There is the other, far rarer passing, which we may call reverse-passing, of whites living as black. The most prominent I know of may be Johnny Otis—who was successful enough that many race women and men I know aren’t aware he was actually born white. Or the Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, owner of a Negro League team who likely wasn’t black herself. What’s interesting is to wonder what the black people around them thought, usually accepting them—not necessarily as what they said they were, but how they acted. It isn’t that they weren’t judged, just that when they were, they weren’t found
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