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Birth Name:
Christopher Maurice Brown
Birth Place:
Tappahannock, Virginia, United States
Date of Birth:
May 5, 1989
What Race or Ethnicity:
African American
The American R&B singer’s ethnicity has been under much discussion over the internet. He was born to Joyce Hawkins and Clinton Brown.
His mother is said to be of mixed Caucasian and African American descent however this has not been confirmed. While his father is of African American descent.
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LOOL so I was right, snoop dogg is a coolie guy !!!!
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I meant 22% NA,sorry
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To Drexxx
No fun,Sorry to here that.Oh and snoop is 23% NA 7% white
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I’m fine, working these damn statistics for my tests next week. My spring break sucks as HELL, i’ve done nothing but WORK !!!!
For snoop dogg, i’m not surprised he has 29% of white DNA, i always thought he was a sort of coolie or something (coolie=black with a little native west indian or native american admixture)
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To Ha
This Tom Joyner:
http://asurams.edu/images/TomJoyner.JPG
33% white on a DNA test,3% indian,the rest black ;yet look at him.Your basing your opinion on outward appearances,that doesn’t work.Another example,since you brought your friend.Both my great grandfathers were white,both my great grandmothers were creoles,Both my grandmothers were half white/half creole,one of my grandfathers was white,one of my grandfathers was black latino,yet I’m darker than chris.Two of my siblings are chris brown color,well actually my sister lighter than he is.Alot of cousins on my mother side are dark.Now base on what you said,with all that white blood in them,should they be that dark?
Now you talking about things you know nothing about,you have plenty of 50/50 african people who look white:
Jaye davidson,african father white mother:
http://www.6millionsmiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/jaye-davidson_gap.jpg
Leona Lewis:
http://www.thesaudavoice.com/.a/6a00e55291ee8488330120a64344f8970c-800wi
Jackie Kay:
http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/resources/artforms/literature/Poet%20pics/Jackie-Photo.jpg
Nigel Quashie:
http://www.footballchatter.com/forum/photopost/data/501/Nigel_Quashie.jpg
and so many other that are not famous.Also I don’t know where you got the idea that all west Africans are dark.That again shows me you know very little about the place.Also with two Bi-racial people, there’s no telling what child is going to look like.
Now you don’t want us to call people like chris black,then what would you suggest?Because I would like to know what I should call the vast majority of my family.
Oh you also forgot about all those legal marriages before slave even started,and that a large amount of black family got started from white women,before and during slavery,and after it.There is other things I could show you
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To Drexxx
He got that from lopez show,when snoop took a DNA test.I had plenty of things to show him,but it wouldn’t post.Anyhow what’s up Babygirl?
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To Ha :Where did you read theses informations (about snoop dogg’s 71% black for example)
and by the way, knowing two ppl with the same skin tone as chris brown mother doesn’t prove they have the same admixture !!!!! my nephews are only 3% white and they’re red-haired and white as snow.
You can’t evaluate a person’s genotype just by looking, because genetics makes a lot of tricks with ppl’s phenotypes, that’s why a white couple with 0,00001% of black DNA can have a black child (it’s rare but it does happen sometimes)
And By the way, i know a lot of mixed people of french (white) and senegalese (black) who are very fair
Look at this photo
http://www.lexpress.fr/medias/42/president-abdoulaye-wade-and-his-son_127.jpg
The man with the senegalese helmet is abdoulaye wade, the senegalese president;
on the left, his son, Karim. As light as chris brown don’t you think ??? (but the exactly same features as his father, it’s a lighter version of him lol)
http://www.galsentv.com/actualites/921/local/cache-vignettes/L256xH280/viviane_wade-e1918.jpg
this is viviane Wade, the wife of abdoulaye and karim’s mother.
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African Americans have 20% white admixture. Look up the genome project that has been done for African Americans. Chris Brown’s mother is blatantly over half white. I, by the way, know two individuals who are exactly 75% white 25% black (3 European Grandparents and 1 Sub-Saharan African parent (not African American) and they have similar phenotypical facial features to that of Chris Brown’s mother.
1 out of 3 White Americans have African ancestry by an average of 2.3% of total ancestry.
