics are a mixed bag especially concerning mixed people. I'll explain - black people in the US are unfortunately mixed with white because of the atrocious history of slavery and that's why black people in the US in general are a bit lighter than people from Africa. And Eartha clearly had a lot of white genes mixed in as was evidenced by light/mid tone skin color. And when a baby is made genes aren't passed down 50-50 it is literally random for example let's say one parent is from Africa/Egyptian ancestry and the other parent is from Native American and Japanese ancestry, you might think that the baby would get DNA from all of those! And they might get a bit from each, BUT it could also be random where they get a lot of African ancestry, a lot of Native American ancestry a little Japanese ancestry and zero Egyptian ancestry, and then a sibling with the same parents might get the Egyptian ancestry but zero Japanese ancestry even though they have the same parents! It also depends on how much ancestry the parents have themselves. If a person has 50 % African DNA and 50% Native American DNA then their child can have any percentage of those ancestries that add up to 50% from that parent but no more than 50% and Eartha clearly is not 100% black and is mixed with white and then this woman on the show clearly got the white genes and that's totally fine and whatever but she can't go around claiming that she's black - at least not by DNA. She can do a DNA test and figure out the actual small percentage of black DNA she got from Eartha and the white DNA she got from Eartha and her white father and the fact is she's mainly white with a bit of black DNA. She might be culturally African American but she's definitely not primarily black in regards to DNA. She clearly has white features and she needs to stop trying to erase actual black people with black features by trying to demand that her primarily white DNA genes be "recognized" as "black" 🙄

Eartha Kitt wrote a book as well, “Thursday Child”. Learned of this by watching Eartha on Sally 1990 show. Please watch! Be inspired, she’s a conqueror. We’re SO strong!

Hi Sarah. Eartha Kitt played the voice of Yzma in the emperor's new groove movie and TV show. Maybe you remember her that way.

You had a wonderful stand up Father ! :)

You are beautiful just as your mom ❤️ Thanks for sharing and teaching us love has no color. God is love

It's because, of the Spanish ancestry Possibly. If your mom was a German with platinum blonde hair, you could present lighter, and have white children

NYC wasn't the south

👏 damn right

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So rude

This is nothing new...especially in the south. Ignorant people just want to get a rise out of u sometimes. Don't answer them.

What? They said that to your face? 😲🙁😑

My mother went through this in the 1960s and 70s as well with us.

That must get annoying