Is Rihanna Black or mixed? Who are her ancestors? How are the Irish and Afro Barbadians connected?
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- In this episode, Dr. Trish explores Rihanna's ancestral background. Why are people so curious about Rihanna's race? Is she really Black? Is she mixed? Find out what Dr. Trish discovered.
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It's interesting to hear people from the Caribbean islands say Americans have an obsession with race and how people in the Caribbean islands don't care about race. However, keep in mind that Rihanna has openly shared that she was bullied in the Barbados most of her life because of her skin color. They called her white girl and pointed out how she did not look like them. That happened in the Barbados, not the USA. There are also several countries throughout the world that have similar racial issues. The USA is not the only country that has race issues.
My Dad and his siblings are similar to Rihanna however I realised an Aunt who emigrated to England in the 1950s wore wigs to 'pass' as white. As an adult I feel her pain being examined through a microscope whilst in the U.K. I appreciate- my Amerindian, African, European genes however living in the Caribbean I was able to accomplish my life goals but will try to visit France, Spain etc to appreciate my heritage.
As a descendant of carribean parents, colorism is big.. you are worship as a brownin.
Race isn’t nearly as big as of an issue in the Caribbean as the USA. We don’t have the One Drop Rule in the Caribbean. That is an American phenomenon. Colorism and classism are bigger issues. Especially colorism. If one is lighter skinned, they have more opportunities to get better paid jobs and move up the socio-economic ladder as opposed to darker skinned people. Often times, it is the light skinned and mixed race people that were given privileges over their darker counterparts by the Europeans after slavery ended. To this day, many islands in the Caribbean are ran by the elite, who tend to be light skinned and mixed race.
There is racism in most islands of the Caribbean...it is just that it is more prevalent in some islands than others....but as an outsider if you try to get involved by trying to quell an argument you will be put in your place from both sides in a lot of cases.
Yes she was teased because it was so obviously she was lighter than most around her but in the Caribbean we don’t focus on race
Tbh, I have never questioned Rihanna’s ancestry because as a person from the Caribbean as well, we are collectively a ‘melting pot’. Meaning, there is a mix of so many different races due to colonization on the islands that so many of us are mixed.
Exactly! As a fellow West-Indian, I would say that in the culture, Rihanna's phenotype wouldn't even be looked at as mixed. She's a brown gyal- that's it. Normally people have to be 'mix up mix up' before we start even using those labels.
@@user-dv3kq3rm4h Exactly 💯
I don't know why everything is about race and what a person is mixed with. We're all humans. These things should be irrelevant. It's 2023 for Christ's sake.
@Empress A; Sidney Poitier was not mixed
@@gilbertikorong2636 Point taken but as I said “so many of us are mixed”. It’s a given that all of us wouldn’t be.
I never questioned Rihanna's race as a Black person, most African Americans are of mixed ancestry. dlc
She not AA but from Barbados
African Americans are very little mixed though, and Rihanna is not African American.
@@ko0974 yeah but Bajans and Bahamians share direct lineage with the Gullah Geechee of the Sea Islands and east coast of the United States(Carolinas, Georgia, Florida) so there is shared genetics/genealogy. Their comment wasn’t really wrong to say.
She's not Black American tho.
@@ko0974 Yes and us West Indians also have very clear mixed ANCESTRY. In our culture, it's so common to have a non-black (normally mixed Indian/Chinese/Syrian etc. due to indentured labour/mass migration in the 1890's) grandparent and still be very much proud of our blackness, quite often folks have this background and still look unambiguously black so it isn't even a discussion- it's part of the colonial/slave past of the islands and the admixture present in our societies and really what makes us West-Indian/Caribbean in the first place. This does not stop us from being BLACK and proudly so.
You have never heard Rihanna say she is anything but a black woman 'cause that is what she is in our culture- she clearly has a black phenotype. I've noticed that a lot of black Americans get fooled by her eye colour which isn't unusual in the islands but I also thought black Americans also had green/grey eyes etc.? So I don't get the mystique with which some treat Rihanna, she literally looks black and nobody in West Indian culture would see her as anything else, especially as it's her father who has the admixture and not her directly. Like me, she's a black woman with mixed ancestry/heritage, not a mixed-race woman in the here and now like Zendaya for example. In West Indian culture, someone with more dominant/diverse admixture is considered non-black- an example would be Sean Paul for example and normally people who have at least one fully non-black parent. People are reaching with Rihanna, she's majority black and looks it.
I have NEVER questioned her race. She is a black woman to me
She is a mixed woman.