The great majority of African Americans have an average of 20% of white ancestry. This white ancestry has been acquired through either, rape, black women being used as mistresses, consensual (but secretive) unions in the past. On top of this many, “blacks” that have gotten married produce offspring that call themselves black for the fact that the African American community is much more accepting of mixed raced people that the traditional white American community.
Barack Obama and Henry Louis Gates are genetically 50% white 50% black.
You can NEVER have a full blooded dark black West African mix with a white European and have them be close to white in skin tone.
Many so called blacks that produce light skinned children are actually mixed raced individuals. It is very possible for two “brown mixed” people to produce a light skin person if most of the European ancestry of both sides were to come together in the formation of the offspring. That is why two biracial parents had a child that was white and another that was black. Its because both were half white half black.
These are very simple logistics that biology teaches you, though one doesn’t it need biology to figure that out. Most West Africans are of EXTREMELY dark complexion and that is where the great majority of black slaves came from. Haiti has high levels of concentrated black ancestry with minimal French admixture, this is why they are generally very dark.
Calling people like Chris Brown, Rhianna, and Mariah Carey (LOL) black, is a joke. I’d bet that all of these three would have less than 50% black on their admixture test. Snoop Dogg is blacker than these three and is only 71% black. Let’s not dwell on the obvious now lol
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“You can NEVER have a full blooded dark black West African mix with a white European and have them be close to white in skin tone”
hmm the singers Sade and Nneka are both products of West African (Nigerian) and white mixing and guess what they are both lighter than Chris Brown.
Sade is damn near white so your theory is tripe.
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I don’t think DNA works like that,and I already shown that a 30%white can be brighter than Chris Brown.We don’t Chris’s mother is.Now this part here(75% white 25% black (3 European Grandparents and 1 Sub-Saharan African parent (not African American) and they have similar phenotypical facial features to that of Chris Brown’s mother.)is just stupid.This combo would produce a white person,period.Example:
Jaye Davidson is just 50/50 look at him,father is from Ghana
http://mycomrade.com/images/1529.jpg
So much for you theory
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@Fuzzybear
Sorry didn’t see you had already used this stuff before
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To Ha
Ok I want disagree about the 20%,however the average African American is not darker than Chris.We don’t know what the average African American looks like anymore.There hasn’t been an average color of black people since the 1970′s.Also you have to remember that fresh groups of black people have steadily been coming here,so are you counting them to.Next according to the site I go to,chris is a MGM which means his family could have every color in the box;with no color being dominant.Now Mr.Gates and Barack Obama maybe very well be darker than browns mother,but that doesn’t really prove much;Families like that can and often are all over the place when it comes to color.Now also your last statement can be sent right back at you.White people are also guilty of concealing the fact they have black lineage
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Its pretty damn hilarious, and pathetic, to see that some people, usually blacks, go about saying that light skinned African Americans are full black LOL Here is a wake up call, the average African American is 20% WHITE by total ancestry. The AVERAGE AFRICAN AMERICAN IS DARKER THAN CHRIS BROWN. It quite obvious Chris Brown is BI-RACIAL.
Henry Louis Gates and Barack Obama are both half WHITE and they are both considerably blacker than Chris Brown’s mother.
Apparently, some African Americans hate to concede that most in fact have white and try to come up with this BS that their is no white blood in these people, they are just “light skinned blacks” an oxymoron.
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What an Idiot. Have you heard of the Igbo tribe/ethnic group of Nigeria? Many of them are light skinned and are not mixed Example: Oguchi Onyewu (USA soccer team) much lighter than a Chris Brown and full IGBO. What about Nnamdi Asomugha (Raiders) huh?
I’d say just a little lighter than a Will Smith and BANG full Igbo.
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also if we go by what you say, we should call ALL black people mixed. There are families that have children as black as Wesley Snipes and as light as Chris Brown in them. Why would only the light one be mixed? So all blacks are mixed now.
Make you feel better?
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Chris brown is not half white.I mean speaking of Gates.If you saw that program,you would have seen that Tom Joyner is lighter than chris brown,and yet joyner is only 30% white
Tom joyner:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Tom_Joyner.JPG
Chris Brown:
http://tvoneblogs.com/thespin/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/chris-brown-in-court.jpg
So you don’t know what that boy is
Now if black people are trying to cover up white blood,then white people are just as guilty by trying to cover up their black blood
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