Finding Lola: NYTN full documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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My name is Danielle Romero, and all my life, I have romanticized Louisiana.
Growing up in New York, it represented a place where I could step back the sepia-toned life of my great grandmother, Lola Perot, who died before I was born.
Now, it was time to go back to Louisiana--although I had no idea what the truth would be or what questions to ask---who was Lola really? Who were we? What did "passing" mean?
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I felt like I was watching my own story play out. I always knew my Daddy was part African American. I asked him all the time what we were growing up. He would say he was German, Cherokee Indian, and French. I would be like are you sure. He’s like that’s what I’ve been told my whole life. He really truly thought that’s what him and his siblings were. My Daddy passed in 2007. I lost my Uncle in 2010 and another Uncle before I was born. I lost my Aunt last year. Before she passed I asked her to take an Ancestry test for me. She obliged I told her I took one and what I had discovered. She was shocked that they had been lied too. My Aunt divulged they had a younger half brother and he took the test for me too. He said he always wondered what my great grandmother was and could never get her to say. She was always secretive he would say. I found out that the African American heritage came from both my Daddy’s Momma and Daddy’s side of the family. Tried to talk to some of my older family members, my Daddy's father side but some would dismiss me and not acknowledge it. Some literally blocked me and blocked it out on the ancestry site. I on the other am extremely proud of my heritage and there’s a lot of it. I’m what my parents made me. Still trying research and find out more about my heritage. My husband got a kick out of my results he was like you were right you always said you just knew. I just wish my Daddy would have been around to find out who he truly was. Thank you so much for sharing your story, journey about who you are and were you came from. We all deserve to know and no one should feel shame. Just be you!
Oh my gosh, thank you for sharing this. You belong here! I have been doing this for a year with no plans on stopping!
Looking forward to more videos!
Your story is very familiar to many.
I want to thank you for doing these, I was raised with a great deal of ethnic confusion, and had my suspicion confirmed about my father passing and my mother passing me, since doing ancestry I have found my grandfather who is visibly African American, your story gave me the courage to embark upon my own journey and discover a whole half of a family and a very different story than I was raised with .
Im so so happy to read this! Keep me posted on your journey
Thank you I absolutely will,it's inspiring to see how your journey has unfolded I would be honored to keep you updated on mine
I want to thank you for doing this video and others that you’ve done!!!!! First, as SOON as I saw your grandma, I knew she was of our people!!! I am eastern Cherokee. My 2x GGrandma is on the Dawes Roll as Cherokee by blood! Your videos resonate with me because I get SOOO much racial hate by the other Native Americans telling me to go back to Africa when my Cherokee grandmother was as dark as you see that I am! But I wanted to tell you and your family that it wasn’t that your grandmother was not proud of who she was but was REALLY AFRAID of what could possibly happen to her and her family as well as her husband, your grandfather for marrying her! When I was little, my mom told me I was an Indian. She Never said that we were African. Just Indian. She told me don’t tell Anyone that she was an Indian because she didn’t want anyone to know. I asked grandma, her mother and she said yes, she said we were Cherokee but she told me, you can’t EVER tell anybody that! I asked why? She said that she just wanted me to know who I was . That’s it. End of conversation. There was no other discussion about it. I just found the records two month ago. I’m sorry this was so long but they could be jailed, killed And sold into slavery! So, it was a lot to unpack! ❤
So much has come to light within the past 10 years or so. What we as people of color knew and suspected is actually being proven by those who wanted to desperately know the truth of their ancestry lineage.
Dane Calloway The Greatest Historian on UA-cam really gets viewers to think outside the box. People of Color went from being Indians to being reclassified as Negroes. There’s no possibility that Colombus crossed the ocean with hundreds of Africans in chains on SMALL SHIPS for several months at a time, those ships had no engines. If anyone abduct anyone against their will what do they do, they rebell, they will fight until they no longer can do so. Time for these text books be destroyed since it’s all was falsified……there’s no possible way to cross the ocean with hundreds of Africans, urinating and popping every day. They couldn’t drink the salty ocean water without getting sick or dying.
I’m just saying ❤
Talk about it! As soon as I saw her young photo I was like… oh she look like me .. ❤
Many “officially recognized” Cherokees appear incredibly white or even black. Why? Because the official government-recognized Cherokee tribe’s necessity for enrollment is to just have one identifiable ancestor who signed the Dawes roll. Nevermind there are other Cherokee people who weren’t there to sign lol Anyway - as long as you keep right by your people, culture and other natives then you’re native! Blood-quantum is a controversial topic.
