I am so blessed my mum was able to come home with my father to the states. My heart goes out to these war babies. What our countries did to the children and the parents is evil, and I hope in some way those responsible are paying for it in the after life. My dads CO approved their marriage and it was still illegal in 17 states when they came here to the states. Mum won’t even travel to Texas because how my dad was treated at the airforce base when he enlisted even though two of my nephew's went to basic training there, she did not go to their graduations. Her feeling run deep on issues or racism and bigotry. Dad grew up with it, and just shrugged it off. Bless his heart and may he rest in heaven.
England treated them no better. They both owe. Of course, all of them are in their 80's now. How many are still left alive? don't forget too many of their mothers gave them up because of the prejudice in England. However, I do believe the women who kept their children would have married their Black American boyfriends if allowed, but others, no. Otherwise, they would have never given up their children no matter how badly they were treated. Plus, don't forget back then Britian was beholden to the USA. Their abdicated king had worked with the Nazi regime to help them win the war. The UK government was well aware they would not have defeated Hitler without D-Day in France, which was led by American troops and many Americans died in the D Day operation including my uncle who was only 21 years old. America's real beef in that war was with Japan that had attacked Pearl Haorbor but yet many troops were sent to Europe because Japan was aligned with the nazis. but you have to let all of that too I grew up near an army base. I grew up with kids with American fathers whose mothers were German and Japanese, but these kids were still American. I saw them treated badly simply because of whom their mothers were. Especially the kids with Japanese mothers as they could not hide it. the kids with German mothers could "blend in." better.
Ironically too I also went to school with Black American kids with German and Japanese mothers. I can only assume that policy was dropped post war. Oh and plenty of kids with Korean mothers too with both white and Black American fathers. so I guess that policy was scratched during the Korean war.
Those of us not "mixed race" would have liked to know as well... I was in a fortunate position as my Mom & Dad were married & his name & number were on my Birth Cert. Sadly though, when Dad sent Mom her HMS Georgic ticket after returning to the States a year after marriage, she was in early pregnancy & not very well. Six days at sea felt daunting to her (no cheap fast easy flights back then or even abilities to make a phone call as the expense was far too high) Communication got muddled, the US Government refused to "delay" tickets, so like others, Mum never made it over.. Most Kinders were raised in single parent families. Most of us felt we were the only ones in that situation & it is a feeling of loss we have to learn to live with all our lives!! I also have to say the US Embassy & National Personnel Records etc were *not helpful in reuniting families!!
As a young GI my self, I was 20 stationed on a Air force base in Britain in the early 2000's ... I was doing base security at the gates and can remember all the car loads of British girls that would come back from the clubs with the black men from the clubs. I remember going to the clubs my self during leave and it was like I didn't even exist, they only wanted the black ones. When I cam back to the sates to go to collage it was the same deal at bemidji state university ... This was in my 20's, this was a vary lonely, empty, time in my life, I felt vary unwanted !
I’m from Australia and it’s almost the same thing with the US Military. Black men were just more confident and bold approaching us women. Most of my friends would hang out in groups, most black guys were not relationship material cause we knew they out again to another port 😆.
Those children must of had it really hard as after World War Two the British didn’t want blacks coming here from the West Indies things is we don’t have segregation and Jim Crow here and black people have been in the uk in small amounts for hundreds of years until Queen Elizabeth the first told them to leave
They are beautiful women. I recall a black serviceman and his wife adopting his war child. She could not have children, and it ended up beautifully. Last I heard, he enlisted and married a German woman.
@VixieRain We need ya come a little higher on this one. More than likely these GIs had Black Mamas. What OG Black Grandma wouldn't be tryg to find a way to love on their "grandchile" if they knew they existed, esp. knowing all they been thru? Besides, the GIs families have been sources of healing for many of those brown babies that've been able to actually trace their paternal roots as evidenced in other videos. Just sayin'...
