Every pic you posted of your ancestors the resemblance is super strong. Your black and in particular Native ancestry stayed strong throughout several generations. It’s fascinating how the past never truly “dies”.
I used to feel the same way during my 2 yrs following the channel, then I really looked as a social Scientist, as her behaviour patterns demonstrated the systematic subconscious distancing from Black via identity conversion factors i.e. nationality and religious affiliations. The romanticised rationale for passing when the material is very clear via ppl like Dr. Joy degruy, these were maladaptive reactions to VVhite supremacy racism, passing has no benefits except survival or infiltration of a defense/offense (hence chameleon and spies e.g. I eat or be eaten. Blacks that owned slaves are almost always misrepresented as capitalist of fortune rather ,than of legal loopholes to quickly assure collective group freedom and security.
I used to feel the same way during my 2 yrs following the channel, then I really looked as a social Scientist, as her behaviour patterns demonstrated the systematic subconscious distancing from Black via identity conversion factors i.e. nationality and religious affiliations. The romanticised rationale for passing when the material is very clear via ppl like Dr. Joy degruy, these were maladaptive reactions to VVhite supremacy racism, passing has no benefits except survival or infiltration of a defense/offense (hence chameleon and spies e.g. I eat or be eaten. Blacks that owned slaves are almost always misrepresented as capitalist of fortune rather ,than of legal loopholes to quickly assure collective group freedom and security.
Drove through Campti Wednesday . I slowed down to get an appreciation for the place. Your description of the town was spot on. So it just boggles the mind how history plays out. How a young woman who thought she was from Italian,European and middle eastern heritage suddenly finds out she has African and Native American heritage. Just a fascinating story. From a Louisiana native who is old enough to remember the days of racial discrimination, I can sympathize with your relatives. It was a bad time. I for one do not blame them for seeking an easier way out. Passing as white may seem as a rejection of one’s heritage but it was a survival technique at the time. Thank God we are at a different time. We can embrace who we are. Keep up the good work, your videos are an inspiration.
In France, “créole” was originally an adjective: 1) “blanc créole” was a white Frenchman born in the overseas colonies. 2) “noir créole” was a black person born outside of Africa. The term was pejorative: it was believed that whites, in the colonies, softened, even without mixing. The origin of the word came from portuguese "crioulo", via spanish "criollo". The meaning of "crioulo" in the 16th century was "black servant in the master's house". "Criar" is a verb and it means "to breed".
Criollo in Mexico meant 100% Spanish born in Mexico. Seems like it got lost in translation when the French arrived and the meaning mutated. Many Conquistadors were Criollos with the THLAXCALAS they explored from northern Mexico to Florida. Certainly that’s were many Creole’s got Spanish/Indigenous/Mestizo ancestry. I always assume they were just French but that can’t be right. Mexican history in the US has been invisible.
Criar means to breed and Carillo means the ones who were bred or the breeded ones this is why many in the Caribbean will never call ourselves Creole because we know the origin of the word and its derogatory
@@azborderlands However, in Spanish of Spain, "criollo" has a double meaning like in Franch. You can see on the Dictionary of the Real Academia that's on line.
@@azborderlands That's a meaning in the French colonies also. In Louisiana it was used to distinguish Louisiana born enslaved from African born and American born enslaved.
I agree. What's interesting is that now on birth certificates there is so little information! As on my mother's it lists my grandfather's profession and the name of the company he worked for. Also home addresses and places of birth of the parents. I'm sure not all states or areas listed these, but its extremely interesting how much more in depth old documents go.
@@StarDreamMemories If at all possible, try to get copies of the originals! I have noticed this that the ones I request from a far and receive only take the basic information off the original document and send it to me in a letter form. It does not have so much of the information that is on my own birth certificate such as how many siblings I have and what number I am in the birth order, where my father works, the fact that my mother also worked which was unusual for that time, etc.
When I see your mom's side they don't appear African. I know when you dig deeper into the DNA it exists. It comes down to how you are perceived and treated in the streets in daily life. The darker you are the more discrimination you face to this day.
@@SalyLuz-hc6he that's a possibilty too. I know my original has much less than my parents' original Birth certificates. My children's have barely any info.
I’m so grateful I found your channel. The story of your family is such a deeply personal thing to share. So many layers to discover and it’s a very relevant and needed discussion that fits a wider narrative easily. Thank you for your content.
Thanks for all this sis. This sort of stuff happened all over North America. This is one of the reasons I have such issues with some ... not all, some... Native people who have been repeating this thing that "you have to be recognized in a community" to be considered Indigenous. Kids need to know who they are and where their blood comes from. A lot of people had ancestors who literally covered up their ancestry to avoid death. Creating giant walls to their descendants isn't cultural, not from anything I've ever been taught. As a Maori friend once said to me, as soon as we staart going along with judgmentalism before hearing people's story, we are shaking hands with the erasure of our own people.
The Whites who have taken it on themselves to designated who and what race people are in the world are the biggest identity thieves going...you have in the US your 5 Dollar Indians and whites from Eastern Europe who say they're the Jews from the Bible? But real Jews are Black people
@@lealeak7458 I know there are people like that. But I know people who absolutely have Native ancestry who have been treated as frauds in a kneejerk reaction. I know one lady who was treated that way who has white skin who was adopted out, but after her family learned about tribal records they found out they were related to a large number of people on Rez including the chief. But the white skin made some people automatically assume fraud. You have to honor people and not always assume the worst. In my experience, frauds tend to be pretty fake. But some people are legitimately displaced from their communities.
Thank you! It's always very inspiring to watch your videos. One part of my family said they were "Greek" to explain their dark completion. I've since realized they were not greek. This is just the sort of thing people had to do to survive in the South. If you could pass for anything other than black then that's what they did. It wasn't because they disliked their ancestors, it was to better provide for their own family and keep them safe.
I just find your RUclips channel so interesting! I can't fathom why you would be demonitized for speaking about your family history! After all, you are talking about your story and presenting the facts that you discovered! Please keep posting!!
@@patrickdeady410 Apparently the monitors at RUclips trigger on "sensitive" words, such as mentioning that Black people or mixed race people were LEGALLY categorized as "colored". FROM BIRTH! It would be one thing if Danielle was using these sensitive terms in derogative ways, but she is honestly presenting history, as accurately as she can. Clearly RUclips monitoring policies are lacking. I guess it would be good to find out whether monitoring is done by humans, or whether AI is looking for trigger words and automatically flagging the videos.
Danielle, this video is a great partner to the original video. I recently watched the Finding Lola video and wasn't quite sure how some of the people who you interviewed were connected. This video really made it clear. I could see that it still makes you very emotional when you watch the video, even after watching the clips countless times during editing and production, and presenting the final product. You not only captured the historical aspects of your family, and the difficulties they encountered because of their mixed heritage, but you were able to capture the experiences and how emotionally charged they were. Great work! I would also like to remind anyone who views Finding Lola, and this companion video, that many of these historical periods you cover are only 1-5 generations old! This isn't history from the 1700s or early 1800s. And for younger viewers, the Civil Rights Act which was the start of many positive civil rights changes was ONLY SIGNED INTO LAW IN 1965! Keep up the great work, Danielle.