You did a great job, and I am proud of you. It is unfortunate only 2 of your relatives besides yourself are able to be accept the African ancestry, even in 2023. I am your cousin, but from the Black side. Metoyer, Sarpy, Meziere...great work!!
Yes! So many Metoyers and Mezieres in my family tree. So glad you found the video:) ETA. Im so proud to be finding my actual roots!
This was profound. I live on Long Island, I hope I run into your cousin who was proud of his 10% African DNA. I loved that moment.
My family has everything ❤️ A TRUE AMERICAN MUTT ❤️
I see a lot of native & African descent in all of you!!! Even if it’s not said or admitted, but can be seen regardless!! A beautiful mixture!!?
WOW!
This is so interesting.
"WE" always knew--but, we just (usually) kept quiet.
They looked Italian
Oh wow! You have a new sub from South Africa. I'm Coloured (the term that is still in official use today with our race classification system) which is the equivalent of Creole / Mulatto [mixed race]. Majority of us Coloureds can trace their maternal ancestry to a Khoi-San (which is the equivalent of Native American or FNP {First Nation People} of the Southern African region) with the paternal ancestry of another race in most cases. My particular mix is a smattering of Saint Helena and Arab on my Dad's side with Dutch and Cape Khoi on my Mom's side. It was a concerted effort from the colonisers in my country to first commit genocide with my ancestors (FNP) and then dilute it with the inter-mixing. We're still here though :)
I’m so glad that you are still here! Even paper genocide hurts us just as bad as physical genocide!
Your story is so interesting. Thank you for sharing. In my DNA test, I discovered I was 3% black. My great grandmother had a white mother and black father. No one in my family knew there was a secret. They were dark skinned and thought they were Native American but my great grandmother denied it. I traced the family back to a slave and slave owner. You gave me a good idea to reach out to other family members not in my immediate family for information.
Beautiful tribute to the humanity of your family. Beautiful family that enriched the world. Just beautiful.
You are so kind
This story is like watching a television show you get addicted to. She didn't go back to Louisiana probably because she didn't want the creole roots to define her children and their children.
It’s all about not being black. It’s unfortunate but also understandable during that time. Many people in America have black ancestry but if they can pass for white they do. That’s why so many black people left Louisiana. They knew they could pass for white in other parts of the country.
@estryscancivilization - Your response is based in a time where that might be true. Go back even 75 years and it's not about self-hate. It's about survival, literally in some areas of the country, for you and your children. And it would not have been an easy choice to walk away from everyone and everything you knew. These were not cowards. They were just people trying to survive and thrive.
@@athanksgivingbaby570 agreed 🤙🏿
Hello my NY sister ❤️ I could not miss the story in full and I must say that I greatly enjoyed. Our families stories are so similar as I’ve shared from the beginning and I am still digging for more. We had family reunions in the French quarters of New Orleans. It was the first time I saw brown people with beautiful red rustic hair. We had Boones, Ridley’s and Tyners all throughout and I knew of none of them as a child. Thank u for sharing ❤️
I have watched several of your presentations and I find them amazing in a gob-smacking, eye-opening, mind-blowing kind of way. I grew up in the 60's in a military family. We watched the news every night at dinner time, so as an elementary school kid, I was pretty well versed in "current events" associated with the civil rights and women's rights issues. And I'll also say that "well versed" means that I watched what the Mainstream Media was presenting (ABC, CBS, NBC). Still, that is a lot more than most elementary school kids could claim in the day. That said, there is so much that I am learning through your broadcasts. Thank you and keep on shining your light into these shadows. I truly appreciate your efforts.
This was really kind of you, it meant a lot, thank you :)
@@nytn please continue your work no matter what the “Establishment” tries to do! You are telling a Lot of TRUTH! Yours, Mine, and Many others! You are doing a Great Work and I believe that our CREATOR CHOSE YOU for such a time as This! Because you are chosen, I believe that you are protected! Keep Shining your beautiful Light! I truly THANK YOU!!!🙏🏾
Danielle, what a journey! I am rapt. Your work on who is white and becoming an American is tremendously important. Keep on with the great work!
Thank you so much!