@@racheljones4561🤡 u jealous because she not white or whatever race u wish she was? She’s black go cry and stay jealous hater 🤡🤡😂😂😂😂😂
To you!
Rihanna is one of us, a caribbean woman, in Trini terms, 'ah red gyal', a black girl with mixed heritage. Very typical in the Caribbean. So for us here, when we have kids, we never know what we gonna get. Beauty of the Caribbean, and people will continue the debate because they are not able to put us in a box that fits.
she is mixed not black.
@@racheljones4561 girl, bye she's black and doesn't claim or identify as anything else. If she isn't black, neither is most of the black Americans here in the US.
@@racheljones4561 the whole caribbean is mixed
@Carlacharles-yee Ifbyhis is so, why didn’t more of you speak out when MM accused the royal family of being racist when a family member commented on what color their kids might be. Sorry, but doesn’t everybody wonder what their kids might look like?
maybe a red bone but not RED as in racial/cultural terms thats Native American.
The worst thing you can do to a child is to reject them while they are young, when they get older, there is no love lost for those family members. I experienced that from my grandmother, she never referred to us as her grandchildren and would talk about her other grandchildren to us as if we weren’t. It happens and the only thing you can do is give them the respect they desire by not interfering with their lives.
Amen!!!!! Why should you care how I turn out when you didn't care how I came up?
Rihanna’s mother is Afro/Guyanese and her father is Barbadian. She’s West Indian/Caribbean. She’s born in Barbados. That’s it. A Black woman of mixed racial ancestry. We love Ri-Ri!
Yes, a black women with some admixture - but that is most people.
Oh stop, I need some crayons, that’s that
Well Vanessa Williams has 57% Black ancestry and since Rihanna has 65% Black ancestry, she is definitely Black.
She is mixed.
Different ethnic histories!
VANESSA WILLIAMS LOOKS BLACK. HER NOSE N HAIR IS A DEAD GIVEAWAY.
VANESSA WILLIAMS LOOKS BLACK. BEYONCE N RIHANNA LOOKS BLACK.
She's a black woman who happens to have mixed ancestry just like Beyonce but she identifies as black and that's all that matters
Everyone especially a number of Black Americans have mixed ancestry. However, most Black Americans identify as Black.
A Black woman birth her.
@@Its882 no
They both have Caribbean Descent. Beyonce, however, has queen of England Queen Charlotte decent.
it is what one identifies as.
Her history sounds no different than many black Americans. My grandmother was white and I never thought about it until a neighbor asked me who the white lady was in my house. I told her that’s not a white lady,it’s just my grandmother. Race is not really supposed to be about color. As a black woman I’d say she’s as black as me. And I’m mixed with other races as well. I’d venture to say we all are.
If Rihanna were not famously wealthy, would her father’s family reach out to her⁉️ Probably not. Rihanna knows what to do.
I think I've posted this before. Why do people insist on questioning the race or ethnicity of "Black" people who have light eyes or looser curls? Nothing is lost in heredity so there are plenty of folks whose features, complexions, or hair texture reflects the fact that we've been in the West for hundreds of years and we do have mixed ancestry.
Someone who gets it! Rihanna looks black and is proudly black. I don't even think I've ever heard her try to play up her dad's admixture. In West Indian culture nobody would think her mixed AT ALL and it's the same in the UK. I've noticed very specifically amongst certain Black Americans and probably some anti-black non-black ppl- she's been given this weird 'honorary mixed' label. I find it disturbing tbh. She's literally no no more mixed looking than someone like Teairra Mari phenotypically.
Exactly!!!
@@user-dv3kq3rm4h Well said 💯
@@rachelm.3173 @ Rachel M. Thanks!
@@user-dv3kq3rm4hhe is mixed, full stop. she does not look black. There is nothing honorary about being mixed , it is just facts.
Great video. This is crazy. Robin Fenty is Black. I’m sure when you check her Birth Certificate, her Drivers License, her Passport, etc., it says Black or of African Descent.
Geez! If the world wasn’t so colorist and Anti-Black, this wouldn’t even be a question.
You're the person that brought up color 💯 so let's see is RiRi mixed so what does that have to do with any thing your saying???? You're wrong then try to play a race card🤨
In South Africa we will refer her as coloured, she looks like a mixed race to me. Trevor Noah looks colored as well.
When we celebrate Blackness or African descendedness, we’ll be happy to put that fact down on written forms.
