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The book could have been called black like her

Most people are mixed race. No surprise here. What simply makes you white or black is merely the color of your skin.

dark people don`t come in all colors

Black people come in limited shades of black and dark brown

It wasn’t G-d it was you😮 Stop the excuses, so annoying when religious people do this.

Just take the test Rachael. Covertly

How was her mother really black when the huge majority of her ancestors were white? Dr Henry Louis Gates hosts the show, Finding Your Roots. Half of his ancestors are white (a big shock at first), and he now knows that it's nearly unheard of for African Americans to have no European DNA. Just about all African Americans do not show up as fully Sub Saharan African. Usually, those people are not identifying with their white heritage when they discover this.

I found out through my DNA, that I am more white, than she is black, and I look 100% black. My identity is black with white heritage. She was correct to identify herself as she did. I thank her for her courage and sharing her story.

My family is from Louisiana my great grandmother was French white skinned blue eyes and my great grandfather was black all their children could pass for white my grandmother had 7 children and all but 3 could pass as white my father is the eldest my mother's parents are Indian my sisters and I are brown skinned the point is my family stayed true to who they were no matter what and proud of how God made them. I think her mother was in more fear of what would happen to her if she was found out so to me she would have been better off being her self.

Her story kinda reminds you of that movie Imitation of life

I sympathize with her mother fully! Her situation breaks my heart. I have 2 daughters. One with brown hair and eyes and with olive skin in winter and brown skin in summer. And another daughter, blond blue-eyed, with such fair skin that she tans pink, and never even gets the lightest shade of brown from the sun. One favors their common father, the other favors me, their common mother. The darker daughter has experienced covert, as well as overt, racism since before she understood what it was. My blonde daughter has experienced NO racism. EVER. So full sisters, with an identical racial heritage, that have very different experiences, due ONLY to their looks and coloring. I can see that opting to pass as white (even with the cost of the sacrifice), was a viable solution in the USA, in her mother’s lifetime. For her own sake and for her children’s sake. It would not surprise me if my darker daughter would try to pass as whiter than she visually is, if he could. I support her however she deals with the daily/weekly racism that she experiences. It’s heartbreaking to realize that she is perceived as lesser than her sister, just because of the ranking of races in general society. In closing - as the author also states, the VILLAIN here is RACISM - only racism. It affects the victims tremendously. THANK YOU for writing the book, and thank you to the journalist for reporting on it and keeping this true story alive!

She is white has a little black. Who cares! She is a nice lady.

This is so lame.

I love this interview so much

There’s nothing in her appearance that would have you believe she had any black in her. 8% is not a lot.

Didn't Thomas Jeffersons children by Sally Hemmings pass for white ? I know there were no photographs then but I would love to see a photo of Sally

April 14th ,2024 Amazing! Incredible advice. I am addicted to my thoughts. Trying to solve a problem that needs the help of others ,who have no intention of helping . I meditate daily but have trouble with thinking while meditating. . So I need to be comfortable in the boundaries I have set. No amount of thinking will change the situation. My biggest challenge is stopping the catastrophic thoughts! This video was extremely helpful. I will purchase the book.

Dr Robin brings such a sweet compassion to her powerful words and wisdom

They were Creole and they're a lot of families like that in Louisiana some light who could pass and some lighter than most but couldn't pass

It doesn't matter what you actually are. People will treat you based on what they think you are.

Beautifully said❣️ Ricky is so proud of you❣️Love you🤍

Pastor Cyd is our forever First Lady. She and Pastor Ricky were our Pastors in every sense of the word. Her life now is a living, breathing example of graciousness and faith through all that life would throw at us. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Thank you for sharing Cyd! I admire your strength and courage as you continue to walk out and trust God on this journey. You were definitely deeply loved by Ricky, and I know his earthly presence is greatly missed! We all, as a family, wish we could have one more opportunity to spend time together laughing with him and enjoying his favorite dessert…blue bell and magic shell! ❤️

Their story is perhaps one of my favorite love stories. They both played an instrumental part in mine and my husband’s story as well. This piece stirred so many emotions and I am eternally grateful that the LORD blessed them to be our church leaders. I love and miss them so much.

