My great-grandmother hid her race. Two decades later I understand why.

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2. I have the same thing in my family

My grandmother had a white Irish father and a black mother in New Orleans. All six of their kids were light skinned and three of them blue eyed.One of the sisters married a Jewish man in Chicago and passed for white and never told her children of her ancestry. My grandmother married a light skinned mulattao but they divorced when my Mother was 3 years old. My mother was light skinned and had green eyes. The other four children married light skinned mullatos also. My generation all married white but I am proud of my heritage none the less.

There are so many people like me in the US that if they took a dna test would be shocked.