Johnny Depp's African American Roots

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Jan 02, 2010 07:15 PM
REPLYING TO kwestion19145 ON Jan 02, 2010 12:29 PM Link Back
Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon. I don't know if that makes him ethnically Lebanese. Just a tidbit fact.
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Jan 02, 2010 09:30 PM
REPLYING TO kwestion19145 ON Jan 02, 2010 12:26 PM Link Back
A lot of whites have black in them, especially the ones with very wooly hair and dark.
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Jan 02, 2010 10:24 PM
What kind of thread is this? Johnny Depp ain't no part African American...lol. He is German, Irish and Cherokee. He speaks about it in a few interviews, here for example.

http://www.johnnydepp-zone.com/deppster/
Johnny's Cherokee heritage comes from both sides of his
family, but is particularly strong on his mother's side. Johnny's
great-grandmother, Minnie, was a full-blooded Cherokee. He also has
Irish and German ancestry. He discussed his ethnicity in a television
interview in 2002:


Interviewer: Indian origins?

Johnny Depp: Yeah, I'm a sort of --

Interviewer: Cherokee?

Johnny Depp: Yeah, I'm a mixture of all sorts of things.

Interviewer: German, Irish?

Johnny Depp: Yeah. Pu-pu platter, yeah. Combination of weird things.
Indian, Irish, German and god knows what. Just a mutt, really.



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Jan 02, 2010 10:44 PM
REPLYING TO malcolmxena ON Jan 02, 2010 10:24 PM Link Back
That said, he can pass for "latino". There's an actually episode of
21 Jump Street where he goes undercover in a Latino gang, and he really
does look like he could be Mexican.






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Jan 04, 2010 10:26 AM
REPLYING TO kwestion19145 ON Jan 02, 2010 12:29 PM Link Back
Correct in so far as Hawaiian names. At one time my brother worked as an air-marshal(a skill that is being cried out for at present time) and is now retired. The nature of the work is such that you are on planes a great deal of the time going from one part of the world to another.
His three children were raised in Hawai more or less in the same period as Obama. He left the children in the care of the housekeeper known as an "amah" when he was at work traveling. They are used to living in a multi-racial, multi-lingual society. The one of the three who is his daughter still works for the airlines on the Tokyo desk. She was named after me(partially) with the Hawaiian name Kiana; which is of course the feminine form of the Hawaiian name Keanu.
By the way that was one of the most attractive things about Obama's campaign getting into gear; that he comes from a multilingual/multicultural/multiracial society. I was here in these forums everyday to advocate for his presidency. Our world will be increasingly multicultural and this is one of the reasons the popular change in the US census where more and more of young respondents marked and claimed themselves as multicultural. The US Southern white and/or right wing hold-outs who seem to think they need to have privileges not afforded the World's majority of citizens are just out of luck on this one as they will increasingly discover in the next decade.
The interesting thing however about having Cherokee blood (on one or even both sides) as claimed "here" for Johnny Depp is a factor not yet mentioned thus far under this new topic. The Native American population was "gradually" driven further and further West and out of the Eastern Seaboard at first by a cantankerous bunch of whites of Scots-Irish origins sometimes referred to as Buchanan's Boys, in order to claim larger tracts of land for themselves although they were woodsmen. What is less admitted is that they were a force which massacred baptized Christian Native Americans in Penn's Woods/Pennsylvaniathat began with 400 acre tracts of land surveyed which attracted Europeans persecuted by the religiously intolerant and who began arriving as early as the 17th.century. I was amazed to learn that Penn himself stayed no longer in America than four years! He prompty returned to serve out a sentence imposed by the British king although he had a beautiful home with farm on the Jersey side of the Delaware and regularly poled his boat across the river down to Penn's Landing,Philadelphia for supplies just as if he had been navigating the Thames river in London which by then was rather crowded and unhealthy.
By the time that Lincoln commanded a militia in the Black Hawk wars along the upper Mississippi river that encompassed from Kentucky through Illinois into Wisconsin, the Cherokee in Kentucky territory had long previously been driven out from the eastern side of the Mississippi in what was Louisiana where, as you well know, runaway black slaves had continually escaped into the bush and, accepted into those tribes, were intermarried and had children. It is a tradition very much honored by the African Americans of New Orleans each year at Mardi Gras when Krewe Zulu does its stuff in costumes that they have prepared long in advance for the parades in which they dance.
Ps. the daguerreotype pictures in the Library of Congress collection shows following generations of escaped and intermarried which are exquisitely beautifully interesting. Men who are tall and slender and obviously Nilotic people from the areas east-northeast of Victoria Falls/Lake Victoria (where Obama's father and grandfather's home village was located). The Louisiana examples depict them as often lighter skinned and just as often married to shorter,darker-skinned women who preferred to wear the somewhat folded Hispanic styling of clothing that prevailed in the earlier centuries of Spanish rule before there was a French New Orleans or Louisiana(named)Territory.


