http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/little-white-lie-review-a-filmmaker-explores-her-secret-black-heritage-1.10078126

THE DOCUMENTARY "Little White Lie" airing on "Independent Lens"
WHEN|WHERE Monday at 10 p.m. on WNET/13

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz confronts what everyone in her life had been "overlooking": That the little girl from the nice white family in Woodstock was black. How did it happen? How could it happen?

The light-skinned Schwartz grew up in Woodstock, a fairly homogeneous white community, never thinking she wasn't just like her parents, Robert and Peggy, and an heir to a New York Jewish immigrant background -- despite the fact that in summer she certainly tanned up a lot darker than anyone else in the family. Robert Schwartz explained Lacey's coloring away by pointing to photographs of his dark-complected Sicilian grandfather, which in retrospect seems ludicrous. (The filmmaker's biological father, no surprise, was really an African-American, who had an extramarital affair with her mother.) Schwartz concludes that everyone was in denial. "If you looked too closely at it," the filmmaker says, "it didn't make sense. So we didn't look."

It's not until she applies to Georgetown University, attaches a picture of herself and is admitted as a black student, that she accepts the obvious. At which point there's something of a hole in the story: She transitions into black college life with nary a speed bump, and it's not until later that the confrontations with her parents get serious. Were they unaware that a major institution of learning had declared their daughter African-American?


Have y'all heard of this? The NPR story was really very interesting.

because......

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The story sounded completely preposterous to me, but it was entertaining.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/101524901/Lacey_1.jpg

man, it's obvious.

shame on her parents.

VERY jew-ey features. This broad looks like Rae Dawn Chong.

I want to go to there.

Features or could pass for Dominican.

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Ilana+Glazer+Broad+City+Screening+NYC+o2i0QZwf3tRl.jpg

disgusting.

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LMAO

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http://www. silencesfilm.com/

She looked like Drake as a baby though.. dunno how she aint know

When she was like when I went to undergrad suddenly my bad hair was good hair and my dark skin was light skin

She still doesnt get it IMO

I'm very dark and have dark curly hair. My skin and hair aren't "bad" just like hers weren't "bad" when she thought she was Jewish

Nahmean?

does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

Wanna drink about it?

>When she was like when I went to undergrad suddenly my bad
>hair was good hair and my dark skin was light skin
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>She still doesnt get it IMO
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>I'm very dark and have dark curly hair. My skin and hair
>aren't "bad" just like hers weren't "bad" when she thought she
>was Jewish
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and walked right out onto the highway. Couldn't fucking take that shit.


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And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

The features that made her not white enough are highly cherished in the black community. Especially for women. She's being honest, no?

I refuse to believe he's trying to pass

Tiger and Jeter tho...smh

They refuse to give in and come to the dark side


does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
http://i.imgur.com/phECCMp.jpg

black ass daddy was at every yankees game, lol

>I refuse to believe he's trying to pass
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>Tiger and Jeter tho...smh
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>They refuse to give in and come to the dark side
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Jeter NEVER skirts being Black

Tiger another story

but they also get the benefit of doubt FROM whites, who view them at other

again, I have no idea what areas yall live in where white view and treat Blacks equally

"This ain't nothin' but the Mike Tirico Story!"

does that explain his dude-bro frat stories in the espn offices?

I think it's a case of his family keeping secrets from him.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/01/world-cup-anchor-mike-tirico-s-bizarre-history-reports-of-stalking-and-sexual-harassment.html

According to a 1990 profile of Tirico in the Syracuse Post-Standard, “because of his dark skin and ethnic features, Tirico says, most people assume he’s black. But he’s seen pictures of his father, his father’s mother, and his father’s sister, all of whom are white.”

http://s1.hubimg.com/u/5135358_f260.jpg


He need to stop frontin

cuz i bet he has said *fuckin moolie* countless times

cuz i bet he has said *fuckin moolie* countless times

I mean, haven't we all heard stories like this before?

And I want to know: did the dad know about the mom's affair or did he just want to believe that it was his Sicilian gene manifesting itself? lol

I mean, yeah, it's intriguing but it's not something we've never heard before.

Simple as that.

They showed his pic in one of the previews. Moorish as fuck. It was a plausible lie.

But then I grew up around Sicilians and yeah comparatively they are dark

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWHrA_-5Fp8

jokes.

Because I can and I mean beyond just her inflection.
Weird. It might be my eyes deceiving my ears though.

Bass?

I saw it in her hips as well
But yes could be me and her age she's in her thirties now and filled out
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I was thinking how did she NOT know she was black?

the sad music evoking "Tragic" feelings, etc. just doesn't feel right.

