Pomba Gira’s Dance — Ancestral Healing
<p>Everything I learned about being mixed-race, I learned by discovering Eartha Kitt.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/eartha-kitt-daughter-laughter-after-death-151168" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Eartha Kitt</a> — actress, singer, dancer, and badass — was mixed race, and she paid the price for her birth. Her mother threatened to kill Eartha unless her sister took her in, as neither she nor her husband could bear the sight of her. Eartha couldn’t hide the mixed heritage she was born with; with sharp cheekbones and a caramel skintone, she was as redbone as I. And man, oh, man, if people didn’t let her know it. I didn’t know these gory details about her life when I first saw her as Catwoman as a kid; what I saw was someone who looked like me on television — purring and growling and amazingly brazen in that skintight suit.</p>
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