An important point made here...
The key in this are the words FOR ME.
A lot of Black folks are in denial that this is their reality. Even worse, they have been lied to into believing that slavery is their Legacy. Slavery is PART of the Legacy of SOME Black people. The majority in this country but not ALL.
In fact, one of my Ancestors, JC Still, was born in slave era in Alabama. His father Peter Still was a FREE BLACK MAN who was captured and taken into slavery and was later granted his freedom after meeting his Brother, a free black man in Philadelphia. Peter Still later moved back to Alabama and BOUGHT his family and then later migrated from Alabama.
JC Still was JR Clipper's brother in law {He married one of "Cissy's granddaughters also} and also a founder of Boley Township.
There are numerous FREE BLACK families who came to this country prior to 1690 that may have come as indentured servants or "slaves" that were Free Black. So many in Virginia that at one time they outnumbered the white settlers. Same in South Carolina. Ever see those movies about what happened with the riot in New York or Boston where white people attacked free black? That is because many of them were of BRITISH or IRISH descent. And many of those Blacks migrated freely. There also were free blacks who migrated from France and Italy. many settled in Quebe, Nova Scoita and Tres Rivores. They later settled in Chicago and down further the Mississippi River eventually in Orleans parish....
Our problem is this one sided SLAVE mentality. Which shoots down any alternative viewpoint about our historical realities.
If and when you KNOW otherwise, keep this KNOWLEDGE and you and yours can never be destroyed.
The very same "white folks" that are in my bloodline from france (Morney, de Mornay) are indeed intermixed with the Valois bloodline, which goes back to the early Merovignians who claimed descent from the "blood of jesus". Tracing this bloodline back I found that they also claim ancestry from one of the daughters of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
The interesting thing here is that the Valois line I am descendded from researchers claim that it doesnt exist because the Ancestor Charles Duke of Angouleme was an illegitimate sone of King Charles X. And those who follwed usurped the bloodline by claiming Charles X had no male heir. Because he was illegitimate. This usurpation was orchestrated by his wife Catherine de Medici.
Catherine herself had an illegitimate brother, D'Allesandro. The Duke of Florence. His mother was NUBIAN. His actual father was Pope Clement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_de_Medici
The point here is that this "race mixing" PREDATES slavery. Keep in mind that SOME of the early Black here were sailers, navigators and soldiers of fortune. They did NOT first appear here as slaves and indentured servants. They were Aristocracy and Nobility in europe and Northern Africa, chiefly Morocco.
Just KNOW you and do YOU.
As I do ME.
Peace...
Quote: "Anywayz, for me to embrace the fact that I have white in me was a big step."Desert Storm said:Jazzy-I'm glad you cleared that up for me and elaborated.
I will say this, you have inspired me to have a lil more faith in my kin. I guess for me, when you said, that you will embrace your blackness, to me that meant that, I am not embracing my blackness by finding out that I have white people in the fam.
There was a point and time that I hated white people. However, that didn't really help me feel that better about myself in the long run.
I remember being a kid and a best friend of mine who was white, her parents didn't like me because I was black. One day she wrote on the chalkboard that , Being black matters, in big bold words. My mom says that at some point I told her that I wished my legs were white. I don't remember that but I have never forgot it.
My mom is a teacher and I went to a private school off and on throughout growing up. Because the tuition was super cheap for employees, me and my brother went to those schools. I have grown up around a lot of diversity and white people.
I went from speaking my ghetto english to proper english in no time. I know the games that white people play and am very used to them. In a way I resented being in that kind of environment all the time. It didn't help that we were pretty poor as well, so all the stuff that I saw little white gurls have, I wanted.
I still do have to put up with a lot from white people,period.
Anywayz, for me to embrace the fact that I have white in me was a big step. I'm not biracial but have those strong genes in my family so I came out looking mixed up anywayz. It didn't help when I wanted to fit in.
So there's a lot of pain still there needless to say.
I'm really in a place of just not caring anymore. I feel dead inside. So it's been a journey. I've been sorting out a lot of things this year. You do have to love yourself, for realz. Thanks for the love that you extend. I think I can shake on this.
Miss Lady, I know I've grown up with somebody that looked just like you when I lived in San Jose, CA. It's really funny too... hee,hee,hee.
Thanks
DS
The key in this are the words FOR ME.
A lot of Black folks are in denial that this is their reality. Even worse, they have been lied to into believing that slavery is their Legacy. Slavery is PART of the Legacy of SOME Black people. The majority in this country but not ALL.
In fact, one of my Ancestors, JC Still, was born in slave era in Alabama. His father Peter Still was a FREE BLACK MAN who was captured and taken into slavery and was later granted his freedom after meeting his Brother, a free black man in Philadelphia. Peter Still later moved back to Alabama and BOUGHT his family and then later migrated from Alabama.
JC Still was JR Clipper's brother in law {He married one of "Cissy's granddaughters also} and also a founder of Boley Township.
There are numerous FREE BLACK families who came to this country prior to 1690 that may have come as indentured servants or "slaves" that were Free Black. So many in Virginia that at one time they outnumbered the white settlers. Same in South Carolina. Ever see those movies about what happened with the riot in New York or Boston where white people attacked free black? That is because many of them were of BRITISH or IRISH descent. And many of those Blacks migrated freely. There also were free blacks who migrated from France and Italy. many settled in Quebe, Nova Scoita and Tres Rivores. They later settled in Chicago and down further the Mississippi River eventually in Orleans parish....
Our problem is this one sided SLAVE mentality. Which shoots down any alternative viewpoint about our historical realities.
If and when you KNOW otherwise, keep this KNOWLEDGE and you and yours can never be destroyed.
The very same "white folks" that are in my bloodline from france (Morney, de Mornay) are indeed intermixed with the Valois bloodline, which goes back to the early Merovignians who claimed descent from the "blood of jesus". Tracing this bloodline back I found that they also claim ancestry from one of the daughters of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
The interesting thing here is that the Valois line I am descendded from researchers claim that it doesnt exist because the Ancestor Charles Duke of Angouleme was an illegitimate sone of King Charles X. And those who follwed usurped the bloodline by claiming Charles X had no male heir. Because he was illegitimate. This usurpation was orchestrated by his wife Catherine de Medici.
Catherine herself had an illegitimate brother, D'Allesandro. The Duke of Florence. His mother was NUBIAN. His actual father was Pope Clement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_de_Medici
The point here is that this "race mixing" PREDATES slavery. Keep in mind that SOME of the early Black here were sailers, navigators and soldiers of fortune. They did NOT first appear here as slaves and indentured servants. They were Aristocracy and Nobility in europe and Northern Africa, chiefly Morocco.
Just KNOW you and do YOU.
As I do ME.
Peace...