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Megyn Kelly TODAY welcomes Gail Lukasik, whose book, “White Like Her,” recounts how she uncovered her mother’s secret: that she was keeping her mixed-race heritage hidden even from her own husband. She recounts her mother’s reaction: “Promise me you will never tell anyone until after I die.”
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Meet The Woman Who Learned That Her Mother Passed As White | Megyn Kelly TODAY

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@esther1536 3 года назад

The fact the racist dad married a women who was mixed raced and didn’t know but still loved her shows the pointlessness of racism 😂

@AskBibleNotes 3 года назад

Seriously 😫😅😂😂😂

@lilnarm_smoothblaze 3 года назад

Right?!🤣🤣🤣

@morganbarker3781 3 года назад

for real

@flatearth9140 3 года назад

RACISM ISNT POINTLESS !!

@esther1536 3 года назад

FLAT EARTH disliking someone purely because of the colour of their skin and not because of their personality or traits seems extremely pointless to me

@Mokky03 3 года назад

She wasn't wearing makeup to look good at the hospital, she was wearing makeup so she could get treated at the hospital.

@kimberlyshaver5015 3 года назад

No she in all actuality she probably wore light makeup to bed was because the moisturizer in those days had strong lighteners in them, one's that are banned now because they were so strong. It wasn't abnormal for woman to want that very bisque, porcelain look so I don't think it was so much that because she definitely looking white in all other ways!

@carolynnapier4981 3 года назад

She doesn’t look Col. or B. I look more col. than she does. DNA.

@LadyNerisa 3 года назад

As soon as I read it....it was occurring the same time.

@Chutney1luv 3 года назад

@NSA This is the day of Covid! Treatment at the hospital is the same for everyone! Stay home, if you can!😷

@DVD927 3 года назад

Exactly. I think many people are overly judgmental of her mother...it was extremely painful for her to go through life hiding. She gave up a lot in a trade that she should’ve never had to feel she needed to make. “She never could be her truly authentic self,” as her daughter says. It’s tragic.

@acmcbride-olson9320 Год назад

It’s important to remember that this woman’s mother didn’t just pass, she escaped life as a black personality in the Jim Crow South. That’s huge. It’s also heartbreaking and courageous.

@daisychain3007 Год назад

Jim Scarecrow's laws caused a lot of misery in America's Deep South at that time.

@lakittawoods7457 Год назад

Courageous?????

@ACms-zn9ni Год назад

Yes it is, she had to leave all of her loved ones, reject her ancestors, deal with everyday challenges and for sure the anxiety that comes with it. It may not fit everyone’s values but she but she did what she had to do with her ressources to live a better life in this time and place

@newsome280 Год назад

It's cowardly lol

@limerickman8512 Год назад

The fact they vote Democrats is also telling in keeping up with their racism. Democrats had one drop of racism rule. More racist than the 1/4 racism rule that nazi had.

@candicemcneil5854 Год назад

the white woman behind her in the purple feels everything this woman is saying. the guilt, the grief, the sadness... all of it.

@almondkissed3794 Год назад

I noticed that too

@colevandais Год назад

So maybe in USA she felt white people had more opportunities. So she was trying to have a better life. I'm in South Africa so would be better to pass as black. But I can't seem to get away with that and get more opportunities. Anyway, I appreciate peaple telling their authentic stories because it helps us learn and have more understanding and compassion for each other and the insecurities plus perceived and real life situations

@Chocolateicecreamm Год назад

Man she was cracking me up 😂 she’s so invested

@jadenquinn4493 Год назад

💀she did not

@xana7078 Год назад

She is a bubble head 😂

@nserasera 3 года назад

she just glossed over the fact that she pretended to be her mother to get the birth certificate. savage and worth it

@done1852 3 года назад

White privilege

@jsiwjdik23fc 3 года назад

Donnell Evans How does that play into white privilege

@noahgatlin8162 3 года назад

That’s scary that people can get your birth certificate easily like that

@pixierxbo2221 3 года назад

Jd Bryant it doesn’t LFMAOFJWHFW

@tierrathetitan5253 3 года назад

I thought the same thing lol. She said it so passively like it’s okay to do in order to get answers 😂

@ghostie7790 3 года назад

"My mom was this absolutley stunning, beautiful woman." "My dad... He had a good sense of humor." LOL

@samanthasy9290 3 года назад

She basically called her father ugly lmaoooo

@woezacardoza5659 3 года назад

Lol

@woezacardoza5659 3 года назад

@@samanthasy9290 let guess because she was black your people a joke the mom was better looking cuz she was half white

@RomanZolanski123 3 года назад

Ward Cleaver bruh that comment was clearly not racist plenty of people would say that about their dads

@starrynight5207 3 года назад

I NOTICED THAT TOO ASDFSKJDJ

@AphroditeLee 9 месяцев назад

My mother's family were all "passing" when my mother was born... my mom was too dark skinned to pass so when she was around 7 years old her family abandoned her in Maryland. Just left her in a foreign state. Alone. Before they abandoned her they treated her like a "found child" that they were taking care of... even now whenever I think about this it breaks my heart.

@adonyisrael1724 24 дня назад

😮😮😮

@lorrainedempsey3320 12 дней назад

How do you abandon your own child?😭😭😭

@adonyisrael1724 12 дней назад

@@lorrainedempsey3320 Right!?! But I guess mothers can do it!!! Look at that unfit mother Candelaria!!! Left her 16 month old baby girl to go to Puerto Rico on vacation !!!! 😡

@HansLiu23 4 дня назад

that's what i would do.

