Mario Lopez
Lopez in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Chula Vista, San Diego, California, United States
Date of Birth: October 10, 1973
Ethnicity: Mexican [Spanish, Indigenous, distant African]
Mario Lopez is an American actor and television and radio host. He is known for playing A.C Slater on Saved by the Bell, and has hosted shows including Extra, Access Hollywood, America’s Best Dance Crew, and The X Factor.
His parents, Elvira Soledad Trasviña and Mario Alberto López Pérez, are Mexican immigrants. His father was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa. His mother was born in Tijuana, Territorio Norte de Baja California. He is married to actress and producer Courtney Mazza, with whom he has three children. His sister Marissa Lopez is married to professional football player Kailee Wong. Mario is a devout Catholic, and underwent baptism by immersion at the Jordan River.
He was a high school wrestler and is an avid boxing fan. He also commentates professional boxing fights.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2022) stated that Mario’s genetic ancestry is:
*56% European
*41% Indigenous American
*3% Sub-Saharan African
Mario’s paternal grandfather was named Luciano López Burgos. Luciano was born in El Ranchito, El Salado, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México. He moved to the U.S. in 1952, illegally, and was returned to Mexico. He came back to the U.S. legally in 1957.
Mario’s paternal grandmother was Alejandra Sarah Pérez Tostado (the daughter of Alfredo Pérez Sánchez and Sara Tostado Armienta). Alejandra was born in San Ignacio, Sinaloa, México. She had deep roots in Zacatecas. Alfredo was the son of Leandro Pérez González and Alejandra Sánchez Rodríguez.
Mario’s maternal grandfather was Rafael Trasviña Alatorre (the son of Salomé Trasviña Palacios and Soledad Alatorre López). Rafael was born in La Paz, El Territorio Sur de Baja California, Mexico. He moved to the U.S. in the 1950s with his mother. Salomé was the son of Epigmenio Trasviña and Doña Jesús Palacios de Trasviña.
Mario’s maternal grandmother was named María Rosario Gurrola Sánchez. María was born in Capirato, Sinaloa, Mexico.
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He probably has a little black in him. He looks like a tri-racial Puerto Rican.
He actually took a DNA test, he is 70% European and 30% Native American. No sub-Saharan African. Actually in Mexico very very few of them have any sub-Saharan African blood in them, and even when they do it’s very low, like 2-5%
Not from from the Dna test I ‘ve seen.it States that the Avg mestizo is 3-8% African. Just because Mario is testing negative, just means he s one of the population that doesn’t. Have any recent ancestry, and that’s all
No he’s not. Sorry.
I always used to think he was gay, he sets of my gaydar like no tomorrow. I know he has a wife and a kid, but that really doesn’t mean crap. Ricky Martin was married to a woman and knocked her up, then he came out of the closet. Btw, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with being gay, I just had to add my commentary here.
*sets off
70% European and 30% Native, typical Northern Mexican look.
He also has English ancestry as well. There’s a YouTube video of him getting DNA results indicating that he has some English ancestry.
Since someone doesn’t know his history Columbus had navigators and they where Moors(African) who had been to the America’s many times also they brought education to Europe if you learned anything in school you would know all of Africa was named Ethiopia after Leo Africanus described it.
Doesn’t matter, they were North African Arab/Berbers initially (mostly Riffian Berber) and most Muslims (Moors) in Al-Andalus were ethnic Iberian converts to Islam. Leo Africanus disquisition was about the physical landscape of North Africa.
Addendum: they didn’t bring “education to Europe” except enlightenment on Islam. Iberians were already civilized before Al-Andalus, thanks to the prevenient Romanos.
Moors were Caucasian
just because someone is from Africa doesn’t mean they are black
north Africans are Caucasian
just take a look at Cleopatra
and google it I saw actual paintings of the moors from those times.they had white skin and. Brown or red hair.
Well yes many moors were white, which is no surprise seeing how people were converting left and right. However the original. Berbers or moors whichever term you wish to use, were black. There were laws centuries old, that clearly state what the Berbers or moors(whichever. Term you wish) were black. You should also remember the old phrase ( not all moors were black, but all blacks were moors). That’s. Why they came up with that saying.
“Moors discovered the world”, wow. I don’t know where you got that load of shit but I wouldn’t try preading it around, enough of the world is ignorent as fuck. You should actually try study history before you start talking about it.