Thanks for sharing.

Very beautiful story of love and faith!! Ricky did love his Girl Cyd and his sons.

He is a man of God, I believe him. He said when the plane hit, the only thing that was standing was his desk that he flew under, and the bible was on top of it 🙏. However, to answer his question about how his wife would've paid all the bills if he were to have perished due to the attack, LIFE INSURANCE!

why does being eight percent African heritage make her black? that's ridiculous. she's still ninety two percent white.

A very familiar story in my family. I didn't know I had any black ancestors until 20 years after my mother died. I happened to find them in my genealogy research. My father was also very bigoted so obviously didn't know about it. I'm 5 percent black and 2 percent Native American. It was exciting to find out I wasn't of homogenized white European descent exclusivly. I am also proud of my Scandinavian, West European ancestors as well, but I feel richer with the mix.

I'm Brazilian. Here everyone is mixed race, except for imigrants and their children. Our country was populated by the children of mixed couples (Europeans, Africans, Indigenous and, later on, Asians). So, being mixed is basically all we know here and I love it so much! It makes me feel so culturally rich! Each race has so much good to offer this world in their own unique way and to have so many of these wonderful unique genes in me and, on top of that, feel I can resonate with every race in the world, is truly a bless to me! And, if I were to find out I'm actually only one specific race, I might feel being that race, too, but I'd also still feel mixed, cause that's how I was brought up, among all races mixed together.

Brave Strong Smart woman

does anyone know about dr. lukasik's father's side of her family? what was their reaction to all of this? did they know? did they care?

I am puzzled as to why this woman's % mixture requires or even permits "living as a mixed race woman", while one generation more of dilution would have had her being the African-American version of Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas"-a target of anger and humor for "claiming" mixed heritage when she has grown up with "white privilege"? Who gets to decide where the line should be, and whether and when we have to choose a side? I have no idea where the unwritten rules would have us, but in the Deep South segregation law, I and my siblings would have been black, it seems, having a documented "one drop" (in our case, a 8th---or more likely 16th, probably) fraction of African blood. We grew up with black friends who teased me and one of my sisters for appearing mixed in a way that was obvious to them, with very full lips and noses. However, we laughed it off, too., because I am blonde and the older sister has the fullest li-s and nose, brunette hair and hazel eyes but white skin. The younger sister is much darker with dark brown hair and eyes and a more narrow nose. We 4 kids all 3 have stick-straight hair, so the younger sister is taken for Italian, or Native American, etc. The youngest brother was both dark and full-featured, and my grandmother swore he looked just like our maternal grandfather, who was (we know now) mixed. He was teased as looking like a "papoose" or Native American. It had never occurred as a possibility to us that we weren't white until decades later, when we discovered secret family photographs. We knew our parents and grandparents on both sides, we thought, and that they were Scotch-Irish and some German. It turns out we have a deceased great" aunt" who was a family secret, and there was only one photo of her. The secret was allegedly not due to her race, which no one ever admitted, but because she was (we had heard whispered, when she was mentioned at all, which was rare) supposedly "illegitimate". We did learn she had suffered so much from low self-esteem (surely due to some sort of rejection or mistreatment) she left the family in her late teens. . Supposedly she eventually became a prostitute (! in a very Protestant and fairly devout family) and had "drunk herself to death" by her 30s. It was very clear from that one black and white photo that she was mixed; she actually looked a lot more African than, for example, many of the "black" celebrities do, with olive skin, wide cheekbones, full lips and thick curly black hair. They said she was "Black Dutch", which like "Black German" supposedly means a subset of Europeans who were brunette and darker-skinned due to slightly different ancestry but not African and officially white regardless. (Those do exist, but it seems they don't look at all like her.) Once we saw that, we also realized that our grandfather, who looked like a pale-golden slightly fuller-lipped Harry Belafonte, was probably also mixed. I am guessing he could pass and she could not, and she was probably not an illegitimate half-sibling, but a giveaway as to one of her parents, who was passing as white. (This would have been about 1885 or so--making her parents among the last generation, maybe, born to former slaves...in Virginia near Thomas Jeffersons's plantation.) So she was rejected to some degree, and left as soon as she could, and it broke her brother's heart...just a guess. The aunt died in a part of northwestern Virginia where I was told there is a large population of African-Americans with auburn hair (which I and my mother were both born with) and an unusual shade of grey eyes (which I have). Those auburn-haired people are said by some outsiders in Virginia to be Jefferson's descendants; I have no idea if it's true. That generation of our family have all died decades ago, so we don't know and may never know the whole story, but we know the grandfather and great aunt both became estranged from the larger family, and were devoted to each other. There is a vague suggestion that something was unhealthy in their devotion to each other. It sounded so creepy we assumed they were hinting at incestuous feelings. We realize now that just the separateness between them and the larger family and devotion to each other would have required explanation and been resented. I think it's more likely they could not understand how he would willingly choose his sister over being from a clearly European "normal white family". But those hints also shut down any inquiries very quickly, because who wants to learn about something potentially that creepy? He became a sailor, married our Iowa-farm-raised white grandmother, and was a bit of a womanizer, so it is unlikely he had some secret yearning for his sister. It was often said that when she died, though, he was never the same after that, and left all contact with his own parents. We wonder what the earlier generations knew, or what our mother really wondered, if she wasn't equally clueless....but we know now why our black friends laughed so hard. Looking at Elvis Presley and his mother, I see what to me hints at a similar thread of genes, though I have no idea about his heritage. I know there are lots of family secrets lost to the generation 2 steps down. It seems likely to be true especially in families that were in slave territory at the time of slavery, who can't trace the heritage back clearly on both sides without some fuzzy details. So where does this leave someone supposedly stealing culture? If your appearance hints at African blood and you love the blues and gospel and earthy dancing styles being "obviously" white, are there any question marks to be explored? What would happen to a supposedly renegade music career if it was learned, for example, you'd come by those preferences "honestly"? SO I wonder: As there are not many multi-generational African-Americans without at least some Caucasian blood, any seeming 50-50% mix is already more than 50 percent white. And I'll bet there's a little--or maybe a lot- more back upstream mixing than America realizes. The landscape is confusing, regardless. When is being proud of your heritage claiming something you haven't earned? When is it showing pride in what has been hidden as if it was bad? How much information and proof is necessary, once you learn the truth?

