Posted in Biracial, Miscegenation, Race, Triumph, tagged African-American, Biracial, Black, Caucasian, Children, Mixed, Passing, White on April 16, 2011 |
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This image reminds me of a story that my grandfather has told many of times to family members and friends.
When he was growing up in Virginia in the 40′s, a friend of his Grandfathers was Biracial; yet chose to pass for white. The one problem with this was that everyone in their small town knew that the man’s mother was an African-American.
The man decided one day that he was going to leave town and start his life off fresh in a new place; where no one knew him. The man moved all the way to California and he met a Caucasian woman. The woman never doubted the “whiteness” and purity of this man’s “white-blood”. The two married and decided to have a child.
The child was born and looked nothing like the man and woman. The couples baby had took back after the Mixed mans mothers family. That man kept his secret, and continued to pass for white. He viciously abused his wife and people shunned her because it was clear to everyone else that she must have messed around on her husband with a “Negro”.
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