It is so educational how you are reviewing the Lola documentary with new information and augmented perspective. In my own genealogical investigation, I find myself revisiting documents I discovered early in my search, scraping them for information I didn't realize was useful at the time. I'm paying attention to neighbors on the census, addresses in city directories, other graves in the vicinity of my ancestors' graves. Thank you for allowing me to travel and learn about family & American history beside you.
There were many mixed blood children in the late 1800s and early 1900s, white men would crossed the tracks on the weekends to find black women. In louisiana, many communities blacks and whites was seperated by railroad tracks. We have a word called,”crossing the track”. P.S. at night so they wouldn’t be seen.
@@nytn there were also a “bottom”, it a black community, like a redlight district, in which white men could be with black women at a time when it was forbidden, a lot of these, ”passing” children came out of these relationship.
@@cmerritth It wasn't just White men and Black women either, sometimes it was the reverse. Also a lot of Louisiana communities weren't separated like that. I hear stories from elders and see census records where they all lived next door to each other
@ i am 70 year old and i grow in claiborne parish, Louisana, i remember signs,” FOR WHITES ONLY”, in laundry-mats in towns. My father was born in 1900. I have went to a doctor’s office where there two seperate waiting room, one for blacks and one for whites. I have a personal experience with this
Wow!!! I have to go back and re-watch the documentary. ❤ Can’t fathom that it is been 2 years since I first watched it and got wrapped up in this journey. I had totally forgotten about Odan’s story. Definitely incentive for keeping anything that could be considered non-white out of one’s heritage story. 💡
Don’t forget, now that you’ve been researching Louisiana, there is a very strong Native American presence in Louisiana. Then and now. The difference is at what volume. Here and now, in South Louisiana, nowadays, we just assume that there is a strong possibility that there is some racial mixing in many cases-much of it not documented, some of it clearly stated.
Could you make a video explaining why it is strange that Arabs are white in the US regardless of color and Brazilians or Latin Americans who are 100 percent European are not?
Those terms took away people’s heritage. So many of my grandparents on both sides lost their heritage to Colored.. Mulatto White . We were the “Black “ Indians that got turned into Colored Negro Black African American…. America told us we weren’t Indian we were African because of our dark skin and features and the ignorance still goes on today.
Great revisiting of what started you on your journey and where you've come, which is so very far and important! Hope YT leaves you alone. 🙏 Big ❤ and 🫂!
I have been following your story for the past two years and the tears will never stop to see how people were treated back then and are still being treated today. I have seen so many other family stories, I never saw different treatments of people until I came to the USA. It was very scary growing up back then so I now understand too why so many mixed race families keep it a secret or married into lighter shades races or family lines. But now your roots give you closure too because the blank spots are being filled in. I am so fascinated with any kind of history. Nuff Love and you are doing a great job ❤❤
My great grandfather was full-blooded Choctaw according to Dawes Roll born in Mississippi and lived in Louisiana. My grandfather was half white, his father was white, but his mother was black and her father was full-blooded Choctaw. I was born in New Orleans to black parents, both my mother's parents were half mixed. Grandmother's father was Irish.
I've noticed that even in my own family that the common mix of so called AA's here in the states are a mix of Irish,Indian and black BUT the kicker is that in my family,the black part is the Indian part because in our family photos we have the names and pics of brown chocolate complexed(Indians)who were Cherokee and Choctaw,not Africans in the pictures.Its very weird.
I commented the other day I thought I might be related to Ozan Desidere. Today as I was going through thrulines on Ancestry I ran into Ozan Joseph Desidere, 2nd cousin 3x removed.
You might want to watch How the One Drop Rule Shaped Blackness. by One Mic History. This is a short but informative video, some talk about how Creoles, developed their own caste system based on the amount of white they had..
Danielle, I like watching you because it reminds me a little bit of how my daughter is racially ambiguous. I have my ancestry and DNA but we don’t have her dad’s family story.
I love my Louisiana creole heritage my maternal grandfather is African American of (African, French Acadian, Spanish Islenos and possibly distant Filipino ancestry)from New Orleans his family originated In assumption and ascension parish Louisiana
When the Philippines was still a Spanish colony, they had the Manila - Acapulco galleon trade to exchange goods. The colonizers (Spanish & Spanish-Mexicans) brought Filipino workers in those ships. Some Filipinos integrated into communities in Mexico. Probably, some migrated to parts of Mexico which are now modern Texas or New Mexico. So if you do a DNA test, if you find Filipino or Austronesian DNA then it may be due to the galleon trade.
My 5th Great-Grandmother was Marcelline Desadier. I wonder how/if she was related to Ozan? I see the caption spelled Desidere, but given what I've seen with other of my Louisiana surnames varied spellings I think they could be related.
I don't think for one minute that Lola was afraid of people knowing she was Creole. She kept in contact with her family after all. I think she was just being practical because of prejudice.
It was interesting to hear the story about the woman screaming "We're Black!" :) it's not the "one drop rule," but it's similar. The difference today is the number of people who find out and are happy to know it. You asked once about "passing for Black." Imo, most Black families have or know of Black relatives who look as light or lighter than your grandma. My ex-wife is an example. But, she only wanted to get out in the sun to get tanned. I don't think it's good for her skin, but she hated when people mistook her for White or Hispanic.
Have you seen Rebecca Hall's film Passing? Her mother Maria Ewing was mixed, but 'passed'. Rebecca's story is amazing, just like you'rs and countless others.
This reminds me of Anne Rice's "The Feast of All Saints". I'm skeptical about doing my genealogy, but I owe it to my ancestors. I'm thankful that I'm considered to be Black, first and foremost. That would have eaten away at my mind, if I was put into that position of masquerading as someone I'm not. My father was from Little Rock, Arkansas, grandmother, Mobile, Alabama, grandfather, Jackson, Miss. Deep, deep south. I'm assuming that most of you all have French ancestry, in regards to Europe. My fathers last name was Cooper and my mothers father's name was Triplett, so I guess I have some European relatives in Britain (Anglo Saxon) too. As for Africa, that is why I need to do this research soon, because I don't know what part of West Africa, my lineage is connected to.
I saw the same video tou are referring to yesterday. The fact that she would give out different names for herself surprised me. Something like it is n my family and I found records in bith names.
Of course the segregation wasn`t only in the South. My Italian mother`s eldest sister would say that when she was growing-up in Reading , Pennsylvania , Black people would have to sit in the balcony in the movie theaters on Penn Street ( the city`s main street ). She said the Whites ( who were mostly Germans , Polish , and Italians ) would call the balcony " N-word Heaven " !! My mother and father were liberals , BUT my aunt that I mentioned , would say the theaters should have KEPT
My great-grandfather lived in Bastrop. His death certificate listed him as the "c" word which can't be spoken. A 3rd cousin told me the family was scandalized by it. They thought it was a mistake. But some of us have done our DNA and it seems the doctor was going by the one-drop rule and knew something his children and grandchildren didn't know. My mother knew him as a child and she said he was as white as she is and she's about as white as you can get. On the other side of my mother's family, also from Northern Louisiana, her great-grandmother was also listed as "c" on her death certificate. Nobody else in the family was listed as such. I guess some doctors would go along with the passing and others wouldn't. But it did come from both sides of my mother's family. I can tell by the DNA matches. I had a friend whose family was originally from Shreveport. She was a nurse. Some researchers at her hospital were always asking her to give them some blood to use in their research. She finally asked why. They told her she didn't want to know, but she insisted. They told her she carried the gene for Sickle Cell Anemia. To her, it was no big deal. But, she said her elderly aunts had been all into genealogy and then suddenly dropped it. She finally knew why! The older generation knew what segregation and Jim Crow laws were and they were scared to be labeled non-white. Thank God we live in a different world.
