Eniko Parrish
Parrish in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Eniko Nadine Parrish
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 18, 1984
Ethnicity:
*father – African-American
*mother – Jamaican [Chinese, African]
Eniko Parrish is the wife of comedian, actor, writer, and producer Kevin Hart, with whom she has two children.
A picture of Eniko’s parents with Kevin can be seen here. A picture of Eniko with her father can be seen here.
Eniko’s maternal grandfather was Leslie Fong (the son of John Fong and Edith Francis/Frances Chin). Leslie was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of Chinese parents. John was the son of Edward Fong. Francis was the daughter of Charles Chin.
Eniko’s maternal grandmother is named Dorothy V. White. Dorothy is a black Jamaican.
Eniko’s paternal grandmother likely is named Viola G.
Sources: http://rollingout.com
http://www.vibe.com
Birth record of Eniko’s maternal grandfather, Leslie Fong – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Eniko’s maternal great-grandparents, John Fong and Edith Francis/Frances Chin – https://www.familysearch.org
Death record of Eniko’s maternal great-grandfather, John Fong – https://www.familysearch.org
Death record of Eniko’s maternal great-grandmother, Edith Francis/Frances (Chin) Fong – https://www.familysearch.org
@MISG, I did observe in Jamaica that there is a portion of really simple minded Jamaicans who claim their dark skin does not make them racist. BUT YES, I called it, you are a dark skinned racist. Those women you called Mixed are considered as BLACKS in Jamaica, whether they are light or dark, curly haired or kinky. I have women in my BLACK family who look just like these women. Why don’t you stop making BLACK people look stupid and stopped bringing up interracial colourism.
I pointed you to the CIA factbook and Jamaica is proudly 92% Black African. All blacks light and dark in the new world have been mixed. You cannot divide yourself from light skinned blacks, just because you think your skin tone allows you too . You are not accepting facts. You sound as though you grew up in a family with the same dark skin tone, and maybe your relatives have the same dark skin. That does not mean you cannot be mixed just like another light skinned black Jamaican, you need to cut these divisions. Most of Jamaica, thankfully is not you. Jamaicans with common sense consider themselves as one island and One people. of 92% black.
you pointed to a an AMERICAN organization that comes from a country that does not recognize mixed-race people- so they classify anyone with a drop of African ancestry as “black” –so don’t act brand new
the Jamaican government does recognize “mixed” race people and that’s why I brought in the Jamaican census questionnaire — directly from the Jamaican governments website:
http://statinja.gov.jm/Census/Individual%20Short.pdf
what is more authentic and credible, information from the Jamaican government about their own people?
or information from a foreign government? because that is what the USA is when it comes to information about Jamaica.
Jamaica is not an American colony, we are NOT Puerto Rico — we are a Sovereign nation, with our own history, policies and culture… when did Americans and their views/policies become part of Jamaica’s views and policies.
neither you or the American government can tell Jamaican people about Jamaican people.
@MISG, your posts are DIVISIVE and very silly, if you call yourself BLACK, you are adding nothing to this discussin but hatred for light skin black people. I have traveled to nearly every single Carribean island. Why are you bringing up color divisions within the BLACK race???? The point of my argument is the BLACK Jamaican category is ALL inclusive and similar to the light skin and dark skin problems like we have in America. I lived in the Carribean, I am not all American.,
Lies, you don’t live in the Caribbean
or you would post information from at least 1 Caribbean source
instead you bring in u-tube and information from a the white American government
you might have been born in Guyana, but you live in America because you think and sound like one
@MISG, what does Jamaica’s problems with colourism have to do with this ?????? And this post. The colourism problems in Jamaica are still within the BLACK Jamaican race. Why are you complicating the issue. They are all black people. Why are you creating silly interracial divisions??????
No, we are all “people of Colour” because mixed-race people do have African ancestry
but that does not make them “black” in Jamaica
In America, having African ancestry puts mixed-race people in the “black” category because America is a racist country that wants white people to be pure
in Jamaica, even our “white” people most times carry African or Indian ancestry, like Kaci Fennels grandfather
@MISG, I am a huge Buju Banton reggae fan, you forget, I was born in the Carribean, Georgetown Guyana, I know what a Brownin is and I saw Buju Banton on concert. ‘
You may be a black Jamaican but you are a black obviously ignorant Jamaican. No I don’t want to be Jamaican. But I went to school , visited , family friends, traveled to Jamaica and have been surrounded by BLACK Jamaicans. My whole family has and their is a great difference between Jamaicans and educated traveled, experienced Jamaicans.
I don’t CARE how many Jamaican people you know in America…you could even push out a Jamaican man’s pickney
and you still don’t know anything about Jamaican people, our history or culture
and that’s why you call Half-chinee and coolie people “black”
@Misg here is a list of what some Jamaicans have losted as their 10 most beautiful, all of these women would be considered Black in Jamaica.
http://www.dtop10list.com/2014/10/top-10-most-beautiful-jamaican-women.html?m=1
My dear,
Not one of them is considered Black in Jamaica
and I don’t need some little YANKEE gyal like you to come and tell me what MY people think or how we see race/colour.
That’s why I said to take your bclot confusion self back to wherever you came from and stay out of YARD people’s business.
the only delusional dingbat here is you…YANKEE Gyal! fake Guyanese
you are NOT JAMAICAN… you have no business speaking for us– the only Jamaicans you know are the ones you find on Google..
You purposely ignore every link I’ve brought in so that you can continue your rant, you ridiculous, lying bitch!
