Asian-ish?
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haiku01 — 20 years ago(October 25, 2005 01:01 AM)
I don't know if it's just me but doesn't he look like he has some asian blood in him? Well at least native american I tried looking into his heritage but I couldn't find muchMaybe some hardcore fan would know..:)
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dkupolati — 20 years ago(November 11, 2005 05:06 PM)
There are pictures of his parents on wireimage.com (I think that's the site), and you can see they are both from African-American origins.
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tamyabonet2 — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 04:21 PM)
that guy is not misinformed, of course john legend is black but any fool can tell he has something else in him, he doesn't look like wesley snipes or whoopi goldberg right???
I'm not saying John is mixed, maybe both of his parents are black but he obviously has something else in him from the family tree and the guy who started the post was just wondering.. and I agree with him, he obviously has something else in him. -
Aizyk — 20 years ago(February 08, 2006 02:58 PM)
I don't know if it's just me but doesn't he look like he has some asian blood in him? Well at least native american I tried looking into his heritage but I couldn't find muchMaybe some hardcore fan would know..:)
I came here trying to find out the same thing. I'm watching him on Oprah now, and I was struck by how Asian-looking his eyes are. But they showed his mother, and she didn't look like it came from her.
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Peculiar_Purple — 20 years ago(February 08, 2006 06:23 PM)
Alot of black people may have asian-ish eyes because they might have the trait somewhere way way back, it was common for blacks and asians to get together. My brother's skin is white, he has brown hair and both my parents are black.
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Aizyk — 20 years ago(February 08, 2006 07:19 PM)
That reminds me, once on Maury Povich, he was doing one of those "I'm not that baby's daddy" shows, and one of the moms was black and had a baby who had red hair and very fair, freckled skin. The man who she claimed was the father was also black, and somewhat understandably, he denied that it could be his child. But when the results came back, it turned out that he was in fact the father. I'd heard about that kind of thing, but until that show I'd never actually seen an actual case (that I knew of).
Anyway, some non-Asians sometimes just have Asian-ish eyes, and vice-versa.
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tamyabonet2 — 18 years ago(February 17, 2008 01:37 PM)
My brother's skin is white, he has brown hair and both my parents are black. Obvously your family has white in your history tree, its common sense.. I ve seen black people with two black parents with very light skin and blue eyes, but somewhere down the line you guys have white, look up your family tree, maybe y our grandparents or something
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Mad-D — 20 years ago(February 09, 2006 07:03 PM)
i was born and raised in africa and i have asian looking eyes. all my life people have commented on them, even in my family. but after i came to the u.s. i started hearing are you asian? No! knowing how ethnocentric my tribe is i can tell you if i have asian in me i would know cause "scandels" like that do nott go unmentioned in my tribe. you can't llive down.
also fair skinned blacks with red hair and freckles is also common where i am from. i have uncles aunts and cousins like that. one of my cousin bizarely does not have freckles so most people always ask if we dyed her hair and the girl is six yrs old. i mean it would be crazy lto die a six yrs old childs hair , eyebrows and eyelashes. -
raid_on_me — 20 years ago(February 18, 2006 08:39 AM)
I think he gets those lovely eyes from his grandmother
http://www.john-legend.net/gallery/photos/The 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Red Carpet - February 08, 2006/5.jpg
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blade11699 — 19 years ago(May 16, 2006 07:19 PM)
Tyra Banks is kind of the same way. Not in terms of her eyes but her skin. Everyone in her family including her mother, father, and brother are really dark-skinned. She did a show when she retired from modeling and had her whole family and her gradmother was the only light-skinned one in the whole bunch. BTW, a lot of African-Americans do have Asian-like eyes. I am darker-skinned but there is a lot of Cherokee on my mom's side of the family. It is all about dominant/recessive traits and the luck of the draw.
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deedee-1308 — 19 years ago(November 02, 2006 03:07 PM)
Most Afro Caribbs ( and African Americans) are seriously mixed; Born in the UK my mum is from Jamaica, Dad from Barbados - In no particular order paternal background Jewish, Syrian Indian, Scottish and African, Dads side is African, Dutch (my last name is also Dutch) and South American (poss from Arawak settlement) There is a strong suspicion that my Dads Grandmother was half Scottish!!
The word mixed up (in a good way) doesnt even come close!!
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