Blake Griffin
Griffin in 2011
Birth Name: Blake Austin Griffin
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 16, 1989
Ethnicity:
*father – African-Haitian/African-American
*mother – English
Blake Griffin is an American professional basketball player. A power forward, he played for the Los Angeles Clippers, the Detroit Pistons, the Brooklyn Nets, and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the number one NBA draft pick in 2009. He is 6′9″.
Blake is the son of Gail and Tommy Griffin, who is a basketball player and basketball coach. His father is black, with African-Haitian ancestry. His mother is white, with English ancestry. His brother, Taylor Griffin, is also a professional basketball player.
Blake has two children with his former partner Brynn Cameron. Brynn’s brother is professional basketball player Jordan Cameron.
Griffin’s parents
Blake’s maternal grandfather was Clarence Melvin Simmons (the son of Curtis W. Simmons and Mabel/Mable D. Hiatt). Clarence was born in Oklahoma. Curtis was the son of Edwin Cirby Simmons and Mildred Dixon Poarch.
Blake’s maternal grandmother was Fanel Owings (the daughter of Lyle/Lyles Greenwood Owings and Alice/Allie S. Pat/Patricia Speed). Fanel was born in Texas. Lyle was the son of Eldridge John Owings and S. Margaret “Maggie” Greenwood. Alice was the daughter of Patrick Milton Speed and Alice Elizabeth Burleson.
Sources: Obituaries of Blake’s maternal grandparents, Clarence Melvin Simmons and Fanel (Owings) Simmons – https://www.findagrave.com
Blake’s maternal grandfather, Clarence Melvin Simmons, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Blake’s maternal grandfather, Clarence Melvin Simmons – http://legacy.newsok.com
another way to answer racial questions: if you get a can of white paint and pour into it anything but a shade of white, you will get a non-white color. conversely, if you mix 3 or more colors together you get black. if you get yellow paint and mix white into it, it still is yellow, although lighter. if you mix yellow and black, you get brown and the only truly brown skinned people are Blacks. when you mix yellow and red, you get orange and Mexican Hispanics refer to themselves as the Golden skinned race(hence orange) therefore, it can apply to Hispanics. When you mix white and black you get grey, a lighter shade of Black, hence, you can attribute this to Blacks.hope this reduces the confusion
what i will tell you now please engrave into your minds for the below are racial classifications that go into the past at least 2000 years:
White + anything non-White(even if White ancestry is present) = non White (ex: Obama)
White + Yellow = Yellow (ex: Ann Curry}
White + Red (Indians of the Americas) = Hispanic (ex: Selena Gomez)
Yellow + Red = Hispanic (ex: Jimmy Smits)
Yellow + Black = Black (ex: Tiger Woods)
Black + Red = Black (ex: Sammy Sosa)
His mom has really strong genes
I get so aggravated when someone of mixed race, who incidentally looks more white than black, as in Black Griffin’s case, is called only black.
That view is clearly on old fashioned, out-dated one from people who can’t wrap their brains around the fact that we no longer live in a time of Jim Crow or slavery. When someone is mixed (with white & black) they are not only black.
If Jason wants to call himself black, that’s his prerogative, because at the end of the day, no one has the right to label someone in a race that they think they are, except the person themselves who feels comfortable in being considered or seen as the race they want to be viewed as.
It also aggravates me when someone gets upset when the mixed person chooses to be who they are and then they proceed to ridicule them for it, such as “He/She don’t want to be black/white” or “He/She is ashamed of being black/white”, etc. That’s just plain wrong and it seems like too much judging on the other person’s part. Everyone has their own experience, throughout their childhood or lifetime and unless you walk in that person’s shoes, you don’t have the right to judge.
There shouldn’t be a right or wrong answer when a mixed person chooses to call themselves what they feel comfortable in being.
CORRECTION TO SPELLING: BLAKE GRIFFIN
I’m agree with you. The same is with celebrities, who
have jewish blood. they are “jews”, even if they
predominately english
Ah, that footballhead with his pathetic efforts. His own blame.
BTW, dear Follers, here isn’t a facebook, and we are
not your friends. So, please, vorget that ridiculous
“you are trying to tell”. Maybe you think, I had a stroke and have problems with my speech? It’s nice, that you take care of my health, but I’m o’k. “Try” seems to be some insult among young people? But should I think, here are neither invalds no babies.
I answered (although I must not)
he looks like Kris Humphries.