Sinqua Walls
Sinqua Walls – 2012 MTV Movie Awards – Arrivals – Gibson Amphitheatre – Universal City, CA, USA – Keywords: Sinqua Walls – Orientation: Portrait Face Count: 1 – False – Photo Credit: Tina Gill / PR Photos
Birth Name: Sinqua Mali Walls
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 6, 1985
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican, some French and Native American, possibly other
Sinqua Walls is an American actor and college basketball player. He is known for his roles on the shows Friday Night Lights and The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and in the film Shark Night 3D, among others.
Sinqua is said to have Jamaican, French, and Native American ancestry. His mother’s maiden name is Lineberger, which is often German.
Source: http://www.kontrolmag.com
Any clue on the specific tribe? Or is he another case of people claiming Native heritage?
I have the same question. Where is the confirmation of the Native American heritage?
His background was mentioned in the article that’s now unavailable. I think it was an interview, so it’s possible he mentioned it himself, but I don’t know.
I guess my point is that we don’t add ancestries that can’t be confirmed, especially Native American claims given how often false they are. At best, I’d least “possibly Native American.”
I tried my best to track down his family and I only learned that his mother is called Cassandra Walls-Ward. I can’t even figure out where she’s from (her linkedin says she went to UCLA).
Did you make these rules for the site?
There are many times where we add ancestries that aren’t yet confirmed. Thousands of celebrities are listed as what their ancestry is “said” to be, for example on Wikipedia, when we might only know the parents’ names and nothing else. Many are also based on articles from papers. And obviously, many are totally based on the celebrity’s own statements, even though we know how many previous such statements has turned out to be incorrect.
The point is, if there is literally no information about someone’s ancestry to go on, it’s not unreasonable to use an article or a statement as the base for a page. If I knew, for example, that Sinqua’s father was Jamaican, I might’ve put “African-Jamaican, possibly other”. When we know more, the page will be updated and false bits will be removed, not a big deal.