@@Mimi-ht6xr I travel internationally all the time. Still, as an American, I don't know one black person who would look at her and think she's white. Makes sense that the truth was revealed as soon as she left that racist town.
@@Mimi-ht6xr Honestly, this is a whole *ss video about race in America and you have the gall to be condenscending because we are talking about race in America in the comments? Stay on topic and stop centering yourself.
@@wayneferrell160Why!? Would you say that because it doesn't make sense for her to lie. If she was mistreated do you think that she would have the white adopted grandmother living with her. God gives all of his creation a heart, which is capable of love or hate, and it depends on you as the person on how you choose to use it.
They would see everything as black, wouldn’t they? And they’re blind so what’s y’all excuse. Americans made Black into a culture rather than a race and that’s why other group that share some of black Americans characteristics want to be separated and known as anything other than black. A blind person will detect easily that this woman is not your typical black (n*****). It goes deeper than the eyes and y’all know it. That’s why y’all claim smart black people that speak proper as acting white. Y’all the gatekeepers of everybody else’s life but your own.
Shoot! Her father battled cancer, a business, and being a gay man in the south?! He epitomized strength and empathy. She was so blessed to be loved so much and protected.
Shut tf up. She was taught to hate who she is & live in delusion for a false yt supremacy. Shut your remedial self up if you can't think deeper than that.
@@kaioiamo1503 No race and being gay..Are not the same .But some people frown on race .The very same , as they frown on being, black..They want everything, Pure and Lilly White..It's really sad..But It Is What It Is...
Those racists in Vidor knew she is not white. The hair was a dead giveaway but for some reason they left it alone. I’m sure her dad had some major respect and pull there.
He knew he had to do something for his family before he d!ed, now its his daughter taking care of his mom at her old age, instead of sending her to seniors housing
Amen. Thank Jesus for her parents who had the wherewithal while living in a “Sundown town”…😏… And brought her into their home and raised her to be a very respectable person. The media loves these stories to divide us. So glad for this wonderful woman and her family!🤝
It’s amazing how some speak out against gays being able to adopt. It’s all about love and compassion. Not only was she loved and cared for, but also raised well as she obviously grew up to become an intelligent and wonderful woman.
The fact that her Grandmother raised a gay son in the south and a biracial grandbaby is a testament to her as well...kudos to the Grandmother. I am a West-Indian American raised in an all white neighborhood in Georgia and I can understand her identity issues ❤
So true they raised a beautiful young lady and obviously they knew she wasn't white. Any white person would know she may be part white but she's not all white.
She was my friend from college! 💛 Such a sweetheart, I loved her name and named my daughter Lacey. I’ve told my daughter her name comes from a Lacey friend I knew in college! I’m also biracial! We connected about that, I was raised by my white mom & white stepdad. I’m glad to see she is doing well 💛, we last talked on facebook a few years ago, she’s a doll. 💛
Maybe it's time for y'all to reconnect and have a long catching up chatvon old times and what's new.... At least, that's my prayers 🙏 for the two of you. God bless 🙌 and I pray God's blessings upon the two of you...... amen 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
So, if she is your friend from college, I urge you to watch this again, and really pay attention to the way the media portrays this story, and then compare it to what you personally know about her life and story and ask yourself if you can't trust the media to really tell the story like it is. If you were the one retelling the story, would you do it exactly the way the media did? Then, consider if the media really is 100% accurate 100% of the time or if they're just trying to spin stories and profit off of it. The media is not fair and never has been.
I just love how the white family embraced her and loved her and now the white grandmother is being embraced and loved by the black family!! This makes my heart ❤️ melts! 😊
@@AyyoShyGurlTvProtection would have been to NOT raise a defenceless Black child in a sundown town. They literally PUT her in danger because they were selfish.
@@uwilberforce4628...Exactly. I came to say the same thing. Always in lala land but busy overlooking the atrocities that happened and is still happening to blacks and minorities everywhere.
I am crying for her Dad who missed out on raising this beautiful woman ❤️❤️. He loved her unconditionally and that extended to his entire family ❤️❤️. RIP Dad and Mom🙏🏾🙏🏾
Yes me too but her Dad left her in the best hands to raise her regardless of the town she lived in. They loved her and protected her. She was a very precious cargo ❤. I love this story. God Bless her Dad R.I.P.
@@jimstenlund6017At the beginning of the story, they said she was going to be aborted and her father kept her birth mother clean and took care of her while she was pregnant. That sounds like a save 🤷🏿♀️
@@Nikki_with_the_blikkiHe is talking about the irresponsible donor who recklessly spread his seed without care, and now Jim implies he would have been honorable 🙄 iow: He's talking about the NOT fatherly father who took away his own chance.
Those who love thy brother knows Jesus. Those who do not, do not know Jesus. They are in Him and Him in them when they love, they are not in Him and Him in them if they do not love.
in today's society, nobody would adopt her, men and women h@te each other today, nobody wanna help raise someone else kids, RedPill movement is countering Feminist movement, the whole thing is a mess!
I dont think that mom really wanted to abort , just cried out for help and thank God someone heard her ! What an amazing daughter .Beautiful mother . 🌹
Yes! Thankfully someone heard her cry for help and gave this child a beautiful life (according to her). I'm interested in hearing how her life story might vary from her older brother raised by her bio mom who had addiction issues.
You praise everybody but the white man that raised her and loved her from her mother to the daughter but not the man and your assuming the mother didn't want to have an abortion but you don't know that
I'm a black guy from Texas now live in Arkansas. I've made plenty of money from these sundown town even the most racist one Harrison. Most folks not racist in the sundown towns maybe decades ago but now these folks are moving along living their life. Facts these folks in those towns treated me better than the blacks I come across.
@@macewindu5610 I understand where you’re coming from. Life isn’t fair. These lies were to protect her so that she could survive childhood. They were easily disproven in her adulthood. #Missionaccomplished People lie to people they love all the time.
My take from this is how lucky she is to have 2 loving families. Her adoptive family who loved and protected her. Her blood relatives she found later. Many don't have 1 decent family.