Stan The Man! They need to make a movie about him and Brian Clark's escape from the South Tower

I love Rachel.She is beautiful and intelligent.One very sexy woman.

She is a very gifted artist. Its good that she supports the cause of anti racism against blacks and uses her art to express that. However, the subject is her race. Not her views, feelings or how she relates. Each of us has a specific, true race. It is mentally unhealthy for her to flatly deny that and hide behind the cloak of a different race.

Too bad the drug companies will be working towards her down fall

Liar, Liar, Liar!

Being mixed race does NOT mean you're black. It means you are black AND white. Full stop.

Uh-Oh... This is starting to sound like many "trans" people who say: "I feel like...., therefore, I AM. And all of you must believe me, and go along with my delusions!" Rachel is literally saying that she feels like a black woman on the inside, so, therefore, all of everyone else must go along with her delusions. Many "Trans-sexual" women say that the ONLY THING. THAT MATTERS IS HOW YOU FEEL ON THE INSIDE. So if a man says he is a woman, it legally becomes unequivocally necessary to go along with the delusions. However, this has become a National Farce because male perverts are showing up in womens spaces, claiming to BE women. Therefore, they are in positions of being able to assault real women.

This is an interesting conversation. Obama is called the first black president, yet his mother was white.

So from what I am learning is that God didn’t create one man (Adam) and a one woman (Eve) from the beginning, but created many Adams and Eves in all the races and we happened to intermingled through the years.

L🤫L You're fired 👉🏼 OnlyFan$ 🚪🤦🏾‍♂️

I have respect for this woman here 😌👌💯

Imitation of Life was a great movie of a black woman living as a "passing"

Rachel is beautiful 💕