51:33 and had his own political ambitions and motivations and friends and foes. So this of course could only lead to nastiness. So we have the protagonist in the story, now we need the antagonist in the story, which is one Mr. J. Edgar Hoover. Well, the narrative is J. Edgar Hoover was this angry white man that wanted to take this successful young black man down. Well, not so fast. Tony Brown Journal was J Edgar Hoover Black. One of the most disliked white men in the black community allegedly was black himself.
52:13 That rumor doesn't surprise those who observe some of those blacks who pass over and become white bigots to cover their tracks or perhaps they just suffer from self-hatred. But it sent Millie McGee back to her family tree in Macomb, Mississippi to see if the man who became synonymous with the FBI and hatred of Martin Luther King Jr. was himself her cousin. who had gone through the special underground railroad built from the south to Washington, D.C. for blacks who looked white enough to live as white people. Thank you very much for being with me. Thank you for having me. Your book, Secrets Uncovered, J. Edgar Hoover Passing for White. And I said passing for white because there's a question mark. Why the title Passing for White? Question mark.
53:03 Alright, so J. Edgar Hoover, not only was he a secret cross-dresser, he was also black? Yes. Go figure, the longest brainy. That was not in my textbook. Of course not. But it doesn't work to the narrative of a... Anything, anything. Nothing, nothing. Nothing works with that story. This is so good. Let's let Tony Brown continue. Because when I first started writing the book, I did not realize that J. Edgar Hoover was actually in my lineage and I was told it was rumors in the family that he was and just rumors. So I knew that I had to put question mark until I did some research and made out for sure that he was a part of the family. Now this is a pretty serious charge.
54:03 and not because there's anything wrong with being black, but because of the other implications. Do you feel comfortable making this charge that J. Edgar Hoover, are you saying in effect he was black? Is that what you're saying? I'm saying, in fact, that I'm a black woman and he is in my family lineage. He is a part of my family. I don't necessarily like it. I didn't even know it when I started it. But when I found it out, I was looking for my great-great-grandmother, who is Emily Allen, who had babies by his ancestors.
54:43 And after doing my research, after two and a half years of research, I have without a shadow of a doubt in my heart and the documents showing that he is a part of our lineage. Oh man. So J Edgar Hoover was ADOS? Yes. Nice. He was a self-loathing, seems like a self-loathing black man. Now did he have a hatred of, was he known racist? Was he, is there examples of him hating? Oh yeah, he, oh you're okay Moe, don't have a stroke on me, I'm just asking a question. There was, there was a couple of data points. Okay.
55:31 I mean he hated MLK, he hated Marcus Garvey. That was the one where he really hated Marcus Garvey. So that member they called him the tiger. So if people want to go back and listen to the old archives, you know, you'll pick up on that. It's his funny thing that J. Edgar Hoover was the original Uncle Ruckus. You boycottin' baboon? Dance there, you goddamn chunky-cheeked monkey. Ruckus, what the hell is wrong with you? Now, now, now, Phil Roberts. Hold on a second. I triggered that clip. Why do I not know what this is, Uncle Ruckus? You don't know who Uncle Ruckus is? No. And remember, I lived in Europe during a number of formative years, but...