She's only doing it because her great grandmother was trying to passing as white even though she didn't look white. Even her grandmother doesn't look white. Even when the blacks have money they seem to what to leave the black race by mixing with non blacks. Like her family, she's supposedly half Italian because of her father side. Seems she's only interested in the mulatto side because that's where she'll get the most views. Looking for the mysterious indigenous dna line.
That part of Louisiana is complicated. It is the far north of French Louisiana. I am not surprised by the last name.
I heard somewhere that about 6 million persons that identify as white have some African ancestry. If you add in Native American blood there even more that identify white but are really mixed. Hell I identify as African American but I’m 17% Irish and British. To be American is to be a Mutt. I will gladly take that title.
Everybody is mixed up, if only we could just come together and embrace our differences.We are all made in the image of God and we all bleed the same, we shouldn't allow color to divide us.
@@1DenicoleAmen!!!
Everyone has african ancestry to some extent but there is no such thing as white...people labeled as white today (Irish, Jews, Italians, etc.) were not considered as always seen as such
Look up Afrikaaners. On average, 11% non-European ancestry. Even at the height of apartheid around 5,000 coloured people changed their status to white legally every year. It turns out the one drop rule is enforced only in the Deep South. Even there if you look white and leave town, you had options. It turns out that for the first hundred years of settlement in South Africa, hardly any white women immigrated. So the men had children with Koi-San, Indonesian, 🇮🇳 Indian, Chinese, and others on that trade route. 5 or more generations of only Dutch fathers and the number of people with some non-European ancestry who looked white was sizeable, as was the obviously mixed race population. The world is odder than we think and full of surprises.
I identify as American, family has been here for 5 generations.
You did a great job,Danielle!You researched your family history and made us reflect a little on the history of ethnicities in America. Greetings from Brazil!
She probably went back to NY to continue to pass. Everyone knew her back home and she couldn't pass there.
..or maybe she went back to a place where she found it easier to survive and although life wasn’t perfect had more freedoms than she would have in Louisiana. I don’t know where you’re from, but conditions in the Deep South were even more oppressive then, than they were when I grew up there in the 60s to early 80s. I left my hometown the day after I graduated from high school. I’ve faced some difficulties over the years, but never once considered going back there to live. I’d really rather live in a cardboard box where I am than go back there.
She was passing. In Louisiana it's called passe Blanc. She was for sure safer, but if it wasn't to pass her family in NY would've known the family in LA. I know this for a fact because Danielle and I are relatives through our creole heritage and because my grandmother did the same thing in NJ with her mom being in CA. The truth is you are both correct. No matter the reason, we are happy that her family made it and are alive to tell her story.@@SharonDoucette
@@lovealwaysbibi3336My apologies if my post was misinterpreted. I meant only to state that ‘passing’ may not have been the primary objective, but a necessity given the financial challenges she faced in LA. I know it’s a choice that some in my family made as well. Thanks for sharing.
@@SharonDoucette I'm not offended at all. I'm agreeing but pointing out you are both right. I have family in Sacramento that went through the same things. I get it. Pointing out that both are right and possible. We would never know because unfortunately they are all passed on.
Thank you sister for sharing your story and testimony with us. Your such a Blessing through your encourage in claim who you’re as well as others that’s part of this amazing testimony. Your such a pillar of light to us and our people.❤️🙏🏽🙌🏽💪🏽
Danielle, Thank you for sharing your family’s story. I cried several times because it was so hard to hear how difficult life was for your great grandmother and other family members.
Danielle, as a history lover, I'm intrigued by your great grandmother's story. I also admire your tenacity & respect in uncovering your ancestry. Each race is equally important & we've all done what we needed to do to survive. No one should be made to feel ashamed of that.
Great story. I would love to see a movie about your family story. It is the story of US.
Love your style of storytelling.
That would be such an honor.
My peoples are from Louisianna and I see the Black in all those photos. Looks just like my kinfolk
"Finding Lola - An American Story" This needs to be a Netflix documentary
Im so thankful for everyone who has been on the journey with me!
@@nytn Keep up the good work, Greetings from the UK
I agree indeed!
How facinating this search is. Danielle you are doing a great work for yourself, your family and lots of American people. Thank you
Thanks for sharing ❤
"For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.” --Luke 8:17
She did what she had to to survive and not be treated like an animal or somebody’s property 😢
Yep! It’s sad. It was no good to be either black or native.
Thank you for sharing this story. I loved hearing everyone's perspectives and understanding of the past vs. now.
This was so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing your family’s story and journey ❤
Thank you so much!
