bu. Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Actor Wentworth Miller is an easy candidate for this list. Why? Because he busted onto the scene after debuting in the film The Human Stain, where he played a black man passing for a white man. His notoriety was further increased when he played Mariah Carey’s love interest in her music video for “We Belong Together.” The Prison Break star was born in England to a black father and white mother. Because of her freckled face, actress and fashion model Rachel Meghan Markle could easily be mistaken for being lilly white. But the star, who currently plays Rachel Zane on the USA legal drama Suits, is the offspring of an African-American mother and a Dutch and Irish father. Rashida Jones is best known for blending in with the rest of the white cast of NBC’s Parks and Recreation. However, as the daughter of well-known music mogul, Quincy Jones, she can’t hide from her black side. Actress Peggy Lipton is her mother. Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga says she is 100 percent Italian- American and denies having any black blood in her. Here’s a before-going-under-the- knife photo of her. You be the judge. Actress Maya Rudolf is the daughter of soul singer singer Minnie Riperton and songwriter-producer Richard Rudolph. Because her mother was black and her father is an Ashkanzi Jew, she has played a range of characters from a white woman in movies like Bridesmaids to spoofing Beyonce while on her stint at Saturday Night Live. Cash Warren is often mistaken for being Caucasian or Latino, but being the son of Hill Street Blues actor Michael Warren actually makes him half black. Cash, who is more movie producer than movie star, met his actress wife Jessica Alba while working on the set of The Fantastic Four. Actress Jennifer Beals is best known for her roles in Flashdance and the Showtime series The L Word. Born to an African-American father and an Irish-American mother, Beals also played a biracial woman passing for white in the 1995 period film Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington. Troian Pratt-Bellisario is well known for her main role as Spencer Hastings in Pretty Little Liars, but it is not well known that her mother is Deborah Pratt, a celebrated African-American actress, novelist and award-winning television producer. It may have taken a number of CNN “Black in America” specials to reveal that Soledad O’Brien did indeed have black ancestry. Her mother is black Cuban and her father is Australian. Carol Channing is a legendary Broadway performer who had always been celebrated as another glamourous white star. However in her autobiography released in 2002, she shocked the world when she revealed that her father was actually a biracial black man. Channing did not know this until she attended college and her mother revealed it. The actress never said anything about it until she was in her 80s, so it wouldn’t harm her career. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 interesting......they are biracial for the most part and the White genes dominated is all, but cool post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyHood Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Yes at Rashida. I didn't know Maya is the daughter of Minnie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrylf Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I can't take this list serious, they're all mixed, and in 1 case not even mixed the person who made up the list just thinks she's lying about being mixed by judging her features in her hs pic (when in reality I know & have seen alot of Italians I would think were mixed but just happen to have darker skin, bigger features, and thicker tighter curlier hair). When I think of "black people passing" I think of people who both parents are identified as African American, not necissarily just 1 of them. Got a TON in my family, relatives that if you didn't hear them talk or know their parents were black you'd SWEAR they were at least mixed. So yea I kinda call bullshit on this list only because that's not necissarily "passing" in the historic sense, it's them being half of what they are playing in their roles, passing is a black person light enough to play white like Fredi Washington 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrylf Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Yes at Rashida. I didn't know Maya is the daughter of Minnie! I ONLY found that out when SNL did a mothers day episode in like 02 and Maya revealed that, I use to think she was Italian or Jewish (and would eye roll when she would play a black girl lol but after that I got it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaria Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Cash Warren though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 If you're biracial/multiracial and mixed with white then you are white. There's no "passing" necessary. I know some will say that they pass as completely white, but that's still ridiculous. You are whatever you are mixed with regardless of proportions, and some of your genes coming through as dominant over the others is nothing. I agree with Jarryl, when I think of someone "passing" for another race I think of those who don't share the genetics of one, but still look like they do. In this case, a black person with black parents who happens to have light enough skin to be able to be considered white. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOtherFan Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 If you're biracial/multiracial and mixed with white then you are white. Hmmm...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Hmmm...... I think Reyna means...just like people call a biracial Obama/Mariah black when they're actually biracial. They're white...and black because they're both. I think that's what she meant haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Hmmm...... I think Reyna means...just like people call a biracial Obama/Mariah black when they're actually biracial. They're white...and black because they're both. I think that's what she meant hahaWhich is basically what I said here,... You are whatever you are mixed with regardless of proportionsbut apparently some have selective reading abilities. The way the article was written especially with that title it would make one believe that they meant fully black celebrities who look white. Not celebrities who are mixed with white genetics and those genetics are dominant. If you're mixed black and white then you are black and white. Same with any other mixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Which is basically what I said here,... but apparently some have selective reading abilities. The way the article was written especially with that title it would make one believe that they meant fully black celebrities who look white. Not celebrities who are mixed with white genetics and those genetics are dominant. Not you shading TOF like that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Not you shading TOF like that I don't mind different opinions, but at least make sure you understand what I'm saying before you start something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 I don't mind different opinions, but at least make sure you understand what I'm saying before you start something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 #MakeItReyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 #MakeItReyn #thatreynareynjustwontletup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSimba Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 a.k.a. a list of 10 fair- to light-skinned multiracial people.We come in many different shades (almost all of them lol). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I can't take this list serious, they're all mixed, and in 1 case not even mixed the person who made up the list just thinks she's lying about being mixed by judging her features in her hs pic (when in reality I know & have seen alot of Italians I would think were mixed but just happen to have darker skin, bigger features, and thicker tighter curlier hair). When I think of "black people passing" I think of people who both parents are identified as African American, not necissarily just 1 of them. Got a TON in my family, relatives that if you didn't hear them talk or know their parents were black you'd SWEAR they were at least mixed. So yea I kinda call bullshit on this list only because that's not necissarily "passing" in the historic sense, it's them being half of what they are playing in their roles, passing is a black person light enough to play white like Fredi Washington Yes I agree. I thought this list was of full blacks not mixed and I had no idea Melissa was so ugly before surgery. I'd hate to see how she looks without make-up. I think she looks good now tho 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aed05 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Most people who "passed" in the historical context were bi/multiracial. So I expected to see exactly what I saw when I came in this thread. Although Mya Ruddolph has always been honest about her race and love for her mother so she really should not be on this list. Mellissa is a typical Italian woman, many of whom have the same features she has. It comes from the Moores, who were African, mixing with the Italians in Italy centuries ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selz Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 I haven't heard of half of these people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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