Carol Channing was a doll. ❤❤❤

Hell my grandparents knew it way back then😂😂😂

I am adopted and learned this about Carol Channing as I am learning about my own background, but only just now watching your video did I learn she actually had a black grandmother, so thank you.

Yes we knew about Carol Channing, but she was White-passing. So, at 80 plus years, her passing had no affect on her career or her legacy.

I wonder if the book "Have you heard about Kitty Karr" is loosely based on her. I wonder how many actresses passed back then. The book definitely portrays a large passing hollywood community.

It seems to me that the decision to pass was really her father's. Carol continued to live as she had been raised.

It's really a stretch to say that she was black if one of her parents was a biracial, white passing person. She isn't even the same thing as a biracial person like Mariah Carey. Mariah has had an intimate relationship with racial blackness.. she's definitely been in black spaces going back to her childhood I'm had an understanding of the cultural identity held by her black American relatives. If indeed Carol had black ancestry she was incredibly detached from it because her mother was a white woman in her father lived as month... And that's only if any of it is true, as she herself would later say she wasn't sure of her mother was telling the truth or not

Most Black people during the time needed. She was black. All you had to do was look at Ray Charles could see that.

Great info. I want aware of it.

Wow , thank you most kindly. I didn’t know about Carol Channing until a few years ago

I've know for several years...

Yes! 😂

Carol Channing was actually tri-racial person. Her father, George Channing (born George Christian Stucker, Jr.). George Jr was the son of George Christian Stucker, Sr and Clara V. Jones. George Sr was a US born White man of German European origin and Clara was African American. Carol's mother was a Jewish lady.

Clark Gable also had black ancestry.

If anything: her Dad was of African-German background!

You should do an episode on Korla Pandit.

Every time a biracial person does something historical, we're so enthusiastic about claiming them as "African American" and "Black" but I find when it comes to ordinary biracial folk, we exclude them saying they are mixed not black. Not directed at you or anyone in particular, just something I've noticed in general with our community.

We know why. Opportunity

Yes that raspy voice

Did I know she was African-American?? I knew she was a white woman with Black admixture if that's what you mean.

Sure did

Why are you so excited to report that she was "black?" Even though it isn't true.

So my great grandmother was native american im still white

MIXED!!

OLD NEWS. My grandparents knew about Carol and Carol knew she was Carol. I don't know where you are from. You sound like you may not be from America..... If you were born here about 2 1/2 generations ago, you would have known she was black. For that matter so, was TV personality Dinah Shore !! Only diff ...... she sued her parents and forced them into a legal, NDA.

Wow talk about click bait. And why are you proclaiming this as if she was TRULY African American! Google pictures of her father, he look just like a white man. Her mother was white, German-Jewish, her father was multi-racial (black mom and white father). How does this make her black? She said her father's skin tone was as white as hers! Black folks kill me trying to make anybody with one drop of black in them black...that's not true. She acknowledged she had black blood but she had WAY more European. SMH That woman was not African American so you need to retitle this click bait.

Not true

Thats not how race works 🤣

Far from black. Multiracial