Ppl are just crazy all over the world. They ask the wrong question. When the police pull you over to give you a ticket.what do they see. The rest is irrelevant. Are they pulling out their guns or smiling while speaking that let's you know your race if there was ever any question
I think Rihanna is more black than any other race. She looks like people in my family . Also she is carribean too. I think when she had her son , the world was expecting her son to “ look” a certain way and they were surprised on how he look. He looks just like Rihanna but different skin tone
On the issue of her not helping her paternal side of the family, I really don’t think Rihanna feels any obligation to do so. I think they shunned her and her siblings when they were growing up so Rihanna maintained that energy now that she an adult.
FACT
Too many times family members rejects their youngsters until one day they make it big and turn up with their greedy hands outstretched just because they're related in name they think they have a right ... NOOO WAY 18:48
In my family, we tend to have much more contact with my mom's parents than my dad's. My dad's sisters kids are the same.
It might not be shunning so much as the dad's family was not emotionally close? But if there was not much contact, there's probably not going to be much love. If they didn't contribute, there's not much closeness.
Rihanna is a black Caribbean beautiful woman. She is wonderful and talented
She is a mixed, caribbean woman.
@@racheljones4561Mixed how she does not have a white parent.
She is mixed
@@flora-3603cause her dads parent is white…. So she’s 25% white…. And being 25% white lightens your skin ….. where is if she was 100% black her skin would just be dark skin….. you can tell by looking at her that she’s mixed
I appreciate this commentary. Thank you very much for this!
She is a beautiful black woman. That is how she feels. Of course she is aware of her mixed background.
She is mixed, not black.
Love your smack down warning about negative comments :) great video.. love the information you provided about Barbados and Carribean.
I can understand why she doesn't want to be around her father side of the family. They never showed any interest in her while she was a little girl. She feels comfortable around her mother's side of the family because they help raise her. You always feel comfortable people and relatives you know. I quite sure if they were in her life growing up she would feel differently
Rihanna still hang out with her father side of the family.The Fenty and the whitehead family are considered white in Barbados .
Her father was there but struggled with alcohol addiction. He said that him drinking around her caused her to indulge in alcohol aswell
Oprah's interview with Miriah Carey was educational. Mariah stated she didn't considered herself as black b/c she was always around her mother side of the family 👪. Even though her father was black African American nd she knew her dad was black...she claimed her mom's roots. Because she was raised bought up by her Caucasian side which is her mother side of the family. Now Halle Berry along with some others who are of mixed race claim they are black or other. The Rock Dawayne Johnson doesn't claim himself as black. I suppose it depends on whom they feel strongly of. ♥
Thanks for doing all this research for those of us fascinated with genetics!!
You did a wonderful job on this topic.Helping you will do more👍👍
She is not obligated to take of her white relatives nor any other for that matter. What she chooses to do is completely up to her.
her eyes tell that whether she wants to mention that or not
For me race don't matter she is human and that's important. I am grateful that she entertains us with powerful music, that is good enough for me.❤❤❤
It does matter
Culture is whut matters not race
It's all up to “her” if that side of the family didn't help her and her family, it's up to the goodness of her heart if she wants to help them, there's no law that said she has “to “
Rihanna is a beautiful black woman❤❤
Most children tend to take on their mother's cultural identity because it's usually the mother that raises the child.
I think it is based on how they are treated by their mother’s relatives. Many white mothers children are denied by her side of the family. Resulting in many of these children trying to culturally identify with their black relatives on their father’s side.
That’s not true in America. The majority of Black and White mixed race children the mother is the white one and she is most likely the one that raised the children. Because black American believe in the racist oppressive one drop rule as if it was a badge of honor and they do not know the reasoning behind the law. They also do not know that the Supreme Court Banned the Rule in 1963. They believe that if one is black the child is black.
Both of her parents raised her tf. They were married
Weell, that is not the case of obama
Excellent Research Trish really enjoyed this Video
Thank you for the video. More videos about people's backgrounds and history would be neat.
Honestly, when I first saw Rihanna on TV, I was just happy to see a fellow sister of the Caribbean doing her thing. I did not think about " Who She For" All I knew was is that she is from the Caribbean, so she is my "neighbor" But I will say, I'm even more thrilled to find out she is also part Guyanese like me. I identified with her music first
I loved this one, Trish 😃. My great grandmothers family came from Barbados and Trinidad. Her mother was black, but she had an Irish last name (Connell).
I’ve heard about Rhianna’s background, but I didn’t know about the Creole connection in Barbados. I would love to visit that island someday!
Many mixed races in Barbados.
I enjoyed your break-down on Rhi Rhis ethnic background, I learned a lot. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing the video....be blessed ❤
Thank you for educating us. I personally never wondered about her race or nationality I could see she was black and I have enjoyed her music since um berel la ella ella aye aye aye!
she is mixed.
