JOHNNY CASH FIRST WIFE WAS BLACK?!?

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  • @MariaAlvarez-hu7mx
    @MariaAlvarez-hu7mx Před 2 lety +350

    Thank You for giving Vivian the dignity and honor that she deserves as a woman. I enjoyed your unbiased report. True she is beautiful, but her beauty is in her strenght not her looks!

    • @nikitab92
      @nikitab92 Před 2 lety +5

      Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! She has wonky wide space eyes..who looks more black than white...in my humble opinion.

    • @jg5615
      @jg5615 Před rokem +12

      She is incredibly beautiful!! Wow. I've never seen a true image of her. Wow!

    • @panchopistola8298
      @panchopistola8298 Před rokem +7

      In 2021, genealogist Henry Louis Gates from the show Finding Your Roots, featured Rosanne Cash as his guest and confirmed Vivian Liberto's Sicilian ancestry. Her paternal ancestry traced back 300 years in Cefalù, Sicily.[18] In addition, Gates discovered that one of Vivian's maternal great-grandfathers, Lafayette Robinson, was a mixed-race man who was the son of Sarah A. Shields, a mixed woman born into slavery and freed along with her eight siblings by their white father and slave owner William Shields.[19] Gates also found wedding registry records for Sarah and her white husband Andrew Robinson who had married legally and openly during the Civil War in Perry County, Alabama, with Sarah's father paying the county recorder to register the wedding.
      According to her official biographer Ann Sharpsteen, and Vivian Cash's own words in her 2007 memoir, Vivian strongly identified throughout her life as a White/Sicilian-American and did not identify as Black or multi racial, stating in her memoir, "It didn't help that Johnny issued a statement to the KKK informing them that I wasn't black. To this day I hate when accusations and threats from people like that are dignified with any response at all."[13]

    • @MothGirl007
      @MothGirl007 Před rokem +10

      She was stunning.

    • @kimmanthe86
      @kimmanthe86 Před rokem +2

      She was Scillian

  • @mellinda81
    @mellinda81 Před 2 lety +272

    The more I learn about Vivian, the madder I am about how she was depicted in Walk The Line. What wife wouldn’t be upset having her husband fall in love with another woman, not to mention the countless others along the way? She truly was stunning. Definitely out of Johnny’s league and she was with him when he had nothing.

    • @Wareaglegirl9960
      @Wareaglegirl9960 Před 2 lety +29

      Exactly what I was thinking. June Carter chased after Johnny knowing he was married and she also done drugs with him and was an alcoholic, but they made Vivian out to be hateful and that’s bs!! June Carters son was part of the making of the movie so he was trying to make his mom look so innocent 🙄 I personally didn’t think he or June could sing and Vivian was more beautiful inside and out unlike June

    • @valuecalc
      @valuecalc Před 2 lety +7

      @@Wareaglegirl9960, yes. He really must've wanted his mother to be very sweet, pure, and totally innocent.

    • @carolineullrich5988
      @carolineullrich5988 Před 2 lety +4

      Happens every day

    • @jessiem276
      @jessiem276 Před rokem +5

      Stop your foolishness! You didn't know them.

    • @lindaclark9925
      @lindaclark9925 Před rokem +5

      @@jessiem276 agree ; the worldly world does what it wants to take us away from the WORD OF GOD IN THE GOSPELS . stop being ..led by falsehoods. And idolatry of ppl is a sin. I reserve opinion on the cash situations, it's not my place to say. I do like Johnny cash, the artist . I do pray he and his family are saved, also.

  • @Roxanne_71
    @Roxanne_71 Před 2 lety +349

    Can we take a moment to recognize how on point her eyebrows were? Not overly exaggerated - She was stunning!

    • @vonsuthoff
      @vonsuthoff Před 2 lety +10

      Yup. She had one dynamic set of eyebrows! Oddly, that was the first thing I noticed about her, and I'm not known to be an eyebrow man. Lol*

    • @sergeantmasson3669
      @sergeantmasson3669 Před 2 lety +6

      @@vonsuthoff Roseanne Cash looks much like her mom, Vivian Liberto.

    • @vonsuthoff
      @vonsuthoff Před 2 lety +8

      @@sergeantmasson3669 ... She sure does! Such natural beauty.

    • @noname-by3qz
      @noname-by3qz Před 2 lety +1

      Roxanne! I know! I wish I could do that but they've gotten so thin!

    • @vovac8915
      @vovac8915 Před 2 lety

      Who cares about this bullshit?

  • @tarabooartarmy3654
    @tarabooartarmy3654 Před 2 lety +150

    Vivian was indeed a beautiful woman. Truly stunning, It’s a real shame what he did to her. People romanticize his and June’s love story, but people conveniently forget that it all started with infidelity.

    • @blindinglights403
      @blindinglights403 Před 2 lety +19

      She's more of a woman then June

    • @russelltackett4779
      @russelltackett4779 Před 2 lety +2

      @@blindinglights403 Lol

    • @avejester8780
      @avejester8780 Před 2 lety +20

      So true! I always thought to myself what a home wrecker June Carter was! Yet they play it as a great romance! Vivian was the most beautiful woman ever and June Carter could never hold a candle to her!❤❤

    • @tarabooartarmy3654
      @tarabooartarmy3654 Před 2 lety +12

      @@avejester8780 Exactly! June was a homewrecker and if she went after my husband like that I’d be on the evening news as they carted me off to prison! 😡 😂 Vivian deserved so much better.

    • @danieljonsson6230
      @danieljonsson6230 Před 2 lety +5

      How much do you really know about her?june that is.

  • @sheilareynolds3755
    @sheilareynolds3755 Před 2 lety +109

    I'm 62 and this is the first time I've heard this story. How extremely sad.

    • @jodyariewitz7349
      @jodyariewitz7349 Před 2 lety +6

      I was just thinking the same thing...💔

    • @reneebush2399
      @reneebush2399 Před 2 lety +5

      The documentary was made through Amazon Prime if I remember correctly. It’s a really good documentary.

    • @MultiSkyman1
      @MultiSkyman1 Před měsícem

      Also 62 and never heard of this story. Always liked his music too.

  • @d0l0might
    @d0l0might Před 2 lety +459

    This lady was absolutely beautiful and she aged extremely well, despite everything she went through due to other people's bigotry...

    • @johntafoya6875
      @johntafoya6875 Před 2 lety +9

      We can rebuke the spirit of old age . YAHshua (JESUS)
      Is the SPIRIT of life. On earth as it in heaven. HE WILL RENEW YOU YOUTH AS THE EAGLE.

    • @AShroudOfTruth
      @AShroudOfTruth Před 2 lety +13

      Her love for Cash hurt her more than a bunch of ignorant fools back then. Her daughters said she loved Cash until the day she died. In fact they said when their dad died, that their mom said that she didn't think she wanted to be alive with him not in the world. That was the saddest part of her life. When she wrote in her letters to him that she would love him forever, she meant it with all her heart and soul.

    • @rosalynbeatty8310
      @rosalynbeatty8310 Před 2 lety +9

      @@AShroudOfTruth Extreme racial hatred & segregation hurt even 'white' & 'white' appearing people.

    • @conniecharley1927
      @conniecharley1927 Před 2 lety +1

      The way the world came about we all have a way back back black person in our genes. DNA..... tv star had black in her family from way way back.... Broken along the way made the family more white.. she was beautifully woman inside and out. Got to me when she said ....take good care of my Johnny. Beautiful love story..

