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[NitaX]

Who wrote this, Mariah?

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Honestly, I think this woman's OMG, I'M BLACK AND I WANNA BE ONE WITH MY PEOPLE is just as odd and off putting as her sisters being all, uhm, we do not talk about Fight Club.

[pixy0stix]

So her grandmother was black?

That's a serious family secret to keep. Although, my family has a pretty messed up secret that is going to die with my aunt and gpa, and I have no idea how to approach the side of the family it effects.

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Jul 9, 2012 23:00:56 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

So her grandmother was black?

That's a serious family secret to keep.

It's really not all that uncommon for the era. If you could pass, you often did. Plenty of black families, especially in the south have tales of brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, and aunts who moved up North and were never heard from again and it's not because they wandered into John Wayne Gacy's crawlspace.

The secret may only have been kept by one person if they told everyone else a lie about their background and no one ever came looking to call them out.

[NitaX]

Pixy - you have to look at the time frame though. 1920s, 1930s. It's possible the grandmother was fair skinned enough to pass for white. That may be why no one ever knew about it.

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There's a movie called Pinky that discusses that actually. Pinky was a black woman who could pass for white and did so to get her nursing degree. Then she comes back to old crackerland and works for a white lady who treats her like shit.

(And no, I didn't know about this until well after pinky was pinky, mmmkay??)

[basilosaurus]

Jul 9, 2012 23:00:47 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

Honestly, I think this woman's OMG, I'M BLACK AND I WANNA BE ONE WITH MY PEOPLE is just as odd and off putting as her sisters being all, uhm, we do not talk about Fight Club.

Yeah, I'm there with you. I can imagine being surprised/intrigued and wanting to know more, but ecstatic? No.

[puppiesandrainbows]

Jul 9, 2012 23:00:47 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

Honestly, I think this woman's OMG, I'M BLACK AND I WANNA BE ONE WITH MY PEOPLE is just as odd and off putting as her sisters being all, uhm, we do not talk about Fight Club.

These were my exact thoughts on reading that.

The child molesting grandpa was horrifying. I'd move out of state still pregnant if I were that lady. And I'd also move out of state with the breast feeding grandma. I think Prudies response was not strong enough.

[marynjoe]

I agree that the word "estatic" seems interesting. I'd expect "fascinated", "intrigued" or something along those lines. To expect her sisters to feel the same way is odd as well. Everyone deals with unexpedted news in different ways.

[iammalcolmx]

Jul 9, 2012 23:11:26 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

There's a movie called Pinky that discusses that actually. Pinky was a black woman who could pass for white and did so to get her nursing degree. Then she comes back to old crackerland and works for a white lady who treats her like shit.

(And no, I didn't know about this until well after pinky was pinky, mmmkay??)

I have seen the movie, I am not even going to lie!! I was also a large fan of The Human Stain.