@HansLiu23 4 дня назад

@@lorrainedempsey3320 if it's dark you leave it in maryland

@edmundpotrzeba6094 Год назад

Made me cry to think that the mother spent her whole life hiding who she is. ❤️

@Cnt_btuchd6268 Год назад

Literally sleeping with the enemy

@niccolomachiavell Год назад

@@Cnt_btuchd6268 she leveled up and left 🥷

@Cnt_btuchd6268 Год назад

by your comment it appears that you are trying to level up, lol! It's ok boo everyone eats chocolate 😋 he leveled up........ Probably didn't know why it was so good to his bigoted butt😂😂😂😂

@uhjeff3651 Год назад

I would too if I knew my father were black

@Idkdude50 Год назад

@@uhjeff3651 same.

@jizzncookies 3 года назад

The saddest part is that she had to pretend to be fully white just to survive and live a normal American life

@jonesjones566 3 года назад

Yes it’s sad how this is our history..and how it still continues.

@live2fishlove2fish10 3 года назад

It’s not sad , it is what it is. But why would you want to lay with your oppressor?

@wasupman2284 3 года назад

Nothing has changed today.

@jonesjones566 3 года назад

@@live2fishlove2fish10 it is sad how she wanted to be someone she’s not..

@ClockworkWyrm 3 года назад

@@wasupman2284 Yeah man, all those current Jim Crow laws, legal race based discrimination, and legal segregation are really impeding peoples lives.

@tomfitzgerald4760 3 года назад

The blonde woman in the background really wants to be a part of the story.

@marianachavezr 3 года назад

Yes HAHAHA

@basshomie2946 3 года назад

That's literally what I thought this entire time

@moniboo523 3 года назад

Haha🤦🏾‍♀️

@ciarastap 3 года назад

Yes!!!!!

@davianasmith1080 3 года назад

If she shake her head on mo time 🤣🤣🙄😒

@mattiemeredith5464 9 месяцев назад

HER MOTHER WASN'T THE ONLY 1 THAT DID THAT 🙏🏼🙏🏼

@bababatata5734 Год назад

How heartbreaking for her mother. To be so ashamed of herself. "how would I hold my head up around my friends". that made me cry. May she rest in peace.

@StrawberryFeildsforNever 10 месяцев назад

It wasn’t a matter of being “ashamed.” She did it to protect herself from racism.

@vm45699 8 месяцев назад

At that point I wouldn't even care what my "friends" thought.

@Tesjhkyayy 7 месяцев назад

I think if she would have gone to her friends at the end of her life and would have said: "Angela, Doris: I have to say something about myself which I always have hidden. I am a mixed woman, I am half black. If you still wanna be around me, I would appreciate this, if not, then our friendship wasn't true from the beginning on, but at least I would know now" ...It would have been such a release for her, if her friends would have responded positively to it.

@r.m.90 6 месяцев назад

Why would you be friends with a bigot who would hate who you truly are? Her mother was a coward.

@brittneyberry4934 3 месяца назад

@@r.m.90thank you so much

@mariahmontgomery7423 4 года назад

A racist man marries a mixed woman, and doesn’t even know it! How ironic is this 😂 lol

@courtneybridge1427 4 года назад

They were probably doing it in the dark. As you do, as you do.

@thedevilsadvocate5210 4 года назад

She was lightening

@golden8972 4 года назад

LOVE IT!!

@amasion2882 4 года назад

Examples like these prove the fluidity of race and racial classifications. Racial differences are based almost exclusively on visual perception.

@bsahota2021 4 года назад

read passing by nella larson

@14104 4 года назад

Imagine the amount nervousness and stress that woman felt while pregnant

@DanButters1 4 года назад

Word lol but the daughters nose says a lot as a little girl

@dominiqueousley9186 4 года назад

I know Right!!!!! I was just thinking the same thing.

@learnitdoitearnit9764 4 года назад

It rarely works that way though.

@sonyawalker6053 4 года назад

Well if she found out and didnt like it - she could easy have taken her life with pills - white females do this when they find out things they don't.

@Renegadereadingsrecovery 4 года назад

Sonya Walker white females for sure aren’t the same!! Some of us can handle anything and everything. Others don’t believe in suicide. Some of us are all 3.

@tessanicholl1455 Год назад

The saddest thing is that finding out you are half african american is so shocking. If you found out you were half Norwegian, you wouldn’t be on a talk show.

@ilenestrong7471 Год назад

While growing up neither my father or grandmother would talk about family history. When I started doing research I pieced together many of the hints they both had given me but also knew that they wanted to keep hidden. My great-grandmother was born a slave in 1860. She wanted a better life so she passed and moved to PA to find a white husband. She was lucky to find a man whose wife had died leaving him with an infant and had returned from TX to find a mother for his child. They ended up having 12 children. Looking at old photos of grandmother and her siblings you can pick out some faint Black characteristics. For several years after I found out this history I was bitter that part of my heritage had been stolen from me. I now realize that they were reacting to our society at that time and attempting to make a better life for themselves and their children. So after growing up believing that I was Irish/Scottish/English I am now proud to say I am mixed race and appreciate what my ancestors went through.

@gresildablanco1 Год назад

Amazing wow

@darrenclayton8246 Год назад

If this is true you can say the n word

@gresildablanco1 Год назад

@@darrenclayton8246 why would you want to?

@ilenestrong7471 Год назад

@@darrenclayton8246 I do remember my father saying that if I dug too deep in the family history I might find "a N in the wood pile." I have used that quote many times.

@helpmegetto10kwithnovideos81 2 месяца назад

@@ilenestrong7471so your father was a racist man? why is he saying the N word cool story though

@Stephanie_rd 3 года назад

That wearing light makeup to sleep and being treated better at the hospital literally went over their heads.

@kiararose8896 3 года назад

@workoutwarrior3118 3 года назад

Watching this interview made me feel like I was in the twilight zone...

@raymondtuckerjr1886 3 года назад

I hope not. If that went over their heads, we're in deep do do.

@talishabailey 3 года назад

Yes it did....they laughed but it wasn't funny at all....