  • @cmendoza9255
    @cmendoza9255 Před 2 lety +516

    She does look striking, a bit of Eartha Kitt and Sophia Loren. Stunning.

    • @banjohombre
      @banjohombre Před 2 lety +21

      Well, she struck ol' Johnny that's for sure.

    • @ladygemini5967
      @ladygemini5967 Před 2 lety +11

      Very

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 Před 2 lety +23

      eartha kitt was biracial, and sophia loren was siclian.
      earthas daughter looks WHITE

    • @militzamadrid462
      @militzamadrid462 Před 2 lety +17

      ...a gorgeous woman. I think she had lots a courage. She got away from Johnny's drugs abuse.

    • @mildredpierce4506
      @mildredpierce4506 Před 2 lety +13

      Yes! Sophia Loren. You're right.

  • @yourmom-qd9ek
    @yourmom-qd9ek Před 2 lety +254

    As a mixed race girl - I can see that Vivian is of mixed heritage. Her lips, and nose and skin look like a black girl (light skinned). She may have been part Italian, but she definitely was mixed. I think she was beautiful either way.

    • @LoveandLightHK
      @LoveandLightHK Před 2 lety +17

      She looks very much Scicilian.

    • @duanerichard
      @duanerichard Před 2 lety +42

      Sicilians legacy involving North Africans which in turn have a legacy involving sub-Saharan africans. So both can be true

    • @BartholomewSmutz
      @BartholomewSmutz Před 2 lety +18

      Sicilians have a darker complexion and facial features than Italians further north who often look the same as other Europeans from France or Germany. We have so many Italian immigrants from Sicily and have seen so many in Mafia movies we have an incorrect perception of what a typical Italian looks like.

    • @erinlevere6881
      @erinlevere6881 Před 2 lety +39

      She looks like a light skin black woman.

    • @linkin5961
      @linkin5961 Před 2 lety +31

      They did an DNA test and she came back 100% white. Mainly scicillian. But. When they dug into her family history she did have a distant African ancestry.
      But. No she was not biracial or technically mixed. But they found very distant African ancestry which shows in her features.
      But. After digging into her ancestry and her DNA. She is racially white or European as well as her parents.
      The black race doesn't own certain features.

  • @sharonerenaldo3466
    @sharonerenaldo3466 Před 2 lety +153

    His Loss. She was Strikingly Beautiful outwardly and more so inside because of her belief in GOD!!! Thanks for this piece of History.

    • @keithmorrison6176
      @keithmorrison6176 Před 2 lety +1

      not his fault.

    • @mjc3502
      @mjc3502 Před 2 lety +6

      He didn't seem to lose at all. The man finally got his demon off him with the help of June and found happiness. Not bashing Vivian, but John definitely found happiness as I hope she did too.

    • @BlindMellowJellyInc
      @BlindMellowJellyInc Před 2 lety +3

      Hiss loss because she disliked his drug issues even back then. Her book was good and I dont read books like that ever.

    • @tedtenpadrones1831
      @tedtenpadrones1831 Před 2 lety

      Thats exactly what i was thinking, His Loss!!!!

    • @mjc3502
      @mjc3502 Před 2 lety +3

      @@tedtenpadrones1831 but he didn't lose. At all. Not even a little. He met a woman who helped him become a better person even getting off drugs. He was happy so honestly he actually won. They were famous, rich, and mostly important actually happy and a better person. It took him leaving her to get healthy and had he stayed, he probably wouldn't have got better. He won and so did his ex wife because she couldn't help him get there.

  • @ezmereldagerard6999
    @ezmereldagerard6999 Před 2 lety +340

    Vivian Cash is gorgeous and helped Jonny Cash developed his style & image and she raised their family. Vivian Cash wrote a book with Johnny Cash permission toward the end of their life. Her book is called I walked the Line by Vivian Cash which is a very moving powerful story.

    • @ashlysinfoandmusic8209
      @ashlysinfoandmusic8209 Před 2 lety +15

      I’ve got to get that book!

    • @danawelcker3441
      @danawelcker3441 Před 2 lety +5

      Thanks, I will be sure to check it out!

    • @emeraldangelle
      @emeraldangelle Před 2 lety +4

      thank u !!! will purchase!!!!!

    • @AShroudOfTruth
      @AShroudOfTruth Před 2 lety +11

      The documentary called 'My Darling Vivian' is very good as well. But you'll feel heartbroken for days after watching it. It's showing on prime video.

    • @trekkkker
      @trekkkker Před rokem +1

      Great book! And so touching that they saved their love letters

  • @banjohombre
    @banjohombre Před 2 lety +150

    Over a thousand love letters between them. They got together before the fame came, so it was not a transactional marriage.
    They had four girls and she kept them together. Thank you Vivien wherever you are.

    • @JudgeJulieLit
      @JudgeJulieLit Před 2 lety +6

      I hope he paid child support, at least after his fame and fortune grew.

    • @DetroitFettyghost
      @DetroitFettyghost Před 2 lety +10

      @@JudgeJulieLit yes he did. He was a good dad after he got clean. He had a house in Jamaica, his favorite place and him and the kids spent many days and nights together there happy.

    • @zumaanandrade3961
      @zumaanandrade3961 Před 2 lety

      @@DetroitFettyghost Yep met him and some of the kids there They were really cool people

  • @AuthorLHollingsworth
    @AuthorLHollingsworth Před 2 lety +30

    We black folks know our own. Very beautiful lady both young and old. My daddy always said "You cant run from your African blood." She looks like a family member from Louisiana.

    • @missylearned9821
      @missylearned9821 Před rokem +2

      She also looks like many Asian or Asian/mixed people. We’re just so used to seeing people within this country (USA) that we forget there’s an entire planet full of people that look different to what we’re spoon fed by the media.

    • @ahem....bullsheet3720
      @ahem....bullsheet3720 Před rokem +7

      I knew she was mixed and definitely wasn't completely Italian for sure.

    • @lee-pc5jq
      @lee-pc5jq Před rokem +2

      Her maiden name was Liberto.There is a chain of drycleaners in South Louisiana with that same name.She reminds me of some ladies from the 7 the ward in the 70s in New Orleans

    • @Elaina944
      @Elaina944 Před měsícem +3

      Yes we do. I was watching a documentary about her and said to myself, she had African blood running through her veins. The lips and nose are a dead giveaway, and she was absolutely stunning.

    • @californiagirl1579
      @californiagirl1579 Před měsícem +1

      Facts

  • @christinedarnell3520
    @christinedarnell3520 Před 2 lety +29

    Vivian was stunning. An absolute beauty. Her exotic looks made her breath taking.

  • @chrisgarvey3312
    @chrisgarvey3312 Před 2 lety +241

    What a beautiful woman. She sure put up with a husband who wasn't one she deserved. He gave her four children to raise and he was a drug addict. I am so happy she found a man who appreciated the wonderful woman she really was. Thank you for sharing her story, it was good to know how she walked her line of self worth.

    • @wildwaning9427
      @wildwaning9427 Před 2 lety +5

      @Chris Garvey you are correct, they were not equally yoked.

    • @waynecastleman1363
      @waynecastleman1363 Před 2 lety +1

      I think a man and women walk a unsure path and along that path we may share with those we do not ever come full circle but yet it is our destiny to receive the gift of the road ahead. God was there all the way. Jhonny and Vivian found there place in this world and God made it happen just the way he planned it. In the end both were blessed with whom they were happy with.