West African doesn’t necessarily mean “black” African. Africa was full of people from all backgrounds. I see the surname Donnelly in your video. Research the root of this surname. It can mean “brown” or “dark-skinned” from areas other than Africa. “Swarthy” people from the Iberian peninsula scattered and migrated after the Spanish Inquisition. Many of these were Arabs, Moors, and Jews who migrated to Africa, other parts of Europe, and truly all over the world. The Spanish Inquisition affected the entire history of migration and skin colors. My Scotch-Irish Great grandmother’s surname was “Dunn” for dark skin. I also have Yemenite Jewish and Iberian Peninsula heritage, which is Arab, known as “swarthy” people”. You will see this “swarthy” adjective in the French Huguenot characteristics. The French huguenots were Protestants who came about during the Inquisition. Many were “New Christians” AKA Arabs and Jews forced to convert. The surname “Brown” shows up in Jews with dark skin. Louisiana is a pot of gumbo, when it comes to people.
This might help you not get flagged: Ask everyone to leave a comment of at least 7 words. It will also help if you ask everyone to let the post play to the end. Both of these show engagement. I hope this helps. Your stories resonate with me. My paternal ancestors were "Italian," but only from Grandpa, but the whole of Grandma's heritage was swept up in there too. But it is not. There is definitely Indigenous, but I suspect also "French" like you.
I am actually considering enrollment in a tribe from Virginia, from my Mom's side that we were always aware of our heritage in, but the more I'm researching, and finding ancestors in many tribes, I now feel like is it choosing one part over the others. (My Dad's the Louisiana and Mexico Indigenous ancestry) And of course being African and European as well, is it rejecting those parts of me? Is it like passing?
Hi. I saw a similar story from another RUclipsr. She was a former Buzzfeed employee but now has her own channel. She's white passing but she's always suspected that she had native ancestry. Her DNA test confirmed it. Her mom was adopted, that's why she/ the mom wasn't sure. I think her mom or grandma was separated from their tribe (during the time of the boarding schools). In one of her recent vlogs, she said that she attended a pow wow and was extremely glad to have done so. She's now reconnecting with her roots & tribe. I think being multiracial means that you can learn more about the different cultures that you come from. It doesn't mean that you reject one or other parts. It just means that you were more familiar with some parts & want to have more knowledge about other parts. Good luck in your journey.
Im of Louisiana Creole Descent, My grandmother had a Sister named Marie Celestine, who would go on to "Pass" and moved to California, i recently meet some of my cousins there who are her grand and great grand children
Danielle , some south Louisiana people that I have felt for many years were either bi-racial or tri-racial are ---- the late Cokie Roberts and her father Hale Boggs , also Jimmie Swaggart and his son Donny ( they both look to be part Native American , the Swaggarts ). Hale Boggs was the House majority leader at the time of his death , and in my opinion he was one of the only members of the Warren Commission who TRULY wanted to uncover the truth behind the JFK assassination.
People who were from Louisiana long ago WERE French. They lived in a French territory. They called themselves French. So, it wasn't a lie. People still call themselves French over there.
I appreciate your content and commitment to your search ! It makes me question myself… my DNA says I’m 16% white races… and I’ve literally just ignored it and so has everyone in my family. No one knows where it came from. It’s sad that we haven’t searched it.., I’m reflecting deeply on why we just chose to ignore.
15:04 This is a common misunderstanding. The Irish were never regarded as “not white.” But in 19th century America, the idea took hold that the Irish were a decidedly inferior type of white: dirty, poor, ignorant, Catholic, likely carriers of all manner of disease. The editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast compared them to black people. Note that Nast and his bigoted ilk didn’t say that the Irish were black, but rather that they were LIKE black people. But that was close enough for an American academic 25 years to publish "How The Irish Became White" in which he argued that that the Irish, having once been oppressed, embraced their “whiteness” and joined the oppressors. His work then found a receptive audience in the hysterically race-obsessed American academy: As George Orwell once wrote, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” This theory went on to become part of the stew of “intersectionality” and “critical race theory” that is now the standard undergraduate diet and, apparently based on the book’s title, spawned the notion that the Irish were once considered not white. They also labelled any "white" person with just a mild tan as "colored" even if they were pale just days before. Context is key here when knowing the difference between xenophobia vs racism.
In thinking about your grandmother, I wondered how afraid she was to even give birth. She might have worried about how dark the baby would be. She may have worried about being caught by her own children and her family. I wondered whether she was at peace and if at times she just worried. When you were born she might have worried about being caught. This had to have been something she wondered about. This generation had so much to deal with. I was a teenager during the race riots of the 1970’s in New Jersey. She hid so much of herself during a terrible time.
i'm the living embodiment of this video. i'm a new orleans creole male & i have shoulder length, JIM MORRISON - esque blonde hair, blue-green eyes & a nice tan but you can see my tan lines....i'm originally "kinda pale". & people always thought i was just "white" & i'd have to correct 'em by telling 'em i'm "creole". let me tell ya,, i've ALWAYS been able to use my looks to my "advantage". oh, & my great, great, great, great grandmother is famous voodoo priestess MARIE LaVEAU.
are you related to the duck dynasty family? they are from and still live in monroe, they have a slight tint to the skin and everyone of them have brown eyes and a lot of curl in the hair, a great american family!
I understand fully...i was born in East Baton Rouge Parish and raised n DeQuincy Louisiana...my mom is from DeQuincy and so is my dad but my Mom's side comes from Arkansas and my dad's side from Ville Platte Louisiana...my dad's dad is mulatto cotton yt ..he could've passed himself but im glad he didn't.. My PawPaw Lindsey honestly hated that he looked the way he looked bc he was made from the "R" word. .he knew his real dad...pure blooded Cajun man...yt as yt can be so when my PawPaw was older and wanted to marry he courted the darkest girl he knew bc he wanted his kids and grandkids to have some color and to b proud of being black...but hell u cant tell who's white or black in my family except the grandkids but the older ppl in my family you can't tell bc of skin and hair is so fine but us family knows❤
My paternal grandparents were Native and on nearly every single census from 1900 forward they were listed as a different race.. I noticed a pattern though. Prior to 1900 they were listed as being "Croatoan" after that they were listed as Black, then mulatto or native(which the govmnt changed to Cherokee before they then decided to call us Lumbee in the 50s), then they were listed as white. I theorize this is bc typically we're much darker when we're younger and tend to get lighter as we age... And the census takers often wrote down what they thought you were based on your appearance.
Mexican can be native american or european, depending on which country from europe. Hispanic can be african, native, european, and asian, like people in Peru who are asian and native mix.
Of course the segregation wasn`t only in the South. My Italian mother`s eldest sister would say when she was growing-up in Reading , Pennsylvania Black people would have to sit in the balcony in the movie theaters on Penn Street ( the city`s main steet ) She said the Whites ( who were mostly Germans , Polish , and Italians ) would call the balcony " N-word Heaven " !! My mother and father were liberals , BUT the aunt that spoke of would say that the theaters should have KEPT the pre-integration balcony rule !!