@talishabailey 3 года назад

Yes it did....they laughed but it wasn't funny at all....

@Sanbika89 6 лет назад

And she would’ve gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for her meddling kid!

@21MarketaDiva 5 лет назад

Sanbika lol

@danceforeverkid 5 лет назад

Kids always meddle

@sanguinelynx 5 лет назад

Zoinks! LOL

@miclo22 5 лет назад

Sanbika lmao 🤣🤣🤣

@LadyTrucker43 5 лет назад

Lolol

@debbiestinnett2987 Год назад

So sad. That that was such a shame.!!! Be proud of who you are!!!

@TheTaintedTragedy Год назад

This poor woman lived with so much anxiety about her skin color that she tried to pass for what she wasn't.. I can't even imagine the toll that must take on you mentally to do that for your whole wife.

@NokthulaMadondo 3 месяца назад

So true. Trying to pass as white was a 9-5 job it sounds like.

@strongarm4260 9 дней назад

@@NokthulaMadondo🔮🛑👹

@ReyliaWhitelovesallherbronies 5 лет назад

"My mother was stunningly gorgerous" "My dad.....had a great sense of humor" I'm sorry I laughed so hard at that.

@Thobza_Mhlongo 5 лет назад

😂😂

@cherewilliams230 5 лет назад

Darling Light 🤣😂😂😂

@s.a.8548 5 лет назад

The shade lol

@LeeDee5 5 лет назад

Her father was handsome though! But that was funny.

@NG-sz2xi 5 лет назад

I don’t get it

@saundrabrown1873 3 года назад

My grandmother once told me that a lot of black people that looked white did pass for white back in those days for a better life due to the segregation era/ Jim Crow!

@izzyy87 3 года назад

saundra brown A lot of Hispanics too is what my grandma tells me. She was living in Mexico at the time of segregation, but she knew people who went to America as well and passed as white because of their skin color.

@helloworld-sl2lw 3 года назад

@@izzyy87 hispanic is not a race tho

@izzyy87 3 года назад

k a r m a ok, That’s my bad. Ik race and ethnicity is a different thing, woops. I’m talking abut Mexican..

@helloworld-sl2lw 3 года назад

@@izzyy87 mexican is a nationality not a race either

@izzyy87 3 года назад

k a r m a that is also my bad, I’m sorry. 😕 Ethnicity, race, and nationality is confusing to me

@ritaharris2778 9 месяцев назад

This is a very interesting story but also very sad that her mom chose to deny knowing her family and not allow her children to know their family & heritage. 😢

@Sad_bumper_sticker. 10 месяцев назад

Heartbreaking. Her decision to hide her race until her death is so incredibly culturally potent.

@cocoace1627 3 года назад

Many women who " passed " never had kids .They were too afraid of having a baby that actually looked Black .It's a sad situation , all around .

@Treatsandthreadscom 3 года назад

Facts

@whimsysmith2835 3 года назад

My grandma "passed" but even she didn't know that at first. The identity of her great grandfather had long been a secret. Her older sister found out in the mid fifties. I think that is one reason my family moved out west. Micegenation was still considered a crime, and gramma could conceivably been accused. It is sad, because my family has a rich history and a big gap in that history. I would have liked having a photo, or even a name, but they buried it all. 😰

@supasoda9030 3 года назад

Very true. I discussed this with my mom. A family with that 1% of black never knows what color their child may come out to be, their eye color, or the texture of their hair. I always can tell when a person is "color struck" when they start in worrying about how "dark or light" someone is or when a baby is born.

@James-Campbell 3 года назад

Yep, the "risk" of genes skipping a generation!

@ulyssesward8014 3 года назад

Lol lol lol

@charlesstevensEnki 4 года назад

Don't blame her blame this sick country we live in.

@northstarmn 4 года назад

charles stevens trump makes it even sicker, he funds KKK groups and trump himself is part of KKK. Look it up. Sad place for America.

@Respectfully.Tootie 4 года назад

Exactly!!!!

@marlenefearon1027 4 года назад

@@northstarmn crap

@Jane-nx4vr 4 года назад

This will never end racism sad

@christingonzalez9642 4 года назад

I know exactly! I wish more people would see it the way you do!

@brookebrunson1477 Год назад

My Grandmother was Cherokee and you could tell but ppl really thought she was just very tan. Her skin would darken quickly with just a few minutes of sun! She passed as white as well. All her life. She was so beautiful! I miss my beautiful grandmother!

@winstongoldsmith4744 Год назад

I'm trying to pass as rich .

@hypsyzygy506 Год назад

Do you define yourself as rich, though?

@winstongoldsmith4744 Год назад

@@hypsyzygy506 i identify as wealthy, affluent and opulent.

@ronnieferguson9337 3 года назад

The saddest part of this story is what her mother thought of herself and that she asked her daughter not to disclose her race until AFTER she has died.

@shiphrahisrael4474 3 года назад

Yes, so sad. She had a goodly heritage and she blew it

@idkkimberlyanne 3 года назад

It broke my heart... I cant imagine

@synettrasearcy2028 3 года назад

Yes... Never accept herself

@z-licious 3 года назад

I agree! Also how she abandoned her family. So sad.

@ronnieferguson9337 3 года назад

Kathy Coleman why did you write this as a response to what I’d said? My comment had ZERO to do with religion and furthermore, her feelings were about HERSELF, not a deity. I’m quite sure a deity wouldn’t deny someone a blessed afterlife because the person in question has a poor sense of self worth and/or self esteem.

@joshuadaye3453 6 лет назад

“My mom was an absolutely stunning woman. My dad...... he had a great sense of humor.”

