Meet The Woman Who Learned That Her Mother Passed As White | Megyn Kelly TODAY

Black or white or colour treat everyone as human not the skin colour, race, title, etc.

Come on! Carol Channing is from Alabama so - well....How many know that Helen Keller's family owned slaves in Alabama?

Essa mulher é branca, nunca negra 😂

Where is the problem ? Her mother was her mother. I do not understand that a color of skin is mentioned on birth certificate ? Is that legal ? That does not exist in my country and it is even forbidden to mention anything about the colour of anybody.

B, is for boy.

My mom appears to be white but is black. As is my father. Both born in Louisiana in 1960 and they have “Colored” listed for the race of their parents. I came out the complexion of my mother and I was always told to NEVER pass! She was very heavy on me embracing being black. I can’t imagine the stress of having to hide who you are! 😢

I feel so sad for her mom that she lived her whole life ashamed and so sad for society that she felt the need to hide her whole life.

Was this inspiration for the book vanishing half?

It's crazy how shocked white folk are when they find out they have a black relative. But it's never the other way around. 🤣🤣

This race thing is silly. We need to stop

Self Hatred Is Real, This Is A Sickness In The Black Community 💯🎯

Where's the full interview

So her mother transitioned to white.

I believe in the USA your classed as black as you have a ‘black gene’ even so your appearance is white? I wonder in 50 years how appearance will be perceived?

This is hilarious I guess it's because I'm black that I don't see how she passed maybe because a black person knows a black person you can look at the woman being interviewed and tell she is black she looks black just lighter skinned I think a lot of people back then were naive that goes to show you that race shouldn't matter because he loved her for her not even knowing she was black

The lady seems upset about having black blood in her genes

Who was Gayle grandma?

Many people in Brazil, against their will, pass as either Black or White… It’s ridiculous, but I feel it doesn’t get as much attention from our own media (specially the Black passing people, and u know why). I still see many people (in such a nation full of people from several backgrounds) confused that they’re White JUST BECAUSE their skin is light/ fair or Black just because their skin is dark/ deep. Once I told a woman (politely) I was biracial and that, by that, I meant White and native American… She said (in a passive aggressive form) “but you have this and that feature… YOU’RE A BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMAN” (sorry ma’am, what? lol)… That lady was Black, but once a White lady told me something very similar (and the same passive aggressive way)!
It is ridiculous! Stop that in Brazil, in the USA and in wherever other country! The world is NOT made of White and Black people (just reminded about that “Cleopatra Netflix situation”… But the fact that she’s of Greek ancestry if I’m not wrong, aka a White woman, makes it kinda interesting since I feel the two involved groups, and by that I obviously don’t include North Africans since that’s apparently not her background, are the ones who do that more frequently lol)!

Her mother was ahead of her time… nowadays you can identify as anything.

It just shows how color and race aren’t as clear cut as it seems

Gayle is just part colored it's ok

She’s white, one drup rules is ridiculous

✨N Word pass granted

Lol at the people calling her mother courageous. Pretending to be something you aren't and being ashamed of who you are is FAR from courageous.

As a Mexican with different races mixed in my blood that I’ll never identify, I’m very confused about why races are so huge and important in the US, to the point of saying things like “I didn’t know who I was anymore”, what?

she had to hide because being black could get you killed especially back then

HER: Did that mean Black?!

ME: It don’t mean BUFFALO 😂

Mom is probably Creole.

Interesting makes u wonder how many people passed for white

The movie star Dianh Shore had black relatives but kept this hidden

Noooo, the saddest thing is that she would have NEVER had to pretend to be white, if AMERICA would have truly been a godly/Christ Loving Nation, not thinking more of their MELANIN deprived skin.

Real life Imitation of Life … wow

Who cares! Get over the race card !

Many yt women did this n raised their children to be bigots lol her hands are brown. Lol. U r what ppl see u as. U are what privileges as.

I know her mom was at least 1/4 or 1/3 black not 1/2 ...

But don’t forget you walked in and OUT a white women, no need for an identity crisis.

I thinknthisnis very inportant to bi racial people as one myself you tend to lean toward the group you spend the most time with now in day but with the way everything was back then i can see you trying to pass yourself off as something your not this is a big wake up call to people we are all intermingled and thoes hateful people maynot be as pure as they think they are

Bigoted and fooled 😂

Lol her grandmother clearly had that baby from a white dude, not her grandfather 😂😂

Usonian people are so wierd

Good gracious look at the stupid remarks about the woman BEHIND the guest. She is an actress and her name is Dee Wallace. The only movies I remember her being in were horror movies.

Her momther's younger photos look like Brook Schield. She was truly a beautiful woman.

I would feel the same way if I found out my father was White. It is what it is.....

Race should not matter.

So her mom was essentially Creole

So was she bi racial, because that ain't no different from people nowadays who claim one race over the other. People always pick and choose which ethnicity they want to be known as if it benefits them

If she were black then I would be amazed

The United States is such a weird and deranged place. It's beyond my comprehension how this woman went through all this effort to hide a black father. Sick.

Wasnt this megan person part of the mango cult awhile ago? 🦊 Person?

Her mother looked like Lea Thompson 😮