So much of American history is lost to colonial ideology of what an American is. I think the push for Eugenics in the early 1900’s really affected a large number of mixed race communities and forced us to either abandon our ancestors and culture or suffer the consequences of racism. I’m 52 and I can’t even imagine how scared my grandparents were but I saw their fears. 💔
I AM FROM ALABAMA BUT I USE TO LIVE IN MISSISSIPPI & AFTER WE MOVE THERE I ALWAYS HEARD THAT A PERSON IN LOUISIANA IF THAT PERSON HAD 1/10 TH OF AFICAN BLOOD IN HIM OR HER THE LAW THERE IN LOUISIANA THEY WERE CONSIDERED BLACK IS THAT TRUE I HAVE HEARD THAT ALL MY LIFE ! NO DISRESPECT ! 😊
If many people knew a lot of the south's history and to be black in the south was to face serious racial barriers until intergration, I can understand that if your great grandmother could pass as white she would take that opportunity. It was a terrible place to be where interracial marriage was illegal, the one drop rule was absolutely discrinminatory which is why it was challenged by law in 1967 on Loving v. Virginia. Just imagine how she was taught to hide that and not be proud of that is really deeply sad.
Yes I been told my whole life that my grandma great grandma was creole Indian and she had 21 kids they said her hair was jet black and so long she sat on it and on my father side my grandpa was Irish and black with native blood so when I told my mom that I knew about my ancestors and my dna this bitter lady says you are black look at your skin color I said I can be blue black but what I’m not going to deny is my ancestral blood lol lol so your skin color doesn’t mean you’re not part of that dna 🧬 I know who I am and I’m not ever going to lie and deny and neither should you ❤
My great grandfather could have passed for White his mother was a dark skinned Chahta Indian woman (slave ) and his father was Turkish. She was from Louisiana as well. They listed him as Mulatto. My grandma always said she was Indian with some White in her based on her Turkish grandfather … but based on how we’re taught here in the States so called black skin can’t mean Indian so we didn’t really pay being Indian any attention. When u see the record it humbles you because u realize in that moment you didn’t believe what ur own family said 😢. They went to their graves saying we’re Indians not a Black crayon…. And all that time my generation felt they just didn’t want to be Black… now I understand that Black… Colored…. African American erased them 😢
This old attitude about good and bad attributes in reference to race and closely reference towards skin color and hair texture has not gone away. This same attitude is very strong in Hollywood and the entertainment and is reinforced with rewards of getting acting jobs and being promoted by entertainment companies/corporations and talent agencies.
I think in NY it depends where in NY your talking about. The cities in NY always had and still have lots of immigrants, everyone was civil to one another but it was still very segregated until the 60’s. I’m from Syracuse and there was different sides of town for different races. The rural areas, not so much so they historically and now are pretty racist weather they admit it or not.
I think that it may possibly help certain vids from being blocked if you added fair use warnings and a warning that your video is for educational purposes and my contain words or phrases that may be currently considered racial epithets but are use in historical context.
Bill Russell (one of the best basketball players in history) was born in Ouachita Parish. His parents moved out of the area to provide their family a better life. The Wikipedia article has a couple of examples the abuse they endured. Of course, all you have to do is look at the number of lynching's in the area to see why they left. Louisiana had a 1/32 rule for determining who was black until 1983.
How can the government find out if anyone's has one black ancestor, 32 ancestors back? 😂 or one black ancestor, 20 ancestors back? This nation is only like 254 years old. 20 ancestors back is like 1300's Earth. Just saying. Unless most of our grandmothers were pushing out babies since they were 12 years old or 14 years old in the old World. I call bs on the one drop stuff.
@@raulrambome 1/32 is only 5 generations back (about a 100 years). They used census records looking for someone listed as mulatto or someone who could be traced to a slave schedule. And these clowns weren't rocket scientists (or genealogists for that matter). It was just a nonsense law put into place after the Civil War. Lord forbid that the races would get "mixed".
@@raulrambome 1/32 is only 5 generations (about 100 years). They used census records and birth certificates looking for black or mulatto. BS stuff added to the laws after the Civil War.
As member of Navajo Nation history of my clan kin ya a hii, the Tower clan. Our ancestors came from the great Tower called the Haa Gii naa, Existing out from the great Tower of the Equth. Also the exit from the Tower of Baal, came across the great wide water. The group landed in the shoreline mountain of Peru. They built and abandoned the area again . Travel to the north american. We are from the house of Jews, house of Israel!!
Have you done any research on the Black Irish who were sent by Cromwell to the United States and enslaved? Please get in touch with the historian, Dr. Clyde Winters who has a RUclips channel on Thursdays at 4pm EST. Dr. Winters and Dr. Marie Charles have done extensive research on this topic.
My Late Father was Mixed with French German Jewish Native American Irish Black Spanish My Late Father only had4%African blood My Late Mother both her mother parents had Greeneyes and Brown hair and would tell My mother to stay out of The Sun no matter there Complex My Late Great Grandfather on My Late Grandfather side he's Brown skin who looked Asian and his wife was Native American mixed
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Every pic you posted of your ancestors the resemblance is super strong. Your black and in particular Native ancestry stayed strong throughout several generations. It’s fascinating how the past never truly “dies”.
It amazes me how ppl can avoid the word "black." Salute to the channel and her ancestors. ✊
I used to feel the same way during my 2 yrs following the channel, then I really looked as a social Scientist, as her behaviour patterns demonstrated the systematic subconscious distancing from Black via identity conversion factors i.e. nationality and religious affiliations.
The romanticised rationale for passing when the material is very clear via ppl like Dr. Joy degruy, these were maladaptive reactions to VVhite supremacy racism, passing has no benefits except survival or infiltration of a defense/offense (hence chameleon and spies e.g. I eat or be eaten. Blacks that owned slaves are almost always misrepresented as capitalist of fortune rather ,than of legal loopholes to quickly assure collective group freedom and security.
I used to feel the same way during my 2 yrs following the channel, then I really looked as a social Scientist, as her behaviour patterns demonstrated the systematic subconscious distancing from Black via identity conversion factors i.e. nationality and religious affiliations.
The romanticised rationale for passing when the material is very clear via ppl like Dr. Joy degruy, these were maladaptive reactions to VVhite supremacy racism, passing has no benefits except survival or infiltration of a defense/offense (hence chameleon and spies e.g. I eat or be eaten. Blacks that owned slaves are almost always misrepresented as capitalist of fortune rather ,than of legal loopholes to quickly assure collective group freedom and security.
Drove through Campti Wednesday . I slowed down to get an appreciation for the place. Your description of the town was spot on. So it just boggles the mind how history plays out. How a young woman who thought she was from Italian,European and middle eastern heritage suddenly finds out she has African and Native American heritage. Just a fascinating story. From a Louisiana native who is old enough to remember the days of racial discrimination, I can sympathize with your relatives. It was a bad time. I for one do not blame them for seeking an easier way out. Passing as white may seem as a rejection of one’s heritage but it was a survival technique at the time. Thank God we are at a different time. We can embrace who we are. Keep up the good work, your videos are an inspiration.
In France, “créole” was originally an adjective:
1) “blanc créole” was a white Frenchman born in the overseas colonies.
2) “noir créole” was a black person born outside of Africa.
The term was pejorative: it was believed that whites, in the colonies, softened, even without mixing.
The origin of the word came from portuguese "crioulo", via spanish "criollo".
