Ambiguity In Little White Lie
The individuals in this world are foolish to feel hate for each other, for one way or another, we are all connected. The reason for this connectivity is the fault of passing or racial ambiguity. Passing is where an individual from one race is accepted into another based off of their appearance. This notion of passing and how it caused the world to be connected is explained with examples from: the film titled Little White Lie, a guest speaker named Rebecca Campbell, and the novel by J. California Cooper titled Family. The first set of examples of passing come from Little White Lie. This film was all about the life of a girl named Lacy, and lived most of her life believing she was passing. Lacy was a half white, half black Jew that grew up believing
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Rebecca’s mother was a Genealogist and dug around in her ancestry. In her search, she had difficulty tracking their ancestry because of the concept of passing. However, despite the difficulty, it became known that Rebeca does in fact contain Native American blood. This presentation of new news sort of changed her perspective about herself; she felt boundaries for the Native American side of her. Her thoughts were: “am I allowed to do this because I look and act and was born into a different way.”(Campbell) Despite her uncertainty and the fact that it was unknown most of her life she understood the concept of why her family, or anyone, would want to pass for white, “For me, it makes so much sense,” Rebecca explained. She had made it clear that if you were a race other than white, at the time of her ancestors, you would obviously want the same life for yourself as most white folks had, just because they were born into it. Her family desired a better life for themselves, therefore, they began passing for white and in result connected Rebecca Campbell to a side of her she never
Rebecca’s mother was a Genealogist and dug around in her ancestry. In her search, she had difficulty tracking their ancestry because of the concept of passing. However, despite the difficulty, it became known that Rebeca does in fact contain Native American blood. This presentation of new news sort of changed her perspective about herself; she felt boundaries for the Native American side of her. Her thoughts were: “am I allowed to do this because I look and act and was born into a different way.”(Campbell) Despite her uncertainty and the fact that it was unknown most of her life she understood the concept of why her family, or anyone, would want to pass for white, “For me, it makes so much sense,” Rebecca explained. She had made it clear that if you were a race other than white, at the time of her ancestors, you would obviously want the same life for yourself as most white folks had, just because they were born into it. Her family desired a better life for themselves, therefore, they began passing for white and in result connected Rebecca Campbell to a side of her she never