If they could have PASSED AS WHITE, straightened their hair, adopted the hoity toity language of whites and made very certain they did nothing untoward to call attention to themselves would they have done so?
I mean it cost them their lives. Being true to whom they are. How and why hundreds of thousands or millions died?
Some who are black have passed as white.They generally have a WHITE parent. Saved their lives undoubtedly.
So what is a life worth? A life of lying pretending avoiding?
Is there anything more important than STAYING ALIVE?