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To: spodefly
I never really thought I would hear the phrase "outed as a fake black person" ...

I believe this goes on more than anyone knows.

Especially if a person is one "race or ethnicity" growing up and living around people of a "different race or ethnicity." People like to fit in.

I just found another famous example, this one a musician in the 1900's:

Mezz Mezzrow

29 posted on 06/14/2015 7:35:21 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes; spodefly
This was a classic example of the phenomenon:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.asp

https://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrNM

56 posted on 06/14/2015 9:18:34 PM PDT by oblomov
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