Ice-T
Ice-T with wife Coco Austin in 2009, photo by lev radin / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Tracy Lauren Marrow
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 16, 1958
Ethnicity: African-American
Ice-T is an American actor, musician, rapper, songwriter, record producer, record executive, and author.
Ice-T is the son of Alice and Solomon Marrow. His parents were both black. His mother is sometimes said to have had Louisiana Creole ancestry. This does not appear to be accurate.
Ice-T is married to actress, dancer, and model Coco Austin. He has three children, including a daughter with Coco.
Ice-T’s paternal grandfather was Solomon Marrow (the son of Daniel Marrow and Tempie Hunt). Solomon was born in North Carolina. Daniel was the son of Aaron Marrow and Susan Daniel.
Ice-T’s paternal grandmother was named Ethel Schuyler. Ethel was born in New York.
Ice-T’s maternal grandfather was Charndiler Jordan Smith (the son of Leander A. Smith and Priscilla Coleman). Charndiler was born in Virginia. Leander was the son of William R. Smith and Betsy Humbles. Priscilla was the daughter of Susan Green.
Ice-T’s maternal grandmother was named Mary J. Hairston (the daughter of Parthenia Hairston). Mary was born in North Carolina. Parthenia was the daughter of Patrick Hairston and Frankey Hairston.
Ice-T is the son of Alice and Solomon Marrow. His mother was said to be Louisiana Creole.
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I knew he was mixed, he didn’t look fully black. His wife is a whore btw.
Creole does not mean mixed all the time. There are BLACK creoles. Creole is just an ethnicity. I know a few light skin black guys who look like Ice T with his high yellow skin tone and all and they are not mixed anytime recently. And Ive met 100 percent Africans black with his skin tone.
@midori
Quote(Creole does not mean mixed all the time. There are BLACK creoles. Creole is just an ethnicity. )
Well you’re right,first and foremost it’s a cultural identity or ethnicity. Also yes there are Black Creoles, Yellow Creoles ,White Creoles and so on. However the Black skin ones can be just as mixed as the Yellow ones. Most Creoles are multi- generational types, and therefore you will get all kinds of skin tones , Hair type etc in the families.( I know you know this, that was for the people who didn’t)
Quote( I know a few light skin black guys who look like Ice T with his high yellow skin tone and all and they are not mixed anytime recently. )
You’ll get a lot of them. AA’s are just as much multi- generational types as Creoles are. My sister-in-laws family are all yellow skin, and they’ve never seen a white person in the family(and I know all the way up to the great grandmother)
Interesting about Creoles, didn’t know that, thanks. But re Africans, many mixed looking ones /lighter ones have done DNA tests and they are a mixture. All kinds of races and mixtures are in Africa. Just because someone is what Americans call lighter doesn’t mean that they are only Black. Also, there are various stages of albinism that are very common in some areas. It’s best to just not assume that all Africans are Black or only Black. Even Cleopatra was mixed and that’s going waaaayyyy back.
Cleoptra’s mother could have been entirely Greek, but more likely mostly European and maybe a quarter of something else. What is clear is that her mother was not black African or even significantly black African. So I’m not sure where that part of your post is coming from. Cleopatra is a poor example to use in this particular discussion.
I thought the Ptolemy family were Macedonian?
I always thought he was Blaxican tbh.
ice t is half white thats why he loves white women
That’s as silly as saying robert de niro is half black, because he married a black woman.