    • @sergeantmasson3669
      @sergeantmasson3669 Před 2 lety +7

      @Billy Shaw FALSE ! Vivian's main concern was her daughters. She was not able to care for, and support, them on her own. Vivian was NOT a boozer or a druggie. Thus, not the same level as her husband, Johnny Cash.

    • @aahmonddelite690
      @aahmonddelite690 Před 2 lety +3

      Absolutely...

    • @4christ-u4h
      @4christ-u4h Před 2 lety +1

      Absolutely!!

  • @adamtharpe1305
    @adamtharpe1305 Před 2 lety +185

    She looks like a super model.

  • @UnicornTailz
    @UnicornTailz Před 2 lety +23

    That’s disappointing that the movie had an opportunity to really give a more in depth look into their lives and instead the characters were compartmentalized for lack of a better word.

  • @theknow7557
    @theknow7557 Před 2 lety +40

    All I can say is Johnny missed out on a great thing. She's Gorgeous!!

  • @geraldineekhator5428
    @geraldineekhator5428 Před 2 lety +227

    Johnny always said that they got his first wife’s story wrong. He always touted what a good and beautiful woman she was.

    • @mariemiller456
      @mariemiller456 Před 2 lety +5

      Agreed, but that's not what this videos about.

    • @geraldineekhator5428
      @geraldineekhator5428 Před 2 lety +23

      @@mariemiller456 Thanks. I didn’t say that it was. I just added this so that people would know that about them. Take Care dear!

    • @BlindMellowJellyInc
      @BlindMellowJellyInc Před 2 lety +14

      They were very close till the day he passed. June said she was her best friend. She spoke to them both on a regular basis.

    • @sjs2j305
      @sjs2j305 Před 2 lety +5

      @@BlindMellowJellyInc Ok I was wondering if Viv and June ever came face to face.

    • @BlindMellowJellyInc
      @BlindMellowJellyInc Před 2 lety +8

      @@sjs2j305 I just recall reading that. June said she was a kind and impressive person. Im sure there was no hatred but she made sure she called them on a regular basis.

  • @dragonmaster1963
    @dragonmaster1963 Před 2 lety +31

    In 1963 my parents couldn't get married in California for fear of my father being arrested. My father is of white European descent and my mother is of Pacific Islander, Native American, and Spanish descent. As many states still acted on miscegenation laws during that time and things really didn't start changing until 1967. I knew that Vivian was of black descent and how she was portrayed in the movie was disgraceful. I'll never watch the movie again. From what I know of Vivian, her beauty was only over-shined by her love and devotion for her children.

    • @a.leemorrisjr.9255
      @a.leemorrisjr.9255 Před 2 lety +3

      One can always count on "hollyweird" to "skew" fact & fiction. As a black multi-ethnic who at times "caught hell" from both sides, I learned early to be my own man, think for myself, & said screw 'em.

    • @celticmulato2609
      @celticmulato2609 Před 2 lety +1

      She is majority Italian as DNA shows and a little Black ancestry. Shes still White as abt 28 to 30% of White Americans have a little admi xture of Black or Native American.

    • @valuecalc
      @valuecalc Před 2 lety +1

      @@celticmulato2609, I seriously doubt that such a high percentage of whites would have that much other ancestry. Those relationships would have been taboo.

    • @valuecalc
      @valuecalc Před 2 lety

      @@celticmulato2609, that was more more prevalent in Mexico. The average American white never claims black ancestry.

    • @LilyGazou
      @LilyGazou Před rokem

      Sicilian. Her great great grandmother was listed as “bi-racial”. Which can mean any degree.

  • @kellybrackin9214
    @kellybrackin9214 Před 2 lety +136

    After my mom passed away, I told my father that he was okay to date is former secretary. She’s a beautiful black woman. I’d be so proud to call her my stepmother

    • @jodyariewitz7349
      @jodyariewitz7349 Před 2 lety +6

      ❤❤❤

    • @Linda-in9ns
      @Linda-in9ns Před 2 lety +5

      Good for you ❤️

    • @amirahx1115
      @amirahx1115 Před 2 lety +7

      We need more humans like u🥰

    • @JustmeJoy7
      @JustmeJoy7 Před 2 lety +12

      So what's the story about your father and his secretary? Did they have an affair and somehow you found out about it?

    • @kellybrackin9214
      @kellybrackin9214 Před 2 lety +9

      @@JustmeJoy7 my father never had any affairs with any woman. It’s just that his secretary and I were close friends. I loved her spirit. She’s a beautiful woman inside and out.

  • @leekuhn4957
    @leekuhn4957 Před 2 lety +322

    She was a lot better looking than June carter

    • @shawnj1966
      @shawnj1966 Před 2 lety +22

      She was but attraction and love aren't always about looks. Some people just fit better together.

    • @rosalynbeatty8310
      @rosalynbeatty8310 Před 2 lety +12

      @@shawnj1966 In a world where the 1 drop rule, colorism & racism wouldn't have mattered -- their marriage might have survived. Johnny & June fit in good because of a shared musical (& white background).

    • @erikacollins7947
      @erikacollins7947 Před 2 lety +3

      Amen to that...bless her heart.

    • @yvonnebraun401
      @yvonnebraun401 Před 2 lety +13

      Absolutely beautiful

    • @SMWLM
      @SMWLM Před 2 lety +10

      Yup!..and JC was no GQ model.

  • @tedgoodfellow9103
    @tedgoodfellow9103 Před 2 lety +99

    I always felt that Johnny Cash's first wife was somewhat forsaken. It's good to know she was able to continue with her life and girls without being bitter and then marrying someone else and apparently finding happiness. Thanks for the video, Danie Steel. Regards from Blighty :)

  • @danawelcker3441
    @danawelcker3441 Před 2 lety +28

    Thank you for this episode and knowledge. I did not know this about Johnny Cash’s first wife. She was a beautiful woman in every picture shown, she even aged beautifully, we should all be so lucky. I hate what happened to her but I am happy to know she went on to live a happy life and flourished within.

  • @lindapowers8592
    @lindapowers8592 Před 2 lety +92

    Johnny Cash’s daughter also had found out he had black ancestry too.

    • @lilo4399
      @lilo4399 Před 2 lety +8

      Rosanne is Vivian's daughter. She has 1/64th African heritage.

    • @emjohnson7207
      @emjohnson7207 Před 2 lety +10

      I was telling mom about the first wife and how Sicily and the African continent are so close... Vivian looks like a beautiful black woman.
      Mom said well Johnnie was said to be black himself.
      Johnny from Arkansas and mom lives in Mississippi...y'all know how news travel🤣😁

    • @paulinegayle702
      @paulinegayle702 Před 2 lety

      @@emjohnson7207 LOL!

