CBS News' Michelle Miller on searching for her mother and a sense of "belonging" in new memoir

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @midnite22767
    @midnite22767 Год назад +33

    What a tragedy that Michelle's mother and her relatives didn't get a chance to see her grow up and get to reap the rewards of seeing her success in life. Michelle's father and family deserve all the credit for the woman she is today. Some children might have had their spirits permanently crushed from this rejection. So glad she had the wherewithal to not ignorance keep her from achieving excellence!

  • @rosellipara6119
    @rosellipara6119 Год назад +35

    Michelle Miller, you inspire us all and this is so powerful. Thank You!!!!

  • @peacenow4456
    @peacenow4456 Год назад +12

    Many of us life thru childhood trauma heaped upon us by a parent. Never burden your own children w your old pain. It too burdens them and they don't deserve to shoulder your pain. Evolve from this pain and move on w new empathy for others.

  • @jeni688
    @jeni688 Год назад +13

    Why are some of the comments below so mean? This was a lovey interview! Thank you!

  • @wileyjohnson5681
    @wileyjohnson5681 Год назад +30

    Those black families always accept mixed race black children. Angela Yee from the Breakfast Club was just talking about her Chinese father family shut her father off after they found out he was having a black child. SMH

    • @Littlething41
      @Littlething41 Год назад

      Wow, every time I'd look at her I'd wonder about her background and thought Yee was a radio name.........

    • @culturavibe
      @culturavibe Год назад +2

      @@Littlething41hahah Adriannnnn I know this is you. You didn’t know Angela Yee was half Chinese girl 🤣

  • @freema9246
    @freema9246 Год назад +17

    Sometimes you just gotta accept facts.
    I see a lot of people seeking out those that abandoned them....I say spend that energy elsewhere.

  • @2075vj
    @2075vj Год назад +9

    Can’t wait to read your book. All the best to you sister I have a similar story. Stay strong.!❤

    • @janetjohnson9690
      @janetjohnson9690 Год назад +1

      Yes I have a similar story pertaining to my father.

  • @jimmybuffet4970
    @jimmybuffet4970 Год назад +27

    SUCH courage to open up!

  • @judd442009
    @judd442009 Год назад +5

    Michelle: Thanks for sharing your story with us (and the wonderful family photos!).

  • @nicolaablett7790
    @nicolaablett7790 Год назад +12

    Life is a indeed a challenge
    Blessings

  • @rachel2404
    @rachel2404 Год назад +28

    It’s hard when parents are immature or don’t behave in a loving way. It’s so common. Not everyone is blessed with a loving family. But we can create our own fictive kin.

  • @rubythomas5895
    @rubythomas5895 Год назад +8

    Awesome story Michelle I think you are a beautiful person inside and outside❤

  • @jjjutika2594
    @jjjutika2594 Год назад +4

    Your story will help so many 👋👋👋

  • @edwconr
    @edwconr Год назад +2

    Thanks for posting.

  • @CompleteHoneyBee
    @CompleteHoneyBee Год назад +7

    Love you Michelle! ❤❤❤ I admire you now than I ever have before.

  • @wileyjohnson5681
    @wileyjohnson5681 Год назад +12

    The other little girl in the picture was her half sister from the other white woman her father was actually married to.

    • @marytheresejacksonlutz2533
      @marytheresejacksonlutz2533 Год назад +1

      I was wondering who the other girl was. Thank you for clarifying

    • @marvinabigby5509
      @marvinabigby5509 Год назад

      Her mother isn't white she is Hispanic and black according to her
      The other little girl is her adopted sister his wife couldn't have children

  • @denisematthewsk
    @denisematthewsk Год назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your story with us❤

  • @laverite1050
    @laverite1050 Год назад +3

    Heart breaking story.

