32 Celebs You Didn’t Know Were of Caribbean Descent

[Guanimaa]

I'm not that surprise that Cuba Gooding, LL Cool J and Stacy Dash have a parent/Grandparents from Barbados since a lot of Barbadians look like African Americans.

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Rapper Trina's origins is quite funny :laugh: considering what has happen in another forum.
http://atlantablackstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/caribe-trina.jpg



More can be found here:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/09/17/20-entertainers-athletes-caribbean-descentheritagecaribbean-american/

[Carlito's Way]

Rapper Trina's origins is quite funny :laugh: considering what has happen in another forum.
http://atlantablackstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/caribe-trina.jpg



More can be found here:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/09/17/20-entertainers-athletes-caribbean-descentheritagecaribbean-american/

what other forum and what has happened?

[Guanimaa]

Here is a bigger list 104:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/14/100-black-celebs-may-know-caribbean-descent/10/

[Guanimaa]

what other forum and what has happened?

It was nothing serious just a little back and forth about who belongs to certain ethnicities etc.

[Bezprym]

I don't know these people, so obviously I don't know anything about their descent.

[Guanimaa]

I wanted to say, Colorism can be found in nearly every Afro-decent population. In the US they had a paper bag test. This Documentary explains more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_tn659Sbw


Being call "white" doesn't always mean that a person is seen the same racial as a European. Some times it is to exclude someone, as not being similar to the rest, as Ward Minnis explains:


To be called white in the Bahamas is another way to say that you do not belong. Those who don’t belong are tourists. Visitors. Just passing through. Seaweed. Driftwood. In Nassau the quickest insult is usually to call me “white boy”. Hit a shot on the basketball court and I will hear “buhy! You let white-boy-archah score on you” or something to that effect. They know that I’m not white, but my skin-color places me in a liminal space. I’m not white, but to their minds I’m not black enough.
http://www.mentalslavery.com/?s=mirror



I've also seen a lot of African Americans say Afro-Latinos like LHHA Joseline Hernandez are not black they're Spanish.

[Dominicanese]

Black latinos arn't seen as black

Vladimir Guerrero, David Ortiz, Sammy Sosa, Zoe Saldana, Marihenny Rivera etc... are not seen as black despite being the blackest hispanics

they are seen as Spanish, including several Dominicans who are black as blue that when the sun hits their skin they bright off a blue hue and they are still seen as spanish even though they are likely 95%+ SSA, its just the way it is

[Carlito's Way]

post more please