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Woman Discovers She's White After 70 Years Of Thinking She's A Light Skinned Black Woman
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:42 pm
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Verda Byrd was adopted by a black family, and grew up thinking she was a light-skinned black woman until 2014, when she found out her biological parents were both white, WLTX 19 reports.
Byrd who published a book, "Seventy Years of Blackness," in December 2017 says she never questioned her race until she began researching her biological family in 2013.
"I didn't know what I was," she said. "It was never told to me that I was white."
Byrd is the biological daughter of Daisy and Earl Beagle, a poor white couple with four other children at the time of her birth.
Her father abandoned the family in 1943 and her mother sustained a traumatic injury after falling from a trolley when Byrd was five months old. The children were later taken by the state. Daisy regained custody of all of Byrd’s siblings, except for Byrd, who was adopted by Ray and Edwinna Wagner, a black couple, and renamed Verda Ann. She was raised as an only child.
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She eventually visited Daisy’s grave and had a reunion with three of her biological sisters, Sybil Panko, Debbie Romero and Kathyrn Gutierrez, but the happy reunion was short-lived when Panko used the n-word.
Panko died in 2016 and Byrd was barred from the funeral; Panko made the request in writing. Byrd's remaining blood sister stopped speaking to her after the death, and left her dismayed by the rejection.
Verda Byrd was adopted by a black family, and grew up thinking she was a light-skinned black woman until 2014, when she found out her biological parents were both white, WLTX 19 reports.
Byrd who published a book, "Seventy Years of Blackness," in December 2017 says she never questioned her race until she began researching her biological family in 2013.
"I didn't know what I was," she said. "It was never told to me that I was white."
Byrd is the biological daughter of Daisy and Earl Beagle, a poor white couple with four other children at the time of her birth.
Her father abandoned the family in 1943 and her mother sustained a traumatic injury after falling from a trolley when Byrd was five months old. The children were later taken by the state. Daisy regained custody of all of Byrd’s siblings, except for Byrd, who was adopted by Ray and Edwinna Wagner, a black couple, and renamed Verda Ann. She was raised as an only child.
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She eventually visited Daisy’s grave and had a reunion with three of her biological sisters, Sybil Panko, Debbie Romero and Kathyrn Gutierrez, but the happy reunion was short-lived when Panko used the n-word.
Panko died in 2016 and Byrd was barred from the funeral; Panko made the request in writing. Byrd's remaining blood sister stopped speaking to her after the death, and left her dismayed by the rejection.
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:43 pm to DavidTheGnome
This is Mike Tirico's story but opposite.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:44 pm to DavidTheGnome
It’s a reverse Clayton Bigsby
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
Damn that’s like winning the lotto.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
There is no way that woman is white.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
All those years of lost white privilege.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:46 pm to DavidTheGnome
Now she can cash in on that privilege
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
Pretty damn exceptional people to adopt a child of a different race back in those days....
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
Daisy regained custody of all her children except the one fathered by a black man.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
Well one sister is Italian and the other Mexican so not sure why the snub.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:57 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Panko died in 2016 and Byrd was barred from the funeral; Panko made the request in writing. Byrd's remaining blood sister stopped speaking to her after the death, and left her dismayed by the rejection.
Sounds like she lucked out by not having to grow up with this trash family.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:57 pm to DavidTheGnome
This is just like what happened to Sammy Sosa.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:00 pm to Spankum
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Pretty damn exceptional people to adopt a child of a different race back in those days....
Seriously.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:01 pm to DavidTheGnome
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She eventually visited Daisy’s grave and had a reunion with three of her biological sisters, Sybil Panko, Debbie Romero and Kathyrn Gutierrez, but the happy reunion was short-lived when Panko used the n-word.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:03 pm to DavidTheGnome
Wow, I can’t imagine how it must feel to suddenly find out you’re racist after all these years.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:06 pm to DavidTheGnome
This is like the Uncle Ruckus reality show episode of boondocks, but opposite
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