Mike Tyson
Tyson in 2009, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Michael Gerard Tyson
Place of Birth: Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 30, 1966
Ethnicity: African-American, likely African-Jamaican
Mike Tyson is an American professional boxer and actor.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. His mother, Lorna Mae (Smith), was African-American, from the South. The man listed as his father on his birth certificate is Purcell Tyson, who was Jamaican. Mike was raised by Jimmy Kirkpatrick, who was African-American, from Grier Town, North Carolina, and who may have been his biological father.
Mike is married to Lakiha “Kiki” Spicer. He has had seven children, including two with his former wife Monica Turner, and two with Lakiha. Monica’s brother is Republican politician Michael Steele, of Maryland.
Looks typical Afram.
NOW I KNOW
WHEN PEOPLE SAY WHITE PEOPLE HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN
ANCESTRY
I get the need for people to be “aware” of their heritage, but seems to me that “celebrating” mixed ethnic background is a specific issue for mostly non-whites; after all, non one actually celebrates, for example, a mostly say, Irish, English or German heritage on both sides of the family, at least not in the media.
It just isn’t PC, is it?
Is there something wrong with NOT having mixed racial identities; can’t be milked for personal gain and public sympathy as easy, can it?
The natual history of human biology seems to have been to diversify, not to then be re-mixed in a modern PC environment where it can be legally codified, protected and used as a means of social control and ethnic majority suppression, as it is in the UK.
mike dad last name is not a key. most blacks get irish/white from female side they were slaves too many irish males died fighting for freedom. some say he is part Korean from his mom side could be true. he does look part native or zambo.
I find that it’s an over exaggeration that since his father’s name is Jimmy Kirkpatrick he has some irish in him, if that is so i wonder what is pure black seriously.
black people in Africa
Most coloured people have english names, but some of
them irish, scottish (Frank McRay) or french (Lisa Bonet).
It doesn’t mean, they are ethnic irish, scotish or french