The meaning of "crioulo" in the 16th century was "black servant in the master's house". "Criar" is a verb and it means "to breed".
Criollo in Mexico meant 100% Spanish born in Mexico. Seems like it got lost in translation when the French arrived and the meaning mutated. Many Conquistadors were Criollos with the THLAXCALAS they explored from northern Mexico to Florida. Certainly that’s were many Creole’s got Spanish/Indigenous/Mestizo ancestry. I always assume they were just French but that can’t be right. Mexican history in the US has been invisible.
Criar means to breed and Carillo means the ones who were bred or the breeded ones this is why many in the Caribbean will never call ourselves Creole because we know the origin of the word and its derogatory
@@azborderlands However, in Spanish of Spain, "criollo" has a double meaning like in Franch. You can see on the Dictionary of the Real Academia that's on line.
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That's a meaning in the French colonies also. In Louisiana it was used to distinguish Louisiana born enslaved from African born and American born enslaved.
But now I'm Louisiana we refer to white French Louisianaians as Cajun and us Blacks as Louisiana Creoles
It’s absurd that you’re being flagged for reading what’s on legal documents. I love your channel & content ❤
It's frustrating, but I'm glad you are here!
I agree.
What's interesting is that now on birth certificates there is so little information! As on my mother's it lists my grandfather's profession and the name of the company he worked for. Also home addresses and places of birth of the parents. I'm sure not all states or areas listed these, but its extremely interesting how much more in depth old documents go.
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If at all possible, try to get copies of the originals! I have noticed this that the ones I request from a far and receive only take the basic information off the original document and send it to me in a letter form. It does not have so much of the information that is on my own birth certificate such as how many siblings I have and what number I am in the birth order, where my father works, the fact that my mother also worked which was unusual for that time, etc.
When I see your mom's side they don't appear African. I know when you dig deeper into the DNA it exists. It comes down to how you are perceived and treated in the streets in daily life. The darker you are the more discrimination you face to this day.
@@SalyLuz-hc6he that's a possibilty too. I know my original has much less than my parents' original Birth certificates.
My children's have barely any info.
Don't give up. You have more on your side with similar stories and others motivated to do their research. Thank you.😊
The story of your family and the range of emotions you show is fascinating. Unlocking the secrets has been visibly good for you.
It has expanded my view of the world for the best, and my empathy for sure
I’m so grateful I found your channel. The story of your family is such a deeply personal thing to share. So many layers to discover and it’s a very relevant and needed discussion that fits a wider narrative easily. Thank you for your content.
Thanks for all this sis. This sort of stuff happened all over North America. This is one of the reasons I have such issues with some ... not all, some... Native people who have been repeating this thing that "you have to be recognized in a community" to be considered Indigenous. Kids need to know who they are and where their blood comes from. A lot of people had ancestors who literally covered up their ancestry to avoid death. Creating giant walls to their descendants isn't cultural, not from anything I've ever been taught. As a Maori friend once said to me, as soon as we staart going along with judgmentalism before hearing people's story, we are shaking hands with the erasure of our own people.
The Whites who have taken it on themselves to designated who and what race people are in the world are the biggest identity thieves going...you have in the US your 5 Dollar Indians and whites from Eastern Europe who say they're the Jews from the Bible? But real Jews are Black people
It's because a lot of people think they have Native ancestry and they actually don't
@@lealeak7458 I know there are people like that. But I know people who absolutely have Native ancestry who have been treated as frauds in a kneejerk reaction. I know one lady who was treated that way who has white skin who was adopted out, but after her family learned about tribal records they found out they were related to a large number of people on Rez including the chief. But the white skin made some people automatically assume fraud. You have to honor people and not always assume the worst. In my experience, frauds tend to be pretty fake. But some people are legitimately displaced from their communities.
Thank you! It's always very inspiring to watch your videos. One part of my family said they were "Greek" to explain their dark completion. I've since realized they were not greek. This is just the sort of thing people had to do to survive in the South. If you could pass for anything other than black then that's what they did. It wasn't because they disliked their ancestors, it was to better provide for their own family and keep them safe.
I just find your RUclips channel so interesting! I can't fathom why you would be demonitized for speaking about your family history! After all, you are talking about your story and presenting the facts that you discovered! Please keep posting!!
@@patrickdeady410 Apparently the monitors at RUclips trigger on "sensitive" words, such as mentioning that Black people or mixed race people were LEGALLY categorized as "colored". FROM BIRTH!
It would be one thing if Danielle was using these sensitive terms in derogative ways, but she is honestly presenting history, as accurately as she can. Clearly RUclips monitoring policies are lacking. I guess it would be good to find out whether monitoring is done by humans, or whether AI is looking for trigger words and automatically flagging the videos.
Danielle, this video is a great partner to the original video. I recently watched the Finding Lola video and wasn't quite sure how some of the people who you interviewed were connected. This video really made it clear.
I could see that it still makes you very emotional when you watch the video, even after watching the clips countless times during editing and production, and presenting the final product.
You not only captured the historical aspects of your family, and the difficulties they encountered because of their mixed heritage, but you were able to capture the experiences and how emotionally charged they were. Great work!
I would also like to remind anyone who views Finding Lola, and this companion video, that many of these historical periods you cover are only 1-5 generations old! This isn't history from the 1700s or early 1800s. And for younger viewers, the Civil Rights Act which was the start of many positive civil rights changes was ONLY SIGNED INTO LAW IN 1965!
Keep up the great work, Danielle.
It is so educational how you are reviewing the Lola documentary with new information and augmented perspective. In my own genealogical investigation, I find myself revisiting documents I discovered early in my search, scraping them for information I didn't realize was useful at the time. I'm paying attention to neighbors on the census, addresses in city directories, other graves in the vicinity of my ancestors' graves. Thank you for allowing me to travel and learn about family & American history beside you.
There were many mixed blood children in the late 1800s and early 1900s, white men would crossed the tracks on the weekends to find black women. In louisiana, many communities blacks and whites was seperated by railroad tracks. We have a word called,”crossing the track”. P.S. at night so they wouldn’t be seen.
I had never heard that before!😩
@@nytn there were also a “bottom”, it a black community, like a redlight district, in which white men could be with black women at a time when it was forbidden, a lot of these, ”passing” children came out of these relationship.
It wasn't always grape neither.Lots of blkwmn were called 🛌wenches because of this
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It wasn't just White men and Black women either, sometimes it was the reverse. Also a lot of Louisiana communities weren't separated like that. I hear stories from elders and see census records where they all lived next door to each other
@ i am 70 year old and i grow in claiborne parish, Louisana, i remember signs,” FOR WHITES ONLY”, in laundry-mats in towns. My father was born in 1900. I have went to a doctor’s office where there two seperate waiting room, one for blacks and one for whites.
I have a personal experience with this
I've watched already and I find it so fascinating! I look forward to all updates ❤😊
Awesome! Thank you!
I'm rewatching this with you. It is still breaking my heart.
I appreciate you here
One of my new favorite channels! Great info Plus she’s saved!!!
I’m so glad to have you here!
Wow!!! I have to go back and re-watch the documentary. ❤ Can’t fathom that it is been 2 years since I first watched it and got wrapped up in this journey. I had totally forgotten about Odan’s story. Definitely incentive for keeping anything that could be considered non-white out of one’s heritage story. 💡
It's so good to have had you here since the beginning
❤😘
Don’t forget, now that you’ve been researching Louisiana, there is a very strong Native American presence in Louisiana. Then and now. The difference is at what volume.