I have a certain love for this family! Reminds me of my own!!! We have everything in us but the kitchen sink! So proud!!❤❤ to you all!
I have enjoyed this series and I like the new videos that you've made.
Awesome, thank you!
I’m not surprised that she didn’t want to admit that she has black in her. It was the time they lived in.
One thing I should have said is never let anyone in or out of your family call you MULATTO. That terminology is the slave master (branding his live stock), somewhat owning his creation without saying it out loud because it was created with a black female slave.
Growing up in theSouth it was just a term for mixed race people. The term was used on official records in my town.
@VelveteenRabbit77 Yes, that's true, but slaves were also listed as live stock. That doesn't make it right. It's still demeaning.
I’ve never heard of that in any thing I’ve ever read anywhere and would be entirely inaccurate to call slaves livestock. @@roshellboudreaux6263
Mullato is a term that was used and erased peoples identities.
Then you get the “quadroon” and “octoroon” balls… this history goes soooo deep.
I have learned so much amd even understand my own family better by learning of your family journey.
This is so amazing. Well done!
Thank you so much!
Danielle, brilliant research on your part- a lawyer’s daughter for sure💝 My Dad had the similar story to your Grandfather/ per your Dad’s interview. WWII Navy Vet/ South Pacific, age 17, high school drop-out… Dad’s Navy photos/ ship USS Euryale could be connected, or related to us through Italian heritage. I’m on Ancestry search also…
We have been so mixed up since the beginning of time. So there's only 1 race, it's called human.
I love your stories and I hope that you find everything that you are looking for.
I just found your story, and I'm going through the same thing. I'm trying to find out who my father was, and the funny thing about this whole thing is that he's from the exact same place as your grandmother. He was born Brown, and moved to Houston by himself when he was about 16, and changed his last name to Peace. He past when I was 15, and I'm 46 now, and I've never meet his side of the family. You have given me hope to continue to search but, I can tell you that my journey has been hard. Thank You for making these videos.
I’m so glad! It’s a beautiful journey
I am a louisiana Creole. My grandmother passed for white (passe blanc) on my fathers side. My Mom spoke French and was a light skinned woman. I was told my mom's dad told her to marry light skinned until your descendants passed for white.
What people don't know is that BLACK is a super natural future/colour that can't NEVER be tampered with. That is it. She nailed it. " She looked it" she said . that's all. No matter how the haters of their ancestors try to hide their identity, there is always something there to remind you. Black is beautiful, own it.
I’m surprised they were able to pass they’re not that white looking. I wondered why my great grandmother didn’t pass she was much lighter but then I thought the same that I wouldn’t be here. But they married men who could farm and build. They were poor and discriminated against but they survived.
Hello Danielle, I'm new. I don't know if you ever spoke on the 1% Law. As far as I know, it is STILL on the "books!"
This is an excellent channel, There is so much we all need to know, and mistakes we NEED to avoid.
I love John😂. He is that cool uncle.
This family history is so very common throughout Louisiana, and some are aware of it, many are not. Our state has had some really dark moments in history where being certain ethnicities or nationalities could jeopardize a person’s success, freedom, or their life all together. I’m so glad you and your family are telling your stories. It’s therapeutic for families who have had their heritage swept under the rug to finally let light shine on it after so many years.
Yes it is! And there are a lot of similarities between other border-cultures from the southwest too (minus the African mixture, and just swap French for Spanish). These histories are SO important to be literate about so we can do better today and tomorrow.
I get it; back then I would pass also if I could… Times was hard. This is a good documentary!
My Grsndmother had Hazel eyes, Creole!
I belive Lola is living within you now !!!
I named one of my daughters Lola, so in a way, she definitely is! ❤
Growing up in poverty is so incredibly damaging! My fiancé grew up in poverty and wow was he wounded!! He resented me for not growing up poor.. calling us (me and my brother) dumb and spoiled! He was very hurt and always felt rejected..
My heart goes out to Lola. She had to deny part of who she was to have a better life. Her and her children lives would be worse if she identified as Mulatto or Black. Her mother sacrificed her relationship with her daughter in order for her to have a chance.