That is also an example of oral history. They were taught by their elders the cruel fact that white people adopt children of color and raise them as white. That has been done since the white people came to the Americas in the 1500's.
The photo with her bow in her hair and the flowered dress with her Dad is so cute. She radiates joy. You can tell her father cherished her. Great story. Also, her biological mother was so blessed to have things turn out in her favor. She lucked out having this amazing woman as a daughter.
It’s a blessing she grew up with people who loved her and I’m glad she was able to learn her whole story and reconnect with her biological family as well as stay so connected to her adoptive family.
Having a white mama and being loved primarily by my white family is and was a privilege and a blessing for me. I’m always surprised that people seem to want to believe mixed children can’t be loved by their white relatives. Like most of you, l’ve heard the stories about racist white relatives but no one wants to acknowledge the prejudice black ones😊 l love all my relatives and wish l could return to those happier times.
@@Mimi-ht6xr We're talking about VIDOR. A town where they tell black people to leave before sundown or get murdered. Yes, racists come in all shades. (Cookie and a pat on the head for you.) We could talk about how koalas are losing their habitat in the comments as well, however, that's not what her video is about ☺.
Lacey has a beautiful disposition! For all that she went through, she seems to have found the beauty and love in it all without holding grudges or becoming hardened. I'm so glad her father saved her life. What an incredible testament to Love.
You're so right! Love knows not color, it knows only truth. Lacey is beautiful because her momma loves her and her adopted family loves her. This is pure.
Her Grandmother is her angel... think of how hard it must've been for her to accept her gay son and his black child in a sundown town. That child grew up surrounded with love and was treated no different than the other family members❤
There is a saying "If you feed a child enough the child will start to look like you." She looked like her father when she was younger. This was such a wonderful story and so glad she was in a loving household and the great relationship still stands to this day.♥
She was told she was half white and half Hawaiian! Me being born and raised in Hawaii, she could have passed as Polynesian. This is a beautiful story of love and redefines family. People should stop condemning her and the people involved in this story.
This proves that anyone can be a father, but someone we can call 'Daddy' is special. A family that provided this life for her is extremely special. How great that he had the means to provide her with a great life while he was still able and a family to continue to provide her with the love and care she deserves.
You mean anyone can be a daddy but to be Father is a special one. We know this by many women calling any men their baby daddy even though they do nothing for their child.
You know her Dad truly believed he was her Bio Dad. Sounds like she was truly raised with more LOVE THAN MANY OR MOST KIDS HAVE. She was truly Blessed! The fact the Grands gave her the warning If anyone asks… should have been a huge clue. I’m sure with all the Love she grew up with. She had to have grown up very lonely as well. She didn’t fit in with the Blacks or the whites.
Why and what would make her story a good movie? You know she is just as much white as she is black. Her biological father was more likely than not, very white.
Her father was a gift from God. He had a big heart. Her mother met the angel that would ensure her daughter had a good life even though his time with her was short. He left her in good hands. And now grandma lives with her. This is a human story of good people! This makes my heart smile and cry at the same time.
This story really touched me.. Being raised by my black stepfather, I can totally relate.Different circumstances but I can totally relate... Beautiful woman with a beautiful story ❤️❤️❤️
What a phenomenal story. Wow I am in awe and look at who the Grandma lives with. Pure Love! R.I.P. Dad and god bless this family for raising and protecting her. Dad left you in the best hands, his family. If not for him stopping the abortion we would not hear this beautiful story.❤
She accepted the LOVE where it came from and who it came from and through. Resonates with me. ❤🎉 😊 She knows herself and is loving herself too. Awesome
@@msrenee7023She was a child she could not have just left. They loved her that’s all that matter. Her mother gave her up for adoption, so her mother had no say so. Her father loved her and his family loved her. Ultimately that’s all that matters.
@@SlowBonnie - He made sure that she was born healthy, and he took care of her until he died. There's not a BUT. She would've obviously learned about her true ethnicity.
What do you want to use black heritaage for when you have a man who truly loves and cares for you? even if there was deceit for me it still doesnt matter bcos he showed her genuine love which some black girls who have been raped by their biological dads never experiendced. @CocoaButterBabe
@@SlowBonnie he knew how she would be treated in the town they lived in. He was protecting his daughter. When she got old enough to protect herself, she would learn about her heritage.
I grew up in white world..believe me what she saying happens all the time..one of the lies was to tell people you are Italian, or mix Indian. 100% true.
@@ccd5942. Most original black Americans look different from most Africans , how many black Americans have colored eyes or have native blood in their lineage?
Wow. Just wow! You are pure class, Lacey Tezino. Anybody would dream of being your mother, father, sister, brother, or friend, and you filled my whole heart with your story.
I'm so happy no one harmed her. It's so sad that Racism is so deep in America. We're all different shades of wheat some are darker some are lighter. We all are a part of one race that's the Human race. Many blessings to the family that adopted her. This was such a beautiful story ❤❤❤
I've always said we are a 🌈 Rainbow of CLaY 🌈 Various Shades and tints of brown. Glad I'm not the only one viewing it as such. We're supposed to be the humane race.
I'm amazed to hear that white hate black .lt means they don't know GOD, they don't serve Him, and they don't have God , they need to repent because no hater will enter the kingdom of GOD
Modern day Hollywood would probably try to say her dad was a secret gay clansman 😂 That’s how it goes nowadays. I’m surprised this story was told so positively!
I'm watching this and think the same thing as everyone else: how is it that nobody in that sundown town gave this girl any trouble when she was growing up? But then I remembered something I went through years ago. We moved from Chicago to Texas in the 80s. I was literally the only black in every one of my classes in high school. I was already homesick and felt like I wasn't going to be making any friends here soon! There were kids who were very unapologetically bigoted and made no bones about NOT wanting me in their class. What's fascinating is that a lot of the white kids for whatever reason took me in - and made me feel less homesick. Even more incredible, the kids who were the most outspoken bigots eventually left me alone and even started being kinda cool with me, and I'm sure that's because of the majority of the other white kids who befriended me- and would stand up for me if any of them gave me any trouble. Sometimes, people can really surprise you in very good ways.