Rihanna's mother's father is from Barbados with mixed ancestry from Tobago / black Portuguese/ Irish. She was definitely close to her mother's mother family than her mother's father's side.
well this along with my mom's British/Irish/Afro / Portuguese /Asian connection in Barbados makes so much sense always heard the family stories and looked at how unique so many of our relatives presented
What does it matter God's the creator of us 🙏 all in his own image and likeness, leave well enough alone, My Grandfather is Irish and I was born in Trinidad 🇹🇹 my grandfather is half white, most people in the Caribbean are mixed.
Never questioned her background as I am Caribbean and it is a common story. But others may not be aware hence the the Google searches. Also, I know Guyanese who have mixed afro/indo or other ancestry so as you noted, the gene is probably in her mom as well. At the end of the day, she identifies as a black woman. One minor error. The island is pronounced " Gre- nay- da"(Grenada). Thanks for sharing the video!
Minor correction on the phonetic spelling. It is Gre-nay-da 😊
She can only identify black because she is black non of her parents are white.
I think that during her child hood her parents did reach out to that side of the family. But it's their secreats...And by not dis it it's their choice of respecting them... love to all.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
she os mixed.
Thank you. People are always getting the island of Grenada( Gre-nay-da) mixed up with the city of Grenada (Gre-NAH- Dah) in Spain.
Why should she reach out to the white side of her family when they denied her or didn’t have anything to do with her when she was growing up.
Rihanna and I share similar ancestry but I have no Caribbean connection. Just shows how in the African diaspora we all belong to the same culture and from motherland no matter what!
Lol nahh
@@SelEsther actually we do I’m a quarter Irish Scottish and welsh. With two black parents but my grandfather was half Irish and black from Appalachian mountains. So speak for yourself Little Debbie cakes. Or should I say Big Deborah! You trolling go find something safe to do im not it :)
Thanks for putting Trolling Debbie in her place 😂😂😂
@@Virus-xm7qc lol I didn’t even realize it 😂
Hi, Dr. Trish! I always enjoy watching your videos. They’re so interesting and informative. I wonder if you could do a show on Carly Simon. One of her grandmothers was black. …Another famous person I would like to learn more about is Steven Tyler. He has a black grandfather or great-grandfather. Carly was on Finding Your Roots, and Liv Tyler was on Who Do You Think You Are? (Steven appeared on the episode). That’s how I know this. Take care and thanks for all you do! 😊
I appreciate these videos ! Super interesting.
What ever she is, she's beautiful.
Caribbean people do not referred to themselves as Afro anything they are Barbadian , Guyanese, jamaican Trinidadian ect they know their heritage and big on cultural unlike others
Exactly we r Trinidadian
Exactly
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Thank you
Excellent research, you highlighted the anomalies of the West Indies
Really Appreciate this information about RIRI's ancestry.😊🙏
I'm surprised you didn't mention the South Carolinian - Barbadian connection. Personally, I never saw Rhianna as light skinned. Light brown skin, yes, but not 'high yellow' light skinned. But, I do notice that many people from continental African nations do call brown skinned people light skinned. Not me. Peace!
rihanna is definetly not brown she definetlly ligth skinned
I agree with you, it baffles me that people actually consider her light skin when she is light brown. She doesn't look mixed to me at all. I grew up with a high yellow mixed mother. Rihanna is many shades darker than her.
I’m from South Africa and to me Rihanna doesn’t look mix but that’s just me
In South Africa we have all shades of Black some people are superlight skinned without being mixed however our hair texture is kinky no matter how light skinned you are
There's also a Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda connection to South Carolina too.
I have family from South Carolina. I'd love to know more about the connection with Barbados.
Great video didn’t realize that Barbados has such a strong Irish presence
A lot of us in the Caribbean are mixed race from our ancestors from slavery. I did a DNA test and found out most of my ancestors are from Nigeria, Cameroon, but I have Danish, Scottish, and Irish. I was shocked to learn this. My island the U S Virgin Islands we’re own by the Danish until the United States purchased us so that I get but the other mixtures I was stunned to learn about. I like Rihanna used to get tease about my complexion growing up in the islands but I’m Afro Caribbean.
Caribbean and Latin America are the original melting pots we don't put labels on people re race that's more of an American thing it's not uncommon in the islands to have a nuclear family and they all be multiple complexions and hair textures race for us is a little more complex
Very interesting. Thank you SdK
I DONT CARE SHE AN AMAZING SINGER
No, never questioned it because Rihanna herself has said that she is black. She’s not AA because her nationality is not American. Does it really matter in the scheme of things because phenotypically she looks black and will never be mistaken for a white woman.
