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Old 01-14-2005, 07:21 PM
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My mom is 1/2 caucasian (her father, he was Irish, his last name was Dunn) and 1/2 black (her mother). Her father had 2 families, one white one (the legal one) and one black one (the one he hid off in the woods of the Northern State of Georgia). On my mom's birth certificate, it lists a man, who my grandmother was married to and who had died 10 years before my mother was born... My grandmother broke the miscegnation laws back in that day, so a caucasian father could not be listed as the true father--although my mother and 4 of her older siblings were spliting images of him...

On my father's side:

His father's great-great grandmother was full bloodied First Nation (we don't know what tribe). She had a son from a white man and that son had very RED hair. He married a former slave--who was 300 lbs... They had several children. One being my great-grandfather who was a player, but some how married my great-grandmother... Now my great-grandmother may have not be all black... Because apparently, her mother was an "octaroon" (meaning she had about an 8th black blood in her--just like Ann Rice's book, "Feast of All Saints"). She had children from two different caucasian men. So, my great-grandmother--I don't know how she identified herself as being black... But she had the last name of "Zeigler"...

My paternal grandmother's side: There was a former slave who was freed and he ran into the Cherokee Nation and married a woman. Because of the Fugitive Slave Act, he never left the Nation... (But some of my First Nation friend tell me that my anscestors may have not been Cherokee). Anyhow, they had children. One of them named Honey. Honey was playing outside, when a "Judge" saw her and told her brother that "I'll take her off your hands..." She was 12. And from that, they had several children. One of them my paternal great-grandmother. In some of her younger pictures, she looks better than J.Lo... But that is what she looks like... She was the darkest one out of the family... So the "Judge" got married and moved north somewhere and apparently, he and his wife were unable to have children... So he sent for all the other children he had had from Honey, except my great-grandmother... And that broke her heart--he never wanted her, and she had a huge color complex. So when she got older, she married a very dark black man and had my paternal grandmother and her siblings.

So my grandparents got married and had several children, one being my father...

My parents met and had me and my brother...

My brother married a caucasian woman and his child has Asian feature...

Go figure...

So, whut am I?
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