As a BW that went to private school, I always knew from a young age that biracials were treated better than full black people. My best friend was biracial and they accepted her but rejected me. It's been this way since the dawn of the United States. They are much more accepting of them than us. I've noticed the same thing in my all yt sorority and college too. This is why I will never call them black actually. Even during slavery they were in the house, and received much better treatment. Sometimes their fathers left them their properties and educated them too. You should look up some of their stories. One mullato boy said the yt family, even his fathers wife spoiled him and gave him whatever he wanted. It's pretty interesting really. They know the difference that's for sure!
@@edj2045Or the biracial slaves were also targeted for SA by the owners because they fit in more with Eurocentric beauty standards. Some fathers had affairs with slave or free black women and openly claimed their children and provided for them but many were the result of SA and were totally ignored and treated as badly as any other slave. Some masters intentionally got their slaves pregnant so that they could sell the children. You are sounding suspiciously like the right wingers that claim that slavery wasn’t that bad. The ownership of any human by any other is abhorrent no matter the conditions. Even if an owner treated a slave almost no different than his free paid employees they were still forced to work for free and faced the uncertain future being transferred like property if their owner sold them, went into bankruptcy or died.
@@gabrielamora6265 I never disputed anything you said and you didn't dispute anything I said. Many were also able to pass and Sally hemmings own son said that that woman never worked a day in her life. Her job was to care for her own children and she studied in France. Would you rather be Sally, or Her Grandmother? Be forreal. You also never addressed how they got better treatment then and now and how yt people know the difference.They created their own spaces then and did you know they have their own spaces now on TH-cam where they actually talk about how they are treated better? Would you look at that! lol
Yup. In two words: herd mentality. But also, if you've got the majority of people or influential members of any majority group who treat you with respect, then the unsavoury bullies tend to follow suit. People take behavioural cues from others.
Thank you, Lacey, for sharing your amazzzzzzing story with US! This is the most beautiful story that everybody needs to hear. Incredible!! Nothing but LOVE ❤
She looks exactly like her father. ♥️ she’s proof that when you share your life with someone you start to look like them more and more ♥️ happy that she was treated properly. And loved regardless of the headline. 🙏🏾♥️
Yessssss...We will let you know in the most gentle and loving way that..."The Math Ain't Mathin". All the love she was raised with produced a beautiful human being.
This is so Cool! She’s such a beautiful woman, & I hope it inspires more people to adopt. I loved the part about her friends telling her that she’s Black.
My nephew is adopted. He's biracial. They were in church, this man kept staring at him (he was 6), nephew yelled at him IM NOT BLACK!!!!!! After church, my brother sat him down & told him SON YOUR HALF BLACK. IT'S VERY VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU LOOK UP YOUR HISTORY & EMBRACE IT! NEVER SAY YOU'RE NOT BLACK. YOU SHOULD BE PROUD SON......IM SO PROUD YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE! Theyd had him since he was born. RIP BRO.......miss u so
We should be proud of our family lineage. Especially things we can't change such as racial, religion and or place of birth...I will never denied one side over the other over an archaic law.
@@8719Markit’s cool to be proud but I need to add this so we KNOW WHY WE should be so proud: To love ourselves when we look in the mirror. It’s the only way any one of us can ever accept God. Not for history’s sake. You will cause nothing but chaos & destruction in your surroundings if you do not love yourself.
@@tangee8252 imagine without that lie, she would have been aborted -as her mother planned- and so many on earth would have never been blessed with her friendship, intelligence and love. I am glad her life is a success, maybe it will encourage others.
The story is truly all about love ! from her bio mom not aborting her, to the extended family raising her after the father passed. The father wanted her so badly. Just so much love she’s so blessed.
Amazing man with amazing intentions. Amazing family that loved and protected her, amazing biological mother who sacrificed and amazing friends in community that she grew up in
Much respect to all of the people involved. We often hear the horror stories, they did the best they could with the emotional tools they had. They protected, loved and shielded her as best they could.
Thank you for having the strength to tell your life story. My life is strikingly similar. Now served twenty eight years of military, married for twenty seven and three kids later. It’s amazing how a loving family changes everything. The experience genuinely defines your self existence and future decisions.
I don't know one black person who would look at her and think she's white.
Not one!
You should travel more. Only America uses skin color as an ethnicity. She looks mixed race because her mama is probably mixed.
@@Mimi-ht6xr I travel internationally all the time. Still, as an American, I don't know one black person who would look at her and think she's white. Makes sense that the truth was revealed as soon as she left that racist town.
@@Mimi-ht6xr Honestly, this is a whole *ss video about race in America and you have the gall to be condenscending because we are talking about race in America in the comments? Stay on topic and stop centering yourself.
@@Mimi-ht6xr mixed race is NOT white.
She is Definitely not Passing as White!! Her late Dad must have been very respected for them to leave her alone.
Remember they were in houston first
She's not being totally honest 😮
He was respected and loved. His family didn't care about her skin color because they embraced her as the child of their only son.
@@wayneferrell160Why!? Would you say that because it doesn't make sense for her to lie. If she was mistreated do you think that she would have the white adopted grandmother living with her. God gives all of his creation a heart, which is capable of love or hate, and it depends on you as the person on how you choose to use it.
Exactly he probably ran the town so they let him cool
Ray Charles, Helen Keller, and Stevie Wonder could see that this woman is Black. 😮
This had me rolling 😂
Exactly
😂😂😂
They would see everything as black, wouldn’t they? And they’re blind so what’s y’all excuse. Americans made Black into a culture rather than a race and that’s why other group that share some of black Americans characteristics want to be separated and known as anything other than black. A blind person will detect easily that this woman is not your typical black (n*****). It goes deeper than the eyes and y’all know it. That’s why y’all claim smart black people that speak proper as acting white. Y’all the gatekeepers of everybody else’s life but your own.
Actually she's mixed race but black to you Black-females.
