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Birth Name:
Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas
Birth Place:
Glen Cove New York, USA
Birth Date:
October 13, 1980
Ethnicity:
African American
The singer/actress’s real name is Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas and is an African American. In interviews she has been quoted to say “I’m just black” when asked about her ethnicity.
Some sites have claimed that she is also of Dominican and Chinese descent, but these claims have not been verified.
Ashanti is also the name of a major ethnic group in the African nation of Ghana where the mother line is of enormous importance. The singer was named after this ethnic group by her mother.
Source:
http://ashanti.celebden.com/?cat=7
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I am half native American,and Black but i look mostly Indian. so I mainly cling to be Native American. cus the black is very low in me. my dad was full blooded Cherokee, and my mother was black and Cherokee. so i am more Indian than black. thank god.just look at my picture.
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yeah. I guess Ashanti now no longer wants to get backlash from her black fans if she dare say she has mixed heritage yet on another website she said she was mixed. Since most blacks are mixed I dont know why its a big deal..LOL..too funny. I would never be ashamed of my black heritage or my mixed heritage. It’s those that don’t “look exotic” that are probably jealous of her so now she’s backing down on teh mixed race thing..SMH
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if she half domincan and chinese why she bald?
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ii llove your answer shaye!! soo cool
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YOU’LL ARE STUPID AS HELL, WELL MOST OF U. EVERYONE IS MIXED WITH SOMETHING, DUH!!! MOST AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE MIXED WITH SOMETHING BECAUSE IN THE U.S. EVERYONE IS IMMIGRANTS EXCEPT FOR THE NATIVE AMERICANS. OPEN AN ETHNICITY HISTORY BOOK OR SOMETHING. BUT EVERYONE ALSO KNOWS THAT BLACK DOMINATES. IF U HAVE ANY BLACK AT ALL IN YOU, YOU’RE CONSIDERED BLACK. AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT EVERYONE ELSE WOULD SEE AND THINK. ASHANTI HAS A BROWN COMPLEXION, AND SHE LOOKS AFRICAN AMERICAN AND IS AFRICAN AMERICAN. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL. THE THING IS, ASHANTI ISN’T EVEN THAT LIGHT, I COULD SEE IF U GUYS WERE TALKING ABOUT ALICIA KEYS OR MAYBE EVEN TISHA CAMPBELL. BUT FOR THE MOST PART THEY ARE ALL BLACK. U DON’T HAVE TO BE MIXED WITH WHITE JUST BECAUSE U’RE LIGHT SKINNED. BLACK PEOPLE COME IN ALL DIFFERENT SHADES AND COMPLEXIONS. BESIDES, IT DOESN’T MATTER. YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE AND U SHOULD BE PROUD OF WHATEVER RACE U ARE.
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Youre right She is just Human, And a beautiful one at that. but there are a lot of people like myself who get a little curious about why someone so beautiful looks a certain way. thats why I made this site. Its for the curious and its a bit of harmless fun thats all.
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She’s HUMAN, i mean seriously ppl are actually looking up links just to prove what she is. What is wrong ppl, she’s HUMAN just like you and I. Sheesh!!
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Karen thanks for the link. its interesting but I dont think thats her real twitter account.
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I do not know if she is Dominican or Hispanic, but look what I found on her twitter
“Dominican Republic and Venezuela in the Top 5! Now y’all get why I’m beautiful? Lmfao, jk.”
I leave here the link of twitter
http://twitter.com/UAshanti?max_id=3901642642&page=2&twttr=true
i’m dominican!!!XD
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Lmao ! U people r too much funny ! Everybody Wanna b part half or mixed with something. Fuck outta here ! If U have one drop of black blood in u than ur black point blank. There are only 2 races, white & black. Everything else is just a type of ethnicity. [Jamaican,dominican,puerto rican etc.] Therefore Ashanti is Black. Whether she has p.r in her or chinese [which i seriously doubt. Just cus the bitch eyes r a little slanted dont make her asian. Black ppl come that way sometimes. Lol] smh. I love being Black & im not gonna look 5O generations back to find where i might have a little something in me….and obviously, so does Ashanti. Black Power Bitches !
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thank you. finally someone who makes sense.
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