Thankful Passing

We are the typical white/Native American family at thanksgiving. We all get together and tell racist jokes about the white people, then we tell racist jokes about our native relatives. So no one is left out. One thing I've always said to my children is they never forget where they come from.

As our family gathers for the thanksgiving feast, we all give thanks and each one of us says what we are thankful for. As we all give our own thanks,

it's now grandmas turn, she's 89 now and we are so glad she's still here.

Grandma begins to tell a tale, "Once a very long time ago there was a very handsome young man. He fell in love with a very pretty young black woman. She was so light skinned she could pass for white. They were so in love and got married, but in order to do so she had to say she was white because it was against the laws back then.

Your Grandpa was the handsome young man and I was the young black woman."

Now everything made sense.