Keri Hilson
Hilson in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Keri Lynn Hilson
Place of Birth: Decatur, Georgia, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 5, 1982
Ethnicity: African-American
Keri Hilson is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
Her parents, Christine Loraine and Gamaliel Warren Hilson, were/are both black. Her father was a developer. Her mother is from Iowa, and runs a day care center.
Keri’s paternal grandfather was named Gamaliel Warren Hilson.
Keri’s paternal grandmother was Missouri Smith (the daughter of Isaiah Smith and Augusta Annie Whatley). Missouri was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Augusta was the daughter of John Whatley and Missouri Phillips.
@ Fuzzybear lol apparently some people are still ignorant about how black people come in all shades. lol Ignorance is bliss!
To Wat???,
That’s the same thing that happen with my mother.She’s darker than we are,and it just cracks my mother up.She more mixed than we are,but doesn’t look it.
@ Fuzzybear lol glad to see that the light skins around me aren’t the only 1z who do that! lol thank God!
But yeah it’s hell to pay if you ask them or insinuate it, and sometimes quite embarrassing.
One time I was with my extended family in walmart and this woman was talking to the older women of the group(my mom and aunties) and telling them how well mannered and polite we were and how we were a pretty family and all that jazz.
Well as the rest of us (my brothers, boy and girl cousins and our uncle) talked and what not, my lil cousin (18yrs) the only light skinned in the group of like 15(yes we roll like that! lol we were dump!) called out for her mom. Well my auntie didn’t hear her and the woman was like “She is a very pretty girl!” Well when she walked over to us and said mom again and my auntie answered the look on the woman’s face was priceless! She was like….”This is your daughter?!”
lmao she was completely shocked! My auntie was like yeah, and everyone was looking at her like what the h3ll’s that suppose to mean?
She was like “Well…she’s lighter then the rest of you! Is your father white?”(I kid you not! Ppl here don’t giva d@mn and don’t think b4 they say shyt!) The funny thing is her dad is also dark skinned and was with us. He was like “No I’m her father!”
Everyone was like no the hell she didn’t! lol
I was like “Oh shyt! We finna end up on news channel 5!” LMAO
The woman quickly changed it and was like “I’m so sorry it’s just that…She’s so light compared to you two!”
My lil cousin lost it and was loud with the shyt! Thank God she did other wise my aunties would’ve tried to kill that woman. We literally had to leave our items and go. It was sooooo embarrassing!
So apparently the woman didn’t think that dark skinned ppl could have light skinned kids. How ignorant she was!
I felt bad for the woman though, but I will admit she should really think b4 she say shyt!
To Wat???,
They sound like my sister and brothers,and don’t get me started about my father,saying he’s anything other than black;and yes you would have a fight on your hands.
lol Nice to be back Ethnic!
I see ppl are actually taking other people’s ethnicities to the heart! lol
Some of these comments go hard! lmao