I was one of the people that reached out to her because her story hit me to the core.. and she responded to me ❤
Shoot! Her father battled cancer, a business, and being a gay man in the south?! He epitomized strength and empathy. She was so blessed to be loved so much and protected.
Yes cause gay is the same as race omg yall weird
Shut tf up. She was taught to hate who she is & live in delusion for a false yt supremacy. Shut your remedial self up if you can't think deeper than that.
@kaioiamo1503 well...
@@kaioiamo1503fr i can't stand when they try to appear.They're sexuality as equal to a race
@@kaioiamo1503 No race and being gay..Are not the same .But some people frown on race .The very same , as they frown on being, black..They want everything, Pure and Lilly White..It's really sad..But It Is What It Is...
Those racists in Vidor knew she is not white. The hair was a dead giveaway but for some reason they left it alone. I’m sure her dad had some major respect and pull there.
Probably due to her white adopted family members having strong ties in the community
That reason is God
Her whole face is a giveaway.
Her voice even more so. Since she’s in Texas she didn’t get hit with the suburban whites woman inflection.
Agree!
Thank God she was loved , white or blk, all kids deserve unconditional love…a warm and loving story.
Only this love wasn't unconditional. It's actually quite pathetic. They are liars who tried to erase her identity.
It sounds good, 95% of whites hate black people uncover...
Amen.
Are you a tom?
Why did they tell her she’s white? 🥴
Her story, phenomenal. These comments, phenomenal. Shows you that there is love in this world beyond cruelty, beyond color! Just beautiful 🥰🫶🏾
I love when adopted kids are treated with love
I wasn’t 😢
But, what is the definition of love. Love is not 'lies'.
@@D.mo7So so sorry 😞 a
That’s the most important blessing.
Amen!
I love that this single man wanted a child so badly. He sounds like he was good and loving kind man
He knew he had to do something for his family before he d!ed, now its his daughter taking care of his mom at her old age, instead of sending her to seniors housing
Good loving kind man who told this woman her mom died from aids.. yeah he a gd man alright
In a sundown town ?
That's your qualifications for a loving kind man🤣 are your standards that low? PDFs also want children are they kind and loving??
Humans aren't puppies. Gross.
I'm just thankful she's alive and was cared for all those years.
cared for? by being lied to and her identity stolen from her because her racist white father didn’t want to admit she was black?
Amen. Thank Jesus for her parents who had the wherewithal while living in a “Sundown town”…😏…
And brought her into their home and raised her to be a very respectable person.
The media loves these stories to divide us.
So glad for this wonderful woman and her family!🤝
'She was born a poor white Child!' Adapted from Steve Martin. Or Tiny Tim: 'God bless us everyone!'
Amen
It’s amazing how some speak out against gays being able to adopt. It’s all about love and compassion. Not only was she loved and cared for, but also raised well as she obviously grew up to become an intelligent and wonderful woman.
That family protected her, shows you no matter where you're at not everyone is the same. Love can be found in the darkest places.
Protected a black child in a sun down town that hates blacks ? R you dumb
The fact that her Grandmother raised a gay son in the south and a biracial grandbaby is a testament to her as well...kudos to the Grandmother. I am a West-Indian American raised in an all white neighborhood in Georgia and I can understand her identity issues ❤
You act like whites don’t have identity issues…
We should only identify as American
😂 youre American, stop with the sub labels 😂 the entire world is American.
Love>Hate
@summerallthetime2616 😂
Her family knew she wasn’t white. But, they chose to love instead of reject. That’s beautiful. They raised a beautiful woman.
Beautiful to lie?
@@ludy41to take care of her and keep her safe?! Yes!
@@ludy41We gotta try to find the 'beauty' out of the evil underbelly somehow.😂
So true they raised a beautiful young lady and obviously they knew she wasn't white. Any white person would know she may be part white but she's not all white.
@@DDD11-11 I agree.
She was my friend from college! 💛 Such a sweetheart, I loved her name and named my daughter Lacey. I’ve told my daughter her name comes from a Lacey friend I knew in college! I’m also biracial! We connected about that, I was raised by my white mom & white stepdad. I’m glad to see she is doing well 💛, we last talked on facebook a few years ago, she’s a doll. 💛
Maybe it's time for y'all to reconnect and have a long catching up chatvon old times and what's new....
At least, that's my prayers 🙏 for the two of you. God bless 🙌 and I pray God's blessings upon the two of you...... amen 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
It's creepy that u name your kid after someone u met very shortly.
What ? Are u retarded ? Maybe she liked the name? Shithead
So, if she is your friend from college, I urge you to watch this again, and really pay attention to the way the media portrays this story, and then compare it to what you personally know about her life and story and ask yourself if you can't trust the media to really tell the story like it is.
If you were the one retelling the story, would you do it exactly the way the media did?
Then, consider if the media really is 100% accurate 100% of the time or if they're just trying to spin stories and profit off of it.
The media is not fair and never has been.
She seems like a very special woman. You were lucky to have met her.
So happy her mother found support to have her! We need kinder people in the world.
She is a lovely woman and a wonderful addition to the world.
I just love how the white family embraced her and loved her and now the white grandmother is being embraced and loved by the black family!! This makes my heart ❤️ melts! 😊
In a sun down town? 😂 embraced?
And the PROTECTED her at all costs!!! Even at the expense of tricking her. She was very lucky to not be made out to be scared. ♥️
Me too❤
@@AyyoShyGurlTvProtection would have been to NOT raise a defenceless Black child in a sundown town. They literally PUT her in danger because they were selfish.
Einstein they fuckin lied about her ethnicity
Her dad WANTED her, LOVED her and PROTECTED her. Color makes no difference in LOVE. Beautiful story of love, loss and love again. Very happy for you.
One good story but more countless bad stories of racist Sundown towns
Hush that lala land nonsense.. then YT FOLKS DEFINITELY NOT LOVING. AS A RULE.
@@uwilberforce4628...Exactly. I came to say the same thing. Always in lala land but busy overlooking the atrocities that happened and is still happening to blacks and minorities everywhere.
this ain’t love he literally lied to her about her own race
If that's the case, why lie about her race?