@ailish3012 6 лет назад

Josh Cash ...I’m the dad

@nadiainthesky 6 лет назад

That "....." pause was everything lol

@xenodoll 6 лет назад

Lolll

@emberbabyname 6 лет назад

Lmaooo im the dad

@kckrox6911 6 лет назад

😂😂😂😂

@jimena4427 8 месяцев назад

I still cannot understand this US obsession of listing, classifying people because of the color of the skin. In my country we have all colors but no way ur biryh certificate will say ur skin color, race or religion... She had fair skin color? So she was white!

@jlynne.7 Год назад

My great grandmother did the same, I understand now she didn't feel she had a choice. Times were definitely different back then.

@r.l.2569 4 года назад

A racist married a colored woman, didn't even know it, and loved her for years. Ohhhh the irony. I DON'T THINK PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD MY COMMENT. It's IRONY -- meaning something that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects" Meaning, her husband looked like a complete fool (at least to me). Racism is disgusting and my comment doesn't mean I disagree with that.

@BeGioBijoux 4 года назад

Ironic, but she shouldn't have helped him procriate.

@allrightsreserved4m1 4 года назад

Her mother was a racists too. She hated black skin.

@allrightsreserved4m1 4 года назад

Race and gender passing are selfish acts; especially in mate selection. Deceiving a person to be with a mate that they don't want is immoral and disgusting.

@BeGioBijoux 4 года назад

@@allrightsreserved4m1 Exept that he did want her as a mate, as they were married and their daughter is there to prove so. What is immoral is not wanting to be with someone purely because they are the "wrong color". The proof that racism is pure ignorance in one's mind is that this gentleman was obviously very compatible and able to live/love/form family with a "black woman", simply because once he was unaware of it, his mind constructions didn´t get in the way of black and white having a respectful, loving relationship. This was like a social experiment proving that the difference between us and the black people is very irrelevant and skin deep.

@jt-pq4dv 4 года назад

R.L. you literally just basically took another comment

@crazypianolady 4 года назад

She knew something was up when she seasoned her food with more than salt and pepper

@es5398 4 года назад

😂

@harinim6589 4 года назад

crazypianolady lmaooooooo

@ethereal1257 4 года назад

Salt n pepper is not seasoning🙄

@tasbar7743 4 года назад

😂😂💀

@judydavis1092 4 года назад

@user-is8jw5lc6n Месяц назад

If I could pass as white, I would live as a white woman too. Soooo much racism

@Ramifications537 Месяц назад

I am sorry for you. I hope it changes

@honeytgb 9 месяцев назад

It is so sad. What her mother had to go through.

@shelbycreed 4 года назад

Well she really found out her moms true colours I’ll leave

@karinacabrera17 4 года назад

Shelby Creed lmao 😂

@xkaypresx9285 4 года назад

I-

@yan_eira 4 года назад

go home 😂😂

@milo1942 4 года назад

😂I’m not laughing

@miked6430 4 года назад

🤣😂

@bluetulip7970 4 года назад

,, she wore makeup to bed" Me, a skincare addict:🤯🤯🤯

@clairefitzpatrick8140 4 года назад

LITERALLY like no baby...... every night???

@649shellyy8 4 года назад

Me tooo 😂 I cringed 😖

@leena.1740 4 года назад

ONG! I made your comment to 1K!

@bodgie6256 4 года назад

And her skin didnt even look bad😆howw?

@ieatpancreas2005 4 года назад

LMAO SAME like I dont have skin care products i just use rice and honey and stuff like that on my face and i FREAKED OUT when i heard that

@alyssaswann9784 Год назад

This is exactly what went on in my family and it’s so mysterious I don’t have any answers and would love to know

@mistidupree4064 Месяц назад

She's mulatto, creole. Fairly normal here in louisiana. 2 "white" parents can have a dark baby, or even a generational dark grandchild. Normal. we have dark babies with ice blue eyes🥰 or green eyes, blond hair, we love our culture.

@shanivoss5879 3 года назад

"Passing" is something a lot of lighter/mixed black people did bc it was another way of surviving at that time.

@eiroswrld9825 3 года назад

that’s scary because i would’ve had to do that if i grew up back then

@tiffbeevachou108 3 года назад

And I don't think anyone can question why. It was survival

@vimalalakshminarayanan3365 3 года назад

ScaryEducatedChic S ST grr deerskin I was

@mkedmusa9416 3 года назад

Or for privilege..

@deelee5244 3 года назад

Shani Voss truth I heard stories about that

@meleniev3047 3 года назад

Imagine if Gail came out the womb with 4c hair 🤣

@tinal6594 3 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@beatricec633 3 года назад

That could have been dangerous...

@user-be4rt7nc1r 3 года назад

And the crazy thing is that it actually could have happened

@patandersen4271 3 года назад

There are whites with very curly hair 4a some. Mostly 3b's are EVERYWHERE lol that's why flat irons are big sellers worldwide.

@chocpch 3 года назад

😂😂

@myrtlealley 3 месяца назад

Asian ladies: wearing 50 spf sunscreen, wide hats, sunglasses, long sleeves, gloves, and umbrellas Asian ladies have left the chat

@yikesyikes5974 2 месяца назад

My great grandmas uncle passed as a white man and move up north. His wife and kids had no idea. He would secretly visit his parents because he didn’t want his family to know his secret

@BNA_Est.1988 3 года назад

The fact that she felt she need to do that to survive is should tell you about all you need to about America.

@ab6565 3 года назад

She didn't 'feel the need' to do that to 'survive'. This was not about survival. What it tells us is that, right or wrong, she chose to sever ties with those who loved her in order to pursue what/who was most important to *her*.

@BNA_Est.1988 3 года назад

A B thats correct if youre talking about in today’s world. Her case is different.

@ab6565 3 года назад

@@BNA_Est.1988 How is her case different? What has changed in the world that makes my statement correct now but incorrect then?

@BNA_Est.1988 3 года назад

A B umm Jim Crow? Segregation? Red lining? Civil rights?

