White family embraces celebrated black ancestor 

NAILED IT! Thank You!

Yess you nailed this one with just 1 blow.

We are an interracial family. You accept and love each other for who we are. Yes you are right.

yeah for some of us the race mixture not even that distant. Found out my great grandmother's great grandfather( my 4th great grandfather) dad was a white man. The thought that my great grandmother share the same amount of DNA with me as a white man can is pretty interesting. She lived long enough to meet me to. Her great grandfather lived long enough to meet her. Did hear my great grandmother was really lightskinned so I expected there was probably some mixture going on. I guess i would share about 1% of my DNA with him.

So true.

His white descendants, not ancestors. And this is a lot more common than you think, for a lot longer than you think.

Exactly, why is this news!

I consider this newsworthy because I never knew about this man and his accomplishments for his time. That is what’s newsworthy.

@Paul Hardrick it was not for you…

This is a sign of healing. We, all of us, need to heal from this traumatic history.

He wasn't African.

Good post however as Meb777 pointed out ...he wasn't African..He wasn't born in Africa but in the U.S. consequently he was an American.

And they destroyed his work, calling him amateur photographer 😒

Many black people did very well for themselves, but you don't hear about it, because good news is no news..

he brought himself up from the ranks of porter on trains, so shit was still in effect, homie just did his thing and got around it.

snoopyy28 Human races were invented by the white supremacists (aka Western European enslavers) to rationalize their continual enslavement of Africans and theft of indigenous people's lands. The label "white" and "black" are simply socio-political labels as well as "races". I don't know why people of African descent cling to a colour label to describe themselves.

ElPocho DelMundo Cafe' au lait! ¡Cafe' ole'!

YaNNaY SheCkLeRoSeNBeRgSTEIN ranting of a delusional brain washed fool why are you still breathing and good people are dying keep thinking your superior you poor uneducated fool your hate makes you so blind and what really sad is u live your whole short little life believing this nonsense ❌

YaNNaY SheCkLeRoSeNBeRgSTEIN the truth hurts lol if only this just proves my point your a dumb ass please read a book a good one,not one that lies about the history of the world and whitewashes everything ☹️👍🏾

Guess what, we all are not just the same species, but same subspecies

L Smaccks historically black have been seen as a negative. black natives in Australia have been bred out too now. Most tourist think natives are white because that is how the descendants of the black natives now look. It was govt policy to achieve that outcome Most white looking natives don't tell others their background and just pass as white only

He was probably racist before he found out.......

What's sup ma

Right 😂

@@israelarteaga4385, But he has a black wife. So how can you know?

Exactly

I doubt it.

Notice they needed the black woman that wasn't blood related to do all of the talking

@@wavegodrobsanders539 Same old same black woman all happy looking for her white Jesus.

@@Shahmar basically

Dorothy Crawley how are they erasing their self fool

Probably, as long as he was still a renowned photographer hidden to them from their parents.

Would you celebrate an ancestor if you found out he sucked?

Yes and I have, thank you very much...

Meisha You've lost a good opportunity to be quiet...

guleiro Go hide and be quiet while the real world turns for those with maturity & discernment.

What does that say about the condition of humanity for this woman to hide from who she was obviously for the privileges she couldn't have accessed as a Black person.

Where does it say the grandmother passed as white..like the last comment on this thread... she was Swedish that’s white.!!!

The great-grandfather was also pretty white, that's why she passed.

@@aquilaclark814 They're talking about the King Ganaway's daughter who was mixed. The Swedish woman would be the great-grandmother.

Biracial means half white half black, which they are not.

They are white people. Most whites in the United States have Black ancestry. I'm black African American and I have white ancestry 5 generations ago, but it doesn't make me White. Everybody is Mix in the United States.

Forget the one pin blood get over that is was invented to avoid the interracial. Grow up please

Exactly

@@gentlesoft2186 EXACTLY!

BILLY BOBCAT JR lmao if she's a gorilla sweetheart I'm a Panda ❤❤❤😍😍😍

Off your mic please 🤣🤣🤣

because you read minds and you know everything right - youignorant fooll you are whats wrong with the united states today stop your pompass know it all know what other people are thinking or feel - YOU ARE THE RACIST HERE AND WHATS SAD YOU DONT EVEN KNOW - dont let the mic hit you

If you payed attention, there is no 'intellectual property', it was all lost long ago. "Securing a legacy" simply means making sure it gets known.

