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Birth Name:
Sanaa Lathan
Birth Place:
New York City, USA
Date of Birth:
September 19, 1971
Ethnicity:
African American
the American Actress is famous for starring in the movies, Brown Sugar 2002, Alien Vs Predator 2004 and Blade 1998. Her mother Eleanor McCoy was a Broadway performer and her father was a producer of PBS.
Her first name, Sanaa means ‘work of art’ in Swahili. Some websites including IMDB state that she has Native American.
Source:
http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress_250/266_sanaa_lathan.html
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She is of Native blood..wikipedia has the interview source. and she is hot!!!
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at one pt or another All AA’s say that we have Indian in us, funny how it’s always Cherokee lol beep beep!!
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if i can find it(thats if its still up) then i’ll post it,,,
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I was looking for that interview but couldnt find it. would you have a link to it?
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i love her and i watched a video somewhere on youtube sum years ago, and she said that she indeed has native american in her blood and isn’t ashamed to claim it…lol…she embraces her native american side. I ain’t mad @ ya gurl Hey!!lol
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Yah!! I”m black and indian too. Much love to you Sanaa!! :)
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I think those claims aren’t from her mouth.
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Are they claiming that or is it just the author guessing?
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why do so many black celebs. Say they’re native a??? This isnlike the 4th on here
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That’s because most so called black people in the United States are descendents of Native Americans it’s just a fact plan and simple. Why is it a big deal that she talks about she clearly isn’t just black just by looking at her features alone.
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Actually, thats just a myth in the black community that everyone and their mama are native american. It was proved on African American lives that most african americans are not native american and that if their were 20 black ppl in a room only 1 outta of that 20 actually has native american in them. But why are all the african americans celebs on this site mixed. Really now? :/ Being mixed is when 1 parent is this and the other parent is another….not what your great great grandfather was..lmao
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This site doesnt say all African American celebs are mixed. thats BS.
An another thing, yes African American lives proved that most african americans are not native american, but it did confirm that many AAs have Caucasian blood.
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Sorry man I have to disagree with you.I just finish looking at African American lives for the second time,and I didn’t see where it proved that(that most african americans are not native american);all it shown was that those people didn’t have high amounts.I mean you take a hand full of celebrities and that supposed to speak for African Americans.However even if you go by his guess that still leaves about 2million AA’s with that lineage in high enough amounts,can we agree?
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Did you see most AA’s on that show or did you see less than 20 people out of 40million?Also if you review the DVD again,you would see he was simply stating his opinion on the numbers,he didn’t say it was a fact.Now like I told Ethnic,even if you went by his opinion that still makes about 2million AA’s with detectable lineage.Now the mix your talking about is call first generation,there are MGM
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How is she clearly not just black? What features of hers aren’t black? LOL.
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what’s so different about her features that sreams out native?
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This young lady is beautiful.
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You gotta a point. its a very small gene pool to make any conclusions.
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I don’t know why he said what he said.I really don’t care me being part that,hasn’t help me.It makes me who I am,but that it.I was just talking to my mother the other day.She say herself that my father was more white than black,but you couldn’t tell him that.Despite what Chris rock said,I’m not ashamed to say I have white blood.My family so mixed up,I wouldn’t be surprised if I was part samoan.Well later man
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hey man hope you keep exploring your background and let us know on here!
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