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Birth Name:
Beyonce Giselle Knowles
Birth Place:
Houston, Texas, United States
Ethnicity:
African American, Creole
Her maternal Grandparents were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles. Her Father is African American. Beyonce doesn’t speak French or Spanish but she has sung in Spanish before.
Creole people are originally of French, African American and Native American ancestry. Her name ‘Beyonce’ is a tribute to her mother’s maiden name Beyince.
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Beyonce looks totally black! I dont know why she want to be white
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Why is it so hard for some people to believe that Beyonce has Creole blood running through her veins? She is not all black or all white,she is a mixture of Black,French,Spainish and indian which was PASSED on to her by her mother who is Creole..so what is wrong with that?
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She’s black. And I agree with TheTruth. If there were a race war she would fight for black people. Not mixed people. And I am sure she is going to raise her new daughter as black. Not mixed.
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Beyonce’s mother ‘s maiden name is Beyince which is French..her mother’s parents were BOTH Louisiana Creoles ..Yes in the kind of world we live in Beyonce would identify herself as Black only because that’s how she was raised and that’s all she knows..Too bad she dosen’t acknowledge what she really is and be proud of her mixed heritage because that is exactly what Creole people :Multi-racial people..not bi-racial which is not the same thing..
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am 50% white 75%black and % other! but I was raised by my black Jamaican mother! my white English father was never around ” I had the bob marely affect” because I was raised in the black and Asian community I was pick on for being white. I was raised black. don’t know any of my white family never met them and will never meet them. so I can see why Beyonce and other Muilti-mixs will ID with the black and no-white side!
people just call me a light skin black woman.because when I’m with my mother who is black. people don’t know or view me as mixed! if my mother was a white woman that would be a whole different story!
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what do you mean you are 50% and 75% black?
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NO BEYONCE
HAS BLACK BLOOD RUNNING THROUGH HER VEINS
FROM HER FATHER SIDE
FROM HER MOTHER SHE HAS ALSO BLACK BLOOD
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MIX WITH FRENCH AND NATIVE INDIAN
INDIANS FROM BACK THEN HAD RED SKIN
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BEYONCE IS CONSIDERED BLACK – BY EVERYONE
AS SHE SEE HERSELF AS BLACK
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SHE MARRIED A BLACK MAN – JAY-Z
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THEIR CHILD IS BLACK TOO
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THATS MY MESSAGE
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how about her dad
her dad is not creole
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Beyonce is African-American AND Creole..her dad dosent have to be Creole ..U r not making sense at all..
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she’s black…she have only about 20% of caucasian blood
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only 20%….like that is nothing. Without it she’d be darker….like her dad. She is closer to her mother’s shade.
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I think everyone needs to think about who these people would side with if there was a race war. Seriously think. If Beyonce HAD to choose a side do you think she would choose mixed, black or white? Would she fight for the mixed race, black or white?
Obviously black. You all know its the truth.
Whenever a celebrity is predominantly black – like Beyonce – they always choose their black side. Halle berry, paula patton. They all deny their black side. Halle berry wants to only consider her daughter black. You see.
White people can’t claim her. She would never fight for white people. That is why she and Jayz put so much effort into getting Obama elected because they wanted a black man in the office.
She does not take pride in being white. She is black. She loves being black.
She choose to marry a black man – who is straight African (Jay Z), so they can breed more black people and keep their race alive.
TheTruth hurts but it is obvious. Being part white means nothing to them. It is way cooler to be black than white. In the entertainment industry at least.
Everybody wants to be black nowadays. Its a new trend.
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No nobody that isnt black wants to be black. What do you mean? People who are majority black or full black are proud to be black and thats it. Other people dont have a problem with the black race but obviously we dont want to be black, we love our own races… Dont get too full of it.
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Halle Berry is half African, half European, her daughter therefore is 1/4 African, 3/4 European. & Wow she got the best of both worlds….that kid is lucky.
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But her daughter is mainly white. — nahla, halle berrys daughter.
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Okay…. Obama is 50% European. You cannot discount he being born & raised by his biological white Mother.
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To quote Chris Rock “there’s a white peg legged bus boy who won’t trade places with me… And I’m rich”. Lol.
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I’m Creole and we come in all shades,not just high yellow,blonde hair,blue eyed people that alot of people think we look like..Our native tongue is French but u can be of a differnt race and still be Creole.. Who cares? We are all mixed with something..
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Beyonce looks mixed but SOlange looks straight African.