Here and now, in South Louisiana, nowadays, we just assume that there is a strong possibility that there is some racial mixing in many cases-much of it not documented, some of it clearly stated.
You’re right, being from South East Louisiana that’s a part of my Family tree; My 5th Great Grandfather was Native American and French.
Both my great grandfather's are native, one Choctaw and one Cherokee.
Fascinating as usual.
Hope you are well!
@@nytn I am. And I, you.
Could you make a video explaining why it is strange that Arabs are white in the US regardless of color and Brazilians or Latin Americans who are 100 percent European are not?
I also have relatives who migrated to New York and are identified as white now although they were black or mulatto in Louisiana.
I've started watching your channel, fascinating history!
Thanks again for sharing your testimonies Sista!🙏💖💯📠🐢
Thank you for being here!
I love your history and thanks again for sharing it!
So important and great research and personal connections thru family members
Those terms took away people’s heritage. So many of my grandparents on both sides lost their heritage to Colored.. Mulatto White . We were the “Black “ Indians that got turned into Colored Negro Black African American…. America told us we weren’t Indian we were African because of our dark skin and features and the ignorance still goes on today.
Great revisiting of what started you on your journey and where you've come, which is so very far and important!
Hope YT leaves you alone. 🙏
Big ❤ and 🫂!
I’m so glad you are here! 🙏☺
I have been following your story for the past two years and the tears will never stop to see how people were treated back then and are still being treated today. I have seen so many other family stories, I never saw different treatments of people until I came to the USA. It was very scary growing up back then so I now understand too why so many mixed race families keep it a secret or married into lighter shades races or family lines.
But now your roots give you closure too because the blank spots are being filled in. I am so fascinated with any kind of history. Nuff Love and you are doing a great job ❤❤
I watched this before, I enjoy your videos because of rich content! your research is relatable to me by being from Southeast Louisiana mixed Ancestry.
My great grandfather was full-blooded Choctaw according to Dawes Roll born in Mississippi and lived in Louisiana. My grandfather was half white, his father was white, but his mother was black and her father was full-blooded Choctaw. I was born in New Orleans to black parents, both my mother's parents were half mixed. Grandmother's father was Irish.
I've noticed that even in my own family that the common mix of so called AA's here in the states are a mix of Irish,Indian and black BUT the kicker is that in my family,the black part is the Indian part because in our family photos we have the names and pics of brown chocolate complexed(Indians)who were Cherokee and Choctaw,not Africans in the pictures.Its very weird.
@@JamesBrooks-hj3dz I wonder if it has been verified or just family saying it? A lot of people find out that what they've been told is not accurate.
I commented the other day I thought I might be related to Ozan Desidere. Today as I was going through thrulines on Ancestry I ran into Ozan Joseph Desidere, 2nd cousin 3x removed.
Wow! What a cool connection! I am so glad you were able to find them
Your Grandma is very Beautiful!
You might want to watch How the One Drop Rule Shaped Blackness. by One Mic History. This is a short but informative video, some talk about how Creoles, developed their own caste system based on the amount of white they had..
Danielle, I like watching you because it reminds me a little bit of how my daughter is racially ambiguous. I have my ancestry and DNA but we don’t have her dad’s family story.
I love that. :)
I love my Louisiana creole heritage my maternal grandfather is African American of (African, French Acadian, Spanish Islenos and possibly distant Filipino ancestry)from New Orleans his family originated In assumption and ascension parish Louisiana
When the Philippines was still a Spanish colony, they had the Manila - Acapulco galleon trade to exchange goods. The colonizers (Spanish & Spanish-Mexicans) brought Filipino workers in those ships. Some Filipinos integrated into communities in Mexico. Probably, some migrated to parts of Mexico which are now modern Texas or New Mexico. So if you do a DNA test, if you find Filipino or Austronesian DNA then it may be due to the galleon trade.
My 5th Great-Grandmother was Marcelline Desadier. I wonder how/if she was related to Ozan? I see the caption spelled Desidere, but given what I've seen with other of my Louisiana surnames varied spellings I think they could be related.
Just variations of the spelling. I’m a Desadier as well.
I don't think for one minute that Lola was afraid of people knowing she was Creole. She kept in contact with her family after all. I think she was just being practical because of prejudice.
It was interesting to hear the story about the woman screaming "We're Black!" :) it's not the "one drop rule," but it's similar. The difference today is the number of people who find out and are happy to know it. You asked once about "passing for Black." Imo, most Black families have or know of Black relatives who look as light or lighter than your grandma. My ex-wife is an example. But, she only wanted to get out in the sun to get tanned. I don't think it's good for her skin, but she hated when people mistook her for White or Hispanic.
Really enjoyed this.
Thank you for watching!
@@nytn 👍
Have you seen Rebecca Hall's film Passing? Her mother Maria Ewing was mixed, but 'passed'. Rebecca's story is amazing, just like you'rs and countless others.
Rebecca Hall's mother was not "passing". She was only 1/4 black, so essentially a white woman.
How sad. Even after decades and being old enough not to care, she still cared.
yes, I felt that, too!
This reminds me of Anne Rice's "The Feast of All Saints". I'm skeptical about doing my genealogy, but I owe it to my ancestors. I'm thankful that I'm considered to be Black, first and foremost. That would have eaten away at my mind, if I was put into that position of masquerading as someone I'm not. My father was from Little Rock, Arkansas, grandmother, Mobile, Alabama, grandfather, Jackson, Miss. Deep, deep south. I'm assuming that most of you all have French ancestry, in regards to Europe. My fathers last name was Cooper and my mothers father's name was Triplett, so I guess I have some European relatives in Britain (Anglo Saxon) too. As for Africa, that is why I need to do this research soon, because I don't know what part of West Africa, my lineage is connected to.
Yes I can't find that fking movie no where they are hiding it for some reason
I am learning a lot from your channel. I have watched Lola's story.
Movie adaptation simply called - PASSING
I enjoyed this format
I saw the same video tou are referring to yesterday. The fact that she would give out different names for herself surprised me. Something like it is n my family and I found records in bith names.
Of course the segregation wasn`t only in the South. My Italian mother`s eldest sister would say that when she was growing-up in Reading , Pennsylvania , Black people would have to sit in the balcony in the movie theaters on Penn Street ( the city`s main street ). She said the Whites ( who were mostly Germans , Polish , and Italians ) would call the balcony " N-word Heaven " !! My mother and father were liberals , BUT my aunt that I mentioned , would say the theaters should have KEPT
My great-grandfather lived in Bastrop. His death certificate listed him as the "c" word which can't be spoken. A 3rd cousin told me the family was scandalized by it. They thought it was a mistake. But some of us have done our DNA and it seems the doctor was going by the one-drop rule and knew something his children and grandchildren didn't know. My mother knew him as a child and she said he was as white as she is and she's about as white as you can get.
On the other side of my mother's family, also from Northern Louisiana, her great-grandmother was also listed as "c" on her death certificate. Nobody else in the family was listed as such. I guess some doctors would go along with the passing and others wouldn't. But it did come from both sides of my mother's family. I can tell by the DNA matches.