@BNA_Est.1988 3 года назад

A B wait, this is troll account.. bye

@Anderson-gr5le 4 года назад

"You have to promise me you wont tell anyone until I die" *comes out on national television

@tiab8310 4 года назад

After she died lol

@Anderson-gr5le 4 года назад

@@tiab8310 yes lol

@charlotteorr1186 4 года назад

And she told EVERYONE!

@tudo4451 4 года назад

Made that book money baby!!!

@Y3C0868 4 года назад

😂

@Ravenortara Год назад

Wow. This is powerful… I cannot imagine the fear the mother felt when pregnant…scared to think that the child may come out , “too dark”… 😞…she had to “pass” the line from black , to white, in a time of Jim Crow laws… a dangerous and scary time for black Americans …. A sad sad story of having to hold who you are, in the depths of your core…because of fear 😢

@ChristiansweetG Год назад

Where's the second half of the video? I want to see the family.

@Galidorquest 8 дней назад

There's a part 2 where Gail Lukasik introduces her family members.

@reapercity 2 года назад

The woman constantly shaking her head in the background is just a whole mood

@Lordmij 2 года назад

Ikr

@alexxx5749 2 года назад

She’s so annoying

@hopemccoy 2 года назад

Is that her daughter?

@MySkinnydip 2 года назад

All she’s needs is a bag of popcorn!

@rileynatalie 2 года назад

It was so distracting.. like pipe down lady all u have to do it sit there

@quineshatate5669 3 года назад

There's an instance where a man killed his wife and child because the child came out "dark". Well after he murdered them he learned that it was him that was mixed race. He killed his wife for his family's secret.

@dontaskdonttell_ 3 года назад

Very unfortunate. Racism makes no sense to me. Why does it even exist?

@sandyluis7547 3 года назад

I read that in a literature book

@Naturalchic76 3 года назад

@@sandyluis7547 yes story is Desiree's Baby

@excuseme5086 3 года назад

What the heck?

@sandyluis7547 3 года назад

@@oliviarogers3559 Well, actually she wasn't forced to leave. She took her husband's dismissal, as him not wanting her there. He didn't force her to leave.

@lavender123u Год назад

It's so many folks in Louisiana where I live who look like her but is back It was a culture shock for me. They kept their distance from black folks and lived near family.

@davidarjon2551 Год назад

There's a recent, heartbreaking movie about a subject like this called "Passing" It's just the same story about a lady passing as white when actually being black I highly recommend it to anyone interested

@faithwilliams9890 4 года назад

The irony a racists married a black / mixed Woman he loved for years and never knew 😂😂👏👏👏

@renegadedragon9393 4 года назад

The last laugh was on the bigot...He was making biracial children and didn't even noticed!

@maxdominate2481 4 года назад

Well, she didn't look black which is what is important. As the lyrics from the Phantom of the Opera read: "In the dark, it is easy to pretend that the world is what it out to be."

@thelovelyjerald 4 года назад

That good good had him whipped.

@maxdominate2481 4 года назад

@@thelovelyjerald -. What makes you think that, Tyrone?

@lexicronin9674 4 года назад

I think that's awesome!! lol

@dsolo3250 4 года назад

"B" does that mean Bllllllllaaaack?

@mysportisyourpunishment73188 4 года назад

One drop rule. She was creo. It's called Passe blanc

@roseflemming7292 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@nageriawalker8207 4 года назад

😂😂😂💀

@cynthiadharmon549 4 года назад

danny solis yes

@tiffanygrammer8222 4 года назад

danny solis 😂😂😂😂😂

@mollycblaeser Год назад

I know what it's like to deny yourself the freedom of fully being your true self. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for her mother. & how lonely, never having someone to confide in!

@trevorjennings720 Год назад

Hello Molly, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

@mariesahota1478 8 месяцев назад

Colour is only a shade of humanity never BE ashamed of who you are

@galactichand551 2 года назад

The fact she was able to pose as her mother and attain her birth certificate so easily was the most shocking part of this video.

@PersonWithStupid37 2 года назад

@Marion Raimey They dont ask for id for this?!

@zurileonard2620 2 года назад

@@PersonWithStupid37 No, you only need info on the person and your relationship.

@krische5752 2 года назад

Yes, you do need ID to get a birth certificate, at least in Louisiana, and an adult child is legally allowed to obtain one for their parents. But the penalty for “posing” as someone else or lying on your application is $10,000 or 5 years in jail so the most shocking part to me was the fact that she went on national tv and admitted to posing as her mother when she was legally allowed in the first place.

@krische5752 2 года назад

This woman’s mother was born in Louisiana so Ohio is irrelevant.

@symphony2929 2 года назад

@@krische5752 no you don’t it’s public record

@lm6259 6 лет назад

"my mom was an absolutely stunningly beautiful woman...my dad, he had a good sense of humor" lol

@trinawilliams9326 6 лет назад

Lottie M i don't see stunningly beautiful but ok lol

@daydream2609 6 лет назад

Her mom looks like a plain Jane, white woman. Nothing spectacular about her.

@theknightof8654 6 лет назад

Hahahahaha same thing I thought

@denysedenyse4070 6 лет назад

Lottie M I peeped that too. Didn't have much of a description of ole daddio. 😂😂😆😂🤣

@stipem 6 лет назад

we all know what that means hahha

@RADIUMGLASS 4 месяца назад

Her mother looked white when she was older but when she was young I think she still looked mixed. There is no way her dad didn't know, he probably accepted it and kept it quiet.

@Galidorquest 4 месяца назад

We'll never know for sure, but he definitely knew that she wasn't pure Anglo Saxon. People would've been more suspicious of her in a country like Germany, she fits the image of the people they targeted. Germans were more serious about purity & eugenics.