Hineni John3:16, While many blacks claim native based on family hearsay, many actually DO have native ancestry as a fact. Blacks and natives mixed often over the years, as allies and both oppressed peoples.

Hineni John3:16 Whites do NOT have high cheekbones and black hair. Also, Ancestry tests have been proven Fake and tampered with. This is something i always believed anyway. Esp when blacks know of some native ancestry, then jealous whites will try to deny it and claim it as caucasian. But you can't tell someone who their own ancestors are when they know better. As for history, there is proof natives got along with black people, mixed with blacks, and were kind to slaves, esp escaped slaves. Only the cherokees were worst, looking for the white's approval. I'm aware that whites tried to play the two groups against each other many times, to prevent them allying together. But most of the time, that division didn't work.

Hineni John3:16 Cherokee Indian does not test because the tribe FORBIDS the donation of the modern Cherokee admixture to any labs. All matrilineal Native American DNA traces back to source and that source is European and Central Asian. This is where Native Americans came from: Russia and surrounding areas and Scandinavia then over the land bridge. My family is documented Native American documented on the Dawes rolls and documented back to the early 1800s in the Census in Georgia as owned property and Cherokee offspring. Our DNA shows up as White Russian and Finnish, but also, our DNA matches full tribal relatives. Cherokee were prevented from claiming any racial mixing with blacks by both law and treaty. To this day if over 10% of Native Americans have mixed with other indigenous people, the treaties can be nullified. Indigenous was code for African people and history records the purpose was to prevent natives and blacks,from joining forces. Native Americans continue to pay a very high price for denying the rightful heritage of many former slave descendants. The Cherokee in Georgia and the rest of the south owned slaves. They mated with slaves and in Georgia they documented these people as mixed blood. But in other places, the mixes happened but were not documented. The DNA tests of modern Cherokee now would show a strong mix of European DNA. (Which means even if fonated, the mix is now skewed) whites allowed themselves to mix freely with Natives to the point that they racially appropriated Native Americans. There is a huge price to pay for the imbalance of denying blood. The day Natives embrace their black descendants and defy white laws are the day they will finally heal and prosper as a people and get their Spiritual power back.. A Cree shaman told me that...then a full blooded Hawaiian said the same thing..then an OK Cherokee shaman said the same. Karma is a bitch that way. I have cousins who are documented Narive Americans, recognized through early 1800s census and the Dawes. We share the same great grandparents who were both 75% Native and 25% black or other. Our claim is indisputable. Even the Cherokee Nation does not dispute the claims. But my DNA shows White Russian, Scandanavian and Central Asian. Not Native American. I was told it will not show Cherokee because they do not and CANNOT provide admixture sampling due to continual ongoing mixing. There has to be a certain % of a people still unmixed to retain Native status. The Nation made the choice to not take a chance on revelations that could compromise the last treaties.

@Hineni John3:16 lol. Get over yourselves. I dont know why people revere native Americans so much.please. Maybe if you had mixed with the 'BLACKS' (you all did, sorry) your asses would have survived.

Don Rider: Effective 1996 into 2017 researchers have come to the truths in which I've known since 1996 my truth ancestors were the original Jews. This is what for 4 plus centuries our real identity that the amass and the nonblack females shared equally in the derogramming of my ancestors and their future generations into 2017. We are in a chaotic destructive situation where we have damped ourselves for doom- ville our tomorrow generations are rotating back to worsen conditions than or parents, grandparents, great grandparenrs, great-great grandparents and generations before them. Some who are you and where your history begun and minds started in a little town called Greenville South Carolina the heart of the slave controversies. And, I am a free woman. What about you when you in denial and confused in who in the hell you are.

JazzLicka. It was the white man who created the one drop rule and made it a law!

Pamela Dishman Africa is also a big melting pot.

+Trahern Moore Tell'em again!

They are not African American. They are simply white with some African ancestry. They are no more Black than I am white due to my white ancestry from slavery. I hate to be suspicious of them but I am. I seriously doubt that these people would be so keen on claiming him if there were no money involved.