I am crying for her Dad who missed out on raising this beautiful woman ❤️❤️. He loved her unconditionally and that extended to his entire family ❤️❤️. RIP Dad and Mom🙏🏾🙏🏾
He was the bridge in her life at a perfect time 💐💕 great man, perfect Dad ❤️
Yes me too but her Dad left her in the best hands to raise her regardless of the town she lived in. They loved her and protected her. She was a very precious cargo ❤. I love this story. God Bless her Dad R.I.P.
Isaiah respect to you and your staff for also having the original podcast contributor on. That is class
They had to know she was black but decided to live in denial because they loved her because she was her father’s child and beautiful, racism is dumb.
Racism was created by white peopl4 so they're dumb AF
Yt folks know who blk n who is not…..but the have a hard time with our people who pass for yt
The dumbest thing ever.
He wasn't her dad!
@@DreX-8810she couldn't even passed
Her father saved her life and did what he thought was best … 🙏🏾♥️
Yet black women are clamoring for abortions.
Her father wasn’t given a chance to do/know anything.
@@jimstenlund6017At the beginning of the story, they said she was going to be aborted and her father kept her birth mother clean and took care of her while she was pregnant. That sounds like a save 🤷🏿♀️
@@Nikki_with_the_blikki That was the adoptive father, the biological father was never even informed of the pregnancy.
@@Nikki_with_the_blikkiHe is talking about the irresponsible donor who recklessly spread his seed without care, and now Jim implies he would have been honorable 🙄 iow: He's talking about the NOT fatherly father who took away his own chance.
I love that she wasn’t bitter towards any of the people in her life. Dad, mom, white friends black friends how truly amazing and powerful
This interview is the best! Very calm and smooth loving interview.
What is love? That is the energy this story gives. God bless her dad who loved her before she was born.
Amen!
I know 🥹❤
Please it isn’t “energy” it the “spirit” of God. No where the Bible talks about energy. Everything is Spiritual! We are spiritual beings.
Those who love thy brother knows Jesus. Those who do not, do not know Jesus. They are in Him and Him in them when they love, they are not in Him and Him in them if they do not love.
in today's society, nobody would adopt her, men and women h@te each other today, nobody wanna help raise someone else kids, RedPill movement is countering Feminist movement, the whole thing is a mess!
I dont think that mom really wanted to abort , just cried out for help and thank God someone heard her ! What an amazing daughter .Beautiful mother . 🌹
It was not her first child. She already had a boy.
Yes! Thankfully someone heard her cry for help and gave this child a beautiful life (according to her). I'm interested in hearing how her life story might vary from her older brother raised by her bio mom who had addiction issues.
You praise everybody but the white man that raised her and loved her from her mother to the daughter but not the man and your assuming the mother didn't want to have an abortion but you don't know that
Yes😊 🎼isn't she lovely🎶
Definitely.
Thank God no harm was done to her being raised in a sundown town ♥️✨💯
For real.( But, we still don’t know what all she endured while growing up.)
That's right..God protected her just like he protected Baby Moses..All praises go to God 🙌🏾
Amen Amen Amen, my ONLY concern. She’s truly blessed To God be the glory
Highly doubt it
I'm a black guy from Texas now live in Arkansas. I've made plenty of money from these sundown town even the most racist one Harrison. Most folks not racist in the sundown towns maybe decades ago but now these folks are moving along living their life. Facts these folks in those towns treated me better than the blacks I come across.
What a loving and wonderful story... it's like a breath of fresh air. Wow, I loved it! Thanks!
This is why I love Black folks! GUUURRRLLL...LOL Unapologetically authentic! I'm glad she was loved and taken care of..
Yes we are. I love us!!! 🙌🏿🙏🏿
@@lucettepowe2734 She's MULATTO MIXED-RACE, and I hope she's proud of it
Reminds me of Steve Martin “ the jerk “
Tyler Perry would turn this into hate from her white family somehow, Disney needs this story instead 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
Disney will make her blue eyed and blond hair @@HighPowerOptionsTrades
This was one of those rare occasions where 18 minutes on TH-cam was definitely worth it.
As someone who was adopted… this story was beautiful to hear. Family can be made from blood or love. ❤
@kharonscott Lies ain't love🤢🤮🤬🗑️💩
@@macewindu5610 I understand where you’re coming from. Life isn’t fair. These lies were to protect her so that she could survive childhood. They were easily disproven in her adulthood. #Missionaccomplished People lie to people they love all the time.
Right. Some of your biggest enemies could be your family members and you could receive more love from a stranger on the street.
This sounds bout white.
@@macewindu5610Obviously your not adopted, my white parents loved me until they died, my children loved their Grandparents, you know fuckall
My take from this is how lucky she is to have 2 loving families. Her adoptive family who loved and protected her. Her blood relatives she found later. Many don't have 1 decent family.
Now that’s true
"If anybody asks you're white" They knew but they were protecting her. She has a beautiful story.
They could have gotten her killed! Racists know mix people!
Really making her look like a FOOL instead of explaining her mom was black?
Teaching children they must hide Blackness & be ashamed of that part of them is emotional damage you weirdo 🤦🏾♀️
What a racist comment. What about the Black people they didn't protect? Being seen as 'one of the good ones' by people like you isn't a complement
@ho_dontdoit I don't care about her having to hide her identity. As long as she wasn't abused. Her father and his family care for her very well.
😂😂Her sistas sat her down....they said girl we got questions. Her college sistas, of course. Thats love ❤️ 😍 💖
❤❤❤
That is also an example of oral history. They were taught by their elders the cruel fact that white people adopt children of color and raise them as white. That has been done since the white people came to the Americas in the 1500's.
😂😂
I would have did the same! ❤ Like “sis, we need to talkkkkk” 😂
Facts ✨✨✨🥂!
She’s blessed to have had so much love from both families ❤
Your dad protected you, even before you were born. 😭 so sweet. I miss my dad.
