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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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Its many different black people you got some Puertoricans that look black, dominicans blacker than african americans cubans.. What the fuck is a african american? Black american is the real walkin indians. The book portrayed indian to have white skin and str8 hair.. But in reality african american and real africans are not the same people..AA like any other race have african ancestory but why is american people the only one that claim someone elses country that don’t like them.. Its many black people in this world.. But in reality the puertoricans,dominicans is all the same people just some of the ancestors was sent to another country they got mix with european and speak spanish.. So if anything AA is black americans.. Now if your mom came directly from africa and had you in american you are a african american.. Black people that was already her is Native of american.. Think about it
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Another very beautiful and highly under-used actress. I hope she is able to use her talent more in the future.
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Liyah: Sanaa Latham is mixed race and so are you if what you say is true about your own looks. It is not always possible to tell by looking at a person with the naked eye how mix they are. An example Halle Berry daughter doesn’t look like a quadroon she looks half white and half black, the former Spice girl member Emma Bunton son’s is also a quadroon, however he looks totally white,blue eyes and straight blonde hair the same thing with the ex tennis player Boris Becker’s son also a quadroon but doesn’t show any black traits. The fact that Nahla looks mixed inspite of being a quadroon makes wonder if her father,Gabriel Aubrey, has black ancestry and may not even know it.There are other cases like the Jamie Oliver actually admitted on one of shows that he has black ancestry. A lot of Americans who claim to be pure white are not,they don’t look like white northern Europeans, Angelina Jolie is a pirme example.
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It is a fact many African Americans have American Indian blood,despite the fact Gates stated the opposite. Many geniticist have stated many of these so-called quicky test dont tract the patrlineal and matralineal of both side of the family . Gates is so proud of his white blood .he wants say everbody has white blood like him
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Sanaa is very pretty and when i look at her all i see is black even though she’s partly native she took alot from the black side. Some people are saying her features says it’s obvious that she’s native but i don’t believe so. Her features are pretty much black features, she has brown skin like mine, a nose like many black girls i’ve seen, her gums are dark like mine, her eyes are dark brown like mine which is very common in black females. When people say it’s noticeable that she’s partly native like there is a huge difference between her and someone who’s not i don’t get it. What is the huge difference that you could spot her out from a crowd of black women? What are “fully” black women suppose to look like? big flat noses, big lips covering their whole chin, big eyes like a cow? There is no real reason to think she was mix it’s just that she’s pretty so people think that right away and she just so happens to be. I’m not insecure i’m proud to be black i’m just stating the facts that’s all, she might have some native in her but she looks like any other black girl.
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Omfg. This is really anonnying she does look just black shes brown skinned, full lips and her hair is like an afro she shows her real hair in love && basketball. its crazy to me how ppl and herself are saying shes mixed if you compare Keri hilson to sanaa lathan who looks more mixed clearly Keri but Keri just say shes black. ppl on here saying her features are blah blah blah c’mon now what are black features black ppl have alot of different features dont put blacks all in one category. If she’s native who in her family was and what tribe celebs forget to say that alot. There is so many black girls walking around looking like her its crazy. and a lot of black ppl say there mixed with native and alot of black ppl are mixed so what she isnt any different.
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When we see someone who’s black and beautiful and they/we try to claim admixture then black people argue that they are black/african american and that they’re no different and that they look black(in other words, typical black person). But when a person of another race says someone looks like a typical black person, people attempt to argue that people don’t know what a typical black person looks like. Black people make up your minds and stop arguing for the sake of arguing, this is getting a little ridiculous.
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Why dont you let black women be who they are, we are beautiful and proud to be black- we aint white women- we are black women get over it- I see you leaving all these comments under beautiful black womens pages trying to make them seem like something else- she said she is black, so what’s your argument now?
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It’s not that we can’t “make up our minds”, we just get tired of others taking the “black” out of “beauty”. We take offense when someone of another race describes another as a typical black person, because we are so used to that meaning something unattractive. We need others to know that a “typical” black person’s looks run the gamut.
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Btw I agree with you, she is American Black just like the rest of us. I hate that people think black and beautiful shouldn’t be used in the same sentence unless “is not” is between them.
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I dont believe your a black women by all the comments you make trying to bring us down and dimminish us!
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You always seem to have some juvenile comment to anything I write here. You’re correct, I’m not a black “women” I’m a black man! Why would I try to bring down and diminish my own people? I just know BS when I see it.
In response to your other comment reading is fundamental, I am tired that black people(at least the ones I’ve met and ones on this site)are always pissing and moaning about people saying someone looks like a typical black person then turning around and saying Sanaa Lathan, Beyonce,Keri Hilson etc all look like typical black women/people while accusing then of insinuating that they’re only pretty because of such and such admixture…make up your minds. Is there a “typical black” or not? Personally: No there isn’t, we all look far too different and come in too many different shades for one to look like the other. Just like Europeans and Asians.
Read my comments carefully then respond.
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So far you ared the only one I heard do that, other people seem to take pride in black beauty, and claiming our own, except for you Gemini, go get yoself a real white woman and call it a night! lol
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Sanaa Lathan is of African American and Native American descent. This fact is on Wikipedia and it is quite evident from the texture of her natural hair(She wore it natural on the movie “Something New”). I’m South African. Most of us are pure black and I can tell quite easily when someone is multiracial. It isn’t a bad thing to be of mixed ancestry, and I resent how these people are forced to embrace one side and denounce the other. Referring to Sanaa as simply African American and not accounting for her Indian ancestry is reminiscent of the One Drop Rule, which states that if a person has one drop of black blood in them, they are black. This is really offensive to me, as a fully black man. It implies that my race is filthy and that anybody who has even a trace of it is spoiled, ruined in a sense. Most African Americans are multiracial, mainly because they are the minority. They should acknowledge that fact and be proud of it instead of enforcing a racist concept coined by the segregative regime to make us feel ashamed of our blackness. Aluta Continua
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To Mr.Duncan
I believe you have that backward,usually it’s the other side of their ethnicity that denounces them.There are many out there who would tell you how it’s their other side of their heritage that want even speak to them.Also calling someone African American is not denying anything.Unlike you who most likely knows his heritage,most AA’s can’t say that.So the term fits,it African or black which is usually the only obvious part,and the unknown(whether your white,native,asian or all this).So being called AA really has nothing to do with the ODR.Being called(nigger)by a white person or other,when your almost as bright as they are,now that’s the ODR.Now growing up,I never heard of this rule.There was no fixed color around me,it ran the range,and everyone was happy to call themselves AA,no matter what they looked like.Now most AA’s who know their background do take pride in what they are.If you go to the what’s my ethnicity part of the site,you’ll see that,they’re more than happy to tell you.So you might want to leave AA’s alone,there other places,and I’m not give names,that could use your wisdom
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By the way what part of south African are you from?
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Yeah south africa also has the coloreds who think they are better than the blacks!
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Sanaa, like many AA women, has a perm. She did not wear her natural hair in ‘Something New’.
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imma ask as SIMPLE question…why wen a BEAUTIFUL black woman enters the entertainment industry everybody is quick to say she is mixed with something else? i see an earlier post sayin sanaa lathan is definately not full black…please define what a black person look like? is black supposed to be ugly? because from the way yall talk yall seem to think black = UGLY…please stop the madness…they are some BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN on this earth n as a black woman who identifies myself as a black woman it really is heart breaking when people are denyin my beauty…really
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Yo she did do an interview and she has recent Native ancestry…it is pretty easy to see.
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how is it easy to see? tell me what does she have that tells you she has native in her?
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thanks Sean, which interview link is that?
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