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Birth Name:
Fantasia Monique Barrino
Birth Place:
High Point, North Carolina, USA
Ethnicity:
African American with possibly some Cuban ancestry
The American Idol contestant was born in High Point North Carolina.
She has an African American Mother and a Father who is rumored to be of Cuban Descent. Barrino stated this in her autobiography, Life is not a Fairy Tale. This would explain her surname, Barrino which is an unusual surname for African Americans in North Carolina.
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Most people in the carib/antilles (that includes PR, DR, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti ect.) are of the 3 dominating following decents:
1. Taino/Arawak decent (We are not extinct, so don’t believe that lie)
2. Spanish
3. African
We are not LIMITED to these three and we were historically enslaved.
So it is not out the the possibility she is indeed of some indigenous carib that what enslaved or migrated to the states. Google: “caribbean african diaspora” there is a website that will school you!
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us cubans are black. all the whites went to miami.
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There are black people in Latin America just as black as Michael Jordan or Wesley snipes. They just have Spanish last names as opposed to northern european as most of us do.
Lots of black folks in Latin America have been kicked to the side of their societies. Ever listen to Cuban music? That alone would tell you there are black people there
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HEy EtHNiC, fANtASiA iS 0f pUERt0 RiCAN ANd AfRiCAN dESCENt, hER fAtHER MUSt BE pUERt0 RiCAN ANd bLACk 0R jUSt pUERt0 RiCAN. HER HALf-bR0tHER SAyS tHAt AND hiS NAME iS RiCC0 bARRiN0 ANd HE CALLS HiMSELf pUERT0 RiCC0. SOURCE: puertoriccmusic.com
S0… y0U SH0ULd ChANGE tHAt.! tHANkS.! =]]
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hmm he calls himself Puerto Ricco but doesnt really mention much about his Latino roots…
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