Simply put, she is mixed. White/Black ect . European/African...
Good report❣️
As a mixed person w' Trini heritage 🇹🇹 I've always viewed Rihanna as a Caribbean woman of colour w' some mixed heritage. I've lived outside north America both in Europe (Ireland) + The Caribbean so I may not classify things the same as ppl from the United States. Many men and women in the islands can look like her.
The Scottish + Irish on my Trinidadian mother's side I do not claim as it was from so many years ago. Having lived in Ireland as a tween and visiting England + Scotland I can say that Irish/Scots/British would never claim me as one of them LOL esp as a "non-passing" biracial. It doesn't matter what percentage of white I have lol, visibly I would never pass so it's not something I even discussed w' them. But my Caribbean peeps would sometimes educate the Irish about Irelands connection with the Caribbean which they always found interesting bcuz it's not taught in schools in Ireland. Only a small percentage of ppl know about it. Establishing Christian faith was very prominent during the colonization of the Caribbean islands so Irish n British Nuns/Priests were brought in to contribute to Catholic/Convent schools + maintain the churches + christian religion on the islands. Also, some Irish (red legs etc) were brought as indentured servants to work under the British class system in the Caribbean islands. The British Empire had the Irish in a chokehold back in the day, hence you Americans that are into history will know about your large Irish Immigrant populations that are in New York + places like Boston, Chicago and all over the states. They left Ireland for a better life in the quote on quote "new world". When they got to America, they assimilated with the rest of the Caucasian/White American society. And you have a huge St. Paddy's day parade in New York + your Halloween comes from Irish immigrants (Samhain).
Anyway, I'm used 2 being around mixed Caribbean ppl even ones from older generations. A lot of my grandparents in the Caribbean had mixed friends like Chinese + Black, Creole + Indian (Black/French + East Indian), so it's not really anything out of the ordinary for those from the Caribbean 2 discover someone having "mixed heritage". My Caribbean gran's dear friend RIP a lovely soul was chinese + black and some her children that are alive today would be considered triracial. The Caribbean is not perfect though. There is some colorism, racism + certain monoracial groups that would tell their children "don't mix" w' this group or that group. I know some black ppl in the United States are mixed but I don't know how Americans currently handle their race issues as I am not from there. I've travelled to many American states + Canada + noticed a large majority of folk stay within their monoracial lines or communities. Maybe I am wrong but imo ppl mix more "openly" in other countries. Met a lot of mixed ppl in England (Liverpool) with an actual visible community can't really say the same for America lol. Imo interracial dating + mixing is still a bit stigmatic/taboo in the US, yes it goes on but it's not the same as other countries. I don't know how to explain it maybe those that have travelled outside the US will get where I'm coming from....
Thank you for sharing this is what I am saying seeing people like Rhianna, Zendaya and even Beyonce is common.
I agree I believe because they don't really teach the real history how much connection and influence the British empire plays in moving people in different parts of the Caribbean.
This is why when it comes to race and ethnicity Caribbean people don't see it the same way people in America view it. You right even in Frence mixing was a common thing if you go back in history even the "black" sailor who talked about this mixed culture that they felt more acceptable dating outside their race than it was in America.
If you don't travel you won't know these things the same when I see people here school to know you have black Chinese in China, black Indian in India, black Philippines in the Philippine I'm from Jamaica a small Island and we are of these. Black people is in every culture they just hid them because colonization poison every single group on the face of the earth. Fun fact as yellow as the Chinese are the sued the UNITED States government to considered them "white" this is how brainwashed people and I can go down the list of all the other groups how desperate every single group/tribe want to be considered white.
This was very interesting. I myself is first generation American. My parents are from the Carribean/ StVincent. Barbados is very close to that island. It’s very typical for families to have a mixture of various backgrounds.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT COLOR SHE IS. SHE IS HUMAN, THATS ALL.❤
A KING HUMAN?
@@arronhaggerty8426 Don't you mean a QUEEN?
Thank you
Nobody is a King Human, she is no self made multi billionare, She was made by Some people that own the Muscic Industry, she was promoted by some very wealthy people, she is owned by these people, thats the only way you can make in the industry these days.
@@kaygrace5250 She's still self made. Bcse she had no connections to anyone to jump kick her right into the mix. She also has her own business. The majority of folks who get the same break usually are one hit wonders. Execs can only do so much. They can help you appeal to an audience but it's the artist that takes it to the next level. She wasn't born with a silver spoon. Kim K. for example got where she is bcse her father was well known and so was her step father. So she already had access to folks in Hollywood. And this opened the door to get close access to celebrtiea like Ray Jay to even have a sex tape.