@flo4546 8 месяцев назад

It so sad to have to deny your race in this way in order to be treated like a human being and even so she’s a woman so she is still oppressed but much freer than a black woman

@kanikagaral7637 3 года назад

I really wished she could tell her father that. The look on his face would have been priceless.

@kanikagaral7637 3 года назад

@Jason Diaz I know right.

@taylorricks1459 3 года назад

Same

@ab6565 3 года назад

I wish she would've too. I think she would've found out that he already knew.

@kanikagaral7637 3 года назад

@@ab6565 maybe possible he kept up the bigoted act to not get ostracized by his own people.

@ab6565 3 года назад

@@kanikagaral7637 If he knew his beloved wife's secret (and I believe he did), he wasn't phased by it so he wasn't, at heart, a bigot by any stretch of the imagination. As for his racial slurs, whether we like to admit it or not, during that time, there were many 'racial slurs' being thrown about by all for all.

@greedygreedy4514 6 лет назад

So lemme get this straight her dad was a racist who married a sista.... Bruh loooool

@pelo4040 6 лет назад

Fam, she scammed him hard!!!

@skyfalldeadpool1633 6 лет назад

She is Joanne the scammer of the past. Glamorous and caucasian 😂😂😂( look up on youtube who Joan the scammer is)

@xbl155ful 6 лет назад

She probably had a big booty too

@musicsweet2833 6 лет назад

greedy greedy 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@ZipporahMcCrae 6 лет назад

🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

@actuallyaardwolf Год назад

Alternative title, woman makes her life miserable by wrapping it in deceit; daughter finds out. Then yells it out to the world for attention.

@who7028 Год назад

Her mother does looks white I was very thrown off by this story so the question is was she biracial?

@multijaison123 4 года назад

The Aunt in the back is still shaking the head till this day

@nawfsidebkg7004 4 года назад

She's black too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Giannismum 4 года назад

😩😂😂

@mocha1886 4 года назад

ImJustSayin RealTalk 🤣🤣🤣

@nishagates9481 4 года назад

😭😅😅

@sharellebrown5217 4 года назад

😂😂

@holisticpsychologybyobrien 5 лет назад

I noticed a woman in the background shaking her head in disbelief throughout the program. Although I respect her disapproval of prejudice towards others on the basis of their race, at some point her disapproving sentiment seems to become artificial. Being that she is well-dressed and shows good intentions, she seems like a good woman to me. As someone who values truth though, this artificiality that I notice in people’s behavior from time to time troubles me. I say that we should all be mindful enough to make sure our thinking matches with our feeling in our behavior.

@HKNYN1 5 лет назад

Vernon Schillinger lmfaoooo

@flamingfairy9 5 лет назад

Vernon Schillinger as soon as i saw your comment i noticed her shaking her head

@farrahabdelghafar5710 5 лет назад

Vernon Schillinger Lmfaoooo

@CenterForFamilyUnity 5 лет назад

annoying

@HouseofWeh 5 лет назад

Vernon Schillinger 😂😂

@redzoom7857 Год назад

That’s so sad cause she not only isolated herself from her family but in turn robbed her daughter of getting to grow up with and know her relatives for so many years…

@user-hi9gj2vz3m 8 месяцев назад

This reminds me of the woman in India, who cut her hair short, put on men's clothing and pass herself off as a man, so that it was easier for her to find a good job, and be safer (and her young child) , and be treated with more respect. She said it gave her a better life than as a woman, and so she never wanted to look like a woman again.

@simonphoenix7321 6 лет назад

Legend has it the lady in the back is still shaking her head ...😏

@rochelle8568 6 лет назад

UTURN 😂

@simonphoenix7321 6 лет назад

The Truth So what how is my comment going to effect you so bad you have to reply lol being corny is played out

@marinadesousa134 6 лет назад

UTURN 😁 lol

@edturner3615 6 лет назад

UTURN 😂😂

@bigmona2741 6 лет назад

😂😂😂

@please9846 3 года назад

The lady in the back be like: ↪️👩🏼↩️,🙄,👀,👁👄👁,↕️👩🏼↕️

@coxson 3 года назад

hahaha

@sinapreneur__ 3 года назад

😁😁😁😂😂😂

@eazyecurry8749 3 года назад

🤣😂🤣

@1changedbeauty125 3 года назад

I was waiting to see this comment🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@careybeth1111 3 года назад

She knows she’s on camera 🙄

@aislinnkeilah7361 9 месяцев назад

Sad and hurtful for her mom - happily we’ve gone beyond that for most people.

@TheBenedictchan1 9 месяцев назад

Is it weird that I find it somewhat impressive that she was able to conceal her race for so many decades from everybody?

@uncomfortabletruth7285 4 года назад

So we gonna act like they didn’t plant the lady in the back to be a bobblehead

@eyprulaye 4 года назад

Yoooooooooo loool

@lisasantucci8220 4 года назад

HA HA 😂 🤣😆😂

@weirdscience6820 4 года назад

I was watching for her reactions 😄

@loreleihebdon6595 4 года назад

Lmao!! Right!! Very distracting !

@cindyhenry688 4 года назад

I AM DEAD 😂😂😂😂😂

@richard8798 2 года назад

This makes me sad. So many women back then couldn’t pass as white and were condemned to a life of being discriminated against. This woman could pass as white and still she was so scared. Humans can be so evil.

@gregorywright9971 2 года назад

Don’t think she was that scared. Fear makes you run not build roots. Having your own self hate is a normal thing In America. This is just one of those hey I am 1% this kinda story nothing more.

@missladymo 2 года назад

Fear is one of the reasons why people lie, no matter what the intent, good or bad, behind the lie. Passing happened a lot and maybe some people think this story is totally rare, but it’s not that rare. What’s rare is people coming out with their families stories of passing. I hope people can listen to these stories without attacking. Times were completely different back then and it’s so easy for people to put their 21st century logic onto the past, no matter how recent the past is.