Awesome video ❤❤❤❤
Thank for sharing
My Great Grandfather look white in some pictures of him i never ask questions about to my Grandfather sadly both of them are gone now i should ask him more about ours Louisiana family
Listening to this really hurts. I have the opposite issue because my great grandmother and great great grandmother were shunned from their families because they married black men. There’s a part of your family that you don’t know because of racism
I think you look mixed because you have dormant genes from your great grandmother, because your parents are definitely mostly European and look mostly European
I live in Hawaii born and raised of Japanese ancestry. I was so enthralled with Lola’s story.. I find that she was a very , very brave woman!!!! Everyone has their own story they lived through and was trying to protect her children. Like it was said.. times were different back then and you needed to figure out a way to survive the “climate of the times” nowadays, we can be brave of who we are. I think our mindset is different as well. There’s still racism around, but we will not let others dictate our lives and try to shame us. It would give them power!! We don’t need to give power to negativity!! I loved your story!!
I am so glad to have you here. What a beautiful family story you must have. I have read a little about the Japanese experience in Hawaii.
Very interesting and fascinating.
“Did anyone get a DNA test” 😂😂😂 I love him.
Every child has questions about their heritage, but it’s hard when you ask about your parents background and are told not to ask, I was only told about being Scottish and Irish.
wow this is so funny to me.. Natchitoches is about 27 miles from where my mothers & fathers came from but I also believe THERE people grew up and or also live in Natchitoches as well. The other thing is my mothers family has a similar trajectory as yours in terms of race etc. Very fair skinned people... my mom said that either HER grand mother used to tell a story about her father being a "white man" but no one ever knew much about those folks OR even most of the off spring of that part of the family. I've since been able to locate some of the "black" part of the family but haven't fully delved into the "white" part lol.. I've been doing this since i was about 17 and i'm 48 now and I"m STILL finding out stuff. Oh and the last part, was that when I saw your grandmother, looking at her and hearing her made me see my grandmother and her sisters as she reminded me of them.... Really good work 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯
I see Lola and I see a Native woman. My grandfather was “Mestizo” from New Mexico but some of the elders liked to say they were only Spanish, even French. It would always change. That family used to hide their native roots because it was seen as worse than being “Mexican.” Even though the entire region was Mexico until 1918 😂 my grandfather though always told me we were native - Pueblo and Spanish. Some of his siblings said otherwise, even my grandmother (hiswhite wife) tried to say we weren’t because she only wanted her kids to be European! Well…we took that DNA test and boom - it showed my grandfather is half native. We did more genealogy and found out his older brothers were in the residential schools. So I’m assuming his mother (my great grandmother) wanted to try and save her other kids.
Her story is very interesting. I am not black or native but I am half asian (white passing but ambiguous enough that I get asked about my race). I know it's not quite the same but I find myself wondering occasionally what my life would have been like if I was born in a different generation, I wonder if I would have ended up similarly.
Great stuff. Peace and love
Omg.. I see you in your grandma.. so beautiful
I believe my boyfriend is mixed. He says he's native, German Italian and Irish. I believe strongly that african is there also. He hates black men not really crazy about black people in general. He goes out of his way to insult black people, probably to compensate for what's there.
Danielle, my extremely white grandmother would tell me you are high yellow. She's from the side of the family I continue to do penance for. The rest of my family was silent on the subject of race until I was an adult. We lived in a mixed neighborhood which is odd because I'm 65 years old now and that was odd for the day. Not sure why y'all think the north is less racist than the south, but that has not been my experience. I find the north more willing to deny they are racist, but their behavior is most definitely racist and now days they are coming out of the closet and being openly racist.
Both my parents are from Africa so this is pretty cool
Execellent video ❤❤❤
My paternal great grandfather’s sister passed for white and married a white man. My great grandad and his siblings and parents were very light skinned black people from the Piedmont region of NC. Both my paternal and maternal lines have light skinned elders and even some listed as mulatto and this is not unusual in the piedmont region of North Carolina specifically Rockingham, Caswell and Alamance counties-Courts and Watlington, Stokes families.
Lola’s daughter Marion sounds black and has those features Al looks mixed
Difficult to listen to. Very uneven audio levels between clips, commercials etc. But very interesting perspective..,
There were no commercials on the video as i watched it. The audio was great. You can opt out of commercials.
We were always told we were native because my great grandmother was born in a reservation, and had dark skin, and black hair. And her son (my grandfather) also lived on a reservation when he was young. His skin gets dark easily, and has very round cheekbones. But when I got my dna test, it only said like 4% native. So I’m vi fused what we actually are. Why would she have been born in the reservation, and have the ability to get dark skin if she had a small percentage of native dna?