    • @snoopu2601
      @snoopu2601 Před 2 lety +5

      See that's why you can't really judge what nationality what a person is by just looking at them. I'm A half breed Navajo/Irish American my father is Native American Navajo and my Mother is Irish I have 10 brother's and sister's some look dark with dark thick hair and some are light skin with light brown hair. My youngest sister came out with blond hair and really light color skin but she celebrated are native culture and was raised in the low income hood or middle class. My nephew kid's are half native American and black they are still babies besides his older son he is light skin with thick curly hair. I never asked him what does he favor more his native American culture or his black folks culture? He's just like any other normal kid's in the neighborhood. Just know all or most of the kid's are halfbreeds none are full blooded. I did half a full blooded African lady for a neighbor from Africa, that became an American. At the same time I had a neighbor that lived across the street that was from China and became Amrican on the other side of me my neighbor was a women from Mexico that became an American.
      I thought that was cool I live in a multiy cultural neighborhood. My Chinese neighbor's daughter she married an Salvadoran there daughter and son speaks 3 different languages Chinese, Spanish, English they have to speak to both of there grandparent, they don't speak much English they know just enough to get by. And if you judge the Salvadoran/Chinese gal on what she looks like you would probably be wrong. And my niece's and Nephew's seeing them all together dark and light and they are al related by blood. You can tell the features in there face that they are related by there smile and some parts of there faces. Some look straight white, black, Mexican, Native- Americans

    • @sergeantmasson3669
      @sergeantmasson3669 Před 2 lety +3

      Linda Powers, the human species originated in Africa. Every human has some African DNA. We are all distantly related.

  • @Stargazer3131
    @Stargazer3131 Před 3 lety +328

    This was a great presentation! Vivian was gorgeous!

    • @chigjuanspartacus2822
      @chigjuanspartacus2822 Před 2 lety +9

      yes, she was

    • @marymarth7298
      @marymarth7298 Před 2 lety +5

      Wow. She was! I never knew this.

    • @renna912
      @renna912 Před 2 lety +9

      @BORNtoRun you must not be from America.. do you not know if you have one drop of black blood in you. if you're mixed with white they consider you black I can look at this woman and tell she has black ancestry in her.. she could pass for Creole..

    • @Kmakmizzle
      @Kmakmizzle Před 2 lety +2

      Lou Ferigno in the face!

    • @imasonofadeadbeat2928
      @imasonofadeadbeat2928 Před 2 lety

      Is that your picture? You are gorgeous.

  • @willielittle9301
    @willielittle9301 Před 2 lety +192

    Vivian cash had black ancestry and the Sicilian people also have North African DNA.

    • @TheDKShow
      @TheDKShow  Před 2 lety +22

      Very true!

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 Před 2 lety +12

      you could tell, sometimes, by people like Alfonso Ribero who was biracial, but looks FULL BLACK.. hes darker than me, and i had 2 black parents.
      also, i know a biracial couple with 3 kids. Shes black, hes light italian, and two of their kids look full black

    • @carmenpereiramercado5190
      @carmenpereiramercado5190 Před 2 lety +10

      Yep, your right! Learned this long ago but new education standards try to erase ethnic, tribal and indigenous facts all over. It makes it easier to teach today's dummies than to create people that crave knowledge. Hence, the high drop out rate and divide among us.

    • @elisebarthalow6075
      @elisebarthalow6075 Před 2 lety +38

      My husband is one fourth Italian- his grandmother had dark and very curly hair..He was told he has black blood in him and my daughter has very curly and dark hair also.We are all pretty much a mixture of races so who cares?

    • @d.h.fremont3027
      @d.h.fremont3027 Před 2 lety +2

      Oh yes

  • @tyardovdabulldht2340
    @tyardovdabulldht2340 Před 2 lety +10

    I knew she was Black. She's beautiful!

  • @susanh1447
    @susanh1447 Před 11 měsíci +5

    I cried when I watched “My Darling Vivian.” She was so beautiful and when it was alleged she was black, I truly thought SO WHAT? and I’m as white as can be. What a sad, sad story.

  • @nicoleblount7610
    @nicoleblount7610 Před 2 lety +14

    She looks black. She looks like people in my family. She looks creole

  • @cherylb2008
    @cherylb2008 Před 2 lety +17

    We don’t celebrate enough, how far out society has come. The people of generations ahead of us suffered from this tragic isolation and injustice. Vivian was a beauty Queen. She was a totally stunning women. I’m happy to hear her life after Johnny was good.

  • @simbahunter8894
    @simbahunter8894 Před 2 lety +14

    According to Finding Your Roots, Johnny Cash had Black ancestry too. Rosanne Cash is related to another FYR subject - Angela Bassett.

    • @jeanettejohnson7315
      @jeanettejohnson7315 Před 2 lety +5

      He had Native American roots too He and Patsy Cline.She was half Shawnee.

    • @quailie5
      @quailie5 Před 2 lety

      I saw that episode!

  • @isabellrc
    @isabellrc Před 2 lety +9

    I didn’t know this; the real truths must always be unearthed. Thank you, for bringing this to light. Beautiful woman

  • @kelseymcintyre1
    @kelseymcintyre1 Před 2 lety +123

    A timeless beauty , even when she was older her beauty shined ….

  • @mariatapanes8763
    @mariatapanes8763 Před 2 lety +71

    Vivian was a beautiful woman and an amazing mother!!

  • @keekat65
    @keekat65 Před rokem +10

    What a stunning woman. Very sad how she was treated. I hope she had a beautiful life.

  • @bradley4808
    @bradley4808 Před rokem +9

    I dated a black woman in college. It didn't work out but we are still friends to this day. She made me want to be a better man. The fact that she was black and I was white never mattered to us.

  • @O.X.N.
    @O.X.N. Před 3 lety +509

    This was so interesting. Vivian was so beautiful.

    • @O.X.N.
      @O.X.N. Před 2 lety +1

      I got pinned 😳😁❤!

    • @johntafoya6875
      @johntafoya6875 Před 2 lety +12

      We all have 2 common ancestors Adam and Eve
      She our sister

    • @muffassa6739
      @muffassa6739 Před 2 lety +6

      It's so horrible what they had to go through. My Aunt married a handsome black artists. My Grandpa went to the grave with out seeing her or her children. I love my Aunt and Cousins 💓💓

    • @sayawills8518
      @sayawills8518 Před 2 lety +11

      That African blood is strong in her! I can definitely see it.

    • @jcbulldog533
      @jcbulldog533 Před 2 lety +5

      @@sayawills8518 Yes,most definitely her nose & hair.. She's very attractive & has beautiful eye:s

  • @revdrtiffanyfoster
    @revdrtiffanyfoster Před 3 lety +255

    Thank you for covering Ms. Vivian. She deserves to have her story told, and with truth not a Hollywood spin. Like how do you rewrite someone's ethnicity? So many have disparaged her in favor of June over the years. It is really sad.

    • @militzamadrid462
      @militzamadrid462 Před 2 lety +11

      ...we are a bi-racial couple, 40+ years Married.

    • @bethparker1500
      @bethparker1500 Před 2 lety +9

      Then he screws June's sister. Yuk.

    • @sjs2j305
      @sjs2j305 Před 2 lety +7

      @@bethparker1500 WHAT?! Really?!

    • @patriciacassady4959
      @patriciacassady4959 Před 2 lety +6

      @@bethparker1500 what a terrible thing to say, you can't possibly know this for a fact, just repeating gossip.

    • @tarabooartarmy3654
      @tarabooartarmy3654 Před 2 lety +3

      @@bethparker1500 I’ve read several books about him and I never heard that.

  • @Ocelot1962
    @Ocelot1962 Před 2 lety +53

    If what you say is true, then Johnny Cash was a fool for putting aside this strikingly beautiful woman--beautiful inside and out from what I understand. It wouldn't surprise me if his drug use had gotten worse because he realised what he had done.

    • @joyfitzgerald9878
      @joyfitzgerald9878 Před 2 lety +4

      I wondered the same thing.