The photo with her bow in her hair and the flowered dress with her Dad is so cute. She radiates joy. You can tell her father cherished her. Great story. Also, her biological mother was so blessed to have things turn out in her favor. She lucked out having this amazing woman as a daughter.
Lol
Your Dad is the kinda man we need more of! What a beautiful love story! It brought tears to my eyes. You were a loved baby!
A adoptive parent who lies to the child is what we need more of 😒🙄
LOVE WITH NO REMOSE 😊
@patriciaarps5815 everyone should be loved. Love is the only thing that can overcome hate.
@@ChosenbyGodprotectedbyJesus Sho Right...
@Pammipooh62 How does her adoptive white dad lying to her about her mother's race, make him the kind of man we need more of?????????????????
It’s a blessing she grew up with people who loved her and I’m glad she was able to learn her whole story and reconnect with her biological family as well as stay so connected to her adoptive family.
Yes imagine to a family that she had no blood connection to
Not sure I'd call that love... Very odd story. My heart hurts over the racists things she must've heard. The whole thing is mind boggling really.
Having a white mama and being loved primarily by my white family is and was a privilege and a blessing for me. I’m always surprised that people seem to want to believe mixed children can’t be loved by their white relatives. Like most of you, l’ve heard the stories about racist white relatives but no one wants to acknowledge the prejudice black ones😊 l love all my relatives and wish l could return to those happier times.
@@Mimi-ht6xr We're talking about VIDOR. A town where they tell black people to leave before sundown or get murdered. Yes, racists come in all shades. (Cookie and a pat on the head for you.) We could talk about how koalas are losing their habitat in the comments as well, however, that's not what her video is about ☺.
@@Mimi-ht6xr@Good point.
She's so pretty. She has an amazing story. Her father sounded like a truly good man. I just bought her book. ❤
Lacey has a beautiful disposition! For all that she went through, she seems to have found the beauty and love in it all without holding grudges or becoming hardened. I'm so glad her father saved her life. What an incredible testament to Love.
SHE GOT IT FROM THE FAMILY THAT LOVED AND RAISED HER
You can tell that she was raised either love.
It’s obvious the famil6 that raised her loved her truly…
What did she go through she was raised in love and spoilt rotten her words not mine!!!
@@brickvbattv893 🙄How very nuanced of you, because I'm sure that in life, multiple things cannot be true at the same time.
It’s beautiful that granny now lives with a family full of black people. ❤
She lives with love.
You're so right! Love knows not color, it knows only truth. Lacey is beautiful because her momma loves her and her adopted family loves her. This is pure.
@@Jennifer-jn2qw there is no need ignore color - you can be clear its a black family she's living with and that love is present for the grandmother
Her son made the right move once, now granny is not lonely in her old age 😁
aaaannnnnd why exactly is that "beautiful"?
Awww he was such a good daddy 🥰. I love that for her.
She's an angel, and im glad she has an amazing family who showed her love ❤
🤦🏾♂️Nobody on planet earth thought she was white.
😂😂😂😂
Well, she did! It’s like being raised by wolves or Tarzan being raised by a mom that’s not human.. it’s not that difficult to understand.
Honestly, people call me white all the time and I’m very similar in tone and hair to her. You’d be surprised.
@@MaddyReactions nope! You're way lighter than she is.
Anyone who sees her and thinks she's white needs their eyes checked lol.
😂😂😂😂😂
Her Grandmother is her angel... think of how hard it must've been for her to accept her gay son and his black child in a sundown town.
That child grew up surrounded with love and was treated no different than the other family members❤
You mean biracial
Who said he was gay?
@@cfoster6804she literally said he was a gay man that wanted a child
@@Uke2405she’s black stop it
She literally said her memories of her grandparents was "a DARK time" 🙄 she blocked them right on up out of her memory 😅
There is a saying "If you feed a child enough the child will start to look like you." She looked like her father when she was younger. This was such a wonderful story and so glad she was in a loving household and the great relationship still stands to this day.♥
Sorry but no she didn’t
@princesssmalik1 Thank You!!!💯💯💯
😂😂😂
@@princesssmalik1 well 316 other people think so too sooo😝😜😂
I'm from the south and I've heard this saying a lot and actually seen it play out in real life
She was told she was half white and half Hawaiian! Me being born and raised in Hawaii, she could have passed as Polynesian. This is a beautiful story of love and redefines family. People should stop condemning her and the people involved in this story.
This proves that anyone can be a father, but someone we can call 'Daddy' is special. A family that provided this life for her is extremely special. How great that he had the means to provide her with a great life while he was still able and a family to continue to provide her with the love and care she deserves.
You mean anyone can be a daddy but to be Father is a special one. We know this by many women calling any men their baby daddy even though they do nothing for their child.
Zaddy
This was a good story. I'm not sure why it was suggested on my timeline, but i enjoyed it.
10.10.2024
Good morning same while I lay in bed before work
Same
Same
10.10.2024 3:41 pm Ghana west Africa.
Same
It's so beautiful that everything came full circle and Lacey's grandmother now lives with her in her elder years.
Chanté's got a Maaan remix 🎶🎹🎼
I agree, that’s a beautiful story even though they missed lead about her race, I’m not holding that against them, because they truly loved her.
The grandma is a good woman, she is now reaping the good sown, she is an amazing woman, GOD bless her
As a woman that found my biological father in my 40’s I’m just so blessed and so thankful for this beautiful conversation. Life is precious!
I’m just glad the dude asked to adopt her. This beautiful and successful black woman would have never existed✊🏽
Even if she wasn’t adopted by this white man she would have still be successful. ITS NOT ON HER ITS IN HER!
That's not necessarily true!
@@glorious880 did you watch the video? The mother was going to abort her.
You know her Dad truly believed he was her Bio Dad. Sounds like she was truly raised with more LOVE THAN MANY OR MOST KIDS HAVE. She was truly Blessed!
The fact the Grands gave her the warning If anyone asks… should have been a huge clue.
I’m sure with all the Love she grew up with. She had to have grown up very lonely as well. She didn’t fit in with the Blacks or the whites.
