{"id":38516,"date":"2014-11-26T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38516"},"modified":"2021-11-08T20:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:45:03","slug":"movie-little-white-lie-creator-lacey-schwartz-talks-not-knowing-she-was-black-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38516","title":{"rendered":"Movie &#8220;Little White Lie&#8221; Creator Lacey Schwartz Talks Not Knowing She Was Black [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWHrA_-5Fp8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Movie &#8220;Little White Lie&#8221; Creator Lacey Schwartz Talks Not Knowing She Was Black [VIDEO]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/show\/ebro-in-the-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ebro in the Morning<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot97.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HOT 97, WQHT 97.1 FM<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n2014-11-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ebro_Darden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ebro Darden<\/strong><\/a>, Co-Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Rosenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Peter Rosenberg<\/strong><\/a>, Co-Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurastylez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Laura Stylez<\/strong><\/a>, Co-Host<\/p>\n<p>Could you imagine living your entire life not knowing your true ethnic background? Movie director Lacey Schwartz can. Watch her talk about her new film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little White Lie<\/a>&#8221; and more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWHrA_-5Fp8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[00:07:02] <strong>Ebro Darden<\/strong>: I existed in a world where I didn&#8217;t really&#8230; my mother&#8217;s mother had passed&#8230; when she was young. My mother&#8217;s father didn&#8217;t acknowledge me at all. Um, and even to this day, my mother likes to debate it as if he didn&#8217;t acknowledge me for some other reason other than race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lacey Schwartz<\/strong>: Hmm. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darden<\/strong>: When it was really race. When it was straight-up the fact that she had a son who was half-black.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schwartz<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darden<\/strong>: Some of her step-siblings were cordial, but it wasn&#8217;t like a full embrace. So I got embraced mostly by my father&#8217;s side of the family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schwartz<\/strong>: Hmm. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darden<\/strong>: That&#8217;s how I was raised. That was the culture I was around. Which obviously plays itself out now&#8230; Um, in some ways because I consider myself black. I&#8217;m mixed-race, but I consider myself black. There are mixed-race individuals though, who consider themselves mixed, other, whatever, blah, blah, blah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schwartz<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darden<\/strong>: But I did just hear you say that you consider yourself &#8220;black.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schwartz<\/strong>: I do. I consider myself black. I consider myself biracial too. But for me\u2014I&#8217;m not trying to define it for other people\u2014because as you just said, other people feel differently. But, I look at being biracial as a <em>category<\/em> of being black.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darden<\/strong>: And why is that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schwartz<\/strong>: You know, I think it really comes down to feeling like a person of color&#8230; like &#8220;other.&#8221; You know, and this ideal that whiteness so much is not really embraced or fully identified in this country, you know it is almost looked at as a neutral. And I don&#8217;t feel neutral. You know so, do I think that there&#8217;re elements of me that is connected to the fact that I grew up white. And I do think that I have a unique experience. That I grew up white and I do know what it is to be black, I identify as black&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you imagine living your entire life not knowing your true ethnic background? 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