  • @Littlething41
    @Littlething41 Год назад +2

    "It cost you your mother" WOW...........💔

  • @paulettetheus1482
    @paulettetheus1482 Год назад +7

    Everyone should be able to tell there story without people always seem to think it is for money. Michelle, works she just needed to vent

  • @JustBree716
    @JustBree716 Год назад +1

    My cousin's have a similar story. They are biracial and their white mom who is from Canada was told she had to choose. And my cousin's dad and his side of the family raised them and they are well. I saw them a few years ago in Georgia for a family get together.

  • @mamabear3217
    @mamabear3217 Год назад +10

    Her father is beautiful 😍

  • @mamabear3217
    @mamabear3217 Год назад +3

    ❤ Michelle and love Nate's hair

  • @moontakeen
    @moontakeen Год назад +8

    We are family 👪

  • @davidparham8054
    @davidparham8054 Год назад +1

    God Bless you Michelle 🙏🙏🙏

  • @heraldlee8112
    @heraldlee8112 Год назад +2

    Hope she finds closure and always beautiful saturday mornings

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick5194 Год назад +10

    I'm coming to terms that the one who birthed me, was a racist narcissist etc etc. I'm 59 years old.

  • @caloricIntake22
    @caloricIntake22 Год назад +7

    🥰🥰🥰

  • @naynay7626
    @naynay7626 Год назад

    Finding our true story is a beautiful part of the journey … ☮️

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick5194 Год назад +2

    Nuclear family was coined after 1945, I think I was reading an encyclopedia and nearly flipped out when I seen a family and it listed a family as a nuclear family in 1968, because they were living post WW2 it has been a long time ago so I can't be sure if I mentioned it right.

  • @magnoliaalexander9606
    @magnoliaalexander9606 Год назад +1

    Michelle still missed on Channel 4 news in New Orleans along with Sheba Turk. We love both of ya'll and miss ya'll 💕

  • @abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192
    @abrahamisaacmuciusiii9192 9 месяцев назад +1

    Latinx is such a ridiculous term. Just use Hispanic, Latino, or Latina.

  • @BrandonPenson
    @BrandonPenson Год назад +1

    Hearing Michelle's story is so heartbreaking. It hurts when a parent abandons you. It makes you feel empty or unwanted.
    It's part of why I've been trying to find my father.

  • @araceligomez1544
    @araceligomez1544 Год назад +7

    LatinX DOES NOT exist in the Spanish language. Personally, I like to say I'm Latina/Latino

    • @NellieKAdaba
      @NellieKAdaba Год назад +2

      👍🏿👍🏿

    • @mallorygraf8574
      @mallorygraf8574 Год назад +1

      Yes...I perfer Latina, too. Poor Michelle. As a Latina, it's hard to hear that Michelle's mom family treated her dad and her that way. But some women are strong and some women are not...

    • @monicaldr3711
      @monicaldr3711 Год назад +1

      Yes!! I was wondering if anyone else caught that! We all prefer Latino or Latina 😊

    • @k-love5910
      @k-love5910 Год назад

      Who cares

  • @williamb.8059
    @williamb.8059 Год назад

    Guess what? Latinos can be white, black, Asian etc. And what is LatinX?

  • @citygirlingraham
    @citygirlingraham 6 месяцев назад

    This is not uncommon, sorry the Latino culture here in the US is NOT interested in interracial relationships with the black community. No one wants to talk about this. Her mother disowned her own daughter because her husband was black. The mother’s family made her choose between her family and her husband and daughter. This is so sad…

  • @johnlewis195
    @johnlewis195 Год назад +1

    I didn't know she was married to Mark Moriel...

    • @cdchoux
      @cdchoux Год назад

      Morial, former mayor of New Orleans.

  • @positivepessimist6853
    @positivepessimist6853 Год назад

    I think her father worked for the CIA.

  • @dianeharris8020
    @dianeharris8020 Год назад +1

    mom want to have fun' she did not want no child to stop her

  • @marvinabigby5509
    @marvinabigby5509 Год назад

    Ko

  • @kennethmartinez8731
    @kennethmartinez8731 Год назад

    Hispanic is white
    Not white passing

    • @daphnesmith1686
      @daphnesmith1686 9 месяцев назад

      Noo Hispanic is not a Race it’s a culture. Her mother was of the Spaniard ancestry.