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Solange may look Black but she is still half Creole ..Anyway…they both r Black and Creole..no matter which way it goes..its as simple as that. The color of skin has nothing to do with it..it’s multi-cultural.
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Beyonce looks mixed because she doesn’t wear her hair in its natural state and Solange does right? What makes a person look mixed? because I know mixed people in every shade and has every hair type.
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LOL – Beyonce’s hair? She looks fake because her hair is majorly fake. She can be mixed and claim whatever she wants to claim – these days it is all about self-definition – but that hair she wears is as phoney as a three-dollar bill.
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No one has seen her real hair in years.it is all wigs and hair pieces.
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No Beyonce Looks Just as African as Solange. They Practically Look the same
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BEYONCE IS NOT MIXED
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why cant people understand
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beyonce is not mixed race
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her mother is black mix with french and indian
and her dad is black
her mother is not A WHITE WOMAN
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Her mother IS Multi-racial!!!Not bi-racial if that’s what u r saying..she is of several enthicities and yes she has Caucasian blood,so does Beyonce..It’s not about being born of 2 differnt races ex:Black father + white mother=BIRACIAL CHILD, Multi-racial people or of several differnt enthicties,not just race,and really shouldnt claim one race over the other when they are “MIXED” with several enthicities..Anyway..i just wanted to make it simple for u if u get it that is…
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oh,boy since when did native americans have blue eyes?=)))
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You are totallly WRONG..Please get the facts right before u make a fool out of yourself..Yes,Native indians can have blue,green,grey and Hazel eyes..Look it up,please..
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Only if they have European ancestry from both their mother and father. Native Americans didn’t have blue eyes until the white man came.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm
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True..so STILL NATIVE INDIANS can HAVE BLUE EYES!! There are several types of indians and Aryan Indians are known for their unique blue eyes!!! Yes it has alot to do with genetics but still who says indians cant have blue eyes?PLease ,please go to ur nearest library or look it up and read more about indians in GENERAL..You can clearly see that she has some indian in her..She said she is mixed with indian not 100% Native Indian,,..OMG where r some of these people getting their info from?
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@Divine24Cool Native American people do not have naturally occurring blue or green eyes. If they do they have a reasonable amount of European ancestry. It is not from the Native side of their ancestry if they have blue eyes. What is an Aryan Indian?
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@Divine24Cool I just want to explain this a bit. The only populations with significant amounts of blue eyes are European populations. The gene mutation only occurred relatively recently approx 6,000 – 10,000 years ago in Caucasian people north of the Black Sea. This genetic mutation spread rapidly in areas where the climate is cool and not very sunny in Caucasian populations e.g. Northern Europe. There are people with blue eyes in the Middle East and as far as India where there are Caucasian people. Northern India had alot of Persians go there around the 10th Century e.g. The Parsis being a perfect example. A lot of Middle Eastern people and Indian people that have lighter pigmented eyes have more green and hazel coloured eyes than blue though. Saying this the vast majority of Middle Eastern and Indian people are still dark eyed. As I said previously the only regions where blue / green eyes are a majority are countries in the Northern part of Europe e.g. British Isles, Scandinavia, Baltic areas etc. Brown eyes are the default colour of eyes for humans and there is a very good reason that they are dominant in inheritance because they bestow the best protection in sunny climates.
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You asked me what a Aryan indian is..If u know so much about indians per se u would have the answer to this dumb question..Not going to get a answer from me,sweetie!!
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@Divine24Cool You were talking about Native Americans and then you mentioned Aryan Indians. The term Indo-Aryan is used more in relation to languages. In your comment you were talking about Indians as in Native Americans. Indians from the sub-continent are a completely different group of people and are a completely different subject to what was being discussed.
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I’m talking about indians in general..Not just Native indians dumbass..You said that indians cant have blue eyes and i just mentioned one indian tribe..and no Aryan is not only language it also refers to people..
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@Divine24Cool Native Americans and Indians are different ethnic groups. There is no Indian tribe called “Aryan Indians”. The Aryan race are the original speakers of Indo-European languages. Aryan is a term not used much any more because of its misuse during the 2nd World War. There is no need to get abusive either.
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@Divine24Cool I’ve enjoyed and appreciated your posts on Creole people and I’m sure your a person that can argue your point without being abusive. Let’s all be polite to each other.
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meant to say “you’re a person” in the above post.
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What does this have to do with Beyonce? It does not. Post this on her board, not this one.