That's not true. She could have been adopted by anyone and still be successful
When she saw her momma. 🥺 🙏🏾 ❤
This story should be made into a movie 🎥🍿.
@@writers_delight yes absolutely
Yes ✅
Agreed it should be a movie ,but currently there is a movie out set on this stature...but such a blessing to be loved*ty for sharing your story
Or just a great documentary ❤️ With the real people. We need to support the actual people in the story, not the millionaires in Hollywood
Why and what would make her story a good movie?
You know she is just as much white as she is black. Her biological father was more likely than not, very white.
Her father was a gift from God. He had a big heart. Her mother met the angel that would ensure her daughter had a good life even though his time with her was short. He left her in good hands. And now grandma lives with her.
This is a human story of good people! This makes my heart smile and cry at the same time.
This story really touched me.. Being raised by my black stepfather, I can totally relate.Different circumstances but I can totally relate... Beautiful woman with a beautiful story ❤️❤️❤️
Tell your story it could shape someone's life
I love to hear your story Sis, GOD bless you
Hey Jessica
This is awesome there’s good people who took wonderful care of her.
Her story sounds like a potential lifetime movie very complex and fascinating
Lifetime movies are fascinating and complex???? 😮🙄🤔🤯
Lifetime movies suck nowadays. I dunno.
Lifetime make you cry
What a phenomenal story. Wow I am in awe and look at who the Grandma lives with. Pure Love! R.I.P. Dad and god bless this family for raising and protecting her. Dad left you in the best hands, his family. If not for him stopping the abortion we would not hear this beautiful story.❤
😂😂😂😂😂 her friends got her together, bless her heart. This is beautiful
10:59 sounds racist. Can you imagine that in reverse?
Thank God for Lacey's father, his family was amazing to love her and take care of her.
He rescued her ❤ it was meant to be.
Lacy’s mother was going to abort her! How disgusting
She accepted the LOVE where it came from and who it came from and through. Resonates with me. ❤🎉 😊 She knows herself and is loving herself too. Awesome
@@carolanderson7003 But in Vidor Texas? 👀🙄
Tyler Perry would turn this into hate from her white family somehow, Disney needs this story instead 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
You must be white
@@msrenee7023She was a child she could not have just left. They loved her that’s all that matter. Her mother gave her up for adoption, so her mother had no say so. Her father loved her and his family loved her. Ultimately that’s all that matters.
Her bringing the grandma to live with her is so heart warming
I'm crying at the part where her mother told her to come to her right away. I'm so moved by this beautiful story.
Adopted dad was a good man. He did the right thing.
Yeah, but he denied her the truth about her heritage, which is important for every human being to know.
He's better than her mother who was going to unalive her.
@@SlowBonnie - He made sure that she was born healthy, and he took care of her until he died. There's not a BUT. She would've obviously learned about her true ethnicity.
What do you want to use black heritaage for when you have a man who truly loves and cares for you? even if there was deceit for me it still doesnt matter bcos he showed her genuine love which some black girls who have been raped by their biological dads never experiendced. @CocoaButterBabe
@@SlowBonnie he knew how she would be treated in the town they lived in. He was protecting his daughter. When she got old enough to protect herself, she would learn about her heritage.
I grew up in white world..believe me what she saying happens all the time..one of the lies was to tell people you are Italian, or mix Indian. 100% true.
I can see that . One of my coworkers told me Meghan Markle was Spanish and White . And that her mom was Mexican……… 👀 😮
@@ccd5942. Most original black Americans look different from most Africans , how many black Americans have colored eyes or have native blood in their lineage?
@@ccd5942unbelievable denial. Just sad racism
@@ccd5942Insane lol!! Folks are nuts... and not too bright. She never hid her mother.
I believe it!
This is such a sad story but so happy she was treated with love at home cause that matters so much.
Wow. Just wow! You are pure class, Lacey Tezino. Anybody would dream of being your mother, father, sister, brother, or friend, and you filled my whole heart with your story.
I'm so happy no one harmed her. It's so sad that Racism is so deep in America. We're all different shades of wheat some are darker some are lighter. We all are a part of one race that's the Human race. Many blessings to the family that adopted her. This was such a beautiful story ❤❤❤
I've always said we are a
🌈 Rainbow of CLaY 🌈
Various Shades and tints of brown.
Glad I'm not the only one viewing it as such. We're supposed to be the humane race.
Whenever the people let it go, which is often through the decades, the government brings it back.
I'm amazed to hear that white hate black .lt means they don't know GOD, they don't serve Him, and they don't have God , they need to repent because no hater will enter the kingdom of GOD
She's beautiful inside and out! Looking forward to seeing the movie!
That's a strong man. And the fact that his family stepped up and just took her in like that. Wow, that's love and beauty.
She had amazing support from everyone throughout her journey. That’s so amazing
She’s beautiful her skin her hair her fashion her style and personality ❤
She may have been the catalyst for change in that community. Being close to the younger generation helped open eyes and hearts. 💕
That is true. Probably saving many souls from damnation. You can't go to heaven being a flaming racist.
They still voting MAGA😢
I’m a trucker, visor is still a sundown tow they just hid it a bit more
@@reneemcmillan2724 baby steps. So is most of rural Texas.
What an amazing story!! So glad you're here!!
Her Dad deserves a movie!!
Yessss ❤
Yup Sodom and Gomorrah
Her dad surely does. This is so very heart warming
Modern day Hollywood would probably try to say her dad was a secret gay clansman 😂 That’s how it goes nowadays. I’m surprised this story was told so positively!
Facts! A gay man back then down there PLUS raising a little mixed girl?! Sheesh.
