Birth Name:
Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Birth Place:
Saint Michael, Barbados
Date of Birth:
February 20, 1988
Race or Ethnicity:
Afro-Bajan, Irish and Afro-Guyanese descent.
The Barbadian singer was born to Ronald Fenty, a Barbadian man of African and Irish descent. Her mother, Monica Fenty is of Afro-Guyanese descent. This was stated in an article on the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African American owned newspaper.
It is interesting to note that people of Black, East Indian and to a lesser extent Native people make up the population in Guyana.
In an article for Allure magazine, Rihanna revealed that she was bullied in school and called ‘white’ by the other kids while growing up in Barbados.
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Rihanna is mixed race – her dad is Bajan/Irish. People get over it. If she says she is mixed than she is mixed who are we to debate this.
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actually on her twitter she said she’s black when someone asked her a question about whatever.
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A Girl asked why her Hair looked Nappy.
http://divamission.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/rihanna-responds-to-nappy-hair-comment-cuz-im-black-btch/
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If thats what your talking about…
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yea
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LOL,sometime we forget celebs sre regular people.However you ask a rude question,you get the response you deserve
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Well there it goes,that’s how she sees herself
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a really best option here is to let a Rihanna gal 2ans her self which nationality iz she.or that is why Cb loves her becos he thinks she belong to his colour. lets alone her nationalism ilove her body n music
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wow…there are a lot of ignorant people here…you people dont know…all black people have to have dark brown or bown eyes? wtf is that? i have a pure afircan friend with blonde-brown hair and light brown/hazel eyes…and are you going to tell me she is not black? your physical traits do not depend on race…it depends on genetics, duh
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u guys are dummies especially the first one lol ur so dumb lol
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I feel you Patrice, What people who are not of color do not understand is, those of us who are
mixed are the only ones who understand, the drama surrounding the race situation we find ourselves in. It is all well and good for others to object to multiracial individuals being seen as black.
However the fact is if you have an ounce of black blood your accepted as black, by black people.
You may not be put up on a pedestal because you have white relatives, but given the history of the
the world who could blame them. Conversely,whites have historically treated biracial individuals in the same hate filled and degrading manner they have full blooded African Americans. This is as good a
reason as any I could find, for multiracial individuals to be considered as one with the darker side
of their heritage. Being accepted and acknowledged is very important, being part of a tribe is a gratifying experience.
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It is extremely ignorant to say people who are predominantly black are fat.
I’m actually being nice using the word ignorant. It takes centuries for some people
to realize that blackness is beauty. Being biracial MORE often than not enhances.
Black features are full lips high round rear ends high cheekbones. Plastic surgeons are getting rich pumping the lips of white women all day long. Oh my what would you have done without Angelina to show you full lips are beautiful. You who are blinded if color
accompanies a feature of perfection, need to stop being filled with hate. The conversation
of whether celebrities are considered black or not is all based on whether or not racists like Ianna can accept you or not. There is nothing plainer than white bread thin lipped
flat ass race of people who have to be drugged to know better> By the way Beyonce only
needed to tell people who are to ignorant to know what they were looking at.
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Black Amercicans need to be educated about black history. Like Babados which some of this board claim is black black black America is also full of black black black and fat fat fat people who try to claim Red Indian ancestry. And by the way do you notice the ones who do are the ones who look black black black. .I have visited Amercia and I was shocked to see how plain and fat they all were. Not what you see on the music videos and on television is it a wonder Beyonce is now claiming to be Creole.
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She is mixed and pretty, end of story
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LMAO. How the hell is Rihanna black when she has hazel eyes?
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Erykaha Badu has hazel eyes and she’s not mixed, it’s possible. Plus, just because of her hazel eyes you right away tag her as non-black, are you blind to the fact that she has a flat broad nose and corse, kinky black hair look at her pics of when she was a child and also her lips are full. People also say that race has alot to do with culture well her culture is a black culture what more do people need.
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Get a clue I got one…want it?
Rhianna is original she looklikes like a black woman. Barbados got there freedom about 100 years before the American slaves. Barbadian didn’t allowed Indians to land in Barbados many Africans turn their boats away. The first slaves in Barbados were Irish the last Irish slaves died in 1984 she was famale her Irish husband died in 1979. All her kids went to Canada to keep white.
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