I had a friend whose family was originally from Shreveport. She was a nurse. Some researchers at her hospital were always asking her to give them some blood to use in their research. She finally asked why. They told her she didn't want to know, but she insisted. They told her she carried the gene for Sickle Cell Anemia. To her, it was no big deal. But, she said her elderly aunts had been all into genealogy and then suddenly dropped it. She finally knew why! The older generation knew what segregation and Jim Crow laws were and they were scared to be labeled non-white. Thank God we live in a different world.
Unfortunately we don’t
Your grandmother was a lovely bride.
@15:22ish Yes, she is sooo beautiful and you look absolutely just like her! 😊
West African doesn’t necessarily mean “black” African. Africa was full of people from all backgrounds. I see the surname Donnelly in your video. Research the root of this surname. It can mean “brown” or “dark-skinned” from areas other than Africa. “Swarthy” people from the Iberian peninsula scattered and migrated after the Spanish Inquisition. Many of these were Arabs, Moors, and Jews who migrated to Africa, other parts of Europe, and truly all over the world. The Spanish Inquisition affected the entire history of migration and skin colors. My Scotch-Irish Great grandmother’s surname was “Dunn” for dark skin. I also have Yemenite Jewish and Iberian Peninsula heritage, which is Arab, known as “swarthy” people”. You will see this “swarthy” adjective in the French Huguenot characteristics. The French huguenots were Protestants who came about during the Inquisition. Many were “New Christians” AKA Arabs and Jews forced to convert. The surname “Brown” shows up in Jews with dark skin. Louisiana is a pot of gumbo, when it comes to people.
In some areas, there were laws against blacks and whites being married. That may be why you GGF was listed as colored.
I'm amazed at the resemblance between you and the lady in the thumbnail
This might help you not get flagged: Ask everyone to leave a comment of at least 7 words. It will also help if you ask everyone to let the post play to the end. Both of these show engagement. I hope this helps. Your stories resonate with me. My paternal ancestors were "Italian," but only from Grandpa, but the whole of Grandma's heritage was swept up in there too. But it is not. There is definitely Indigenous, but I suspect also "French" like you.
I am actually considering enrollment in a tribe from Virginia, from my Mom's side that we were always aware of our heritage in, but the more I'm researching, and finding ancestors in many tribes, I now feel like is it choosing one part over the others. (My Dad's the Louisiana and Mexico Indigenous ancestry) And of course being African and European as well, is it rejecting those parts of me? Is it like passing?
Hi. I saw a similar story from another RUclipsr. She was a former Buzzfeed employee but now has her own channel. She's white passing but she's always suspected that she had native ancestry. Her DNA test confirmed it. Her mom was adopted, that's why she/ the mom wasn't sure. I think her mom or grandma was separated from their tribe (during the time of the boarding schools).
In one of her recent vlogs, she said that she attended a pow wow and was extremely glad to have done so. She's now reconnecting with her roots & tribe.
I think being multiracial means that you can learn more about the different cultures that you come from. It doesn't mean that you reject one or other parts. It just means that you were more familiar with some parts & want to have more knowledge about other parts. Good luck in your journey.
Im of Louisiana Creole Descent, My grandmother had a Sister named Marie Celestine, who would go on to "Pass" and moved to California, i recently meet some of my cousins there who are her grand and great grand children
Wow that is so interesting. It’s important to stay connected to our family. Celestine is a family name for us, too!
Danielle , some south Louisiana people that I have felt for many years were either bi-racial or tri-racial are ---- the late Cokie Roberts and her father Hale Boggs , also Jimmie Swaggart and his son Donny ( they both look to be part Native American , the Swaggarts ). Hale Boggs was the House majority leader at the time of his death , and in my opinion he was one of the only members of the Warren Commission who TRULY wanted to uncover the truth behind the JFK assassination.
People who were from Louisiana long ago WERE French. They lived in a French territory. They called themselves French. So, it wasn't a lie. People still call themselves French over there.
You Grandma really was French, Danielle. So don't trip on her, lol.
Yes, my moms family is from Louisiana and we are French. I’m at least 50%.
i love these stories
I appreciate your content and commitment to your search !
It makes me question myself… my DNA says I’m 16% white races… and I’ve literally just ignored it and so has everyone in my family. No one knows where it came from. It’s sad that we haven’t searched it.., I’m reflecting deeply on why we just chose to ignore.
KEPT the balcony rule !!
15:04 This is a common misunderstanding. The Irish were never regarded as “not white.” But in 19th century America, the idea took hold that the Irish were a decidedly inferior type of white: dirty, poor, ignorant, Catholic, likely carriers of all manner of disease. The editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast compared them to black people.
Note that Nast and his bigoted ilk didn’t say that the Irish were black, but rather that they were LIKE black people. But that was close enough for an American academic 25 years to publish "How The Irish Became White" in which he argued that that the Irish, having once been oppressed, embraced their “whiteness” and joined the oppressors.
His work then found a receptive audience in the hysterically race-obsessed American academy: As George Orwell once wrote, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” This theory went on to become part of the stew of “intersectionality” and “critical race theory” that is now the standard undergraduate diet and, apparently based on the book’s title, spawned the notion that the Irish were once considered not white.
They also labelled any "white" person with just a mild tan as "colored" even if they were pale just days before. Context is key here when knowing the difference between xenophobia vs racism.
" Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them ", WOW , another great quote from George Orwell !!
My goodness you look so much Lola in the wedding vail !
In thinking about your grandmother, I wondered how afraid she was to even give birth. She might have worried about how dark the baby would be. She may have worried about being caught by her own children and her family. I wondered whether she was at peace and if at times she just worried. When you were born she might have worried about being caught. This had to have been something she wondered about. This generation had so much to deal with.
I was a teenager during the race riots of the 1970’s in New Jersey. She hid so much of herself during a terrible time.
Thanks!
Are some comments being blocked ??
Possibly by RUclips. If you posted something that doesn't show up, you might want to try it again with slightly different wording.
@@SalyLuz-hc6he Thanks for the advice Saly Luz !!
i'm the living embodiment of this video. i'm a new orleans creole male & i have shoulder length, JIM MORRISON - esque blonde hair, blue-green eyes & a nice tan but you can see my tan lines....i'm originally "kinda pale". & people always thought i was just "white" & i'd have to correct 'em by telling 'em i'm "creole". let me tell ya,, i've ALWAYS been able to use my looks to my "advantage". oh, & my great, great, great, great grandmother is famous voodoo priestess MARIE LaVEAU.
Keep searching...the ANCESTORS are talking to you!!!
Im about tried of this it's so sad people is and always will be people i will be so glad when we all no that
are you related to the duck dynasty family? they are from and still live in monroe, they have a slight tint to the skin and everyone of them have brown eyes and a lot of curl in the hair, a great american family!
Omg did you use a genealogist? If so who? This story is incredible and breath taking...
I understand fully...i was born in East Baton Rouge Parish and raised n DeQuincy Louisiana...my mom is from DeQuincy and so is my dad but my Mom's side comes from Arkansas and my dad's side from Ville Platte Louisiana...my dad's dad is mulatto cotton yt ..he could've passed himself but im glad he didn't.. My PawPaw Lindsey honestly hated that he looked the way he looked bc he was made from the "R" word.