Some slaves escaped to Native American tribes and lived among them until they died.
Some indigenous owned slaves!
From the pictures i would say that yes, by the standards of the time she was "passing". Please tell me youre somehow related to Ross Perot.
Hard times in those days.. but, the IRISH PEOPLE WERE #1 WITH MIXED MARRIAGES!!! Many, many were slaves!! The times then.. the south, during the GREAT DEPRESSION.. OH SO HORRIBLE
Irish were not slaves. Are you conflating indentured servitude with slavery? Also while there was also some Catholic Irish in the US since it was colonised the bulk came during and after the famine after the time when indentured servitude was practiced. Also most indentured servants were of Scots and English origin. I also don't know if Irish were no 1 with mixed marriages. I would need to see some credible statistics on that as I don't know why it would be the case with the Irish over other ethnicities.
@jackieblue1267 because many Irish women was transported on same ships as blacks, all as slaves!! Indentured slaves came through England during a certain time in history, mainly only to north parts of America, as Germans, Italian, swiss and as so many others did... many Spaniards ships only went to southern states, islands, same as French stayed south, southern states!!! Many have DNA of Irish blood mix.. Irish was well known slaves of Eastern Indians and African countries
@jackieblue1267 YOUR WRONG!! CREOLE!!! Bluk Indentured slaves came over on English ships...bulk slaves came by Spaniard french to south.. plus many Irish and others for 1,000 of years was eastern Indian and Africa had slaves...
@@marilynrigsby6874 Why am I wrong? I said Irish were not slaves and that is correct.
@jackieblue1267 Every race was a slave at one time in history 🙄 we still have SLAVERY in the world today.. AFRICA n CHINA has tons right today!!!!
It's funny I find that I object to people pretending to be Indians. It seems unfair that people should fake their background. I assume that they do it to acquire various set asides that are there to help real indigenous Americans. At the same time I absolutely do not care if someone who has some black ancestry and looks white passes to avoid unjust oppression based on race. If I thought someone were passing, I would totally cover for them without being asked. Let the begrudgers pound sand.
Eu moro no Brasil e minha mãe passou por isso. Aqui somos bem mestiços em nosso país e mesmo assim pensam que são brancos. Muitos brancos daqui vão para esses países e se chocam por não serem aceitos. Eu passei minha vida toda sem saber minha cor. Sou o limite entre o negro e o branco.
I can see the mixture
Alot of people I my family wee light bright and damned near white too but you can look at features and tell who’s not at all white or all white 🤷🏽♀️
I think everyone should stop sugar coating this topic and just be real. Lola could have defended her heritage and raised her children in truth, despite how her husband’s family felt. Instead, she chose to cover up her heritage and raise her children under a false narrative, which has lead to family wide confusion. In my opinion, it’s shameful to deny your heritage because you want to assimilate to European culture, in order to “protect” your children. Protect them from what exactly? Being racially diverse? As if that’s something to be “protected” from or ashamed of. She chose to “pass” and deny her true self, it’s shameful and hopefully the rest of her family can learn from this and reconnect to their true roots. That’s what this is about in a nutshell. Stop dancing around the truth and be frank. It doesn’t mean you love her any less, and doesn’t mean she’s a terrible person, she just made a weird decision, that ultimately affected her family’s knowledge of history.
You did not live in that time period. You didn't have to deal with lynching or separate bathrooms or segregated public areas or really not having any rights.
You thinking with the knowledge and environment in the last 40 years.
Even today although I am not black I stay out of the sun because I was called all those bad names they called black people.
The creator that created all people if you judge people that's judging the creator those who judge will be judged don't do it
I did my DNA and my Father's in order to find his Father's Father. Unfortunately, but I wouldn't be here otherwise, my Grandfather was the product of non-consent by a "white" man in 1936 Arkansas. My Great-Grandmother was Native and African-American and she was married to a very dark-skinned African-American. When my Grandfather was born, their 3rd son, he was obviously the product of the attack, but her husband loved my Grandfather as his own.
Unfortunately, the family of the biological father figured it out, and ran them out of town by the time he was 3. They came to California, where I'm from.
All that to say, I found out who he was, and that both he and my Great-Grandmother 's families were originally from Nachitoches, Louisiana and the surrounding area. She worked for their family as I understand it. Out of curiosity, I checked shared matches on my Ancestry to see if I had any Perot on my Dad's side, and I do show a couple distant half cousins. So perhaps we touch just a little bit! :)
My "white" Great-Grandfather turns out to be descended from a French military officer and a Choctaw woman who was captured and enslaved (he asked if she would marry him if he bought her), and Indigenous American from Mexico and Scottish on the other side.
