Liv Tyler, daughter of famed Aerosmith lead singer, Steve Tyler, traveled to NY for an episode of TLC’s “Who Do You Think You Are.” While filming the show, Liv learned that her great-great-great-great grandfather, Robert Elliot, was biracial. She also learned that Robert’s son, George, was a drummer during the Civil War.
With all this newfound information, Liv couldn’t wait to tell her father, who joyfully responded to the news by saying:
“I knew it. I always felt akin to black people, always”
What do you think y’all? Can Steve and Liv come to the cookout?
I’m 30 something reside in Massachusetts and enjoy pop culture.
Good for them; nope to the cookout.
As quiet as it’s kept, if first signs of life were traced back to a Black Afrcan woman, then all of civilizatuon has Black African ancestry. You can’t get black from white. You can, however get white and everything in between, from black. Most will be in denial.
This is an interesting insight into white passingness, as Robert Elliot and his son George Elliot passed their offspring into whiteness some four generations before Liv Tyler was born and that is why the Tylers weren’t raised knowing they had African heritage because of it.
Are they invited to the picnic? No. Steven Tyler is not white-passing, he is white. His great-great grandfather is the one who was white passing. Although a lot of mess is made about the one drop rule, most states required a 1/8 or 1/4 African blood quantum to consider someone black.
If you’re remotely Aboriginal in Australia you can claim to be aboriginal, that’s racist.?
Nah. No cookout invites for them.
“proofs in the pudding”
Am sure Steve Tyler knew he had some Black blood. His Mother looks more mixed as did Johnny Cash’s first wife and singer Carly Simon whose Mom was also mixed White and Black. Most White people in the past would negate, ignore and repress any idea of their being mixed with Blackness because of the racism in the US.
This isn’t as pervasive as it is in other countries like Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Suriname, Peru, Columbia, Belize, Mexico.