{"id":163,"date":"2016-01-27T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-01-26T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:10:36","slug":"one-drop-of-love-testimonial-ron-black-cuban-mexican-babyboywong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/one-drop-of-love-testimonial-ron-black-cuban-mexican-babyboywong\/","title":{"rendered":"One Drop of Love Testimonial: Ron &#8211; Black, Cuban, Mexican #BabyBoyWong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ekin52NTakU?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\n00:00:11,880 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:15,940<br \/>\nFANSHEN: So my really good friend Ron Lyles<br \/>\nstuck around after one of the shows to share<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\n00:00:15,940 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:21,300<br \/>\nthis experience he had when he was a baby,<br \/>\nand they misnamed him at the hospital. And<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\n00:00:21,300 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:28,360<br \/>\nhe also shares the time that a distant relative<br \/>\ncontacted him with a really, really big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\n00:00:28,360 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:31,779<br \/>\nCheck it out and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\n00:00:31,779 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:41,520<br \/>\nMARK: The first couple of hours of my life,<br \/>\nI was born and assumed to be a Chinese baby.<\/p>\n<p>6<br \/>\n00:00:41,520 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:49,840<br \/>\nThey labeled me &#8216;Baby Boy Wong.&#8217; As some people<br \/>\nknow, African American children are sometimes<\/p>\n<p>7<br \/>\n00:00:49,840 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:56,150<br \/>\nborn very light and we get our color later<br \/>\non. But I was switched at birth, and somebody<\/p>\n<p>8<br \/>\n00:00:56,150 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:03,000<br \/>\nthought I was Chinese &#8211; due to my eye shape<br \/>\n&#8211; and they actually gave me to a woman who<\/p>\n<p>9<br \/>\n00:01:03,000 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:10,570<br \/>\nwas in the room with my mother who was Chinese.<br \/>\nSo as a sort of irony, I was born a Chinese<\/p>\n<p>10<br \/>\n00:01:10,570 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:17,270<br \/>\nbaby. #BabyBoyWong. My mother &#8211; they kind<br \/>\nof put it together because there was no Black<\/p>\n<p>11<br \/>\n00:01:17,270 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:21,539<br \/>\nbaby to replace me with so they said, &#8220;Wait<br \/>\na minute, something&#8217;s going wrong&#8221; and then<\/p>\n<p>12<br \/>\n00:01:21,539 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:26,740<br \/>\nwhen they tried to find her baby, and couldn&#8217;t,<br \/>\nshe said &#8220;Ok we have to do something about<\/p>\n<p>13<br \/>\n00:01:26,740 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:33,340<br \/>\nthis.&#8221; So they figured it out. But I had the<br \/>\ntag and everything. #BabyBoyWong &#8211; a very<\/p>\n<p>14<br \/>\n00:01:33,340 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:39,560<br \/>\ninteresting irony. And part of Colorism that<br \/>\nfollowed me through my life. My great grandmother&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>15<br \/>\n00:01:39,560 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:45,990<br \/>\nMexican. My great grandfather&#8217;s Cuban, on<br \/>\nmy maternal side. On my maternal side my mother<\/p>\n<p>16<br \/>\n00:01:45,990 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:54,170<br \/>\nis very brown-skinned but there was White,<br \/>\nNative American, and our family dynamic is<\/p>\n<p>17<br \/>\n00:01:54,170 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:59,840<br \/>\nthat we just discovered and have embraced<br \/>\nthe family of our slaveowners. The actual<\/p>\n<p>18<br \/>\n00:01:59,840 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:10,310<br \/>\npeople that set my great, great, great grandfather<br \/>\nfree with his blessing. And we just came together.