Mom Used Makeup To Hide Her Identity Until Daughter Exposed Her Decades Later

Gail’s Father

The Seattle Times

“Though he never used the N-word, he was still vocal about his bigotry, referring to African-Americans using other racial slurs, deriding blacks for what he perceived as their lack of ambition and criminality. Unknowingly deriding his wife, my mother.”

However, Alvera never complained or said a peep about it. “My mother reprimanded him with little vigor,” Gail says.