Eartha Kitt’s Daughter Kitt Shapiro Talks About Being Questioned If She’s Truly Eartha’s Daughter Due To Her Complexion

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Eartha Kitt’s Daughter Kitt Shapiro Talks About Being Questioned If She’s Truly Eartha’s Daughter Due To Her Complexion
She continues to share how her mother tried to uplift her and embrace her mixed race features when she was alive.
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By Ty Cole
September 29, 2022
3:55 PM

(Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
Distinctive “Santa Baby” singer and late 1960’s Catwoman actress, Eartha Kitt was a Hollywood star with a 60 years long career. Her daughter, Kitt Shapiro, appeared on the Tamron Hall show and shared the struggles she’s faced with her complexion and not being seen as “Black enough.”
“We all know we’ve been victims of some type of trolling or nastiness online and people,” Shapiro began
“They just assume that because I don’t, as I mentioned in the TikTok, look the way they think you should look then you can’t possibly be who you say you are. I truly think she was proud to be the parent of somebody that couldn’t be easily identified because she herself had been so stereotyped and so pigeonholed because of her skin color obviously.”
She continued, sharing how her mother would help her embrace who she was, even sharing how “mixed raced kids are more interesting.”
She goes on to recall a message she saw on Facebook with someone saying how Shapiro “couldn’t possibly” be Eartha’s child, claiming her mother “lied to her” and was “clearly adopted.”
“To which my response was when ‘Do you think a Black woman could have adopted a white baby first of all?” she expressed. “I don’t care how famous she was.”
You can watch the full interview below and order Kitt’s memoir titled “Eartha & Kitt” here.

 

[yureeka9]

I'm sure Paris Jackson gets that question all the time as well.

 

[Ryokurin]

Where I went to Church where I grew up there was a woman who was similar. People who didn't know her either complained that she was married to a Black man, or wondered why she went to a Black church. It was a classic "one drop rule" case in the deep south.

 

[Mr. Met]

The cycle will continue.

 

[pookie]

Switched at birth

 

[God Dammit]

This is what happens when you coons have mixed babies.
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[BlackWolf]

This is what happens when you coons have mixed babies.
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Eartha Kitt was a coon?

 

[World B Free]

The cycle will continue.

Her daughter Kitt used to look like this, she had a nose job.....

 

[God Dammit]

Eartha Kitt was a coon?

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Did she have a baby by a white man?

Looks like the answer is… You god damn right she’s a coon!​

 

[BlackWolf]

Did she have a baby by a white man?

Looks like the answer is… You had damn right she’s a coon!​

I think you need to look a her history.

 

[yureeka9]

Did she have a baby by a white man?

Looks like the answer is… You had damn right she’s a coon!​

She also let a couple of crackas run a train on her if that counts....

 

[God Dammit]

I think you need to look a her history.

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None of that matters if you don’t make Black babies. She gave all of her wealth right back to the white community.
Her daughter will or probably already married white and Eartha’s little bit of Black blood in her is now washed away.
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[kdogg3270]

marrrrrrkussss
lol

 

[Piff Henderson]

Did she have a baby by a white man?

Looks like the answer is… You god damn right she’s a coon!​

She was probably half white herself.

 

[durham]

The daughter can't be mad at anyone questioning her ancestry.

Why does she even care about Black people, as she married a white man, and her kids certainly aren't Black anymore. It's her life, be happy, but trying to put this shit on Black people is ridiculous.

 

[Piff Henderson]

The daughter can't be mad at anyone questioning her ancestry.

She should ignore it but I can see why she would be annoyed by people who didn't know her mother saying she isn't her mother's daughter.

 

[knightmelodic]

Tamron Hall of all people.

 

[trstar]

So Eartha was half black. She had a daughter with a CAC which makes her daughter 1/4 black. Then the granddaughter has a kid by another CAC, which makes that kid 1/8 black.
And she laments that folks question her?

 

[D'Evils]

Her daughter Kitt used to look like this, she had a nose job.....

Yeah... She looked like she was raised mixed then she went full Blonde Cac...

 

[God Dammit]

She was probably half white herself.

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I already assumed that​

 

[Black James Bond]

Why should I care if Eartha Kitt daughter looks white. Who Eartha Kitt fucked 40 or 50 years ago, how is that any importance.

 

[34real]

Eartha set out to have a white child someone that would look exactly how she does so she could be accepted and her future kids would be accepted.

That's why most black women have biracial babies rarely does it just happen,most make it a choice.

Back in slavery days master might claim and take his offspring and add them to his family somewhere with an older aunt that couldn't have children and she would raise em and groom them like she would a pet that belongs to the family...... technically not free but closer to freedom than the mother was.

A sick mindset

 

[Last Dayz]

None of that matters if you don’t make Black babies. She gave all of her wealth right back to the white community.
Her daughter will or probably already married white and Eartha’s little bit of Black blood in her is now washed away.
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Damn.

 

[dinka64]

I always thought she was super sexy but creepy looking. Brothers were not really into her looks. lady bird johnson That BITCH and her bitch ass husband black balled her for speaking out against the vietnam war. She was not a Coon. she was Blacker than most of you young judgmental as niggas here

 

[Dirty Hubcaps]

to be fair to Ms. Kitt, her male contemporaries of that era (the Sidney Poitier's and Harry Belafonte's of the world) were doing the same swirl dance.

any kind of proximity to whiteness was considered a come up.

to be fair, not much has changed today unfortunately

 

[RoadRage]

Sad to see her go out like a typical modern woman who hit the wall hard crazy, cat bag lady, and bitter!

 

[godofwine]

I think you need to look a her history.

I wouldn't call everyone who dates or marries or procreates interracially a coon, however, many of them are/were.

It's hard or near impossible to trust someone ad a 100% complete ally when half of your kid's DNA is that of the enemy, or at the very least the most evil and destructive conquerors the world has ever known

 

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Eartha Kitt 1952
Photo by Gordon Parks

 

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[Entrepronegro]

Kitt seems like a good woman and she really loved her mother.

 

[n2jersey2]

Can't get that Reparations cut without some evidence.

 

[Entrepronegro]

Can't get that Reparations cut without some evidence.

That’s her daughter it’s just genetics are uncommon sometimes.

 

[Cochese2k]

The honest way to verify if they are people of color isn't to look at the face. It's the nipple check, POC don't have pink nips. The are all shades of brown.


Prove me wrong.