im white and love black women
YOU AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE REALLY SOMETHING. ALWAYS CLAIMING TO BE SOMEONE YOU ARE NOT. OK SOME OF YOU ARE MXED BUT SOME ARE DEINATELY NOT. REMEMBER THERE ARE SOME VERY LIGHT BLCK PEOPLE. LETS TAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THE AFRICANS, MOST OF THEM ARE NOT MIXED AT ALL BUT THEY COME IN DIFFERENT SHADES. EXAMPLE THE SOUTH SAHARAN ARE NOT MIXED AND LIVE IN THE OLD FASHIONED AFRICAN WAYS. HAVE YOU GUYS WATCHED “THE GOD’S MUST BE CRAZY”? MOST OF THEM HAVE PROBABLY NOT SEEN A WHITE PERSON BEFORE AND NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE LIGHT SKINNED BLACK PEOPLE, THERE’S A THEORY THAT COMES UP SAYING THAT THEY ARE PART CHINESE OR JAPANESE. AFRICANS ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND COME IN DIFFERENT SHADES. IF SOME ONE LOOKS GORGEOUS,YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS CLAIM THAT THEY CANT BE PURE BLACK.SHOWS HOW AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT PROUD TO BE BLACK. THEY ALWAYS CLAIM TO BE 5% OR 10% BLACK AND WHITE 80%, THIS IS JUST CRAZY. ATLEAST SAY YOU ARE 80% BLACK AND 20% SOMETHING ELSE. IN THE LAST 20 YEARS THERES HAS BEEN ALOT OF INTERMARRIAGE AND MIXING OF RACES WHICH IS GOOD.BUT PLEASE, MOST OF YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT PROUD TO BE WHO YOU ARE. I PITTY YOU. LOOK AT OBAMA 50% BLACK KENYAN AND 50% WHITE AMERICAN. HE IS PROUD TO BE BLACK.YOU SHOULD TO.
@betty boo
(YOU AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE REALLY SOMETHING. ALWAYS CLAIMING TO BE SOMEONE YOU ARE NOT. OK SOME OF YOU ARE Mixed BUT SOME ARE Definitely NOT)
How do you know which are mixed with something,and which ones are not?Also what are they claiming to be?
(REMEMBER THERE ARE SOME VERY LIGHT BLaCK PEOPLE. LETS TAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THE AFRICANS, MOST OF THEM ARE NOT MIXED AT ALL BUT THEY COME IN DIFFERENT SHADES)
This is true,Africa is a big place.It has different environmental conditions,which causes different skin tone variation.
(EXAMPLE THE SOUTH SAHARAN ARE NOT MIXED AND LIVE IN THE OLD FASHIONED AFRICAN WAYS. HAVE YOU GUYS WATCHED “THE GOD’S MUST BE CRAZY”? MOST OF THEM HAVE PROBABLY NOT SEEN A WHITE PERSON BEFORE AND NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE LIGHT SKINNED BLACK PEOPLE, THERE’S A THEORY THAT COMES UP SAYING THAT THEY ARE PART CHINESE OR JAPANESE.)
Yes I know all about the Khoisan or bushmen.However your a bit mistaken,they’re very familiar with white people.White people are forever trying to live with the bushmen.Especially since the government is trying to stop their hunter-gatherer life style.Bushmen have been all over the different continents,leaving their mark:
http://catalhuyuk.wikispaces.com/file/view/NECAT027.jpg/87119791/735×483/NECAT027.jpg
Now as to them being Chinese,I don’t think so.Many Africans share that phenotypical trait.Before Africans were given the name Negroid, they were called mongoloid(if I’m not mistaken).Anyhow as quiet as it is kept,Asian was full of little black people at one time.Incoming waves of humans just push them out,intermarried,or killed them.You see them on those little Islands(Andamanese peoples).I still think there are small numbers on the main land.
(YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS CLAIM THAT THEY CANT BE PURE BLACK.SHOWS HOW AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT PROUD TO BE BLACK.)
Now which AA’s are talking about?You obviously haven’t read the AA’s comments on here,that’s the last thing they would say.
(THEY ALWAYS CLAIM TO BE 5% OR 10% BLACK AND WHITE 80%)
Who has stated this?I think you have it backwards.
(IN THE LAST 20 YEARS THERE’S HAS BEEN A LOT OF INTERMARRIAGE AND MIXING OF RACES)
Baby that’s been happening since the start,not just 20yrs
*(Now which AA’s are talking about),meant to put (you) in there
(However your a bit mistaken)
you’re
@neiltennant
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(why YOU AFRICAN AMERICANS ?)
why YOU AFRICAN AMERICANS what?
I know you’re not AA, and I never said you were. I also understand that you like to discuss ethnicity, so do I. However when it comes to AA a lot of us don’t know our full bloodlines, so we can’t talk about what we don’t know
what do you mean “you african americans” just because our skin color is dark we cannot be of mixed descent such as hispanic or native american, you have got some nerve whoever you think you are to judge others by their race.
You don’t know that. People have been mixing in Africa for centuries. Look at DNA tests of modern peoples. Many folks are mixtures from different continents.