[momtothree]

“How did she get away with this con job for so long?”

You know, I’ve been thinking about that question. I look at her photos and say, “That’s a white woman”. However, I believe we have become so conditioned in a PC world that anyone daring to question if someone is really “black” immediately becomes a racist for asking it. Granted, the “colorings” of black people vary but come on! I personally believe if her parents didn’t come out and say she was white.. she’d still be playing this con. She’d still be getting away with it, too.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I don't believe that others that dealt with her didn't notice the horrible sprayed on tan. I think it was a case of "the emperor's new clothes". No one wanted to be the first one to point to this hideous creature and say WTH.

And now, because it went on for so long, they are defending her RACIST behavior because no one wants to admit that they were stupidly complicit for letting it go on for so long.

Come on, she may as well have dressed up like Al Jolson in black face and sang Mammie.

[Tax-chick]

This book (found in my local library) is about a white man, a highly-regarded explorer/surveyor in the 1870s and later, who passed as black. He was pure WASP, old New England stock, but in his travels he developed a taste for "ethnic" women. Wandering around Harlem, claiming to be a railroad porter (high-status work for a black man), he met a young woman from the South, married her, and had several children.

Even at that time, it was understood that you couldn't tell who was "black" by their appearance.

Another interesting illustration is Belle DaCosta Greene (real name, Belle Greener), a woman from an old free-black family who was the founding curator of the J.P. Morgan Library. She claimed she had some Portuguese ancestry, but that was bosh.

[Tired of Taxes]

if her parents didn’t come out and say she was white.. she’d still be playing this con. She’d still be getting away with it, too.

Yep. She's like the Frank Abagnale of "race relations."

[ChildOfThe60s]

I suspect her parents wanted to distance themselves from her insanity. That it is only her attempt to ruin the life of her brother that have prompted them to do this.

So obvious a demonstration of her pathology has to have an effect on the credibility of her charges against him. Unfortunately, because men have to prove that they didn’t do it, which is logically impossible, it may not help the poor guy.