Carol Channing: Soul Sister?!?!
Carol Channing is an entertainment legend and revealed in her memoir that her father was black.
Carol’s mother told her the news before she headed off to college, and to this day, Carol doesn’t know if that was really true.
Thursday September 2nd, 2010 at 10:54 am
Yes… I was shocked by Miss Channing behavior also.
I read about her mother telling her that her father was a black man passing for white. They kept it from her until she left for college. I even saw Miss Channing in a live interview stating that she always wondered about her full lips and big brown eyes and how she danced and sang better than other white women. She also interviewed with Larry King and acknowledged her father was mixed.
I just cant believe she got on Wendy’s show and contradicted her book. At 89 years old she has no right to be ashamed. She should be proud that she lived her life and fooled them all…. And I love how Wendy tactfully called her out on it. You Go Wendy!
Click or paste the link below to see pics of Carol as a young girl where you can clearly see her blackness.
http://mulattodiaries.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/carol-channing/
Friday July 23rd, 2010 at 11:05 am
I REALLY TELL HOW MUCH YOU LOVED CAROL , AS YOU SAY A FRIEND IN YOUR HEAD. YOU ARE ONE OF MOST LUCKIEST WOMAN TO MEET EVERY YOU EVER WANT TOO. YOU ARE SO BLESSED ,
Friday July 23rd, 2010 at 10:32 am
Love that Carole Canning she’s a wackadoodle.
Thursday July 22nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Caroll Channing kinda pisses me off. She stated in her biography that her father was the son of a German American man and black woman. Now why is she changing her story? How is it that she refuses in one hand to refer to her father as black and then in the other declares that she wish she were black? It doesn’t really matter if he was the same complexion as her or not. If his mother was black than he is bi-racial and she is of mixed race as well. She makes it out like it’s an embarassment to her and I think it’s degrading to her ancestry.
Thursday July 22nd, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Awesome to share ” The Mrs. Carol C.” an icon of the arts with the world, young and old. This is why I desire to sponsor a fun trip to your show as a contest feature for my annual Charleston, SC, Saturday before Thanksgiving Entrepreneurs’ Event. Awesome begats Awesome! Wendy, you are Awesome and such an inspiration!
Thursday July 22nd, 2010 at 1:03 pm
I think it is true because back in the 1900′s if you were light complextion you could pass for white you did.
My father who is black and light complextion and has blue eyes could have passed for white if he wanted but did not. His Great Grandfather was light complextion and applied for a job driving a truck but his boss did not know he was black. His boss happened to see him with a dark complextion woman and asked if that was his maid and he said “no, she is my wife”. The next day he was fired.
So at the turn of the century if you could pass for white some blacks did to survive. I know is sounds crazy to us but living in those horrible times folks did what they had to do.
Thursday July 22nd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
could be true. my great great great grandfather married a black lady who was his cook (slave). He later left Gloucester, VA after the plantation house was burned down, married a young woman in Ohio at 60 plus and had more children.
I dont know if those children met my great great grandfather later or not, but after the Civil War, he married several wives and had families up and down the Mississippi River. White, Black and Indian wives. I dont know if they knew what his race combo was or not.