<\/p>\n<p>19<br \/>\n00:02:10,310 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:18,790<br \/>\nWe just found out who they were. One of the<br \/>\nwomen in the family actually went looking<\/p>\n<p>20<br \/>\n00:02:18,790 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:29,260<br \/>\nfor us. The slave onwer&#8217;s descendants went<br \/>\nlooking for us because my great great great<\/p>\n<p>21<br \/>\n00:02:29,260 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:34,680<br \/>\ngrandfather Patterson was very beloved. And<br \/>\nwhen he was given his papers and given his<\/p>\n<p>22<br \/>\n00:02:34,680 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:41,340<br \/>\nfreedom, I guess that respect continued and<br \/>\nso she&#8217;s a Historian, she found us &#8211; we had<\/p>\n<p>23<br \/>\n00:02:41,340 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:46,600<br \/>\na family reunion this past summer and they<br \/>\nall came and there was a lot of forgiveness<\/p>\n<p>24<br \/>\n00:02:46,600 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:52,490<br \/>\nand education. It was beautiful. She has more<br \/>\nof our history than we do. Fanshen challenged<\/p>\n<p>25<br \/>\n00:02:52,490 &#8211;&gt; 00:02:57,640<br \/>\nme actually, I would have never thought of<br \/>\nit &#8211; to actually go through a process and<\/p>\n<p>26<br \/>\n00:02:57,640 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:03,050<br \/>\nfound out &#8211; but I was a catalyst to bringing<br \/>\nsome of the family members together from both<\/p>\n<p>27<br \/>\n00:03:03,050 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:09,530<br \/>\nsides of my family for our reunion. We have<br \/>\na double cousin situation. And so to explore<\/p>\n<p>28<br \/>\n00:03:09,530 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:16,250<br \/>\nthe racial roots and cultural roots of these<br \/>\nfamily members &#8211; it was a very fun event.<\/p>\n<p>29<br \/>\n00:03:16,250 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:24,350<br \/>\nI&#8217;d love to chronical it for my daughter.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s four. She&#8217;s going to have a lot to look<\/p>\n<p>30<br \/>\n00:03:24,350 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:29,050<br \/>\nforward to. She&#8217;s very biracial, my wife is<br \/>\nbiracial and she has all this other stuff<\/p>\n<p>31<br \/>\n00:03:29,050 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:39,020<br \/>\ngoing on. I should say &#8216;multiracial&#8217; &#8211; the<br \/>\nbig question too is how do you mix dialogue<\/p>\n<p>32<br \/>\n00:03:39,020 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:45,790<br \/>\nabout cultures into the conversation and that&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhat I think Fanshen did very well. She talked<\/p>\n<p>33<br \/>\n00:03:45,790 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:51,440<br \/>\nabout culture. And that&#8217;s usually ignored<br \/>\nin the United States because we tend to look<\/p>\n<p>34<br \/>\n00:03:51,440 &#8211;&gt; 00:03:57,420<br \/>\nat things as Black and White. And we don&#8217;t<br \/>\nreally embrace culture like some other places.<\/p>\n<p>35<br \/>\n00:03:57,420 &#8211;&gt; 00:04:01,860<br \/>\nSo I think that was also another bonus for<br \/>\nwhat we experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT 1 00:00:11,880 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:15,940 FANSHEN: So my really good friend Ron Lyles stuck around after one of the shows to share 2 00:00:15,940 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:21,300 this experience he had when he was a baby, and they misnamed him at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/one-drop-of-love-testimonial-ron-black-cuban-mexican-babyboywong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[40,18,34,35,27,30,29,36,4,14,23,39,28,10,16,19,31,6,25,17,20,24,33,11,41,26,32,22,21],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-drop-of-love","tag-artivism","tag-biracial","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-cultural-studies","tag-diversity","tag-equality","tag-equity","tag-ethnic-studies","tag-fanshen","tag-history","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-inclusion","tag-intersectionality","tag-mixed-race","tag-mulatto","tag-non-traditional","tag-one-drop-of-love","tag-one-woman-play","tag-one-drop-rule","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-racial-justice","tag-racism","tag-socially-conscious","tag-solo-show","tag-underrepresented","tag-white-privilege","tag-whiteness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}