I consider myself a real American Mutt! But they don't call it mutt anymore right? So I'm a Designer American, lol.
Also, just an aside, your Grandmother and Great-Grandmother could easily have been siblings to my maternal Grandmother, who wasn't considered even "mixed" when I was growing up. As far as I understood, she was Black, both of her parents were Black, and their parents were Black. I was a little wrong on that. As I mentioned, turns out my family has been mixing since like the 1600s/1700s, both free and slave, with and without consent, in the north and the south. In fact, there's a memorial placed at George Washington's childhood home for Mary and Patty Bowden who are my ancestors who were mulatto indentured servants there. My Aunt wrote about it in "Notes and Documents of a Free Person of Color" by Anita Wills.
Thank you for being here and sharing part of your story!
But it shows. ( Blackness)
On one of your shows you was talking about your people you know what that was on UA-cam come up was Elvis Presley my lunch in I may not I'm not saying it right but you did a DNA and they and a lot of people thought that Elvis Presley
Saw an African man do a test along with 2 Caucasian dudes. Guess who had Eskimo DNA? The guy from Africa! We just never know, so don't hate anyone.
The one drop rule doesn’t exist- any longer - that law was for the sole benefit of slave owners. Ms Lola, was looks like 3 ethnicities -
President Eisenhower, with the stroke of his pen he eliminated some Native Americans in Louisiana.
That's awful to tell a child that.
Lolla war eine sehr gut aussehende frau.😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂😂🎉😂🎉😂
You look like your great great grandmothther
Thank you so much!
Everyone came from a black man
These people are white!!
Hhhhwhite with a capital H
Being Italian in American is very difficult, not white not anything else. Blacks, Latins, Asians, and white all racist to Italians. All Italians I know have always been very loving to all people.
Italians are white, r-tard. We don't live in those times anymore.
I don’t believe black people are racist towards Italians. It’s definitely the opposite. Italians in America know they’re only a shade away from people believing their black and not Italian in America. This is why I believe they act a certain way towards black Americans.
Blacks Asians and Latinos can’t be racist look up the definition smh and it was the pale Italians who were racist to the groups you meant so they could be accepted as white aka pink gtfoh 😂
So loving they call Blacks niggers and moolinyan even though whites called Italians 🤷🏾♂️ northern Italians call southern Italians racist slurs til this day and to think the Italian Mafia started in Sicily 😂 we all know why the northern Italians disrespect southern Italians…..they know the South still has that Black African Moorish blood flowing through their veins. Funny thing is indigenous Europeans were “Black” aboriginals and all the Royal families in Europe had Moorish and Black Hebrew bloodlines aka Blue bloods look up the Royal coats of arms nothing but “Black” faces…..pale skin whites migrated into Europe from the Western Asia steppes their were considered barbarians by the Greeks and Romans who were Indigenous Blacks and after the pale invasion became Mulattos ✊🏾 truth hurts
italians are indeed LATIN...many do look mixed
It’s sad that it’s acceptable to be mixed with all except for black
This is AMAZING! Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Great story Danielle!!! Much love
Wow. Incredible story. Btw you have beautiful ladies in you family. And Classy too. What a Mystery. Engaging story telling style. Black, Italian, Jewish, Irish, German, Native American, in the same Family. Wow wow wow. God bless America.
I'm surprised her Great Grandmother was able to "pass".. She definitely looked like the lighter skinned Black woman she was..
Wow, Please tell me that production of this video has won you a documentary or film award of some sort. What you have done in putting this together is truly nothing short of amazing. Truly blessed by all of the work that must have gone into compiling, editing and producing this into a narrative of your family's journey, (and surely a journey that MANY certainly have, but may yet feel inhibited about )with which you've shared is worthy of at the very least some sort of commendation. It is this type of willingness to explore our stories that will ultimately bridge the perpetual, pernicious divides. Great work. Many thanks for creating and posting this and all of your many informative and explorative videos.
Lola looks like a very light skinned black person to me.
Can I just say I love John and Dan! Straight to the point! I have loved your series keep the stories coming ❤️
Interesting video about your extended family, a very big multi ethnic and multi-cultural extended family. ✌🏼😎✌🏼