    • @mindcalmasmr6924
      @mindcalmasmr6924 Před 2 lety +4

      And the fact that June basically stalked him since day 1. That movie is about 5% truth.

  • @davehopping7212
    @davehopping7212 Před 2 lety +47

    As much editorializing as history. Interesting about the "one drop rule", though; Most African-Americans have as much white ancestry as black.

    • @derlingerardclair6252
      @derlingerardclair6252 Před 2 lety +2

      Quite true at times,friends.

    • @ivyjackson8695
      @ivyjackson8695 Před 2 lety +6

      That's because our ancestors were forced into sexual relationships with master. We came over here full 💯% AFRICAN BLOOD.

    • @davehopping7212
      @davehopping7212 Před 2 lety +6

      @@ivyjackson8695 Sexual exploitation has always been the fate of a group unable to defend itself. What if Sub-Saharan Africa had been first with gunpowder, steelmaking, and the bureaucratic organizational skills essential to large military operations?

    • @russelltackett4779
      @russelltackett4779 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ivyjackson8695 Lol

    • @russelltackett4779
      @russelltackett4779 Před 2 lety

      @@ivyjackson8695 Lol

  • @yiyunzhuo5991
    @yiyunzhuo5991 Před 3 lety +82

    Vivian Cash was beautiful. It was so heartbreaking 💔 the prevalent racism and discrimination in the past was so horrible AND recent

  • @libertyann439
    @libertyann439 Před 2 lety +66

    Thank you for giving Vivian her due. Her daughters really loved her and it must break their hearts.

  • @stephenabm7779
    @stephenabm7779 Před 2 lety +13

    She definitely was the good wife. Thank you for speaking about this marriage.

  • @nguzosmusic
    @nguzosmusic Před 2 lety +34

    Walk The Line would have been so much more interesting by including this...

    • @ultimatesportsmedicine4395
      @ultimatesportsmedicine4395 Před 2 lety +7

      Then we'd have low vibrational folks talking about why did they have to bring race into! SMh

  • @shadykatie100
    @shadykatie100 Před 2 lety +20

    Vivian was very beautiful and elegant! She had sculpted cheekbones too.

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 Před 2 lety +14

    As a Native American i loved JC's album. BITTER TEARS. I took it to english class in 8th grade. The class shared music each liked. The Monkeys were the big hit then. I was laughed at by other students.

    • @jeanettejohnson7315
      @jeanettejohnson7315 Před 2 lety +3

      Wasn't Johnny Cash half Native American?? The Caddo Indians of Arkansas.I think they keep that hidden from the public.

    • @idkanymore9869
      @idkanymore9869 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jeanettejohnson7315 no he was not. Like a lot of white people, his grandmother claimed to have Native American ancestry but his daughter came up with none.

  • @corinnecardoza3521
    @corinnecardoza3521 Před rokem +9

    I just watched 'My Darling Vivian' documentary TODAY. What a lovely woman Vivian was. Johnny stepped out and left a gem at home. His "love story" with June was anything but that. June Cash played the camera and spoke with a pre-teen voice. She loved the attention. I never was impressed with her. Vivian? IMPRESSIVE.

  • @volitionspark2686
    @volitionspark2686 Před 2 lety +7

    As for their romance, I think the bigger issue was that Cash was awestruck with June Carter because of her status as a great musician & being part of the Carter musical family. The Carters were giants in Country music.

  • @kimberleeturner8475
    @kimberleeturner8475 Před 2 lety +64

    I don't think anyone questions her beauty. She was gorgeous. They said she wasn't black because of what her birth certificate stated. I guess that's why they had a white woman portray her in Walk the line. This is 2021. It's okay to say it and be who you are. Back then it wasn't so. That's terrible. Reminds me of the movie Queen. So sad.

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 Před 2 lety +11

      There are LOTS of whites with black ancestry.
      i knew this white woman, for 5 years. She did her DNA, and found out, she was 15% SUDANESE

    • @jaynefromwayne6223
      @jaynefromwayne6223 Před 2 lety +10

      Back then mixed race couples faced death threats and worse. They were fortunate to have remained safely married long enough to have had four daughters.

    • @michaellemcgill609
      @michaellemcgill609 Před 2 lety +4

      @@jaynefromwayne6223 agree

    • @AuthorLHollingsworth
      @AuthorLHollingsworth Před 2 lety +9

      I agree. They could have found a sista to play that beautiful woman. Period!

    • @AuthorLHollingsworth
      @AuthorLHollingsworth Před 2 lety +3

      @@michaellemcgill609 Facts!

  • @elainadewitt322
    @elainadewitt322 Před 2 lety +69

    Beautiful , beautiful woman she was! Sad they didnt make it. But , it just wasnt meant to be. Glad she found love again.💕👌

    • @michaellemcgill609
      @michaellemcgill609 Před 2 lety +2

      Not to many people make it regardless even after 40 years of marriage it’s still end on divorce

  • @AriesGirlTAROT
    @AriesGirlTAROT Před 2 lety +8

    Her maternal great great grandmother was bi-racial (assuming that meant 50/50) so that made Vivian 6.25% black. One thing is for sure, she was GORGEOUS. It's so pathetic how much race impacts so many things. It's truly disgusting.

    • @terrinyc29
      @terrinyc29 Před rokem +5

      Yes, I find it hard to believe she was only 6% Black. She seems to be higher. Every picture I see I can see it.

    • @lolagunz
      @lolagunz Před rokem

      Exactly she's more black than that. Lol.

    • @gratefuldead3750
      @gratefuldead3750 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@terrinyc29of course. The present lord westminster or the cousin of prince philip mountbatton has around that ancestry from a count moor from cameroon. A large portion of european nobility comes from this count moor. It allways was irrelevant

  • @supremeguardianofmemory7598

    OH MY GOSH She was Absolutely Stunning!! This is My First time seeing Her and I'm blown away!!! I can't believe He left Her for that walking ashtray June🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @christophernash1846
    @christophernash1846 Před 2 lety +31

    +I love how the author casually says " one of their daughters "LOL . Roseanna cash is one of the most successful artists ever who tracked down the roots.

  • @nancyanderson5310
    @nancyanderson5310 Před rokem +3

    This is an awesome woman! She suffered big time but her triumph over major adversities, betrayal and sheer work load is what inspires me. A woman of faith, dignity and GIVING! Thank you for sharing this.

  • @godlygirls62
    @godlygirls62 Před rokem +5

    The narrator said that Vivian wasn't black but had African ancestry.
    One need not look more than once to see that Vivian was obviously black and phenotypicallt black😊😊

  • @Maria-sg4zy
    @Maria-sg4zy Před 2 lety +4

    Her black ancestry showed up pretty good. Didn't matter how far back it was, It was like " Here I am!"

  • @tracy4019
    @tracy4019 Před 2 lety +46

    She was gorgeous. Never knew this information about her. Thank you for educating us

  • @CodyCole80
    @CodyCole80 Před 2 lety +49

    Although her black blood was 4 generations back, you can still see the African genes in her features.

    • @lettiegrant9447
      @lettiegrant9447 Před 2 lety +5

      👍👍

    • @rosalynbeatty8310
      @rosalynbeatty8310 Před 2 lety +2

      For real!

    • @saraswatkin9226
      @saraswatkin9226 Před 2 lety +8

      Like English Queen Charlotte in the 19th Century.