LOL

because that is the clip the editor decided to show

Trina Palmier She's cool tho, but why all that pointing? lol ... I always thought pointing at people was so damn rude .... but she's still awesome

She’s the wife of his grandsôn

Because she’s awesome lol

You silly idiot every human being loves Popeye chicken. Nice try though.

@@purplebutterflykisses8004 uh i dont think so. Nice try......

Dude was like 60, actually that wasn't young for a Black Man in that era, or unfortunately now.

@@derricklangford4725 "young for a black man"? He wasn't a crip, you know.. He had a good job as a photographer for a newspaper😄

Tavon Pugh :Hmmm. I never would have known.

Junebug Bastard where? 😂 Folks will say anything on the Internet. Y’all wild.

What is this light skin black man Bullshit.

Angela Burse Everyone is not, but thanks for playing 😀

Gshit bruh

Paula Afia we

Bui

conduit99 also Kenyans but however East Africans are Africans

conduit99 im East African habesha and what I’m saying that we all look beautiful and no Kenyans are mostly masaai and oromias and they’re Nilotic just as Ethiopians and Sudanese... bantus are in some parts of Rwanda and mostly they are Congolese Central Africans and they are BEAUTIFUL their features are gorgeous their body shape is wonderful god created beauty among all Africans north south east west or Central African We are gorgeous and we are one

subsystem101 I don’t understand why I laugh so hard when they call eastern Africans big foreheads😂 it’s like laughing on North African person telling him that his teeth are big or like telling a West African person that his nose is wide or like telling a South African person that his eyes look like Jackie chan ... stop it please.... yet the big forehead is the mark of eastern Africans😂 I’m dead

conduit99 ugly wow racist east africans don't you guys dare claim to be black because we don't accept you

subsystem101 yup i agree and they are mostly located in Congo in heart (central) of Africa and some of them had immigrated to eastern Africa since there was a huge kingdom for bantus however consider using the word bantu connected to royalty just as all African tribes and the fact that every African person has a minor percentage of Bantu blood even if it was 0.1% Bantu are beautiful and royal as all African tribe I’m not Bantu I’m mixture of African tribes though it bothers me how Africans act racist bc of what some bad white people have programmed and brainwashed us it’s just disturbing

@KORA SADLER that's awesome!! I can go back to my great- grandmother who was 💯% Cherokee on my dad's side . I'm definitely going to get a DNA test to find out more!

That’s beautiful 🤩

Black is dominant my sister!

@@blockbeater28 No it's not all races are equal

@@aandrewa4238 Explain yourself I have facts soooo…..

I'm so sorry, but G-d bless you for caring and looking beyond race. Race is only a big deal when people make it a big deal. If the words "white" and "black" were not in this title, then this video probably wouldn't even get that many views. Let's just be Americans.

Do this gene ancestry testing and you probably can find out something

That is so sad. I’m so sorry he was disowned. No one should feel what he went through. We are human and we live under the same sky. Wish people would stop discriminating based on someone’s race. We all are human and have more things in common than differences

Sad for you, hopefully you’ll find out the information you seek

I have an entire maternal family line I’ll never know... it’s so sad and my family still bears the trauma Peace and blessings to you ❤️🧡

Kkkkkkki

Amen

thats a scientific fact I recently found out. apparently, the first human came from africa and his descendants emigrated and evolved as a result of enviromental factors

@Nature who care a racist is going to be racist no matter what

@Q B most republicans don't believe in science, are you a republican?

TechnoTroubadour he also had similar features to the black woman who was also a descendant. 2:31

Yes they put a lot of cream in the coffee over the years in fact it looks like it's all cream now

He has a clearly black nose.

TechnoTroubadour. Omg i thought the same thing.

Still, he was probably racist before he found out.

He said a mouthful lol

J walker Probably the same way. They are just a little richer due to his pics. Easy money. Lol.

They are not black. You go anywhere in the world biracial people are not considered black, why would be people who are 2-3 generations removed from a black person be considered black. They are not black and do not live the lives of black people in America. They are white people with some African ancestry, that's it.

Depends on how much credit they can gain😃😃

They are not black......

J P-Smith honey they aren’t black

even their ancestor got significant white ancestry in him , so he wasn t only black he was black and white mix

God bless you and your family ❤️

Darwinism at its finest.