.he knew his real dad...pure blooded Cajun man...yt as yt can be so when my PawPaw was older and wanted to marry he courted the darkest girl he knew bc he wanted his kids and grandkids to have some color and to b proud of being black...but hell u cant tell who's white or black in my family except the grandkids but the older ppl in my family you can't tell bc of skin and hair is so fine but us family knows❤
My paternal grandparents were Native and on nearly every single census from 1900 forward they were listed as a different race.. I noticed a pattern though. Prior to 1900 they were listed as being "Croatoan" after that they were listed as Black, then mulatto or native(which the govmnt changed to Cherokee before they then decided to call us Lumbee in the 50s), then they were listed as white. I theorize this is bc typically we're much darker when we're younger and tend to get lighter as we age... And the census takers often wrote down what they thought you were based on your appearance.
Upstate new York was considered very progressive. Elmira has a big history and was called zebratown
Growing up, did you watch the " Imitation of Life"; the 1934 or the 1959 version?
I'm here!! 🌹🌻
Thanks for being here!
@@nytnYou're welcome. A pleasure.
Mexican can be native american or european, depending on which country from europe. Hispanic can be african, native, european, and asian, like people in Peru who are asian and native mix.
Of course the segregation wasn`t only in the South. My Italian mother`s eldest sister would say when she was growing-up in Reading , Pennsylvania Black people would have to sit in the balcony in the movie theaters on Penn Street ( the city`s main steet ) She said the Whites ( who were mostly Germans , Polish , and Italians ) would call the balcony " N-word Heaven " !! My mother and father were liberals , BUT the aunt that spoke of would say that the theaters should have KEPT the pre-integration balcony rule !!
Liberal does not and has never equaled non-racist.
So much of American history is lost to colonial ideology of what an American is. I think the push for Eugenics in the early 1900’s really affected a large number of mixed race communities and forced us to either abandon our ancestors and culture or suffer the consequences of racism. I’m 52 and I can’t even imagine how scared my grandparents were but I saw their fears. 💔
I AM FROM ALABAMA BUT I
USE TO LIVE IN MISSISSIPPI & AFTER WE MOVE THERE I
ALWAYS HEARD THAT A PERSON IN LOUISIANA IF
THAT PERSON HAD 1/10 TH
OF AFICAN BLOOD IN HIM OR HER THE LAW THERE IN
LOUISIANA THEY WERE CONSIDERED BLACK IS THAT TRUE I HAVE HEARD
THAT ALL MY LIFE ! NO
DISRESPECT ! 😊
Hey Danielle
Have you read Passing by Nella Larsen/Larson?
If many people knew a lot of the south's history and to be black in the south was to face serious racial barriers until intergration, I can understand that if your great grandmother could pass as white she would take that opportunity. It was a terrible place to be where interracial marriage was illegal, the one drop rule was absolutely discrinminatory which is why it was challenged by law in 1967 on Loving v. Virginia. Just imagine how she was taught to hide that and not be proud of that is really deeply sad.
Yes I been told my whole life that my grandma great grandma was creole Indian and she had 21 kids they said her hair was jet black and so long she sat on it and on my father side my grandpa was Irish and black with native blood so when I told my mom that I knew about my ancestors and my dna this bitter lady says you are black look at your skin color I said I can be blue black but what I’m not going to deny is my ancestral blood lol lol so your skin color doesn’t mean you’re not part of that dna 🧬 I know who I am and I’m not ever going to lie and deny and neither should you ❤
My great grandfather could have passed for White his mother was a dark skinned Chahta Indian woman (slave ) and his father was Turkish. She was from Louisiana as well. They listed him as Mulatto. My grandma always said she was Indian with some White in her based on her Turkish grandfather … but based on how we’re taught here in the States so called black skin can’t mean Indian so we didn’t really pay being Indian any attention. When u see the record it humbles you because u realize in that moment you didn’t believe what ur own family said 😢. They went to their graves saying we’re Indians not a Black crayon…. And all that time my generation felt they just didn’t want to be Black… now I understand that Black… Colored…. African American erased them 😢
Do their birth certificates say the information is provided by the mother?
That's a great question and I will have to do some research on what NY did in the 1930s
This old attitude about good and bad attributes in reference to race and closely reference towards skin color and hair texture has not gone away. This same attitude is very strong in Hollywood and the entertainment and is reinforced with rewards of getting acting jobs and being promoted by entertainment companies/corporations and talent agencies.
You look like Jasmin Savoy Brown from Yellowjackets.
Osiyo ✊🏾
French people can be olive-skinned, just like Spaniards or Italians. You don't assume people are lying to you.
Those so-called French in Louisiana, many of them are mix people from Haiti.
I think in NY it depends where in NY your talking about. The cities in NY always had and still have lots of immigrants, everyone was civil to one another but it was still very segregated until the 60’s. I’m from Syracuse and there was different sides of town for different races. The rural areas, not so much so they historically and now are pretty racist weather they admit it or not.
I think that it may possibly help certain vids from being blocked if you added fair use warnings and a warning that your video is for educational purposes and my contain words or phrases that may be currently considered racial epithets but are use in historical context.
Bill Russell (one of the best basketball players in history) was born in Ouachita Parish. His parents moved out of the area to provide their family a better life. The Wikipedia article has a couple of examples the abuse they endured. Of course, all you have to do is look at the number of lynching's in the area to see why they left. Louisiana had a 1/32 rule for determining who was black until 1983.
How can the government find out if anyone's has one black ancestor, 32 ancestors back? 😂 or one black ancestor, 20 ancestors back? This nation is only like 254 years old. 20 ancestors back is like 1300's Earth. Just saying. Unless most of our grandmothers were pushing out babies since they were 12 years old or 14 years old in the old World. I call bs on the one drop stuff.
@@raulrambome 1/32 is only 5 generations back (about a 100 years). They used census records looking for someone listed as mulatto or someone who could be traced to a slave schedule. And these clowns weren't rocket scientists (or genealogists for that matter). It was just a nonsense law put into place after the Civil War. Lord forbid that the races would get "mixed".
@@raulrambome 1/32 is only 5 generations (about 100 years). They used census records and birth certificates looking for black or mulatto. BS stuff added to the laws after the Civil War.
@@raulrambome It wasn't 1 out of 32 generations. It was 1/32nd (5 generations). But it was still a bunch of nonsense.
@jimcrawford3221 How is 1/32 just 5 generations by your math???
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Can you ask your uncle if he knows of any Bernard history please.
As member of Navajo Nation history of my clan kin ya a hii, the Tower clan. Our ancestors came from the great Tower called the Haa Gii naa, Existing out from the great Tower of the Equth. Also the exit from the Tower of Baal, came across the great wide water. The group landed in the shoreline mountain of Peru. They built and abandoned the area again . Travel to the north american. We are from the house of Jews, house of Israel!!
Israelites and so called “yoos” are not the same thing. And the Tower of Babel I’m assuming you meant, was in North America.
Have you done any research on the Black Irish who were sent by Cromwell to the United States and enslaved? Please get in touch with the historian, Dr. Clyde Winters who has a RUclips channel on Thursdays at 4pm EST. Dr. Winters and Dr. Marie Charles have done extensive research on this topic.
My Late Father was Mixed with French German Jewish Native American Irish Black Spanish My Late Father only had4%African blood My Late Mother both her mother parents had Greeneyes and Brown hair and would tell My mother to stay out of The Sun no matter there Complex My Late Great Grandfather on My Late Grandfather side he's Brown skin who looked Asian and his wife was Native American mixed