Jasika Nicole
Birth Name: Jasika Nicole Pruitt
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 10, 1980
Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*European (mother)
Jasika Nicole is an American actress and illustrator. She played Astrid Farnsworth on the series Fringe. Jasika is married to Claire Savage.
On growing up in a mixed-race family in Alabama, she has said:
I was influenced largely by my environment which was almost all white, and anti-black. I understood that my light skin and the fact that I was biracial gave me the point of view that a lot of black girls my age didn’t have, in terms of how others treated us. People would tell me I was pretty, but it was because I have lighter skin. They weren’t saying that to my black cousin.
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Nicole, who has a black dad and white mom, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where she said racial tensions were high. “It’s still so segregated and antiquated in a lot of the roles people have in that city. I left home to go to college in North Carolina, then in New York. Each time I returned, I felt more and more different. I felt I was having to squeeze myself into who I was there and I wasn’t that person anymore.”
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“I was influenced largely by my environment which was almost all white, and anti-black. I understood that my light skin and the fact that I was biracial gave me the point of view that a lot of black girls my age didn’t have, in terms of how others treated us. People would tell me I was pretty, but it was because I have lighter skin. They weren’t saying that to my black cousin.”
Quote(I was influenced largely by my environment which was almost all white, and anti-black.)
She thinks she had it bad, My two 2nd cousins ( fathers family) are all KKK members
Correction she is bi-racial.
Do you have a source?
She gorgeous.