You don’t know ANY Jamaicans, that’s why you say the same thing for any set of black people, regardless of where they’re from
“Browning” only came into fashion with Buju… we’ve ALWAYS called mixed people “brown”
and on the Official Jamaican census, they are labelled “mixed race”… as the sample census I brought in shows
http://statinja.gov.jm/Census/Individual%20Short.pdf
ignoring the evidence does not make it disappear, you YANKEE gyal, wanna be Caribbean. You have never been to Jamaica — LIAR
@MISG, HEY ARE BLACK JAMAICANS, everyone of my Jamaica friends and family friends have these same looks as the girls. Upper class Jamaicans.
obviously you skipped over my comments on how in Jamaica, we are tired of seeing mixed-race women always winning
because here you are, providing pictures of the very women black Jamaican people are complaining about ie Laurie Ann Chin
to Jamaicans, black beauty is represented by women such as Zahra Redwood and April Jackson
http://www.modelmanagement.com/blog/2009/07/15/fame-for-fortune-miss-jamaica-universe-giving-children-a-future/
http://americanmodelzone.com/ZahraRedwood.html
@misg, YOU ARE SPEAKING IGNORANCE, the woman are light skinned, there is no real mixed race category in Jamaica. My best friends are Jamaican and I am from the Carribean. Black beauty is NOT just dark skinned in the British Carribean. Its a blend of 50 different black skin tones.. The entire Carribean has been mixed from past slavery just like America.
I AM A BLACK CARRIBEAN. You are speaking ignorance.
again, you delusional LIAR, who don’t know ANYTHING about Jamaican culture
here is the official Jamaican census that clearly lists the ‘MIXED RACE” category.
http://statinja.gov.jm/Census/Individual%20Short.pdf
as I said, STOP SPEAKING FOR JAMAICAN people you FaKE wanna be Caribbean YANKEE black woman.
We don’t call half caste, half seed white people “black” like you YANKEE people.
@MISG, you cannt pick just any census because not all census reports can be trusted. One of the most trusted census reports in the world is the CIA factbook and the CIA factbook list Jamaicans at near 92% percent black and that covers the entire island.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/jm.html
You are spreading a lot of ignorance, WOW. Get educated. I have a degree in Afro-Carribean studies as well. Jamaica is a BRITISH former colony therefore their definitions of “blackness” is just like the United States and not like Latin America and the Spanish Carribean. America was a former British Colony too.
ALL those women are blacks.
@MISG Laurie Ann Chin is mixed, I agree, she is Chinese, Jewish, Black, etc, yes she is recently mixed. Most Jamaicans are not her. But the majority of the Jamaican population both light and dark is NOT recently mixed. Unlike the Spanish Carribean, you do not have to have dark skin to be considered as BLACK. Why are you just showing dark skinned women? There are black light skinned women in Jamaica too.
The problem with you, is that you have no respect for blackness and that’s why you are brainwashed like the American Yankee that you are.
You believe the white man that told you that any oz of African, makes you black — Well, in Jamaica
We don’t believe in no “one drop rule”
That’s why we acknowledged mixed-race people as f’cking “mixed” and not black
if they wish to call themselves “black” –no one will complain.
but we have enough respect for our African ancestors to acknowledge when the blood has been tainted by non-Africans
and we called them what they are ‘MIXED”
and because you don’t know this.. you are a liar and don’t know any REAL, from the flippin YARD Jamaicans
Jamericans don’t count, sweetheart
@MISG, half black and half Indian and Half White and half Black people ALL over the British Carribean are SOCIALLY CONSIDERED BLACK, unless they look otherwise and can pass..
I AM A BLACK CARRIBEAN. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.
@MISG, as much as you want to spread LIES, and you my want to be mixed yourself, I do not know what you look like. But there is NO recognizable Mixed race category in Jamaica, sorry try again with that lie. They may label themselves quietly but socially they are still treated as BALCKS.
Half blacks in Jamaica are still socially BLACKS. YEs you do consider Half Black peoples as BLACKS.
And you are ignoring the obvious The Eniko Parrish the subject of this post has other races but considers herself a black Jamaican . I have two Jamaica friends whose one parent is Indian Jamaican, and they still consider themselves as BLACK Jamaicans too.
@MISG, You are speaking to a Guyanese there are one million times more mixed looking BLACK people in Guyana than Jamaica and even we do not recognize a large mixed category, neither does Trinidad . The entire place is mixed but we still have races, Black, Indian and white. Most everyone is mixed. So do not tell me about mixed people you FOOL.
@MISG, just because you have a personal problem with them picking lighter women as Miss Jamaica, do not bring it here because it does not fit the truth. There have been Miss Jamaica’s of all skin tones and their should be because Jamaica is not just one skin tone. I went to an all night reggae concert in Ocho Rios and the black crowd has multitudes of skin tone shades. So stop that light skin dark skin NONSENSE. I grew in a black Carribean family that had shades of skin tones from vanilla café au lait to black midnight, I have no skin tone bias. But its not fair for you to be spreading interracial divisions.
@MISG Yendi Phillips is Black , former Miss Jamaica and
Yendi http://worldofblackheroes.com/2012/03/22/yendi-phillips/
Kaci Fennel-
https://youtu.be/cPciPx2Jgjg
and Kaci Fennel (a browning which is a BLACK light skinned Jamaican.
and a quote from a BLACK Jamaican living in Jamaica about the recent Miss Universe finalist Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennel
“Sup? Kaci is a black Jamaican woman, that’s what we see her as in Jamaica, that’s what she is. I feel so stupid quarreling with another black person about the race of another black person. We are literally the only fools on earth who dig into our ancestry to find a “non-black” person and run with it in attempt to “de-colourise” ourselves. And I find it even more foolish that you are trying to “de-colourise” actors/actresses who consider themselves as black people. Anyhow, this is the end of this discussion. “