    • @pitbullmom214
      @pitbullmom214 Před 2 měsíci

      That's called the phenotype---how your appearance expresses what is in your actual DNA blueprint, which is called the genotype.

  • @champaigne16
    @champaigne16 Před 2 lety +13

    It was never stated she was a biracial women in the movie "I Walk the Line" but used a white women. Johnny Cash got his style from the black culture.

    • @russelltackett4779
      @russelltackett4779 Před 2 lety

      Lol

    • @khismet
      @khismet Před 2 lety +2

      Same as Elvis.. etc..ad naseum.
      Typical that Movies seem to whitewash histories.. hmm🤔

    • @AJ-mt9zt
      @AJ-mt9zt Před 2 lety +1

      Because she wasn't biracial. She was White, with a little bit of mixed ancestry.

    • @khismet
      @khismet Před 2 lety

      @@AJ-mt9zt Just because she identified as White doesn't make her white. The blood flowing down the line was SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN that she had black blood in her. Her physical looks alone give it away. Her ancestors are German, Irish, Sicilian & African. The Irish are mixed w African. The Sicilians are mixed w African. Obviously she was more black than she realized. So, technically she was Multi Racial and that's a Wondrous Reality👸🏾

    • @annzeeg4217
      @annzeeg4217 Před 2 lety +1

      Bc she didn't know. Her family hid there black ancestry

  • @edie3362
    @edie3362 Před 2 lety +10

    Although Johnny left her and the kids she still loved him with all her heart until the day she died. Good story and thanks for sharing Danie . . .

    • @wandacornellcornell1814
      @wandacornellcornell1814 Před 2 lety +1

      How could she have such a happy loving marriage with second husband if she was still so madly in love with her first husband until she died? TRUE LOVE DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!! Lol Johny Cash loved JUNE CASH SO MUCH HE DIDNT WANT TO GO ON LIVING WITHOUT HER HE DIED JUST A FEW MONTHS AFTER HER. REMINDS ME SO MUCH OF THE BIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE MAN AND WIFE MOVIE THE NOTE BOOK.
      JOHNY AND VIVIAN SHOULD HAVE MARRIED INN THE FIRST PLACE THEY NEVER TOOK TIME TO COURT AND GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER THEY WERE JUST LONELY PEOPLE WHO BECAME PEN PALS WHIILE JOHNY WAS IN THE MILITARY.HE JUST WANTED TO FEEL LIKE HE HAD SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR SOMEONE TO COME HOME TO EVEN IF IT WAS A VIRTUAL STRANGER . HE WAS ARRANGED FRROM HIS FAMILY BECAUSE HIS FATHER BLAMED HIM FOR HIS BROTHER DEATH DUE TO A SAW MILL ACCIDENT WHEN THEY WERE BOTH JUST YOUNG KIDS.Vivian and Johny were strangers playing house and making babies. If Johny really loved her he wouldn't have been gone out on the road so much!! I'm not partial to JOHNY OR JUNE,Though I love country music I never thought either one of them could sing. The actors who acted in the movie WALK THE LINE.. COULD SING A 100 TIMES BETTER THAN JOHNY CASH OR JUNE CARTER. WITHERSPOON WAS. SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN JUNE WHO I NEVER THOUGHT WAS PRETTY WHEN JUNE SANG ON STAGE SHE MOVEED HER ARM AND HAND WAVING IT AROUND LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS HAVING A SPASTIC SEIZURE. SHE DEFFINATLY DID NOT AGE WELL, SHE REMINDED ME OF THE WOMEN CHARACTERS THAT PLAYED IN THE VAMPIRE DAY TIME SCARY SOAP MOVIE DARK SHADOWS!!!

  • @garylefevers
    @garylefevers Před 2 lety +14

    She was treated shamefully. Thank you for covering this. She certainly was a gorgeous lady.

  • @littleogeechee223
    @littleogeechee223 Před 2 lety +19

    My goodness, she was breathtakingly beautiful!

  • @AM-vw7dg
    @AM-vw7dg Před 2 lety +5

    Anyone who couldn't look at her and tell, I don't know what to say. I'm mixed also, black (mom), Italian/Greek (dad). At the least, people thought I was latina. Alot of Italians from southern Italy have Arab, North African traces.

  • @malrosee9450
    @malrosee9450 Před 3 lety +41

    She looks like Eartha Kitt fascinating report. They were strong.

    • @liverbird956
      @liverbird956 Před 2 lety +3

      @@kennethbloom7615 Exactly! I thought she looked very much like the Italian actress Sophia Loren, spot on.

    • @ivyc3500
      @ivyc3500 Před 2 lety +2

      Eartha Kitt was bi/racial .

  • @joseyeastwood
    @joseyeastwood Před 2 lety +26

    This was a dope video i never knew Johnny had a whole family most of us never knew about Vivian was beautiful Rest in Peace.

  • @dsa2591
    @dsa2591 Před 2 lety +4

    I've never seen her picture. People say Roseanne Cash looks just like her father, but she doesn't. She looks like her mother.

  • @Awakened133
    @Awakened133 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you so much for bringing this to light!!!!
    Ive been pouring over "the man comes around", Rusty Cage, Gods gonna cut you down... And Hurt.. This clarifies alot of underlying tones in Johnnys music.. Especially wearing Black...

  • @curtismichael4703
    @curtismichael4703 Před 2 lety +4

    What??? I had NO ideal! Thank you for the enlightenment.

  • @phyllismay4384
    @phyllismay4384 Před 2 lety +5

    I am totally in awe. I never knew he was married before June. All I ever see on TV is him in his order years. His first wife was and is soooo beautiful.

  • @er1073
    @er1073 Před 2 lety +6

    I knew there was something about Walk the Line that was missing FACTS about Vivian. I suspected that something else was a matter of fact but the movie from what I recall didn't even mention much about those kids. One of my sisters researched our family ancestry and found through that research that we are descendants of a freed slave my great grandfather 5x. Thank you Danie Steel. Ed

  • @karenwalker1812
    @karenwalker1812 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I just recently watched the documentary on Vivian. It changed my whole perspective on Johnny and June Cash , by the time I was watching I was fired up!! Johnny cash did not leave Vivian because of her race, he was already running around with June. The photo was took when they went to get Johnny out of jail for drugs but he was already with June. She’s the one that had 3 babies with 3 daddies not counting Johnnys that makes 4. I felt so bad for Vivian after I watched it. She was really done wrong. Even her girls were left out of his will in the end. I’ve just ordered the book she wrote which I’m sure she was still thoughtful of him because she still loved him till the end, the name of her book is : I walked the line , my life with Johnny. She deserved so much better than she had

  • @questionmark9819
    @questionmark9819 Před 3 lety +67

    Unbelievable that this hideous discrimination only occurred 60 or so years ago.

    • @TheDKShow
      @TheDKShow  Před 3 lety +4

      Exactly.

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 Před 2 lety +5

      NOW, colorism is rife, among rappers

    • @saraswatkin9226
      @saraswatkin9226 Před 2 lety +6

      Still going on in UK as you can see on CZcams regarding Megan.

