"High Yellow" Just Ain'T "High Enough": The Story of Queens

Marilyn Warner looked exactly like the beautiful young white woman that she wanted to be; however, the genetic contamination that flowed through her veins of her father’s cursed blackness had caused Marilyn to come into this world a “high yellow” female as were her female siblings, which also included an effeminate brother, although they were all to a lesser degree of whiteness than their older sister, Marilyn. Although the siblings were still quite often mistaken as being of the white race, it was not as quickly as Marilyn. This is what changed the entire direction of Marilyn’s life forever and turned her into the monster that she was.