I'm watching this and think the same thing as everyone else: how is it that nobody in that sundown town gave this girl any trouble when she was growing up? But then I remembered something I went through years ago. We moved from Chicago to Texas in the 80s. I was literally the only black in every one of my classes in high school. I was already homesick and felt like I wasn't going to be making any friends here soon! There were kids who were very unapologetically bigoted and made no bones about NOT wanting me in their class. What's fascinating is that a lot of the white kids for whatever reason took me in - and made me feel less homesick. Even more incredible, the kids who were the most outspoken bigots eventually left me alone and even started being kinda cool with me, and I'm sure that's because of the majority of the other white kids who befriended me- and would stand up for me if any of them gave me any trouble. Sometimes, people can really surprise you in very good ways.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻....you totally get it , great comment
As a BW that went to private school, I always knew from a young age that biracials were treated better than full black people. My best friend was biracial and they accepted her but rejected me. It's been this way since the dawn of the United States. They are much more accepting of them than us. I've noticed the same thing in my all yt sorority and college too. This is why I will never call them black actually. Even during slavery they were in the house, and received much better treatment. Sometimes their fathers left them their properties and educated them too. You should look up some of their stories. One mullato boy said the yt family, even his fathers wife spoiled him and gave him whatever he wanted. It's pretty interesting really. They know the difference that's for sure!
@@edj2045Or the biracial slaves were also targeted for SA by the owners because they fit in more with Eurocentric beauty standards. Some fathers had affairs with slave or free black women and openly claimed their children and provided for them but many were the result of SA and were totally ignored and treated as badly as any other slave. Some masters intentionally got their slaves pregnant so that they could sell the children. You are sounding suspiciously like the right wingers that claim that slavery wasn’t that bad. The ownership of any human by any other is abhorrent no matter the conditions. Even if an owner treated a slave almost no different than his free paid employees they were still forced to work for free and faced the uncertain future being transferred like property if their owner sold them, went into bankruptcy or died.
@@gabrielamora6265 I never disputed anything you said and you didn't dispute anything I said. Many were also able to pass and Sally hemmings own son said that that woman never worked a day in her life. Her job was to care for her own children and she studied in France. Would you rather be Sally, or Her Grandmother? Be forreal. You also never addressed how they got better treatment then and now and how yt people know the difference.They created their own spaces then and did you know they have their own spaces now on TH-cam where they actually talk about how they are treated better? Would you look at that! lol
Yup. In two words: herd mentality. But also, if you've got the majority of people or influential members of any majority group who treat you with respect, then the unsavoury bullies tend to follow suit. People take behavioural cues from others.
Thank you, Lacey, for sharing your amazzzzzzing story with US! This is the most beautiful story that everybody needs to hear. Incredible!! Nothing but LOVE ❤
She looks exactly like her father. ♥️ she’s proof that when you share your life with someone you start to look like them more and more ♥️ happy that she was treated properly. And loved regardless of the headline. 🙏🏾♥️
This would make a great movie 🍿
agree💯💜
It would ❤
I thought the same
Yessssss...We will let you know in the most gentle and loving way that..."The Math Ain't Mathin". All the love she was raised with produced a beautiful human being.
This is a fascinating and sweet story.
This is so Cool! She’s such a beautiful woman, & I hope it inspires more people to adopt. I loved the part about her friends telling her that she’s Black.
I love that granny is living with u guys much love
My nephew is adopted. He's biracial. They were in church, this man kept staring at him (he was 6), nephew yelled at him IM NOT BLACK!!!!!!
After church, my brother sat him down & told him SON YOUR HALF BLACK. IT'S VERY VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU LOOK UP YOUR HISTORY & EMBRACE IT! NEVER SAY YOU'RE NOT BLACK. YOU SHOULD BE PROUD SON......IM SO PROUD YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE!
Theyd had him since he was born.
RIP BRO.......miss u so
That’s how it should be with adoption. So many ppl are out here trying to find themselves
He’s black stop the half biracial ish
We should be proud of our family lineage. Especially things we can't change such as racial, religion and or place of birth...I will never denied one side over the other over an archaic law.
Half blacks often pretend to be 200% black.
Look at Obama. That's a white man that needed votes. 😂😂😂
@@8719Markit’s cool to be proud but I need to add this so we KNOW WHY WE should be so proud: To love ourselves when we look in the mirror. It’s the only way any one of us can ever accept God. Not for history’s sake. You will cause nothing but chaos & destruction in your surroundings if you do not love yourself.
I'm happy for this woman... she wears a great smile. That is an indication that she is doing OK.... you go, girl.
When said "That's my Mama"....tears. Such a beautiful moment.
the moral of the story here is she was very blessed to be able to have a family and especially love
This. Exactly.
The moral is that her true identity was a lie, but fornately, the family loved her regardless
@@tangee8252 imagine without that lie, she would have been aborted -as her mother planned- and so many on earth would have never been blessed with her friendship, intelligence and love. I am glad her life is a success, maybe it will encourage others.
@@tangee8252Fornately?
@@BrokeDadProductionsStill a lie. I love when adoptive family embrace and celebrate the culture of their children.
The story is truly all about love
! from her bio mom not aborting her, to the extended family raising her after the father passed. The father wanted her so badly. Just so much love she’s so blessed.
I'm here for the "White where?" comments🤨
Same😂😂😂
@@ceremoniesbycherri SHE IS BIRACIAL
@@traciewest4854 She is BIRACIAL
Which means not White.
They told her she was half Hawaiian 🌺
Finally, a story where I thought America would be at today. Sad we went backwards. I really love her story and I’m so thankful for her sharing it 😊
This is a heart warming story, so glad she was raised with lots of love.
A Beautiful Story and a Beautiful Lady! God Bless!
Amazing man with amazing intentions. Amazing family that loved and protected her, amazing biological mother who sacrificed and amazing friends in community that she grew up in
Much respect to all of the people involved. We often hear the horror stories, they did the best they could with the emotional tools they had. They protected, loved and shielded her as best they could.
Can't wait for the movie! I was so engaged in just this short video, great story and beautiful journey!
I LOVE this story because she said the whole family loved her.
She's just extremely lucky and blessed.
This is amazing ! Proud of you girlie! Stay BLESSED AND ALWAYS HAPPY! ❤
Thank you for having the strength to tell your life story. My life is strikingly similar. Now served twenty eight years of military, married for twenty seven and three kids later. It’s amazing how a loving family changes everything. The experience genuinely defines your self existence and future decisions.