    • @cynthiaburrus255
      @cynthiaburrus255 Před 2 lety +4

      @@saraswatkin9226 That simply is not true. The Brits Were ABSOLUTELY THRILLED that Harry was marrying this beautiful woman. You should do some research and you will learn the truth. Rachel Meghan Markel's BEHAVIOR is what destroyed the GREAT LOVE the Brits had for her. Most said what I did, that I had no idea, even after seeing her picture, that she was mixed race. Her acting resume stated she was Caucasian. I just thought that she was a very pretty girl. It is really unfair to blame their distaste for MM on race. That had NOTHING to do with it. There are numerous accounts, too numerous to mention, from a myriad of eyewitness who report repeated similar behavior, NO ONE would find acceptable...like Throwing a Steaming Hot Cup of Tea on a female staffer. That's the problem when you make any assessment based on Race. Success or Failure lies in BEHAVIOR.

    • @stacyjd2759
      @stacyjd2759 Před 2 lety +1

      @@saraswatkin9226 you are absolutely right!! Everyone with eyes and COMMON SENSE can see whats going on. Who can forget that "Compton" headline...calling her "niggling" and putting up a baby chimp to represent Archie. Disgusting and vile behaviour and as seen her is deeply rooted throughout history.

  • @rudolphrichardson2247
    @rudolphrichardson2247 Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you for your in-depth research and scholarship. I was not aware of this incredible woman and her story. Beautiful!

  • @beverlyjordan8957
    @beverlyjordan8957 Před 2 lety +5

    She was like fine wine she aged so beautifully. Lovely lady.

  • @LucretziaB
    @LucretziaB Před 2 lety +12

    I read her autobiography. He put her through hell. She was beautiful & everything you said she was. This video is excellent. Thanks so much.

  • @tylermarks7463
    @tylermarks7463 Před 3 lety +38

    Listen to hurt by Johnny cash
    He was a man who died with regret and pain
    He knew who and what he did wrong
    The pain was there

    • @TheDKShow
      @TheDKShow  Před 3 lety +16

      I was just telling my husband this. It's clear his music was for her. I would love a movie on their story.

    • @kelliintexas3575
      @kelliintexas3575 Před 2 lety +7

      NONE of them knew he race, heck her own kids didn't know until a recent DNA test. Johnny was so binged out on drugs he hurt everyone around him. These guys traveled EVERY NIGHT by CAR to go to bar to bar to school to school to fairs, at 50mph. The slept in cars, SHOWERED & ATE at random peoples homes after the shoes and back on the road. This was a COMPLETELY different time. There was no guide or book telling them what to do. They were teens being swallowed up by immense fame all alone. Elvis, Johnny and Carl Perkins traveled 300 days THEIR FIRST THREE YEARs for sun records. Can you imagine?? You would need pills I don't care who you are. June was country royalty. Her entire family was ALLLLLL famous, she knew and understood exactly what was going on.

    • @jesssands5349
      @jesssands5349 Před 2 lety +8

      He hurt all his loved ones

    • @rosalynbeatty8310
      @rosalynbeatty8310 Před 2 lety

      @@kelliintexas3575 Ur right. One of Johnny Cashs singing celeb daughters bragged that she wears dirty clothes. & Elvis had a horrible diet. He was fat, constipated, bloated & strung out on meds. Heavy drinking was daily for many. Look at Tammy Winnets hubby, George. My dad was from SC. He & his buddies worked hard & drank always.

    • @saraswatkin9226
      @saraswatkin9226 Před 2 lety

      Definitely sung with painful soul.

  • @sandyk378
    @sandyk378 Před 2 lety +3

    Disappointed that Johnny did not stay with Vivian 😭 She was incredibly beautiful and strong 💯‼️God helped her endure so much that was not her fault ✝️ No bitterness or blame..much respect Vivian ❤️❤️❤️

  • @tadpolesoup
    @tadpolesoup Před 3 měsíci +2

    The labeling of humanity into ”races” always proves to be destructive.

  • @globetrotting2628
    @globetrotting2628 Před 2 lety +6

    I'm so happy to live in a time where people can marry each other without worrying about what their ancestry is. I'm also lucky to live in an age where white women can stand up and say "I'm mixed" like Halsey (black father), Carol Channing (black grandmother), Carly Simon (10% black), etc. without fear of ruining their career. Life is only getting better for everyone.

  • @carmelacristoforo262
    @carmelacristoforo262 Před 2 lety +3

    Wow thanks for this very interesting video. I was born biracial to an Italian father and African-American mother who was able to "pass" as white in the early days of the civil rights movement. At the time, my parents falsified their marriage certificate since mixed race marriages were illegal. My Brother and I were told growing up that we were anything other than African American. My heart and admiration go out to Vivian. I raised 3 daughters to be very proud of who they are. Lessons learned.

    • @milkandspice1074
      @milkandspice1074 Před 2 lety

      Wouldn't your mom be mixed if she could pass?

    • @carmelacristoforo262
      @carmelacristoforo262 Před 2 lety

      @@milkandspice1074 Yea she must of been mixed because while my Grandparents both had darker complexions, my DNA results shows I'm 35% African heritage.

  • @danicefutral6414
    @danicefutral6414 Před 2 lety +39

    To be honest until walk the line I never knew him and June had an affair. I didn't know he was married before June. I knew he had children I thought they were him and Junes. To be 100 I lost respect for the both of them. They were both married to other people. I guess marriage vows don't mean much to some people.

  • @riffraff2770
    @riffraff2770 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow, I never knew this. Thanks for posting!!

  • @BlindMellowJellyInc
    @BlindMellowJellyInc Před 2 lety +22

    The funny thing is Africa occupied Italy more than 30 times in history and Sicily to this day has more than 88% of their citizen's with very large percentages of African DNA. Now here's another wild fact. The Roman Empire has 2 Black African Emperors in its time so when critics saw that pic of her and said she was Italian they didnt know they meant black.....lol
    Great Job and well done. I love a mini doc with well spoken sisters presenting. I really loved this....Thank You

    • @Glad2BGolden
      @Glad2BGolden Před 2 lety +3

      The critics of that time saw through the Italian bullshit. Many mixed or light skinned Black people with the passable features just passed for white by calling themselves Italian, Jewish or Mexican.

    • @NuNugirl
      @NuNugirl Před 2 lety

      @@Glad2BGolden In A.D 711 North African Muslims captured the Iberian Peninula. They ruled for 800 years. They alao took Palermo in Sicily A.D 827. DNA is a wonderful thing it shows up in the most unlikely places from 1000s of years ago. It never gos away. You do have a point but who's to say who's culture is really whos. By the way, Elvis Presley's Great Grandmother was Jewish, that makes him Jewish. He knew it. That's why he wore a Chai around his neck made of gold covered in diamonds. It means life.Embrasing one's full culture is a good thing.

    • @BlindMellowJellyInc
      @BlindMellowJellyInc Před 2 lety

      @@Glad2BGolden Mexican has clear features no one can mistake but Italy took part in a DNA study just as England and Germany. The findings were as I said. Italy has a large population of high African DNA traits, very high in fact. Keeping in mind all humans have notable amounts simply because all bloodlines come from one region in Africa. I have had passing in my family because of American race standards. In Europe there was no hatred of African s or black people. That is pretty much Americas invention. My Great great uncle passed for white, no nothing just plain white and yes, he had ice blue eyes.
      My cousins had freckles and reddish hair.I was not talking features. I dont even look African American because of my features. I am speaking of skin tone and DNA framework.

    • @BlindMellowJellyInc
      @BlindMellowJellyInc Před 2 lety

      @@NuNugirl My research is because of the racial uprising America had. I am involved in the CRT drama that the GOP started because of Obama being elected and Trump and his false claims of theft. King Solomon had a very hip tribe back in the day thats for sure.

