Celebs You Didn't Know Were Multiracial

[bakedcookie123]

That' s not true. At least I'm not 15% white at all.

My point being is that most Black women are being misrepresented by images of biracial women replacing them. They're not a true reflection of what we really look like. Most Black women on the regular, are much darker and have broader features than your typical Beyonce, Rihanna or Christina Millian.

[starskin]

This doesn't particularly count as a multiracial celeb, but I found out recently that Pete Yorn, one of my super hot rockstar boyfriends, is Jewish. I had no idea! This brings the tally of Jewish celeb crushes to....oh, all of them. No, not really, I have a thing for dark-haired Irish boys as well. That's why Harrison Ford was so dreamy to me: half Irish, half Jewish. Kyrptonite!

[almostblue]

bakedcookie123 said:

That' s not true. At least I'm not 15% white at all.

My point being is that most Black women are being misrepresented by images of biracial women replacing them. They're not a true reflection of what we really look like. Most Black women on the regular, are much darker and have broader features than your typical Beyonce, Rihanna or Christina Millian.

True that. It's rare to see a black woman on television or print who is darker than a medium brown tone, though usually it's caramel or lighter. If a woman does have dark skin, and is presented as an object of desire, then she usually has a lot of other european features to make up for it.

This topic actually reminds me of the time when a (white) friend of mine told me that he thought that black women were naturally lighter than black men. After I finished peeling my jaw off of the floor, I realized that that sort of remark was probably heavily influenced by the types of black women who are shown on television most of the time.

[piquedninni]

every lightskinned black female celeb is not mixed. jada pinkett smith isn't mixed.
there are countless black girls who look like rihanna with two black parents.
beyonce isn't that uncommon in the black community, either. i have 3-4 cousins in my immediate family who look like beyonce---with black parents.
let's not forget that the african american community spans the gamut in terms of color/complexion.

[soul]

THANK YOU! I was just going to post on that very topic, and Eva of AMNTM is not mixed, neither is Beyonce. The poster was using very general terms to qualify someone as mixed. My first definition of mix is whether your parents are of different races, then maybe grandparents. The grandparent clause comes into play, in my opinion, when there does not appear to be a physical trait of the grandparent's race apparent in the grandchild. For example, a celeb is known to be white, such as Babe Ruth, and there is evidence that he had a black grandparent.

(The Babe Ruth thing is not proven to be true, but it is just heavily rumored.) www.jewishworldreview.com/0501/page051501.asp

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101901_2.html

Moreover, if you were going to say someone who has light skin is mixed, then you would have to break it down many generations for some people. My sister is light, but so is our father, who had a light parent, and so did his great gandparents.

My mother on the other hand has a Jewish grandfather. She was very, very light, but she is now brown. On the other hand, me and my sister's father, once again, who has no immediate nonblack bloodline, is lighter than our mother, at this point in his life.

I am not saying that there was no race mixing, but I am just saying that you cannot say everyone who falls into that category is "recently" mixed. How about that term, "recently mixed".

In fact, that term may not be any good in terms of black people, because it is in fact nonblacks, who are mixed, because everyone has African roots.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/photo4.html

[Oxynia]

This thread does not exist to debate the fundamentals of race but to discuss celebs you did not know were multiracial. Get back to topic, please.

[bakedcookie123]

Beyonce IS mixed. Her mother is Creole.

Jada Pinkett is mixed as well.

Eva is mixed. What racial mixtures her parents have I don't know.

[bklynred]

Jada Pinkett is mixed as well.

Man, you learn something new every day. I thought both her parents were black.

[mafiaangel]

I couldn't find through a quick search whether Jada was mixed or not.

I did find that the term "Creole" has a complicated history. It's not entirely a race thing.

I know a girl who has very similar features to Beyonce and she's not mixed. Well not any more mixed than any other black person in America.

[Deleted]

My stepsister went to school with Jada's little brother and she said Jada was biracial (white mother) and that they used to tease him about his sister's love scenes in Jason's Lyric. But I googled Jada and it said that her mom is biracial. But my stepsister is also a pathological liar so take that with a grain of salt. Although a friend we have in common said he met Jada's mother and said she looked white. Maybe she was just very fair like Wentworth Miller. ::shrugs::