As a Barbadian/Guyanese I believe she helped her father side of the family.
Love it 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great video, and I love your channel. It's unbelievable that in 2023, people are still questioning what being "Black" is!!! Of course Rihanna is Black. Most of Us from the Diaspora on this side of the Planet are mixed... to varying degrees!!! Why is it so hard to accept this??? My admixture is 70% West African, 27.5% European, and 2.5% Native/Southeastern Asian. But I already knew this, since my dad is lightskin (mixed with German and Irish) and my mom's father was mixed with Native and Portuguese....and he knew his Yoruba relatives!! Unless someone is intentionally trying to pass or diminish their African heritage, we all know that Black comes in various shades for a reason!!! Someone needs to educate that other demographic who's either clueless, or intentionally splitting Us. 😒
Thats you, not most African Americans which is a common misconception. You said yourself your dad is light-skin which is ALSO a misconception that light-skins are just black when they are clearly generationally mixed. But most African Americans have very little mixture except for those of lighter skin, but hey.. all AA want to be included in that bunch of even though they have very little to no mixture.
@ MrPman474 You're right. I'm light skinned Caribbean with far back Scottish ancestry on one side- I would never claim to be mixed, I am a black woman. My whole life I have had people either ask me if I'm mixed, or what am I/ Why do I look like this and only then will I say I have Scottish ancestry- but it's so far back I would not call that being mixed. Real mixed race people with mixed lived experiences exist, and I am not one of them- both of my parents are black. I find it so frustrating that you have the online Black police trying to denounce our blackness these days. The ignorance is dumbfounding. There's a difference between being a mixed race individual like Zendaya, Mariah etc. and being a black person with distant admixture. It's not the same.
@@SelEsther WRONG!!!!! Anyone can Google information on the admixture of African Americans, as well as any other Afro-descended group in the Americas. There is another CZcamsr who has awesome researched and cited segments about the racial breakdown of ethnic groups around the world. His name is Masaman. Furthermore, admixture is NOT determined by skin color. That's ridiculous, since natural skin color (not tanned or bleached) is genetically determined, and can vary among people with the same admixture. 75-90% of ALL African Americans are mixed with European and/or Native ancestry. Please Google information before you decide to comment and insult your own intelligence.
@user-dv3kq3rm4h Exactly!!!! And even people who are "half" non-Black, are STILL Black if that's what they claim! Both Obama, Kamala Harris, and other notable people, all identify as proud Black folx.
Yeah. I agree.
Rihanna is widely acknowledged as a black woman due to her ancestry, which is predominantly of African origin. Her mother hails from Afro-Guyanese roots, while her father is of African Barbadian descent. Despite her father being biracial, Rihanna's genetic structure is predominantly African, thereby scientifically classifying her as black. In a similar vein, numerous African Americans may have traces of Western European DNA due to the historical repercussions of slavery. Nonetheless, their physical characteristics and primarily African genetic makeup still firmly identify them as black.
POV: Rihanna has no obligation to the white side of her family if they played no role in her life. The same applies to black relatives who played no role in her life. Also, I have always thought 9f Rihanna as being black and never questioned her blackness.
She is mixed, her father raised her as well before he divorced her mother.
@@racheljones4561Her father is biracial not white.
Iam Irish really a Canadian did not know this stuff wow thxs for the info my husband's is jamaican Canadian we have 3 grown kids been together 50 yrs
She's mixed. Black white Guyanese. She's beautiful it does not matter
🤡 she’s 75% black she’s black y’all don’t have that same energy about amber rose and Halsey who is 75% white y’all call them white but because it’s Rihanna then she mixed and not black because y’all jealous of black people and don’t want her to be black 😂
Rihanna is beautiful and gifted and has worked very hard to achieve everything she is today.
THE QUESTION OF SKIN COLOR SHOULD NOT ARISE IN ANY SITUATION ANY WHERE BECAUSE WE ALL BLEED RED BLOOD.
Her racial background never even crossed my mind, to be honest. I also have mixed ancestry.
It doesn’t matter almost if not all of our families are mixed whether we like it or not we can’t help who our ancestors crossed paths with back in those days
My matrilineal lineage is from Colonial Barbados, Trinidad & Dominica brought to the Carolina Colonies in the 1600s. Similar to my South Carolinian & Georgia Gullah-Geechee ancestors, my North Carolina ancestors were known as "Bajan-Carolians" ('Bajan' is what people from Barbados are called).