A lot of white people really want to be black.

^ on god

@@marksmall1476 That's pathetic.

Right, lol we all probably black & white

@@MagnificentHealingCreations Yes🦁

@@MagnificentHealingCreations I Agree

@Angel maybe, but now it’s for love! We’re you around when slavery was? We’re you around when colonisation was? No, I didn’t think so, but you sound so bitter!

Nobody is White or Black we are all different shades of Brown

not true

You truly believe that?

100% true! Fuck the comments above mine lmao 😂

@@thenbagreatteller1855 ha if you say so

@Mugiwara Zee smh

thats pretty cool

Yeah i heard something similar

She white.

I'm not surprised. She has a certain swag of confidence about her.

That makes sense I haven't heard many white people names rhonda

@Michelle house music Chapman Yup soo true and lol Egyptians are close to blacks as expected anyways :)

I got the impression he wasn't erased, but his race wasn't talked about. That makes sense for the times. If the grandmother could pass as white, it made an easier life for her.

He was buried.

I took that to mean that he learned about how one drop of black blood made a person black, and the different "levels" of mixed race people. It is quite complicated.

@@euniceprobert9060 yeah I wasn't sure what he meant it kind threw me I just found it funny even the way he said it.

@@jermaineedwards8384 did somewhat diffuse things

So he got whited out. And when reparations are issued out, these white people will be the first ones to accept it.

@@blackbird396 they will and they cant be refused! They've done their genealogy and found their ancestral roots to our culture!

@Umbuko DaJuko No, that's not how genetics work. His genes are strong because in his grandchildren and great grandchildren you can still see his bone structure, their underlying skin tones and dark wavy hair though they are twice removed.

@Umbuko DaJuko They still look like him. Dark, curly hair, dark undertones in skin color should be an indication that a white person may have something else in them but that's a conversation most aren't ready for.

@@yolandawilson6619 I don't see it. I think people just like to say they can see similarity or people look like this person or that. Not everyone looks alike.

@@milkandspice1074 I'm speaking of his bone structure and features. He does resemble his grandfather the same as anyone else can resemble other members in their family. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist nor does it mean that people "just like to say they see something". There are various ways people look like people and it doesn't have to be identical. I'm sure you look like other people in your family the same as I do.

@@yolandawilson6619 People say I look like a lot of people I do not look like. And a lot of people have that bone structure. There really isn't a resemblance.

Dionne Francis he helped make that choice.

Happened to black natives in Australia too thanks to successful government policy.

I agree we're all interconnected.

Rubbish. These ppl are white so is your husband.

Cool!

@@aussies_are_white0057 Aussies are immigrants, few people are "pure"🙂 No shame in that

All of us really only know so much about our ancestry. We need to love ourselves othets and our heratige.

Ikr 😂😂😂😂

They might look pale and white on the outside but on the inside they are a beautiful rainbow 🌈 🌈

the title said “white family” nobody is disputing that

😂 And your still ignorant...

@Mugiwara Zee let me set your dumb ass straight there's a thing called genetic throwbacks. There are genetic tests that supposedly can tell you what races are in your background. I'm not wasting my time on an explanation for an embesell such as yourself.. check yourself before you respond. You Ignorant fuck up

EXACTLY

You and your two idiot followers on here are spiteful, angry, ugly and without any heart or soul. People are finding out more now regarding their ancestry and are interested in the history. Have you morons thought to do the same? Or is it that you know if you researched your lines and had a famous or wealthy family you'd go for the money...of course YOU would. Not everybody feels the same. Some people love genealogy for the sake of tying lines together. Some do it to find truths in families and very clearly, some dunderheads as yourselves would do it merely for profit out of spite. Smdh, you still haven't learned...

That simple.

@@norskawarrior1919 You are the idiots here. We want to know their relationship with black people before this discovery which took so long for them to even know.

@@themobileentrepreneur are you brain dead? I am the "idiots" here? Well now, I can see I'm dealing with a true genius now...smdh Wtf does that family have to prove to anyone? NOTHING! They found out they have a famous ancestor they knew nothing about before and were curious about it. Their ancestor just so happened to be black, well whoop di doo. I'm quite sure that many more families will find out amazing things in their ancestral lineage and I THINK THAT'S AWESOME! As for people who choose to race bait, well that's simply because they are ignorant and hate filled. Race is and was a man-made concept simply used to divide and conquer. I see that some are still living in that conquered mentality, which BTW NOT every one does. There are people all over the world of every shade and every experience in life is unique and different. Shame that your brain just can't grasp beyond your mediocre ideology on real life...smh...sad really.