@bimates2690 2 года назад

@@gregorywright9971 Bruh, wtf are you going on about? You do realize a lot of people who white pass did this right? Even more so, those who became historical figures. Like be quiet because you’re being mad disrespectful now. That wasn’t her “self hate,” that was her trying to survive in a world/country that didn’t like her in any means necessary. Also, it isn’t a “I’m 1%” story, it’s about a woman talking about what her mother went through.

@epicsseven7686 2 года назад

@@gregorywright9971 actually she'd feared. There were several clues in the video. Her being afraid to tan in the sun. She was also trying to survive. This was during Jim Crow, where sadly, passing was very common.

@sandragary5589 2 года назад

OMG

@gallen2101 10 месяцев назад

There are millions of those who "passed " as whites, my family included

@MsRotorwings 9 месяцев назад

What people find to be ashamed about is mind boggling. Some “secrets” we just don’t need to carry.

@auaumoana 4 года назад

Imagine if her daughter would’ve pulled grandpas genes. She’d have a lot of explaining to do to her husband.

@shanspatrece_xo8890 4 года назад

Forreal i read a book where that actually happened

@trusemedend7040 4 года назад

@@shanspatrece_xo8890 What is the name of the book?

@shanspatrece_xo8890 4 года назад

The books called Family tree by Barbara delinsky

@trusemedend7040 4 года назад

Timothy Njomo What’s common?

@jessicaelecta 4 года назад

It's sad that she probably did live with such underlying fear.

@hexmaniacgabby5160 3 года назад

Imagine making friends and marrying people that hate you? That hate your child? So sad.

@xharvey8484 3 года назад

NEVER!!!!!!!!

@CarysLibri 3 года назад

No, horrible

@silly7563 3 года назад

It's not hate. My grandmother is listed as Hispanic/Native American on her wedding certificate. She was actually Black/White but in the 1920s that was the only way she could marry her White husband since it was against the law. My grandfather of course knew his wife's background since they grew up in the same neighborhood. People did what they could to survive because of love. Unfortunately at the time that is how you had to work the system.

@flatearth9140 3 года назад

YES ! I HAD A BLACK FRIEND WHO RELIZED I WAS PART WHITE AND ABANDONED ME !

@johnbertram1537 3 года назад

They didn't necessarily hate her, that is an assumption. We don't know what they would have thought because they never knew. When you love somebody that makes you reexamine social ideas you may have previously had in a different light. It may have highlighted the uselessness of the prevailing bigotry of the time, which was how they were taught to think. We shouldn't underestimate the goodness of people.

@kathymata20 7 месяцев назад

Good gracious look at the stupid remarks about the woman BEHIND the guest. She is an actress and her name is Dee Wallace. The only movies I remember her being in were horror movies.

@JessicaL085 8 месяцев назад

My great grandfather changed his name from Youngbear Redblood to "Charles Red" he married a Norwegian woman and told her that he was tan from working the fields. He made my grandma and her siblings wear long-sleeved shirts and large brim hats when they worked outside. My grandma went to California to visit her moms family, and she remembers walking up the driveway and her family asking why her children are so dark and their hair looks like "engine hair." When my mom was in her mid 20s and was learning about scrolls and natives around the area ( NW Arkansas) changing their names to give their families a better chance. My mom found scrolls in the basement of a library that kept the names that were changed, and there she found grandpa charles (Youngbear Redblood.) She was able to find photos of our family as well and brought them to grandpa, he wept seeing his dad. It was a photo of him in a war bonnet/ headdress. His dad was a tribal chief! I wish I knew more about my family than just the photots we have and a few stories that my great grandpa finally shared. =(

@ambuer3 2 года назад

The blonde woman in the back is going through all the emotions!!!

@warrensando417 2 года назад

@@VolumeEleven you’re not black just because you have 1 percent African dna.

@DiamondHenry321 2 года назад

@@VolumeEleven I just know you lying 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀. Every one body has different percentages of races in them. Mam, you are Not black lol. Ah being one percent is irrelevant. Not trynna be mean but having your username be “ new African” and the playlist of “ your people” showing black people and you clearly having a white face is......a bit disturbing ngl

@patakel 2 года назад

She’s playing to the camera!!

@YukonYuki 2 года назад

@@VolumeEleven girl you ain’t black and what’s with your name?

@YukonYuki 2 года назад

@@DiamondHenry321 not the 1 percent XD as a 100% black person im very offend by her randomness

@MariBelleProductions 6 лет назад

The nodding woman in the background is killing me. Lol

@DCJackson7 6 лет назад

Krystal Janigan I want to kick her

@ladale501 6 лет назад

Deon Idlett 👐😂😂

@jordyntaylor877 6 лет назад

Krystal Janigan she shaking her head in pure disgust now I don't know if it's disgusted that this black lady past is white and lied about it or the fact that she's a black lady who couldn't admit that she was black but I'm going to go with the first thing that I said lol

@sotash 6 лет назад

omg same lol

@thejasosei 6 лет назад

Words Retain Power ikr, I’m not white but I hate how people assume all white people are racists, it’s sooo annoying

@TomWaldgeist Год назад

"After I walked out that family Center, I didnt know who I was". Well.. You were the same person who entered that Center because your skin pigmentation didnt change and second it doesnt matter at all. Why all this Drama

@eyesopenedify 7 месяцев назад

I would feel the same way if I found out my father was White. It is what it is.....

@a.blanco7680 3 года назад

"My mom was a beautiful stunning woman" "My father was ..funny" 😂

@bo2720 2 года назад

Hey dont underestimate a good sense of humor. Its one of the best qualities someone can have

@Nomz1808 2 года назад

That cracked me up 😂 thought she’d say aw my Father was handsome but she pauses then “Funny” 🤣🤣

@wonder01lewis25 2 года назад

What does she mean , it's not about the story is it.