My family is South Carolina gullah geechie with ties to Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago. Not sure about Barbados yet?
Thank you ma'am
Very thorough explanation on Rihana, s background along with Barbados n Guyannese.
Being person of Asian indian origion puzzled by mixing of Europeans n blacks yet lot of conflicts. Jussojuan
Rihanna is a gorgeous, funny, warm woman with a wonderful voice who is black. I don't think her ethnicity should be discounted but it's just one thing in a long list of things that describe her
Americans are so obsessed with race like who cares she's beautiful she's am icon and legend
Love your videos!!!
She's black of mixed DNA.
Exactly my summation, that's how most Caribbean folks are and see ourselves, not 'mixed' but black with mixed background.
I find this very interesting The whole Caribbean history is so rich and fascinating
Amazing video please do a video of Nicki Minaj she has a lot of Indian features from her Caribbean roots. Big up to my Caribbeans! lol
As far as I know birth certificates in the Caribbean don’t contain ones colour or race👀👀👀 she is Afro Caribbean …. mainly but of African decent with some European as many caribbeans have but not as much as african Americans have…. She is AFRO CARIBBEAN 🙌🏾….. not considered mixed race in the Caribbean ….. people need to understand how Caribbeans view themselves…. We don’t view ourselves as outsiders do ….we are bajans Jamaicans kititians Cubans etc
She is mixed.
People in the comments saying Caribbeans don’t see race, what was Bob Marley singing about then.
Bob Marley was of mixed race look up his biography.
I'm a descendent of that same heritage.My father's family were of the "Irish, Scottish" Group.He didn't reveal much about his family.He left Barbados, never to return.He came to Trinidad joined the army, having many laisions and many children.Yes there's the green and brown/green eyes amongst us.We are very light skinned.I was called whitey names at primary school,can also be called "red n...).We always wondered about our ancestors.Now I can do some more research.Thanks sweetie this information is fantastic.
Interesting, mine is Scottish and Irish too
she’s just beautiful!
People under 40 say Mix! But people over 40 say Black, because they go by the 1 drop rule!
No, I say mixed, but I respect however a person identifies themselves. If they identify as African American, then that's who they are. If they identify as mixed, then that's who they are. It's not for us to label others, it's for people to identify themselves.
Nah, if the admixture is further back, there's no need to claim it. I'm a light skinned black woman with far back Scottish ancestry. I hate when people ask me if I'm mixed as if black people aren't diverse in phenotypes. I think it's a push to say you're mixed race when you have a mixed parent and a black parent. You're mostly black at that point. I know so many dark skinned unambiguously looking black people with one mixed race parent and they never claim mixed because it's about their lived experience as a black person, not grappling on to a morsel of non-blackness which is basically anti-blackness.
By the time the under 40 people have reached 40-50 years old and lived here in America that long...trust me, they will be going by one drop rule. Keep living.
Actually I'm over 40 and don't have an opinion because Rihanna's not in the Black American ethnic community. She has her own history wrt her identity. "The One Drop Rule" is only a relevant discussion for how the Black American Population came to be and their genotypic expression is what it is as a collective community.
Rather than opine on this, I'm listening to Caribbeans especially those from her home country for their perspective wrt ethnicity identity. I'm not putting my American shaped understanding of ethnicity/race into Rihanna.
@@curtis1415amen!!
I have a friend who's practically identical to Rihanna... She's a fraternal twin and her twin sister is a dark skinned Black. I'm dark skinned and my friend has more afrocentric features than even me, especially her hair (which is quite kinky). I remember thinking she was mixed as in biracial because of her skin tone and eyes, but her nose, lips and especially her hair after she went back natural told me otherwise, that this was a BLACK woman. Eye colour can be inherited from an ancestor. I'm guessing it just passed down through the genes with admixture over time. People can rest with the 'is she a Black woman' question. She IS. FULL STOP. Most Black people in the West are mixed, we just don't look like it in most cases, but I find the hair always tells. Black people are the most diverse race on the planet. Everyone comes from Africa, there's an ethnic group with every race's features shown in them. STOP.
She is mixed . full stop.
@@racheljones4561 No she not.
She's a human being and very beautiful one at that ❤
Does she have a white or Asian parent ? No., both her parents have African ancestry with her mom probably having 100% African dna. It’s sad when we start trying to identify most with our oppressors like it’s a come up. I’m glad Rihanna is making sure her children are unmistakably black because she loves being black!
Thank you
Why would you assume that her mother has 100 African DNA? Just because she's Caribbean? Most black people do believe identifying with the oppressors is a come up, we see the evidence every day, loud and clear...
