The Truth about J. Edgar Hoover's Black Ancestry

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Could J. Edgar Hoover, the notorious FBI director, have been passing as white while actually being Black? We’ll sift through the history, check out some evidence, and think about what this could mean. How might his racial identity have shaped his secretive life and the hard-nosed methods he used? It’s a deep look at a complex issue that could really flip our understanding of one of America’s most mysterious figures.

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[IsraelEmmanuel]

Hoover hated The Black genes he carried, and that is sad and tragic. Unfortunately all Black Americans suffered as a result!!

[bethel]

Your parallel between Hitler & Hoover is excellent. Both of these individuals suffered from self-hate. Both were determined to bury the truth.

[cebe]

His Black family in Mississippi has been threatened into silence for decades.

[nahnotatall]

Self hatred is insane America has a deep issue with race and racism

[MisterRickSinister]

My grandmother and her sisters (whom were native/white/black in that order) all married black men ... AND THEY ALL HATED HOOVER FOR HIS BETRAYAL OF HIS OWN HERITAGE!!! They KNEW that he was multiracial. They also KNEW he cross dressed. These are NOT modern day internet gossip narratives ... this was dinner table chatter of the 60s and 70s. This was intelligent people reading between the lines they reported on the news ... and realizing that a man with all that relentless yet pointless outrage toward an issue ... was dealing with some duality in his own mind. I bet you my ticket to Heaven that when J.Edgar was in drag ... He was a Black woman.

[Ishbikes]

Wow, 93k subscribers? I was here when you had 4-5k subscribers. This was my little *diamond in the rough* channel. Now you’re at 100k. Wow

[ParaousiaComingnow]

Hoover's homosexuality and cross dressing were his primary concerns. Powerful people placed him as FBI Director because he was easily blackmailed and controlled.

[nlmeerw]

I did not realize he looked black until you just showed that photo.

[bernicerogersbooker]

He was ashamed of himself, so he took it out on other blacks

[juandelrio]

I remember back in the 60's Blacks knew fully well that Hoover was Black. You can see it in him. I'm sure a lot of Whites were questioning his race. However, he was too powerful to question that sensitive subject.

[RADIUMGLASS]

He was buried in a lead-lined casket designed to protect the body from an atomic bomb. It was so heavy one of the pallbearers collapsed.

[injunsun]

I know my trace of Black came from a specific great-grandma, who lied. She told her family her whole life, her mom was half-Cherokee. She told me once, her dad was half-Blackfoot, in front of my dad, who had never heard that from her before. Meanwhile, genetic testing shows one of the segments of African in common with one of my dad's 2nd cousins. Her maternal grandma and his maternal grandma were sisters. I have seen a picture of the 2-greats grandma as an elderly woman, with glasses and a heavy winter coat. Her niece, my great-grandmother's cousin, is there, in a short-sleeved dress, holding her own grandson as a toddler, he as White as snow against her Winter skin. So, I am fairly sure my 2-greats grandma was a quarter Black, passing as half-Cherokee in southeast KY in the late 1800s. Granny was born in 1902 or so. I wish the passing had not hidden who my last fully Black ancestor is! As a genealogist, it eats me up to have intentional secrets done by dead people block me from my own heritage.

[capoislamort]

“J. Edgar Hoover: a homosexual with a Big, big problem ….” Tupac Shakur 1993
One of the most powerful and sinister individual in Amerikan history.

[debbiethompson]

I love that you're letting your hair go natural. It looks BEAUTIFUL!!!🌹

[hdanielnoble]

Due to his character if I were black I would not want to claim him. That we are tired that we measure a man primarily by race is discusting.

[thorpeaaron]

He looked a Cajun from Louisiana when he was younger in my opinion.

[abrahamisaacmuciusiii]

On the back of Millie McGhee-Morris's book is statement made by Robert Stuckert. Mr. Stuckert is a Sociologist at the Ohio State University. In his statement he said "155, 500 fair skinned African Americans slipped across the color line in the 1940s alone. Census and fertility data reveal that by 1950 21% of Whites in the USA had Black ancestry within four generations."

[taotaostrong]

He only looks Black when my eyes are open. We don’t want him though😂

[pswhite]

The crazy thing is that we still have to worry about people like hoover...