@davicool9958 2 года назад

Funny as a Klansman

@tinyking11 2 года назад

I caught that too. 🤣😂 She basically saying her dad was ugly.

@nuyokatribe 3 года назад

The Audience lady in the back, her emotions are everything.

@jrerkderawis2145 3 года назад

Her head movement as well

@hydgurl77 3 года назад

So fake

@gabrelle-io6wn 3 года назад

@@hydgurl77 ikr... Kinda creepy

@janeknight5070 3 года назад

@@jrerkderawis2145 I was thinking the same thing. She kept shaking her head.

@goldieyesgods 3 года назад

Yup she's probably half black

@patsywill8309 9 месяцев назад

With the awful racism in the US is understandable what he mother did....

@Anduresta Год назад

that bobble head in the back ground is driving me insane.

@fortheloveofmialynn3756 3 года назад

I was surprised that no one mentioned how genuine Gail seem. It doesn’t seem like she has a craving for being black or anything like that. Just sounds like a young woman who wanted to really learn who her mom is. RIP to her mother.

@marisamendes6894 2 года назад

"Craving for being black" what the f does this mean?

@goawag 2 года назад

@@marisamendes6894 I think they mean that a lot of people try to prove that they’re not racist because they have black grandparents

@Itsmeealiciaa_ 2 года назад

@@marisamendes6894 bro it just means she wasn’t over obsessed with being black 🤦🏽‍♀️

@vickie1986 2 года назад

@@Itsmeealiciaa_ Exactly I have a little African DNA, and I see it as just a part of what makes me, me!

@mutaaw1 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RdGpGU6F1pI.html

@andrea-gs4dx 6 лет назад

Woman in the back ends racism with each nod of her head

@DaniHahn100 5 лет назад

A. A. V ❤️❤️

@busychrissy0.0 5 лет назад

A. A. V 😂😂😂😂😂

@mezaallure6647 5 лет назад

Lmfaooooo 😂😂😂😂

@gabrielluh3629 5 лет назад

LMAOOOO THOUGHT. I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED

@fatoutouray608 5 лет назад

gaby nieves Lol😃 i thought i was the only one that notice it

@bexraphaela Год назад

This is so amazing, it describes perfectly how being black is enough to not be accepted. Shameful and hurtful to live a life hiding your own heritage. Welcome to the family sis 🤗

@Sunny-zo2cb Год назад

Nothing about her is black

@danielcrafter9349 Год назад

@@Sunny-zo2cb- oh? Got a definition, clever clogs?

@robandkrissy 9 месяцев назад

except the fact that she's bi-racial! @@Sunny-zo2cb

@Galidorquest 3 месяца назад

@@Sunny-zo2cb She kinda has an afro @ 0:28.

@user-vm6lx5yx1k Месяц назад

She is whitr

@staceycameron4157 9 месяцев назад

This is the generational trauma that is now being uncovered and healed, thanks to the progress of our modern society. We fall short in many categories, but my reaction to this is one of sadness for her mom. To have to live your whole life pretending. That is torture. I am so sad and sorry for her. God bless her in Heaven. This journey was criminal. Why a society can hate someone for something so innate is beyond me.

@dr7677 3 года назад

The nodding lady behind her is driving me nuts.

@Micho55 3 года назад

she just has a lot of feelings

@gargoyle4807 3 года назад

Oh no I didn't notice till now... thanks -_-

@adb-butinaca 3 года назад

It's always the lady's in the back

@beatricec633 3 года назад

She doing too much lol😆

@silentkilla14 3 года назад

Why? All she is doing is nodding lol... not a reason to get irritated.

@samleo75 6 лет назад

That foundation she applied at night was probably bleach cream. My childhood friend's grandmother was from Louisiana. Her grandmother told me half of her siblings left their home & "passed as white", never to be heard from again.

@BeautifulGood713 6 лет назад

Samantha Williams WOW!!! 😮

@1besieged 6 лет назад

the stores sell a lot of 'bleach creme' hair straighteners and all.... the bleach creme is for age spots too.

@alluringbliss4165 6 лет назад

Do they still have these issues in Louisiana.

@pleaselistenbeforeyouspeak3086 6 лет назад

I tell you- racism did a real number on us psychologically. That's what "the big deal", as some refer to it as, is.

@davinthetoothgamer4872 6 лет назад

Samantha Williams They were kidnapped by the michael jackson thiefs

@roastedmarshmallows4859 9 месяцев назад

I wonder how the mother’s parents would feel if they knew how ashamed their daughter was of her race Ana heritage.

@mcupid9753 6 месяцев назад

Her mother was ahead of her time… nowadays you can identify as anything.

@trystalb 2 года назад

This really saddens me. Her mother could not live as her true self her ENTIRE life. The anxiety she must have had.. I'm surprised she didn't have a heart attack while pregnant just hoping her baby wouldn't be of dark skin. Wow..

@walelu777 2 года назад

@@Kathy-pr4wu I’m sure it wasn’t that she didn’t want to live as her true self. Her life was no doubt worlds easier being able to pass as white back in those days 😞

@walelu777 2 года назад

@@Kathy-pr4wu you are certainly right about that!

@rubenaalexander5007 2 года назад

I feel like saying being black was her true self is adherring to the one drop rule. Why is it that she's black? WHY can't she be white?

@zeddisdead3239 2 года назад

@@rubenaalexander5007 ... because she isn't white lol

@user-wz9xv2ot6k 2 года назад

@@rubenaalexander5007 you don't choose race honey

@valeriegolden5654 5 лет назад

The joke was on that bigoted father. Married a black woman and didn’t know it.😎

@RowanWarren78 5 лет назад

@Duck Supremacy He didn't just "prefer his own people" His daughter states very clearly that her father had prejudice opinions, and would regularly make racist comments.