Kali Hawk
Hawk in 2011, photo by Prphotos
Date of Birth: October 4, 1986
Ethnicity: African-American, Native American, German Jewish
Kali Hawk is an American actress, comedian, and model. Her roles include Couples Retreat, Fifty Shades of Black, and Black Jesus. She has been described as being of African-American, Native American, and German Jewish descent.
Both of her parents are of at least half African-American ancestry. Kali was raised in Manhattan.
Two of Kali’s paternal great-grandparents were Edward James Davis and Beatrice Agnes Arbuckle. They were African-American. Edward was the son of Wheeler Davis and Coreane Dixon. Beatrice was the daughter of Samuel James Arbuckle and Beatrice Nina Priscilla Mills/Courtney or Tatshama.
Kali’s maternal grandmother was the daughter of Randall/Randy Willis and Rebecca C. Hawk. Randall and Rebecca were born in Georgia, and were both African-American. Randall was the son of Fannie/Fanny. Rebecca was the daughter of Calton Lewis Hawk and Sarah Jane Johnson.
Sources: Kali talks about her relatives, including pictures – https://www.instagram.com
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Kali’s paternal great-grandparents, Edward James Davis and Beatrice Agnes Arbuckle, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Kali’s maternal great-grandparents, Randall/Randy Willis and Rebecca C. Hawk, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
If somebody finds the obituaries for Samuel Levi Sawyer (1924-2005) and Melanee Sawyer nee Willis (1932-1999), let me know.
3 years ago Kali posted that her grandmother’s sister Carlton (married to Ben) died in Connecticut at the age of 84.
I found an obituary that’s potentially the same woman.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ctpost/obituary.aspx?n=Carlton-Brown&pid=170550409
What’s interesting is that Hawk last name appears as the last name of her mother.
There’s a family on familysearch that matches Carlton’s family. I thought Kali’s mother was just white Jewish, but these people are Christian and black. Maybe she’s a quarter Jewish?
Yes, this is a tough one. I didn’t think she had a caucasian parent.
Follers, why did you never add that her great-grandparents were Randy Willis and Rebecca Hawk?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3SHQ-Z6Z
Some of her posts about her ancestry:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQo84IJjY8a/?taken-by=kalihawk
https://www.instagram.com/p/qkqiepLaV-/?taken-by=kalihawk
https://www.instagram.com/p/qkZ_dLLaaG/?taken-by=kalihawk
https://www.instagram.com/p/mjiICTradO/?taken-by=kalihawk
This might be the great-great-grandfather Carlton she’s talking about:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJX9-FVPD
I didn’t because you said “potentially”.
Are you sure she’s half white?
Jews are Middle Easterners genetically close to Saudi Arabs, according to Internet scholars like the one with the ethnicelebs account “Lelo4″.
She has stated:
“It was a pleasant surprise. I got to bring out my Yiddish, go on radio stations and perform Yiddish rap. My grandmother always spoke Yiddish in the house, which had this great Jewish vibe omnipresent, but I didn’t even realize it. I didn’t know these words, like, ‘Move your tookis,’ weren’t spoken everywhere”.
She’s a black female. End of story. Both her parents are black, that rules out her being biracial. Go to southern Africa, there are lots of light skinned people who aren’t mixed at all but are black. Black people come in different shades, I guess American think that Africans are dark, that’s mostly west Africans who are darker. It’s like how Italians are darker than Germans, but they’re both European
This girl almost looks evenly triracial.
How so?
what do you think about Lionel Richie’s wife?
I never looked at her before. However taking the time now, she looks latin or arab. However like I said before black here are all kinds of ways . So if she’s AA, she’s taken traits from all those MGM bloodlines.As I have stated before, My aunts on my father side all look like old white women, and they insist on being called black. My mother always jokes with them about that. They get my mother back by calling her a black jap(which people have tease her about since she was a kid