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
The Jamaican motto is “Out of Many, One People”
This means that out of many races/ethnicity, we are all “Jamaicans” — it doesn’t mean we are all “black”
Jamaica is a majority black country with pure and admixed black people; and we also recognize “mixed” race people for what they are “Mixed” ie brown Afro-European, Afro-chinese, Afro-Indian,
we don’t “one drop” them, unless they themselve’s state, “I am black” — like Yendi Philips, who is what we call “browning”
I am not racist and as a black Jamaican, I support any Jamaican, regardless of race/ethnicity or skin tone– because we are all one Nationality– Jamaicans.
but being accepting of other races does not mean that we don’t acknowledge differences in our racial makeup
its’ about the fact that if someone carries the blood of 2 -4 different races, then that person is “mixed”, and is seen as “Mixed” in Jamaican society (because there are dark-skinned mixed people too, like Super Cat)
that is the point I am trying to make, one which you want to run from and replace with your American concepts of race
Midori
you are correct in saying this post is about Eniko
but unfortunately, it became about you because of the LIES you are saying about Jamaican culture and the fact that you keep pushing yourself up as the spokesperson for black people around the world (as I said, “you’re fired”)
You want to push AMERICAN concepts of race onto Caribbean people and I will not let you do that.
Yes, black people in Jamaica have admixture from other races, just like black people in America
but Jamaicans acknowledge those racial mixtures and if multiracial people want to call themselves “black” in Jamaica, everyone accepts it — and if they don’t, we accept that too
because we don’t “one-drop” anyone and call them black.
we’re not American or Guyanese, another set of racist people because the Indians are running things in Guyana and they don’t want to accept coolie people with African blood as “Indian”
@MISG, these people ARE considered mixed Jamaicans
Mixed Jamaicans
https://youtu.be/VxECJ26cu0Q
Mixed
https://youtu.be/V05it8Ws4Rs
Tami Chin, Tessa Ann Chin
*To be in the mixed category, you have to be really indistinguishable and racially ambigious. You cannot look obviously BLACK.
Those people are what we call “white” in Jamaica
Tess and Tami are considered “Chinese” in Jamaica, even though they are mixed with African and European
in Jamaican, Nell Robinson is what we call “white” or “brown”
In America, Nell would be called “black” because white people created the one-drop rule and because of her visible African ancestry, she would be one-dropped by both black and white American people.
Mixed-race Jamaicans learn quick that once they leave the Caribbean, their identity changes depending on the country they go to and they learn to adapt, like in the UK
@MISG, again the most reliable census is the Central Intelligence agency reports that list Jamaicans as a self described 92.1 % BLACK island. So the half caste black designated mixed slaves or immigrant children are in full effect and have been for centuries describing themselves as blacks.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/jm.html
so, I’m supposed to accept a white AMERICAN — a foreign country’s information about my country as Fact
and I’m supposed to ignore my own Jamaican governments census?????
and you call me ignorant? you don’t see the problem with what you are saying?
This is why I call you American and ignorant
PURE LIES you a tell
the CIA published what they wanted by combining the Afro- Chinese, Afro-European, and Afro-Indian categories into a single “black” category
because that’s what Americans do– they call “mixed” race people black
here is the full Jamaican government census questionnaire:
http://statinja.gov.jm/Census/Census2011/Individual%20Questionnaire_Census2011_FINAL.pdf
half-black Jamaicans for centuries have called themselves anything BUT black, as the article from the Jamaican gleaner explains:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110923/cleisure/cleisure2.html
“Active efforts were made to co-opt the browns (offspring of the whites and the slaves) on the side of the whites.
A system of skin shade was developed, with a different legal status:
(mulatto + black = sambo; mulatto + white = quadroon; quadroon + white = mustee; etc.).
Many slave masters freed their brown children, and gave them the plum jobs on the plantations. Brown persons could be bookkeepers on estates, and officers in the militia.
Being ‘brown’, actually a mixture of races, became considered as being a separate race unto itself.
And then the system demanded that brown people be socialised to believe they were superior to blacks, but inferior to whites. And blacks were socialised to believe it too.”
MisG says: In Jamaica, we are all people of Colour
but we are not ALL black just because someone carries a small or half amount of African blood.
@MISG, I am still considered BLACK in the British Carribean as well as everyone in my family and we have Indian, White, and African mixtures. The British Colonies in America and the Carribean have a basically unified view on race. If you have a black parent socially you are still BLACK. And stop using the one drop rule because the women I posted where majority African looking.
Lies… in the Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean
if you looked “mixed”, you are considered “mixed”
you repeat yourself all day, but you are not going to change a fact
and learn your history. The AMERICANS parted ways with views on race with the BRITISH when it came to the West Indies dear.
The white man did not socially acknowledge their mixed race children. In Jamaica, the white man socially acknowledged his mixed race children — that is A historical FACT
That is why the mixed-race became their own “class” in Jamaica. Today, even though the island is majority black, mixed-race people are socially seen as being “mixed” and not black.
the white AMERICAN man hated his mixed children so much that he told them “you no part of me, you are black” and black Americans had no choice but to accept mixed people as “black” because the white man forced them (black and mixed) to all live together under segregation.
Jamaica did not have race segregation, we were divided by class (just like most other Caribbean island)
I don’t need to take a special University course to know about my country, especially from a confused Yankee gyal
THAT IS A LIE ! I AM CARIBBEAN BORN & BREED ! CARIBBEAN Don’t telly you you are black if you are mixed ace absoloute lie you tell nah ! Black caribbeans are mixed & claim it So Stop lieing please!
@WestIndiangrl, you are the same as MISG, you signed on with a different name and you are trying to stir up arguments for untruths. I am Carribean born and bred too and BLACK. Yes that is what everyone is saying Black Carribeans are mixed just like Black Americans. BUT THEY ARE STILL CONSIDERED BLACK.
no dutty gyal, I am not WestIndiangirl
I don’t need to play games to call you out as the delusional dingbat that you are.
@WestIndiangrl, all the British Colony African slaves in America and the Carribean were mixed in slavery 200 hundred years ago. Making the black populations 200 different skin tones. But still BLACK.
The only unmixed black Jamaicans are called Maroons, black slaves who ran to the hills of which reggae artist Buju Banton is one of them .
@WestIndiangrl, it does not matter what you claim, socially you are BLACK, even if you are mixed. Like Halle Berry claims her white mom but she is BLACK socially and chooses to be. If you look African or slightly , you are BLACK.
midori, stop with your lies backfoot gyal !
trying to pass off racist American “one drop” views onto Caribbean people
Jamaican people don’t accept every likkle white man half seed as “black” — stop the nize, liar gyal
it’s because you come from racist Guyana and grew up in racist America, why you don’t know anything about the Caribbean.
and dear GOD, please leave the Jamaican Maroons out your dutty mouth because this is where you truly get into territory you don’t know anything about.