Researched and Written by Mario de Valdes y Cocom , an historian of the African diaspora. (End of article) Many Caucasian Americans today, have African ancestry. The majority of them are not even aware of it. During the 1940s, the blonde hair, blue eyes African American leader of the NAACP; Walter White wrote: “ Every year, thousands of light skinned Negroes “ cross over ” and live their lives passing as ‘white’ people.” I am sure that the majority of these people who “Cross Over,” to pass as Caucasians never told their spouses or children , that they were of African descent. In fact many of these ‘crossed over’ passing children, became more racist against people of African descent than other Caucasians. The reason they became more racists was because these “Cross Overs” fathers and mothers; made sure that they didn’t do or say anything, that would make Caucasians suspect that they not Caucasians and were in fact, of African descent. T hey made sure that they didn’t listen to music by African Americans; that they didn’t eat food that was stereotyped as “Negro food” ( watermelon , fried chicken etc.); that they didn’t read Negro newspapers or go to movies with African American actors . This rigid pattern against doing anything that would be perceived as, what people of African descent would do; in time made their offspring develop a dislike for people of African descent and everything considered “ black .” Over the past 40 years since I have lived in the United States of America; I have met many Caucasian racists that I knew were of African descent . Some of them have even been leaders of local KKK or skinhead groups. A few years ago I read about a Caucasian racist, who was trying to create an ‘all white’ city. He found out through a DNA test that he had African ancestry 🙂 I would caution any Caucasian who has a deep seated hatred for people of African descent; to question where that hatred came from. Most likely some of their recent ancestors, were African Americans who were “passing” as ‘whites’ 🙂 As an example is the mulatto J. Edgar Hoover , the former Director of the FBI. Hoover did everything in his power to destroy all African American organizations that tried to improve the conditions for African Americans. He first began by working to destroy Marcus Garvey’s organization and his movement to uplift people of African descent . Later on Hoover did the same with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X . He never wanted anyone to suspect that he had African ancestry . Young and old photo of the uncle tom (former FBI Director) J. Edgar Hoover 🙂 Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and J Edgar Hoover were of African descent