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We not talking about Megan Fox. We are talking about Beyonce Knowles, who is million times prettier then, Megan Fox. Either way will always be goregous!
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Nah You and Your Fake as Megan Fox Can go somewhere else
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If Beyonce says that she IDENTIFIES herself as black but knows that she has really ‘close to her’ ancestry(grand-great, great peeps) that is Creole we just have to leave it at that. What I don’t like however is how these girls start out in the business one shade of ‘black’ but as soon as their popularity increases so does the lightness of their skin. Look at Beyonce, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj who is a shadow of their former self say what it’s like being a strong black woman yet they look more white every day. They seem to be unintentionally contradicting themselves and making it appear as if to be a successful black female u must be of light complexion.
Anyways back to ethnicity and or race, once u are of African descent and live in north America, central America, the Caribbean and south America chances are SOMEWHERE in ur ancestry is a ‘white man’s and I use white very loosely in terms of anyone who is Asian, European, native American, Amerindian and persons from the middle east.
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To aayadrian:
Rihanna is 1/4 white (irish)
Nicki minaj is 1/2 asian ( indian)
beyonce is part white (french)
Dont you think that affects their appearance?
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Nicki Minaj is a 1/4th Indian, not a half.
“On E! it was mentioned that her father is half African and Indian descent.”
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NICKI MINAJ MOTHER IS BLACK
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NICKI MINAJ FATHER IS BLACK AND INDIAN
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DONT GET IT TWISTED
NICK MINAJ CALLS HERSELF BLACK
THATS WHY SHE IS ONLY SURROUNDED BY BLACKS
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Rihanna is less than 1/4 irish,max. 1/6
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her grandma is full white which makes her 1/4 white (irish)
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her grandma
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BUT RIHANNA IS NOT HER GRANDMA
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RIHANNA IS MORE BLACK THAN – IRISH
RIHANNA HER MOM IS BLACK
AND HER DAD IS BLACK MIX WITH IRISH
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IF YOU WERE IN SCHOOL
THAT MAKES HER
75 BLACK
25 irish
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OWNED
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NICKI MINAJ IS JUST BLACK
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Dear mike:
You are retarted! Without her grandmas genes, rihanna would look completely different. That’s why she looks mixed with white. She has light skin and green eyes because of the chromosomes passed on from her grandma to her father and then to her. I can’t believe your acting as if a parents parent is nothing. Shows a lot about you sadly.
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I agree. Its like they all have the michael jackson syndrome without the disease
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Everybody is beautiful !
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What does this have to do with Beyonce Knowles? How does this correlate with her ethnicity?
Anyway, they are mixed. Julia Roberts, Jessica Simpson, Megan Fox, Anne Hathaway, Hilary Clinton, Rumer Willis, Demi Moore, Kim Basinger, Quentin Tarantino, Val Kilmer, the Palins, Ashlee Simpson, the Jonas brothers, Kevin Costner, etc. are all mixed.
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Everyone is mixed. No one is black or white. They do not exist. So there is really no need for this site.
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..are you kidding me? whatever
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Most people are NOT mixed. Having 10% of something in you does NOT make you mixed. Oprah has 10: native American blood in her. She is black. Image, if Oprah has 10%, the Africans in Africa have………….zero!
If you have more than 30% of another race in you, your ass is mixed! Chris Rock is 20% WHITE! His ass looks straight black.
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man shut the fuck up just because of that so what. just because someone is ten percent they still mixed dumb ass. and not all people look like there ethnic background. Im mexican, native american, english, italian and black and i dont look anything but native american and black. so u can whip my ass fuck face
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To Dolphin’s Revenge
The celebs you have listed, although they are mixed. They are majority white. They will most definitely identify with white. And megan foz in particular, she claimed in her words ”i only have a very small drop of Cherokee in me.”
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really what are they mixed with then? different types of european dosend count as being mixed. im over this. No wonder there is so much hate within the african american community
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they have distant native ancestry.
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If your great great great great grandma mom white, please stop claiming that mess. If you look black…….white…asian………..you are as such!
When you are mixed, it shows in your complexion, facial features and HAIR!
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I am surprised all of you were not thumbed down for these comments. According to this site, Megan Fox looks like a Native American princess, and Denzel Washington is biracial because he does not look like Djimon Honsou (sp?).
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Look, Megan Fox is too pretty to be white. She is Native American and is a minority. She has brown skin. Just accept that she, Anne Hathaway, Ashlee Simpson, Julia Roberts, and Rumer Willis are not white.
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