Thursday, August 03, 2023
From passing as White, to passing as blacker-than-black: the Broyard family saga
[“A Question About the News: Is Tirien Steinbach a quadroon (or octoroon), or just another Rachel Dolezal with a curly perm?”]
By Anonymous
wednesday, august 2, 2023 at 7:09:00 p.m. edt
My guess is a quadroon. Does have the typical negroid features.
Read here at the URL the saga of the octoroon Anatole Broyard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Broyard
Then read at this URL the saga of the daughter of Anatole, 1/16th black.
https://www.blissbroyard.com/
See a Bliss Broyard article. Rikers island deaths.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rikers-inmates-died-2021.html
Astute readers of the Nicholas web site will instantly recognize a trend.
Anatole did pass as white. He was a military officer during WW2 and his ID card said white.
ReplyDeleteIt was said of Anatole that when he left Harlem daily for work he was a black man and when he arrived downtown NYC he was a white man.
Bliss the daughter appears to be 100 % white. You would know from appearance otherwise.
Thank you for this post. I enjoyed Broyard's writing back in the days when the NYT still had something worthwhile to offer, especially the Book Review when it was reviewing real books and not drivel about blacks, gays, feminists, etc. I had no idea of the "controversy" about Mr. Broyard, which seems to be as he wanted it. The idiot daughter is a sad product of our times. -RM
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