The Caribbean is very mix up it got whites Indian meaning east Indian chines Spanish.
@@dranchd6571 Most African Guyanese are 100% Akans.
she is mixed.
Her maternal grandpa is already mixed too. She mixed race but cculturally black
She's beautiful no matter her heritage. ❤
It doesn’t take a genius to see that Rihanna has mixed ancestry.
Im from charleston, sc and my black history is the same as Rhianna mother, but my ancesetors ended in charleston, sc from barbados
Ppl think light skin blacks are of diff race than black. I’m light skin & have been questioned my entire life if I’m black. I’m 65 & Yes I am black & proud of it, but like most of us all all I think we are all
Mixed with something else. ID think there are not anyone of mixed heritage.
Not complicated I’m Irish black and Bajan and some other things it’s very normal mix to be Irish black and what you are is what you identify with and only Rihanna can decide that.
I believe family on all sides can be complicated and none of us know of the connection one has with the other therefore. It is non of our business who is more connected to whom. You help and support who was there for you when growing up.
I always found it funny how people would ignore how her name was pronounced even when she would pronounce it herself
It is hard to find anyone whose ancestors went through slavery that is not mixed to some degree. I have 37% Celtic DNA Brit, Scot, Irish so the means jack . She is a black woman.
What ever her race is, she is a beautiful and very successful young woman and I love her music.
Regardless of skin color, it's very common to be closer to maternal side of the family. I also have a closer relationship with my maternal side of the family. I'm African. I have seen it in middle eastern and Asian too.
I believe Riana is definitely next to kills me that they want to take other races out when a person has been spotted black in them. I need to acknowledge all of the races that makes up a person I believe she’s mixed. My family is mixed. We have a half European French, French and Peruvian in our family and Native American so I believe that she’s definitely make she’s very beautiful and she’s mixed and it’s nothing wrong with it.
Recently found and started watching the channel. Crazy how race is allowed to be debated and made this complicated 😂.
My dad was a very light skin man with blue gray eyes who was quick to let you know he was a black man. We always made jokes that he was creole (our last name is made up but sounds french and my fathers people came from Louisiana before Texas).
He always insisted we were wrong... turns out he was right! We got his DNA done before he passed. My father who was REGULARLY asked about his race and assumed to be at best mixed race if not of another race entirely, was 76% African.... and ZERO french ancestry 😂
Genes are weird I tell ya haha
so the other 24 is ? 🙄 Your dad is mixed, full stop.
@@racheljones4561 thats the completely normal range for AA. My mother who is unambiguously black was 79% African
By the standards of the US both are very much black Americans. My dads family just had higher incidents of recessive genes expressing themselves.
@@racheljones4561 good luck finding an AA who is descendants of enslaved people who is 100% or even 95% for that matter African lol
No i have not questioned her ancestry... it doesn't matter period... whatever her heritage she's absolutely beautiful, talented and the most authentic genuine celebrity in my opinion
DO IT REALLY IT MATTER REALLY??? MRS RIRI IS A BEAUTIFUL AND RESPECTFUL AND BLESSED YOUNG LADY THAT HAS A BEAUTIFUL HEART.. SO WHERE THIS YOUNG LADY PEOPLE CAME FROM ISN'T R BUSINESS REALLY. GOD BLESS THIS YOUNG LADY AND HER WONDERFUL AND BLESSED FAMILY 💙💙💙😍🥰😇🙏🙏💯
What does it matter? As long as she is a good person.
We all have a little of everything, Rihanna is not any different. She was blessed with beauty and brains. Both of my patents have brown eyes but, one of their parents had green eyes and turquoise blue eyes. My maternal great grandmother had green eyes and blonde but my grandmother (my mom's Mom) and her siblings had brown eyes and light brown skin. My maternal grandfather (my mom's Dad) had blonde hair and hazel green eyes but, his mom was Indian with black hair and brown skin. His siblings were light skin with freckles like me. It's crazy so I hope people are not ignorant when it comes to skin and eye color. We are all one love.💯🙏🏽💖✌🏽
Cromwell of England moved hundreds of dark and swarthy Irish to St. Kitts and Montserrat. They were sold as slaves. Some went to the US and are described in Ben Franklin's paper as ads for runaways. These ads are very good for genealogy because the slave names and descriptions are given.
Rihanna is not obgated to help anyone but it would be nice to reach out and help her Father's side of the family..because she is so blessed and she will continue to be blessed even the more if she would help them
She’s lovely and beautiful green eyes!