    • @kennethmartinez8731
      @kennethmartinez8731 9 месяцев назад

      @@daphnesmith1686
      White culture for white people

  • @virginiavillalba6425
    @virginiavillalba6425 Год назад +5

    Again....let remenber to pray for Michelle Williams. !!!for her to find some peace!! Is good that wrote a book...but she also should put herself into her mother place...being a young woman and herself pregnant...and maybe her family was one of those very strict latin church related..so...bet she did had lot of mixed feelings..and painful ones....but one never knows...maybe she still could come around...but...👀🤔🥺🌹✨

    • @wileyjohnson5681
      @wileyjohnson5681 Год назад

      Stop making white people excuses
      Her mother was not a teenager
      She was grown adult.

    • @martiwaterman1437
      @martiwaterman1437 Год назад

      Michelle Miller.

    • @virginiavillalba6425
      @virginiavillalba6425 Год назад

      @@martiwaterman1437 of course....don't know what I said Williams..🥴😁😁😁

    • @martiwaterman1437
      @martiwaterman1437 Год назад

      @@virginiavillalba6425 There is the actress named Michelle Williams as well as the Destiny’s Child singer. It’s an easy mistake to make.

  • @22lyric
    @22lyric Год назад

    We ARE only getting her father and grandmother's side

  • @sueandpatrick
    @sueandpatrick Год назад +1

    Oh brother...LatinX?!! She just lost me!!!

  • @vatricegeorge
    @vatricegeorge Год назад

    DEEPLY in LUST

  • @kenyamontijo4212
    @kenyamontijo4212 Год назад +3

    DO NOT BE FOOLED ALL HAVE SOLD THEIR SOUL'S FOR WEALTH FAME AND POWER AND HELP THE RACIST ELITE'S!!!

  • @cricketwireless1203
    @cricketwireless1203 Год назад +1

    gr8 legs

  • @Jay-hr3rh
    @Jay-hr3rh Год назад

    Beautiful women got issues.

  • @1525boy
    @1525boy Год назад

    Why doesn’t Michelle mention her mother’s EXACT Hispanic background? Doesn’t she know? Also, why use such an artificial, meaningless term like “Latinx?”

  • @SLOFO351
    @SLOFO351 Год назад +6

    You're past is nothing compared to what I went through. The way to handle it is to be strong and move on with your head held high.
    Not write a book to complain about it to the world. You're actually profiting on what you whine about.
    Pitiful! Not strong!
    Sorry to put the truth out there! But somebody needed to say it!

    • @martiwaterman1437
      @martiwaterman1437 Год назад +2

      Nobody knows you.

    • @chicarobertson4706
      @chicarobertson4706 Год назад

      Sounds like her father was filled with self-hate himself. Why did he marry into a racist non-black family? He didn't want a black wife and he must've felt that even a racist Mexican was better for him than a black woman. Pitiful...

    • @laurencaulton103
      @laurencaulton103 Год назад +5

      Needlessly rude. What has she done to you? Nothing. You're projecting on somebody you don't even know.

    • @mimiv1347
      @mimiv1347 Год назад +1

      Meow🐈‍⬛. Where’s the stinking cat litter box at?

    • @chesterjade7630
      @chesterjade7630 Год назад +1

      @laurencaulton103 Nasty, mean people. To grow up without a mother is alot for so many reasons.
      I would love to read her book.
      Michelle didn't get on drugs to escape what she was going through.
      Michelle thank you for sharing a important and deep part of your life. May it have a significant impact on someone else's life.

  • @stephennicolasglenn3637
    @stephennicolasglenn3637 Год назад +3

    You're so beautiful Michelle
    Every guy loves you and so I😍😘
    And Dana😍😘
    And Gayle King😍😘

  • @stephennicolasglenn3637
    @stephennicolasglenn3637 Год назад

    sorry i apologize
    I don't know what every guy is thinking