PEACE TO YOU, MARY :)

Jerry Smith You bought the lie of the RACIST One Drop Rule created to maintain White Supremacy in America. Mary HAS EVERY RIGHT to acknowledge BOTH her parents whose love created her and not PRETEND she is only Black! What is a person who has a Chinese mother and White Father, Chinese? OF COURSE NOT!

Jerry Smith So, you're a racist?

BILLY BOBCAT JR omfg, brah, shut up

Jim Johnson skull is not what you determine race only but DNA for the most part

It's never too late. People haven't been taught.

@@615BlackBarbie They're not Israel because he didn't have any sons.

It’s really not their fault. The truth was hidden from them. Now they want to preserve his legacy and give him credit for his works that he never received. Whats so wrong with that? It would be different if they knew and were just now coming out. The truth was literally intentionally kept from them.

@@Shahmar facts!!

@@toxicpinkfairy they'll be claiming reparations if it ever happens,smh

bluedasher74 hey genius. Because may be to them they don't look biracial. YOU think they do

There are many white americans with dark pigmentation from spain, russia, from the caucasus from italy or greece etc. Pete sampras was also very dark Do you think all europeans look like germans or brits

And i guess you knew how it was to be black back then? Lol shit do you know how it is NOW?

There is no blame in choosing to make their life easier by "passing". Race was a immoral social construct based roughly on ethnicity. The disadvantages of being LABELLED negro/colored in a racist society are clear.

P Watson right, they’re not descendants of rape victims. That relationship was consensual. Hell they were married. Erasing him was a means of survival in those times.

G&D Maxwell I

G&D Maxwell Thank you I am also of black/white/Asian/Native American heritage, and I embrace all of them (even without a DNA test).

subsystem101 and people like you are vile creatures who should be cast back into hell. I don't care what color you are. Who are you to judge anyone else?

Indeed, mixed is not the same as being white or black or red/yellos, it´s exactly what the term means: a mix of different lineages and King Ganaway was mixed himself, to start with, something which can be easily seen by his photo. Also, one of my brother´s youth friends looked completely Afro-Brazilian, had very dark skin but had one of his greatfathers as a very white (reddish white by the way, as he would describe his granddad) Portuguese man!

G&D Maxwell no disrespect but you do know black people come in different shades that's what makes us special. Just because you're light doesn't make you mixed. My mother is light with green / grey eyes n she is fully black and proud. Trust and believe white people are not out here claiming blacks because of a 1% ounce of European ancestry.

😂

I disagree... I say do you.... life is so expensive.... If one of your ancestors (Black or White) was smart enough to live you something of value... than BANK on it. As long as you can prove it.

Mattie love just stop don't be making that type of assumption about them

Mattie love, You bet your sweet ass thats the reason.

Mattie love Shit, don't think black folks don't exploit their relatives/ancestors too. shitttttt. 😂😂😂😂😂

Everybody dressed like that in those days.Even poor people. But, you're right: he does look good in that neat suit.

William Buck Exactly

no we are all not. many many people get dna tests and are 100% white european or black african or asian etc.

Wrong, 23andme determines I'm 100% Northwest European.

William Buck I'm 100% WHITE so nah

Since God created humanity through ONE COUPLE when you face him you'll have to acknowledge that truth - we are all ONE RACE, HUMAN. We just have different ETHNICITIES, with hair and skin that adapted to various regions of the world. That's why when the Jews were scattered throughour the world, today DNA PROVES there are Black Jews, Indian Jews, Chinese Jews etc. They are not converts but DIRECT DESCENDANTS and have written history that chronicled their journey from Israel.

Yeah how will they face white friends? They will probably get stupid jokes about Black towards them, that's how insidious racism is.

They should rejoice because Jesus was black . Know your history. Pope knows and honors with most of Europe a Black Madonna and black child aka Jesus.

Such an ignorant comment

Waykers 13 lol

Lol