photo credit: Rafael Amado Deras
Birth Name:
Derek Sanderson Jeter
Birth Place:
Pequannock Township, New Jersey, USA
Ethnicity:
African American, Irish American
The Major League baseball star was born to an African American father and a mother of Irish descent. Jeter stated this in his Biography called Derek Jeter ‘Ovations’. He also mentioned that people would always guess that he was Italian, Jewish or Spanish.
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Celebrities sharing the same heritage:
Cute analogy Chantal
The world is a box of crayola! The white crayon doesn’t get used much unless it’s with black paper.
nice looking mixed man
douglas murphy you are an ignorant racist person who is the reason that there can be no racial harmony your anti-white and elitist attitude that everyone is black and black rules all sickens me and you are the very reason that there is no unity and i pray you don’t have children you bigoted close-minded black pantered mentality hate-monger!
Black people did not make up this rule. It was on the books thats a black person despite color or racial mixture was black. It was on the books, legally, that anyone mixed with black was black – the one drop rule. And any person mixed with black had to sit in the back of the bus during Jim Crow etc. Blacks who lived through Jim Crow hold this vision because tehy are so used to their lives being in danger if they do not. They are not the hatemongers, the lawmen who enforced this rule were. And to be fair, many White people still hold this view. Look at the response to Obama – people call him the N word etc. They see him as an other. So before attacking a black person, understand that they were following the law of the land and only in the past 30 years or so – if that – did the law change. The one drop rule. People of color could lose their lives if they challenged it. So when you meet a 60 year old black person who thinks this way, remember how much danger they would have been in if they didn’t.
That’s right
To the truth
You say Racial Harmony,yet what’s one of the words that came from you,(Black) Hate-monger.Sounds to me like your a little racist yourself.So before you go off on someone,check yourself first
It is a general known fact that any person mixed with african american blood is generally considered as black or african american person. Now what is all the fuss about. As far as I am concerned, all people are human beings with shades of black
Technically yes because all people came from Africa. I suppose one could say that although there is some new evidence that separate life sprung up at the same time in other regions but in general, the first signs of human life were in Africa so technically we are all of African descent.
I tend to agree with CoolCat, another example is Jason Kidd. He is half Irish and Black and looks more on the white side. Jennifer Beals is another irish black person who looks just white.
Yeah well I know he was mixed and I knew that he was black I just didn’t know what he was mixed with!
wow…i didnt know he was mixed either! im sorry but the people mixed with irish and black just look white