You Family? Celebs Who We Didn’t Know Were Black

October 11th, 2011 - By MN Editor

You know the one drop rule – if you’ve got a bit of Black in ya, well, that’s what you are. Nowadays, in our post-racial society, a lot of folks would challenge the fallacy of being identified by one ethnicity but hey, we thought it would still be fun to take inventory of the overlooked Black celebs in Hollywood. While it’s usually easy to spot a brotha or sista, sometimes a few manage to slip on by without being noticed. Here are a few that you may have not known belonged to the family.

 

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Kris Humphries

Now you didn’t think Kim Kardashian would end up with a non-brotha, did you? If the NBA baller never ended up on the arms of reality royalty Kim K, nobody would’ve ever questioned Humphries heritage. He just looks like he has a great tan. But everyone knows that Kimmy Cakes has a love of chocolate and she defiinitely didn’t give that up after her fine ex Reggie Bush broke her heart.

Ethnic breakdown: Father is half black, making Humphries a quarter black.

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  • BlueGlass

    Vin Diesel has always stated that he is of mixed race. He even made a film about how he was treated while acting as different races called Multi-facial. Who in the world doesn’t know that The Rock is black? His father was a very famous wrestler named Rocky Johnson. Both of these fine men have made no secret of their race they just choose not to let their race be the main focus of any and every thing that they do. 

    • Kd Fincher

      The one-drop rule states that if a person has one drop of black blood, then they would be classified as black.  This is an old American law.  So why change that rule now that we are calling famous people black.  If you have a parent with any black blood, you’re considered black in America, although many look and pass for white.  It is more prosperous to do so.

  • Gina holmes

    when you act you are acting dah why do you have to exclusively stay limited to black roles what the hell did all the other black actress pave the wave for to stay type casted or to just act not putting labels on role!!!!!

  • Tiago

    This was one of the most racist things I’ve ever read!

  • http://twitter.com/egyptianqueen01 Voncille Smith

    Someone is a wanna be expert in genetics.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MX7ZOO2MIOEERXXCPGFYLTUHD4 Russell

    Slash’s picture is backwards. He doesn’t play guitar left-handed.

  • Angelina

    They left out Nicole Richie and Vin Diesel

  • Dulce

    The folks who wrote this article must be REALLY young! How could anyone not know about Rashida Jones(daughter of Quincy Jones and MOD SQUAD actress Peggy Lipton), Maya Rudolph (Minnie Riperton’s daughter) and Jennifer Beals (of Flashdance fame)? The only shocker to me was Carol Channing(who became famous back in the days where you HAD to keep it a secret).

  • Solveig

    I’m not saying anything, but when push come to shove, bet e’rbody will be calling for Al Sharpton and the “my momma was 1/5 Jamaican, ½ Spaniard will mean nothing”. Black blood has been diluted since we made it from the Motherland so since when have we denied our own…?  Be it Mariah,Alica or Tiger.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AllysonBallard Allyson Ballard

     we’ll be doing the paper bag test.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AllysonBallard Allyson Ballard

    does it really matter? is this how far we’ve come, we’re still ferreting out ‘black blood’? seriously?  next thing you know

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