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Birth Name:
Carmelo Kiyan Anthony
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, United States
Birth Date:
May 29, 1984
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Puerto Rican and African American
The NBA basketball player was born to a Puerto Rican father and an African American mother. His father died when he was only 2 years of age. Carmelo still has family residing on the west coast of Puerto Rico. This was mentioned in the Puerto Rico Herald.
Source:
http://www.puertorico-herald.org
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Carmelo anthony has a cool biracial race he’s rican and black thats cool you knoe how many people want to be biracial carmelo already is biracial thats so cool because im rican and black myaelf
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ok so for all the nay-sayers out there , my dad is 100% Puerto Rican and my mother is black. me and Carmelo Anthony have the same complexion. when i tell people im half rican, they dont believe me because what they dont understand is that a majority of hispanics(PR’s,meixcans,etc) are actually moreno(dark-haired/dark-skinned).
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