Fantastic Negrito shocked us at Mshale with the revelation that he was not the son of a Somali immigrant. He shocked himself when, during the pandemic with live performance off the table, he dug into his past and discovered that he was a child of distant immigrants and one of them was white.
Seven generations back, his grandfather was an enslaved African man and his grandmother an indentured Scottish servant.
These discoveries informed his entire show at the Dakota on October 25th where he debuted his film, “White Jesus Black…