Carmelo Anthony
Anthony with wife La La Anthony in 2011, Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Carmelo Kyam Anthony
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 29, 1984
Ethnicity:
*father – Puerto Rican [African, some Spanish and Indigenous/likely Taíno], distant Venezuelan
*mother – African-American
Carmelo Anthony is an American professional basketball player. He has played for the Denver Nuggets, the New York Knicks, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Houston Rockets, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is 6′7″.
His father, Carmelo Iriarte, was born in Manhattan, to Puerto Rican parents, of African, and some Spanish and Indigenous [likely Taíno] descent, along with distant Venezuelan. His mother, Mary Anthony, is African-American. His father died when he was an infant.
Carmelo has a son, basketball player Kiyan Anthony, with his former wife, disc jockey, television personality, and actress La La Anthony. La La is of African-Puerto Rican descent.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2017) stated that Carmelo’s genetic ancestry is:
*70% African
*24% European
*6% Native American [Indigenous]
Carmelo’s paternal grandfather was Andres Iriarte Rodriguez (the son of José Luciano Iriarte and Angelina/Angela Rodriguez). Andres was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. José Luciano was the son of Benicia Iriarte. Benicia’s mother, Valentina Echeandia/Iriarte, was mixed race, part African, and was born into slavery in Güigüe, Venezuela.
Carmelo’s paternal grandmother was named Carmen “Carmela.” Carmen was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Source: http://www.puertorico-herald.org
Carmelo is not part Puerto Rican, I got morenos all through my family, and know the “look”, somebody lied to him about who his dad really is, but I would bet my last dollar my man is NOT part Boriqua! DNA time!
Quien tu ere pa decir q raza es o no es????? maybe his dad was a negro from pr??? you dont know ! was you there when his parents was concieving him? and you actually seen when his moms overies were fertilized in all? visite a pr ignorante y veras muchos negros bruto!!!
DNA aint gonna tell you if someone is puerto rican- but it will tell you he is black! His dad can still be from Puerto Rico though
Hey, you’re just mad ’cause you didn’t know this years ago and you can’t go back in time and make a raical trade. I bet if he was Michael Jordon and they said Michael in his heyday was half Purto Rican you’d not only go with it but fight of some folks that disagreed lol.
? who you talkin to?
Hey, Carlos was the person who said that Carmelo wasn’t Puerto Rican so I just made him to deal to switch to Michael Jorden and two feature hall of famers to be named later lol. People always go by some weird sterotypes but to say someone isn’t a certain thing just because they don’t fit the sterotype is wrong. I was just letting him know that in a humourous way.
oh thumbs up!
Ha wow
@ Delnegro thumbs down!
They are a part of a race, they are part of the latino race, which is a mix. Whose not mixed, Puerto ricans have 3 mixes in their race, but look at Sicilians, look at Armenians, Persians, Kyrgystanians, every modern race and ethnicity is a combination of older tribes of different races. Even in AFrica, northeastern (somalia, ethiopia), they obvious have a different makeup of sub-sahara africans. Look at what we call the Arab race. Really only Arabs from the arabian peninsula are really pure arabs (and they had an infllux of peoples of the Indian continent at one time. But we call people from any country that speaks Arabic, Arabs, when in fact most Arabs from these countries are either of Aryan tribes (Iranic tribes – like the persians) or from Turkic tribes. And Turkic tribes ranged from mongolian, white red heads, to closer to arabs, and mixes of all these…..THere is a move in AMerican culture though to discredit latino on as a race, on forms now, it says pick one, and Latino of any race is added at the end. But by doing this, what does lets say a dark puerto rican check, as apposed to a light puerto rican, do we classify them as different races? If they’re gonna do it that way, they should have multicultural as a box to check off
and to the one who said Ricky martin is white, and melo black, well, that’s not a accurate way of identifying puerto ricans. In the whiter pr families, not everyone is light, often on of the grandfathers were dark with black features, and many of the dark puerto ricans, often have many white grandparents, uncles, etc. Thlink about it, we have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 g-grandfathers. by the time you get to 10 greats (g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-granparents) you have 4,096 of them. coming from a mixed island, just about all of them have all 3: white (spain), african (slaves) , and Taino Indians (the original inhabitants of the island) A group of puerto ricans from nyc did their ancestry records, and found many other admixtures as well. In some areas, llike Carolina, most look no different then african americans from here. There was less mixing in that area….just the same , around San Juan, most look white, or at least light with more european features. Through out the years, over a few centuries, many spaniards, as well as other europeans settled in this area – but the overwhelming majority of puerto ricans, whether as white brittney spears or as black as akon, are mixed whith all three
latino idnt a race smart one. there are black, whites and native latinos
EVEN IF THERE HALF PUERTO RICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, THERE STILL GOING TO COME OUT LOOKING BLACK
not always, depends on the race (on the puerto rican side) ricky martin is puerto rican, but he’s white (spanish) melo is obviously afro-puerto rican
As people have been saying there is no such thing as a Puerto Rican race, They are a mix of things, mainly noting African and European
PUERTO RICAN IS NOT A RACE ITS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONALITIES MAINLY EURPOEAN, AFRICAN AND AMERINDIAN CULTURES. (MIXED).