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Birth Name:
Eva Marcille Pigford
Birth Place:
Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth:
October 30, 1984
What Race or Ethnicity?:
African American, Puerto Rican
Eva Marcille, previously known as Eva Pigford, was the winner of the third cycle of America’s Next Top Model, and was the first African American contestant to win the program. She was born to a Puerto Rican father and an African American mother as stated on Honeymag.com
Eva endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
Source:
http://www.honeymag.com/2010/honeymag/say-i-do-lance-gross/
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Scienfically the father genes is domaint so that makes her puetro rican.
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People are so ignorant ! Why is it so hard to understand that just because you have black in you that doesnt make you black ! It makes you mixed or multi racial…leave it to ignorant African American to try & claim everybody for there race not trying to put yall down because its not everybody but wake up. You let white people brain wash you for so long that you actually believe that once you have black in you thats it…give me a break cabrons ! So what your saying is if your black & puerto rican you are black. So you cant claim the Puerto rican side do you know how hurtful & disrespectful that is to the other parent. smh we live in such a ignorant society. All of yall should visit PR sometime it aint like America. When you in PR you r puerto rican no black no white just puerto rican leave it to america to catagorize people
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THIS.
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If you know more you’d know Puerto Rican is not a race. I have seen Eva’s father before living in LA and he is just as black as her mother he just happens to be from Puerto Rico which is another place where both Europeans and Africans went. The people their are descendants of Europeans and Africans just like the US. Some are black some are white others are somewhere in between do your research before you post next time.
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Like i said go to PR sometime we do not have this white and black shyt ! & all you have to do is ask someone who is Puerto Rican & they will tell you that that is their race so take yur know it all shyt somewhere else cause I aint tryin to here it. Do you even know someone who PR ? Thought soo.
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How dare you post such an IDIOTIC, USELESS and RACIST comment! “Ignorant African-Americans trying to claim everybody for THEIR race?” Who the hell are you to call anyone ignorant? In regards to Eva’s ethnicity, I wasn’t surprised at all. In my opinion, she definitely appears to be of mixed hispanic & black heritage, but at the same time I’ve only heard her refer to herself as “Black.” No one’s saying that she is SOLELY of Black heritage, because in most cases NO ONE’s (especially if you’re American) ethnic background consists solely of any 1 race. My mother is Black and my father is Black & Blackfoot N/A. I consider myself “Black” all the same, as do many ppl of mixed heritage. Eva happens to be one of them. The only person acting “IGNORANT” is you!
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i can’t stand this puta, she’s so rude, where is she now? lol
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God only made one race, and thats HUMAN RACE…lol
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thats funny cause last time i checked i have blue eyes and white skin and my blood cuusins are brown with tough hair and brown eyes sorry too tell you its really not about color always but its always about race i look caucasian but as soon as they find out im hispanic im suddenly treated different hmmmmm mayb you just need to stop lieing to yoself…
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I agreee, very good analogy…black is BLack.
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ignorance is bliss..at the end of the day who cares… if she gets pulled over she is black, she even stated that on the show..btw..puerto rican/hispanic is not a race..there are 5 races, black, caucasian, pacific islander, asian and other..there are black, white and amerindian hispanics..knowledge is power ladies
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Actualy there are only 3 races.
Caucasianoid
Negroid
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Mongoloid
unless you count subraces, for example Caucasian subraces are Nordic, Mediterranean, Slavic. Some Lebanese people would also fit in this Caucasian category. Really to be quite honest, the term “Race” has been fucked up due to American influence on the world. Heh i miss the days when there was really no such thing as “White or Black” back in ancient times, if you were Greek you were just Greek, if you were Egyptian you were just Egyptian, there were no categories. White/Black are recent terms.
If only modern day people could be as smart as they were.
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wait, i thought there were 4 races
european/caucasianoid
african/negroid
east asian/mongoloid
and indigenous/native
although east asians and natives might look a little similar, and could sometimes come up as the same race. their features are very different
native guy http://bit.ly/lBtls1
asian guy http://bit.ly/kVk1hI
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They are no multi-races anymore,there’s just one,I don’t know why after all this time they still teach crap.African are of multi-facial types not just negro,it always have been.East Asians are of multi-racial groups,have been for at least 3000yrs now,not just mongo,Asia was full of different types of little black people for thousands of years,but thats not taught.Also which natives are you talking about?
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your half right. Puerto Rican is an ethnicity, but there is only one race and that is the human race
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I agree
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