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African Couple have white looking baby

Hmm — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:22:44 GMT

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Louchie Lou & Michie One

TangledWeb — Thur, 17 Jun 2010 03:03:15 GMT

Gwen Stefani did a cover of their song "Rich Girl" Here's the link to the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z432Pwci0-Y&feature=related.

I did a quick search, but couldn't find a bio. Does anyone know their ethnicity?

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Taraji P Henson's mom?

PolyMixy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:53:41 GMT

http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/taraji_mom-e1263596845707.jpg?w=450&h=400

Is her mom bi-racial? She sure looks it.

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Country Singer Darius Rucker and Family

TangledWeb — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:30:24 GMT

He's married with three kids. He's former frontman of Hootie and the Blowfish. He's now a solo country artist.

Click link and scroll down for photos of his family and children

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Jurnee Smollett

TangledWeb — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:07:49 GMT

I absolutely loved her in "Eve's Bayou", the entire cast was great. So far I found that her she is categorized as black, but on one site she is listed as multiracial. I wonder if she colors her hair, or if he just has gotten darker. When she was on full house her hair was a couple of different color.

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[?] Mark Stebbins - politician

mulan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:44:28 GMT

American politician.

Quote:

Originally Posted by "People-Magazine"

June 11, 1984
Vol. 21
No. 23

Whether He's Black or White, the Voters Want Stebbins to Stay

By Maria Wilhelm

His ancestors were white. His parents are white. His brother and four sisters are white. Yet against the weight of all this whiteness, and his own pale blue eyes and light complexion, Mark Stebbins insists he's black. His ethnic identity became a vexing public dispute last fall when Stebbins, 41, ran for political office. Campaigning as a black in a heavily black and Hispanic district of Stockton, Calif., Stebbins won a seat on the city council.

The defeated incumbent is indisputably black, and indignant. "Stebbins is a white guy with a perm," scoffs Ralph Lee White, also 41. He accuses his rival of "defrauding" District 9's impoverished voters by pretending to share their minority heritagea reverse case of trying to "pass." The voters have just delivered their verdict: Stebbins is the man for them. Last month a recall vote engineered by the vociferous White ended in a resounding victory for Stebbins.

The contretemps began last year when Stebbins, an $18,000-a-year community organizer, appeared before the Stockton Chapter of the Black American Political Association of California. The question of race was raised and when pressed, Stebbins claimed he was black.

"It's bizarre," says Stockton Mayor Randy Ronk, a Stebbins supporter. "I'll be honest about that." Stebbins' lawyer, the Rev. Robert Edward Green, admits, "I have never really received a satisfactory explanation from Mark."

Some think that Stebbins might have claimed Martian citizenship and still unseated White, a nightclub owner and millionaire bail bondsman, whose popularity has dwindled since he was first elected in 1971 on a civil rights platform. A onetime cotton picker and self-described "ex-hustler," White was said to be more interested lately in his lucrative business interests than in the chores of office. In 1979 the flamboyant entrepreneur built a 27-room mansioncomplete with tennis court and swimming poolin the shadow of a low-income housing project. "White is the best known, least liked and least trusted politician in Stockton," says Mayor Ronk. "He's an embarrassment."

"Ralph is wrapped up in Ralph," says Mable Hurdle, 66, a black who supported Stebbins. "Mark is concerned with all people."

Stebbins stubbornly declines to explain why he considers himself black. Born in the rural Washington town of Colville, he came to a gradual realization, he says, that he was wrongly labeled, in a racial sense. At Washington State University he was active in the civil rights movement. He later enlisted in a variety of community organizing projects, arriving in Stockton in 1965 to help with the United Farm Workers' boycott. About that time Stebbins decided he was black, "culturally, socially and genetically."

Needless to say, his mother, Neta, is supportive but puzzled by her son's claim. To hear her tell it, Mark's racial conversion was like one of Archie Bunker's worst nightmares about the seductiveness of ethnic foods. "He came down here," she remembers, "tried some hot soul food and decided, 'Wow, this is for me.' Now he feels he's genetically black."

Neither Neta nor her husband, Vern, a retired farm-board employee, has any black ancestors that they're aware of. Mark is somewhat darker and has kinkier hair than their other children, but few people would mistake him for black. "I have a little trouble figuring out where he's coming from," says Vern, "but I'm not going to argue with him."

In fact the parents see a bit of humor in their son's racial transformation. "I've got a daughter who hopes to go to Turkey as a missionaryshe really identifies with Turkish people," says Neta. "But," adds a smiling Vern, "she hasn't said she's a turkey yet."

In 1967 Mark married a white woman. They had two children, who are being reared as white. The couple was divorced in 1974. Stebbins' second marriage, to a black woman, produced two children who are being reared as black. That union ended in 1981. The same year, he met his current wife, Jennet Moses, 37, a realtor. To Jennet, who is black, all questions about her husband's background were resolved long ago. "I know he's black," she says.

It wasn't always that way. "When I first met Mark," she recalls, "I thought he was Jewish."

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Ronnie Spector - singer

mulan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:35:14 GMT

American singer and former leader of the 60's girl group The Ronnettes. Her ex-husband is the infamous record producer Phil Spector. She is half black and half white.

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[?] Tracy Spencer - 80s recording artist

mulan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:29:03 GMT

American recording artist popular in the 1980's is said to be of Louisiana Creole descent.

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Horace Silver - jazz musician

mulan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:26:13 GMT

Born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, he is an American jazz pianist and composer born to a Cape Verdean father (of mixed Portuguese-black descent) and a mother of Irish and African descent.

Wikipedia

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Carol Channing - entertainer

mulan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:00:56 GMT

Carol Channing - born in 1921, she is an American actress best known for her lead roles in the movies "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1949-1951) and "Hello Dolly" (1964-1970). Her mother was white and her father, a journalist who was a light-skinned man of half German-American and half African-American descent, born in Augusta, Georgia, who had passed for white.

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Phillip Michael Thomas - actor, singer

mulan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:36:16 GMT

Is of Irish , African-American & Native American ancestry.

IMDB
Wikipedia

Thomas is the father of -

5 children with former model and actress Kassandra Thomas, pictured below. They were together 1986-1998. Here is Thomas pictured with four of his five sons by Kassandra:

2 children, Phillip Michael Thomas, Jr & Chayenne-Angelique Thomas, with the late reggae singer Dhaima Matthews; they were together 1982-86.
2 daughters with actress Sheila DeWindt, pictured below.

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Geraldo Rivera - tv host

mulan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:07:57 GMT

He's of Afro-Puerto Rican and Jewish parentage.

Wikipedia

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Soledad O'Brien - news anchor

mulan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:51:38 GMT

She was born to a Cuban immigrant mother of mixed Afro-Cuban ancestry, and a white Australian immigrant father. She identifies as both black, hispanic as well as multi-racial. Here she is with her children:

Wikipedia

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Nona Gaye - actress/singer

mulan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:25:16 GMT

She is the daughter of the late legendary singer Marvin Gaye. Her mother is of Irish, Afro-Cuban and Greek descent. Nona's grandfather is Cuban. Pictured below with her mother.

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Whitney Houston - model turned singer/actress

mulan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:50:34 GMT

She was born to an African-American mother and a father who is said to have been either part, or half, Italian and Native American.

Official Site

Please read the Thread @ Onedroprule.org - they made some interesting points.

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