Brotherhood showed it @ one synagogue I go to was showing it and having discussion

The former president of my synagogue in the Bronx knows her from B'Chol L'ashon

http://www.bechollashon.org

She worked on this for about 8 years as I understand it. Was a major part of reconciling with her family, as I understand it.

Very awkward to watch though, especially when she confronts her mother.

Maybe even been had African genes if Jewish people really were enslaved in Egypt. Do Jewish people not read history books these days?

its obvious.


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Like her mom knows she was taking pipe-n-circumstance from a black man, knows she was jewish and her man was jewish.

She just crossed her fingers and hoped no one would notice??? Like how the fuck did she go thru that and just be like "oh well!".
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The football players would come for a year, creep in the corn fields and leave behind a baby or 2 before flunking out or transfering..

The college was frustrated because there were all these Obama babies who would check white when they enrolled. They were raised by white grandparents and always identified as white and really believed that shit.

Or at least have doubts.

it seems obvious because we know the story before watching
but so many italian, jewish, latino and such people look similarly and we don't call THEM black
despite whatever african roots may be present.

i do concede however that she looks a lot 'blacker' as a grown up.
but i feel it was probably pretty easy for her to pass the way she looked
especially if the non-biological dad is part sicilian.

"Um, girl you black"
If there is a speck of darkness black folks will see it and call it out.
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so we know when we see it...

and we make sure to call it out when one denies it.

Finding a scintilla of black anywhere.
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this one guy i'd see around the more i saw him the more i was convinced he was black especially since he kept his head shaved and so did his brother. found his fb page and lo and behold his daddy was black. i was like I KNEW IT!

i still think shia labeouf is passing

find and call out "passing" black people in organizations

this was in the 20s or 40s

That's crazy. Hired for inherent negro spotting abilities.
I just imagine firms pulling a random black person off the street to smoke out passing negros for $50. Dave from accounting sweating hard because he skipped his conk appointment last week and his are roots coming in...
looking like this... http://askmeaboutmyhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/modern-day-conk.jpg
but lighter

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>That's crazy. Hired for inherent negro spotting abilities.
>I just imagine firms pulling a random black person off the
>street to smoke out passing negros for $50. Dave from
>accounting sweating hard because he skipped his conk
>appointment last week and his are roots coming in...
>looking like this...
>http://askmeaboutmyhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/modern-day-conk.jpg
>but lighter
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>DJTB YOMM

And man her mom is a trip

But BUT
It reminds me of all family secrets(abuse, infidelity, homosexuality etc etc)and people go silent
That silence is SO huge
And damaging
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with very curly hair and people think she is latina.... things that make you go hummmmmmmm

i'd have clocked her immediately. LOL

We grew up together in Nigeria. In the heart of "black Africa"...lol
She was half white but did not "know" till she was 17.

I always thought she looked mixed but I had to accept the weak explanation I was force-fed i.e. Her grandmother was an albino.

Its not uncommon for Igbo people to occasionally have "lighter" complexion but her loose curls was highly unusual . We'd go swimming and her hair would not nap up...lol...it bugged me. When she later told me she found out she actually had a white biological father, I wanted to shout "I knew it!"

no wait
lol


folks don't seem to understand
its across the board this type of imma lie
and folks just won't looks too deep into it to not cause waves esp family
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1. she looks black as HELL even growing up she looked black as fuck

1a. or at least puerto rican

2. her dad looked kinda black-like when he was young

3. is it me or is this REALLY just a film about a woman dealing the idea that her parents are human beings and the long effects of divorce and infidelity? i mean, if a black person wasnt involved, this would have just been a doc about that.

4. i love how black people can instantly call out other black people by just a bit

5. c'mon lets not be brand new about that hair line, i knew what she meant

6. I was SUPER surprised she ended up with a brother. I was expecting a Chad or Brad which kinda does happen a lot for women in her lane

7. is it me or was even dancing with a bit of flavor at a her bat mitzvah?

8. now that she has aged a bit she looks really fucking black as HELL

http://i60.tinypic.com/2nv5ton.png

she said in that interview with ebro that it was mostly about family secrets and infidelity
but the black angle just happened to be a part of it.

And how the whole continuing to cover up and stay silent and not communicate
Man
MAN it was painful to watch definitely not this secret in particular
This is across the board family secrets
Infidelities, abuse, bigamists, adoptions, homosexuality etc etc etc
That silence is soooo heavy

And her mom saying to would have KEPT the secret if she could gave
And never told
0_o
Wild
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passing off the kid as a child of a parent when the parent is not the child

fixed it for u

this girl cute as hayull

I'm looking at the documentary right now and she's borderline dreamy.

she just carried that shit through for a whole lifetime