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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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he is biracial you can see both races in him
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I don’t think it is at all about denying what you are. It is about what the world sees you as, not what you are, plain and simple. That is just a fact. Because if it wasn’t, we would not have racism in this world.
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Some mixed people (which is rare) look either totally black, white, asian and so forth. Like Kimora, she looks totally Asian. I would classify her as Asian, because if she was in a group with Full blooded Asian you could not tell if she was mixed. And that is how the world really looks at it, plain and simple. Just like President Obama, he looks totally Black, and he knows it. So it would be stupid for him to run around talking about I am mixed. He has the sense to know how the world sees him, and it is not about denying one side over the other.
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