I didnrt expect such ramifications ftom the Trans Racial Miss ManTan's stories to pop up quite yet...but I think this might well be one !
Posted on 06/23/2015 10:12:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Verda Byrd, who was adopted by black parents as a child, finds out 70 years later that she is white.
Verda Byrd recently found out after seven decades of living as a black woman that she was born to white parents.
Although some may view Byrd's situation as vaguely similar to that of Rachel Dolezal's recent outing as white by her parents after several years of her passing as black, Byrd is vehement that her case is not the same and she gets in twist every time the former NAACP leader's name is mentioned, KHOU reports.
"She lied about her race," Byrd said. "I didn't lie about my race because I didn't know."
Byrd was born in 1942 to people she described as white transients. Her biological father, Earl Beagle, walked out on his family. Then Daisy Beagle, her birth mother, had five children to feed as a single mom. After she fell 30 feet to the ground in a trolley accident, the state of Missouri took the children, considering the mother unable to care for them.
That's how little Jeanette Beagle came to be adopted by a well-off black family from Newton, Kan.: Ray and Edwinna Wagner changed the child's name to Verda, the news station notes, and there began Byrd's life as a black person. She was raised as a light-skinned black kid, the Wagners' only child, living in comfort on Ray's salary as a railroad porter.
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
Bogus tale. It’s obvious that she’s partly black.
“Whose Birth Parents Are White Is Outraged Over Rachel Dolezal’s Deceit”
Was that title in English?
That photo is on the web captioned that it is Hoboken, NJ.
Thank you. I didn’t know that Public Service’s trolley system utilized an elevated structure in Hoboken.
I remember ENQUIRER magazine running an article about a white boy raised by blacks. This was many years before THE JERK was made into a movie.
***by a well-off black family from Newton, Kansas***
IMPOSSIBLE! I have it on good authority that the white man is keeping the black man down! Sarc:
Thanks
Didn’t you see THE JERK?
Made me look — and you are right. Might have been a few generations back, but looks like she might have a little bit mixed in there.
Hard to tell from that picture, but she may have more Black blood than did her adoptive mother.
in the photo that I posted in message 29...this thread. its even easier to make her as “black”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3303286/posts?page=29#29
^^^^^this^^^^^
There was a Dairy Maid company in Philadelphia.
Another FReeper identified it as Hoboken.
Today’s news has become all race, all the time. Race, race, race. Thanks to that and the professional agitators both private citizens and government “workers”, racial tensions have never been this corrosive and flammable in my lifetime.
I saw that after I posted.
It’s either that or gay all the time.
Don’t know what she’s got her panties in a bunch about -
according to today’s “rules”, you can
“identify as”
whatevertheheck you want to.
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