just picked up a copy of her book, and I can't wait to read it. Thank you to the author and descendants of Daniel Murray for sharing their insightful backstory.
That was my family. They originated as the children of wealthy, powerful white men, originally owned by their dads, and given advanced educations. My great grandfather was private secretary to his industrialist father, traveling all over the world with him, keeping his records, his appointments, and multi lingual. Another, born a slave, was educated by his white father, earned a masters degree, law degree, and served 2 terms in US Congress.
Maybe I need to read her writings, but I didn't quite get the beginnings of the original black elite. Did it start with former slaves or with free blacks who were never slaves?
That is hardly surprising. In the days of Jim Crow racial segregation, some light-skinned African Americans made the decision to "pass" for white for many reasons. Some of them abandoned their darker-skinned families to fully embrace "passing for white." Families tend to have secrets or omissions that can obscure family histories. One book I would highly recommend to you is "WHITE LIKE HER: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing" by Gail Lukasik, which was published in February 2021.
@@KOMET2006 The people you condemn as "African Americans" of a lighter hue were nothing of the sort. If you look white because of European genes then you ARE white. Why do you want to claim members of a race that your people hate so much?
@@adpowell1414 - I have no idea if you're African American or not. You fail to appreciate that African Americans come in all shades. I have several relatives whom any outsider would regard as "white" because of their fair skin. But they are as much African American as I am. I fail to understand why you are under the impression that I condemn lighter-skinned African Americans. I do not condemn them, because I haven't walked in their shoes. It is all too easy for us living in the present day world to cast aspersions on those lighter-skinned African Americans who opted to "pass for white" during the era of Jim Crow racial segregation. Furthermore, I have been fortunate enough to travel in Latin America over the past 35 years. In Brazil, I have made the acquaintance of many Afro-Brazilians who also come in various shades of skin color.
@@KOMET2006 There is no such thing as a "light-skinned African American," no matter what you call your whiter relatives. If you LOOK white because of European ancestry, then you ARE white. Calling yourself "black" when you are white is a sign of an inferiority complex.
I love how he just found out that he had black ancestry which means his family has been living white for generations these people were not friends of black people if anything they were mere buffer classes for the white supremacist elite
Reparations for torture and murder of our ancestors allowed by this country's government Royalties, however, for the unpaid labor investments made into building the greatest superpower country on the planet
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just picked up a copy of her book, and I can't wait to read it. Thank you to the author and descendants of Daniel Murray for sharing their insightful backstory.
I am going to get this lady's books.......well done research and an honest lecturing . kudos to her and the family................
mizfrenchtwist we
So will I. I know I will be spellbound. Enjoy. Blessings
The Grand daughter spoke beautiful words.
That was my family. They originated as the children of wealthy, powerful white men, originally owned by their dads, and given advanced educations. My great grandfather was private secretary to his industrialist father, traveling all over the world with him, keeping his records, his appointments, and multi lingual. Another, born a slave, was educated by his white father, earned a masters degree, law degree, and served 2 terms in US Congress.
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They should do a film about the book
I quote Malcom X "Said who Taught you to Hate yourself"?
Maybe I need to read her writings, but I didn't quite get the beginnings of the original black elite. Did it start with former slaves or with free blacks who were never slaves?
Freeman probably
Daniel Murray’s granddaughter hid the fact that she had Black grandparents.
Mulatto Elite grandparents, not "black."
That is hardly surprising. In the days of Jim Crow racial segregation, some light-skinned African Americans made the decision to "pass" for white for many reasons. Some of them abandoned their darker-skinned families to fully embrace "passing for white." Families tend to have secrets or omissions that can obscure family histories. One book I would highly recommend to you is "WHITE LIKE HER: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing" by Gail Lukasik, which was published in February 2021.
@@KOMET2006 The people you condemn as "African Americans" of a lighter hue were nothing of the sort. If you look white because of European genes then you ARE white. Why do you want to claim members of a race that your people hate so much?
@@adpowell1414 - I have no idea if you're African American or not. You fail to appreciate that African Americans come in all shades. I have several relatives whom any outsider would regard as "white" because of their fair skin. But they are as much African American as I am.
I fail to understand why you are under the impression that I condemn lighter-skinned African Americans. I do not condemn them, because I haven't walked in their shoes. It is all too easy for us living in the present day world to cast aspersions on those lighter-skinned African Americans who opted to "pass for white" during the era of Jim Crow racial segregation.
Furthermore, I have been fortunate enough to travel in Latin America over the past 35 years. In Brazil, I have made the acquaintance of many Afro-Brazilians who also come in various shades of skin color.
@@KOMET2006 There is no such thing as a "light-skinned African American," no matter what you call your whiter relatives. If you LOOK white because of European ancestry, then you ARE white. Calling yourself "black" when you are white is a sign of an inferiority complex.
What a gorgeous person.
Thanks
Reparations for American decedent of slavery...ADOS
I love how he just found out that he had black ancestry which means his family has been living white for generations these people were not friends of black people if anything they were mere buffer classes for the white supremacist elite
@@badasslove I agree
Reparations for torture and murder of our ancestors allowed by this country's government
Royalties, however, for the unpaid labor investments made into building the greatest superpower country on the planet
@@badasslove having black ancestory doesn't make you 100% black though..he is biracial
Not ADOS only all of the families proven to have been here.
That pale young man know one in his line is melanated & if so he got it from the Moors in Europe not from anyone in America
They were both in America and Europe
@@lynnwoodcarter3486 thank you Sir 👏🏽, my thoughts exactly.
@@teemadarif8243 no prob
10:21 Thats called cash Reparations.