  • @Bedeborah
    @Bedeborah Před 2 lety +6

    My Lord! This Country! A person might say, well that's just the way it was. Well, that's just the way it wasn't suppose to be. And it can't be swept under the rug. Sin has to be paid for.

  • @jjgems5909
    @jjgems5909 Před 2 lety +4

    They could make an entire movie just about this woman and I would absolutely watch it! Such an amazing story and an amazing woman especially her faith!

  • @MidnightinSavannah
    @MidnightinSavannah Před 5 měsíci +1

    My father was a dark Italian, when we moved into an all-white neighborhood in 1970, the neighbors thought he was black. We I took the ancestry test 8 years ago, I had no African in me. My Dad dark skin came from being part Greek, southern Italian and Sicilian.

  • @tigger8935
    @tigger8935 Před 2 lety +1

    I never knew this! Thank you for sharing.

  • @mariagabbott
    @mariagabbott Před 2 lety +4

    She looks like a light skinned mixed race woman like Megan Markle and Rashida Jones. Still beautiful. She actually has similar features to the olympian Marcel Jacobs who is half Italian half African American

  • @PatentRob
    @PatentRob Před 2 lety +7

    "A line he didn't want to walk and a ring of fire he didn't want to cross." Well said. I, personally, don't think we have made that much progress--if any. The Grand "Ole" Oprey is just as exclusive now as ever. Why? . . . is white still right.

    • @shells500tutubo
      @shells500tutubo Před 2 lety +2

      I don't know how old you are, but there is no question that progress has been made, in so many ways. Just not as much as it should have been by this time.
      I remember the colored and white water fountains, the lack of anyone Black (or any other ethnicity but white for that matter) on TV. My father would always yell to "come see your cousin" when there was a commercial on TV with Black person in the mid-1960s.
      So things have improved.

    • @PatentRob
      @PatentRob Před 2 lety

      @@shells500tutubo Really? You have over 500 channels and tens of streaming options I hope to find people of color. However, that's not the progress I'm talking about. How many stations/channels and streaming services do Black folks own. What good is it to have the right to accommodations (which should have never been an issue) when you can't in any way afford the joint? How much progress have white boys made? White boys are having peeing and flipping contests in outer space. Blessings.

    • @heatherjones3323
      @heatherjones3323 Před 2 lety

      @@PatentRob I’m sorry but successful black men do not marry within their race, this is their own fault no one else to blame. If only bm had more pride and value in themselves and their own…smh

  • @AJ-mt9zt
    @AJ-mt9zt Před 2 lety +4

    I can't believe those disgusting people attacked his family like that. He should have left the south behind and went some place where they could be more accepted. That is heart breaking!

  • @ask4theupgrade359
    @ask4theupgrade359 Před rokem +1

    This was very respectfully done. It’s mentioned a couple of times that she was religious to be exact she was a devoted Catholic in a Protestant USA 🇺🇸. She was married by her Uncle who was a Catholic Priest. I mention this because Catholics did experience discrimination in this country, Not like the black Americans, but she was Not spared.
    BTW, Rosanne Cash, also had black ancestry on her Father’s side. It often turns out that many White and Black Americans that have been here for centuries that believe they have Native American linkage, turns out to be black for the whites and white for the blacks. Johnny Cash, often stated he had Native American ancestry, turns out it was black.
    When the 1% of black ancestry was fully enforced in 1924 in the Southern States, it met the approval of Americans with mixed Ancestry that were EXCLUDED. Primarily because the man was white, the woman was mixed, the black was heavily diluted and the offsprings/children were white passing. Plenty of news papers and articles from 1895 to 1924 support this claim. Many mixed Europeans also got a pass.
    The Miscegenation Laws, forbidding interracial marriages between blacks and whites, ended by the Supreme Court in 1967 with the Loving vs Virginia case. The 1 drop rule, was only in effect for 43 years and yet black Americans still identify and apply it to everyone, including White Americans with any hidden black ancestry, like it’s being done in this case.
    I’ve met many self-identifying well off black Americans that appear white in skin color, features, hair texture. Even in their DNA they are 70%-80% European, especially from Virginia and the Carolinas. Basically, do Not assume that White presenting Americans, do not identify as black, as they are the ones that bear the responsibility to lift their darker skin people into acceptable standards, including beauty standards - so telling them they don’t look black, etc is not going to win you any points. They are not seeking inclusion, but respect and equally . Having a black friend is no longer going to cut it, you need to have a Black family member 😊

  • @kctechie
    @kctechie Před 2 lety +76

    That was very interesting and I can't believe I had never heard this before. Vivian was indeed very beautiful. Just as a human, I feel the attitude that against their marriage shameful. My life theory is good people are rare, like diamonds. They are not the rule but the exceptions, in any and every race. I've been fortunate to have met diamonds in several races and I'm unwilling to write off a whole race, even my own, because most of them are not good people. I don't want to miss any chance at meeting more diamonds wherever I can. God has scattered them through all races. I'm not sure if I explained that well or not. 😁

  • @christa3224
    @christa3224 Před 2 lety +3

    WOW, Vivian was stunning! Thanks for sharing her story.

  • @brad2548
    @brad2548 Před rokem +1

    Thank you Miss Danni for bringing this historic truth to my awareness. 😊❤

  • @charlesvincent8677
    @charlesvincent8677 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing!

  • @tkelly2546
    @tkelly2546 Před 2 lety +8

    The family says that she is Italian!! So she is. Imma go with that because if reparations are ever given we can weed out folks lol

    • @bluetheory2
      @bluetheory2 Před 2 lety +1

      Good one

    • @mlea1995
      @mlea1995 Před 2 lety +1

      She is Sicilian! My cousin is half Sicilian and her Nana is darker than many back folk!

    • @tkelly2546
      @tkelly2546 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mlea1995 well That great. so be it

    • @laurawilloughby4000
      @laurawilloughby4000 Před 2 lety +1

      She has a great great grandmother who was Black.

    • @heatherjones3323
      @heatherjones3323 Před 2 lety

      Good point! I didn’t think of that. If bp were getting reparations everyone would be coming out the woodworks.lol

  • @sergeantmasson3669
    @sergeantmasson3669 Před 2 lety +5

    Walk the Line movie portrayed Vivian very poorly. Vivian was very attractive, a very nice person, and a great mom.

  • @jml238
    @jml238 Před rokem +2

    Yes, Johnny went with what was country royalty to advance his career. I am sure he loved her, but Vivian was collateral damage. Such strong, beautiful woman and, so glad her story is being told. Time to get her book back out there!

  • @teacherjansfavorites
    @teacherjansfavorites Před 2 lety +19

    You need to make sure that you are pronouncing names the correctly: the man's name is DARRIUS RUCKER not DARRION RUCKUS!

    • @beaujac311
      @beaujac311 Před 2 lety +4

      Teacher Jan's Favorites:. I wasn't paying attention when she called Darrius Rucker that. To me she sounds like she did it on purpose. As if she was calling Rucker a c00n akin to the Boondocks character Uncle Ruckus.

    • @ehercj
      @ehercj Před 2 lety +1

      I cannot even finish this video because of the disrespect in calling this man Darrion Ruckus.

    • @khismet
      @khismet Před 2 lety

      Yikes, yeah. Caught that too!😬

  • @donniegudbloke5645
    @donniegudbloke5645 Před 3 lety +28

    So glad this had a happy ending!