Anonymous wrote:That my grandfather was 1/4 black and passed for white. I had to pry it out of my mother...
wow. this is amazing...do you appear AA? Ahhh, sorry, that didn't come out the way I meant it. I just find this fascinating as to how people come to look the way they do... My great grandfather, was a stealth Jew and married a Scandinavian woman. My cousins are all virtually translucently white. And not ironically, my oompa was a Nazi. They were cold horible people and I hated them. Every picture I have of my ooma, she looks as though is smelling a terrible bowel movement. She made the most
delicious raspberry preserves I have ever tasted
[not made of bowel movements]. She would make them during June in the summer and freeze it in mason jars and we would eat it all winter on her leaden homemade bread. The winter after her death, we ate it silently for months, never once mentioning her name as the juices from it ran down our faces. I still have a jar in the crawl space behind a closet. She was "not a Nazi", she would say, but she married one because she said: "they are people like everyone else." She would say horrible things like, "marry the Jew out of a person and give them lovely children" and so on. She barely spoke, but when she did, you'd wish you could unhear it.