Posted on 06/24/2015 3:05:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Verda Byrd spent the past seven decades of her life as a black woman, but at age 70, she discovered a shocking family secret her parents took to their grave that she's recently made peace with -- she was born white.
Byrd, now 72, was adopted as a baby in 1943 by her black parents, who never told her that her biological parents were actually white, she said, explaining that she only uncovered the truth in 2013 about her birth after she went on a search for her biological parents' history.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Seventy years of ‘White Privilege’ down the drain.
“Navin Johnson. Please pick up the white Courtesy Phone in the Lobby!”
Seventeen SECONDS! :)
Poor lady... Color of skin is what matters not content of character in the obamanation, now the part that matters has been flipped all around.
This woman has what could be seen as negroid features. So it wasn’t so out of line for others to believe the myth. She seems to have been adopted by a loving family. Even still, I’m sure she feels cheated at not knowing about a whole side of her family.
“When I die, and when I’m six feet under, my tombstone is not going to have the word ‘race’ on it. I’m lucky to have two moms and dads.”
She gets it. And ABC News is very, very sad that she does...
a lot of white Americans have some black and/or Indian ancestry and black Americans often have some white and/or Indian ancestry.
The US, especially in the frontier, was never as racially homogenous as made out to be.
The media is obsessed with race.
I hope her adoptive parents are no longer alive, because it appears they gave her a loving home and raised her well.
And she hates those cans.
Of course they are - its the hammer they're using to break this country into itty bitty pieces.
After watching the video, I wish she would get DNA testing. She might find her unknown parents weren’t what the papers say...
Reminds me of a Dave Chappel comedy bit. He plays a blind black man that thinks he is white. He’s a racist to boot.
Very funny.
Ain’t Jemima part 2 ......
I’ve met both types of adoptees. One type that is close to their adoptive family, but still ‘curious’ if not fascinated at the knowledge of having a family link all their own, and still unexplored. Another type may also have been raised by a loving adoptive family, but the child has a personality that leaves them always feeling unsatisfied, and unfullfilled, no matter how nice their new family is. When this second type finally does meet their mysterious ‘missing family’, the sum total feeling is ‘Is that all there is?’
So she be a cracka like dat Dolezal gal?
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