Nicole Ari Parker
Parker in 2004, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 7, 1970
Ethnicity: African-American
Nicole Ari Parker is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles in the films The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The End of Violence, Boogie Nights, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, A Map of the World, Blue Streak, Dancing in September, Remember the Titans, Brown Sugar, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, Black Dynamite, Imagine That, and Almost Christmas, and on the series Soul Food, Second Time Around, Empire, and Chicago P.D..
Her parents, Susan and Donald Parker, are both African-American. She is married to actor Boris Kodjoe, who is of biracial background. The couple has two children.
Nicole has said:
I’m just light-skinned and from Baltimore… My mother’s from North Carolina and she has green eyes and freckles. So, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of white and Native-American mixed-in there. But I’m only claiming African-American, because that’s really what I know.
A picture of Nicole with her father can be seen here. A picture of Nicole with her mother can be seen here. A picture of Nicole, Boris, and their children can be seen here.
Wow this ***** has the nerve to deny her own mother? Her mother is White, and her father is Black. If I were her mom, I’d slap this ***** to the next century!
i agree i have a biracial daughter and she would never deny me i carried her for 9 months she loves her black side to but she accepts all of her
Are you serious? She stated her mother is not white so stop trying to make every black person biracial and i am biracial too but i only acknowledge my black side because i was raised by a single black mother in a predominatley black neighborhood
she’s not denying her mother. she clearly says that her mother is not white. I sometimes wonder if some of you can read.
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Listed below are links to data on the Historical MYTH
of a Color-Based / Slave-Role HIERARCHY — as well
as the Urban LEGEND of Paper-Bag, Blue-Vein and
Other Allegations of Features-Based Entry ‘TESTS’:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/4153
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/4154
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/2885
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/2511
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1400
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ONLINE LINEAGE-DISCUSSION GROUPS / COMMUNITIES:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MGM-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGM-Mixed
http://www.youtube.com/user/APGifts
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she is definitely mixed those green eyes give it away my father has green eyes and he is mixed and people on my side have weirc colored eyes i even have hazel eyes and we are all mixed though everybody is mixed with something and i understand her just wanting to represent her black heritage but when you do not recognize every ethnicity that made what you are it makes a person wonder if he or she is ashame of there other ethnicities or heritage however he or she views it
I wouldn’t say that she’s ashamed of her heritage. it’s just hard to claim an ethnicity other than the one you’ve been aware of/identified as all of your life. my siblings and I are varied shades of light skin with light hair and eyes and half have slanted “chinky” eyes but if anyone asks we just say we’re black since we didn’t know that chinese grandfather and wasn’t raised within spanish culture.
KW: I read somewhere that you were part Cherokee.
NP: [laughs heartily] “I’m just light-skinned and from Baltimore, Kam. My mother’s from North Carolina and she has green eyes and freckles. So, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of white and Native-American mixed-in there. But I’m only claiming African-American, because that’s really what I know.”
http://www.dallasblack.com/entertainment/nicole_ari_secondtime
thanks for the quote.
To total23
Hey man,Did you ever e-mail your stuff to Ethnic so I could read it?
Soon I Will. I On Exam Mode. Thursday Is The Last Day Of Exam, So I’ll Do It Den!
Sorry For The Wait!
The stuff? sounds intriguing
First…u get compensation from your tribe..and in order to get it the minimum is 1\4th dependin on da tribe…u can have n.a from generations back but that dont mean u will qualify for benefits…haha I should know im 1\4th choctaw n dey pay for half my schooling