Friday, January 3, 2014

Is Lena horne black or white?

Is Lena horne black or white?
her parents were mixed black,native American, and white so shes mixed but identifies as black.

She is a light skinned black American. Throughout black history all blacks have been partially mixed with European & Native American. In the old days they used to tell the lighter skinned blacks to marry each other because it was thought they would do better in society. As a result some blacks are just very light but not necessarily any more or less mixed than the average black American. Lena Horne's parents do not have a known fully white parent and always lived in upper class black communities.

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