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Jan 04, 2010 11:03 AM
WOW DEPP DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH BLACK IN HIM TO SAY EMBRACE IT ...HE'S MIXED AND HE CAN be of any and many races according to his skin texture and hue....also his features. As far as embracing his so called tiny ...I do mean... tiny blood of blackness.....we are black and don't always embrace ours. Why are blacks so confused and always trying to figure out who or what other races are mixed with African any way. Just be black...love it and stop acting nappy headed all the time. DEPP BLACKNESS SHO NOT IN HIS HAIR. Who cares whose mixed with our race.
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Jan 04, 2010 02:47 PM
The U.S. alone adopted the one-drop rule, defining any child with "a drop" of black blood as legally black. If you are of a bi-racial relationship, look at your birth certificate, your race is listed as black. My father was French Canadian and my mother of English and Indian ancestory and the census taken in the 1940's listed them as mullato, which mena of mixed race, the next census listed them as colored. I will never understand why people dwell on the color of their skin, instead of just being Americans, dbe they black, white, pink, red, green or blue. My sisters and I are a rainbow of color, from very light to dark, some with straight hair and others with coarser hair,but our mother raised us that we are all the same. As a senior citizen, I pray that someday, we will accept each other as American human beings.
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Jan 04, 2010 06:44 PM
Johnny Depp has always been so fine.
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Jan 04, 2010 10:10 PM
The "black" in Johnny D came from a black ancestor circa 1612. I always knew he wasn't fullblooded white. He could be any number of races to me. He was just fine to me with those pouty lips and pretty dark eyes. Some people are just born beautiful and he is one of them.
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Jan 05, 2010 02:47 AM
The drop of black blood in his family tree is so far removed it's nonexistant.
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Jan 09, 2010 08:30 PM
REPLYING TO rbrossrocks ON Jan 01, 2010 12:17 PM Link Back
rbrossrocks wrote:
Wrong White just dont dwell on race like blacks do! Thats all Blacks talk about and the call everybody else racist, Its a joke!
Honey you got your idea wrong ,that we are not as racist as you all. We will live in your neighborhood .When we move in yours you put your house up for sale , and say the neighborhood is getting bad .Where I liv use to be all white, we started to move in , guess wo MOVED OUT YOU ALL DID .SO KEEP MOVING ,AND WE WILL KEEP COMING

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Jan 09, 2010 08:33 PM
REPLYING TO Juanitajewel ON Jan 04, 2010 02:47 PM Link Back
Juanitajewel wrote:
The U.S. alone adopted the one-drop rule, defining any child with "a drop" of black blood as legally black. If you are of a bi-racial relationship, look at your birth certificate, your race is listed as black. My father was French Canadian and my mother of English and Indian ancestory and the census taken in the 1940's listed them as mullato, which mena of mixed race, the next census listed them as colored. I will never understand why people dwell on the color of their skin, instead of just being Americans, dbe they black, white, pink, red, green or blue. My sisters and I are a rainbow of color, from very light to dark, some with straight hair and others with coarser hair,but our mother raised us that we are all the same. As a senior citizen, I pray that someday, we will accept each other as American human beings.

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Jan 12, 2010 03:13 AM
REPLYING TO wkingsolomon77 ON Dec 27, 2009 07:35 AM Link Back
Itreally does not matter he really is not very talented,and has a lot of mental health issues.
Well, he seems to be doing pretty good, despite his 'mental issues.' He's been nominated for various awards including Oscars; has two healthy children and has been with the mother of those children for over ten years (a miracle by Hollywood standards); is one of the busiest actors in Hollywood and at the age of 46 (a dinosaur by Hollywood standards); owns a caribbean island; a french villa; a mansion in LA; not to mention a residence in New York. You never hear about him being caught up in tabloid scandals; no baby-mama drama; no ex-wife/mistress drama; no drug busts; no stories about him picking up transvestites, midgets, circus freaks; just staying out of the media and its paralyzing scrutiny. So if he has 'mental health issues,' then what the heck do all the 'normal' ones we see in the press all the time have (e.g. Mariah Carey)?
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Jan 12, 2010 05:39 PM
REPLYING TO faith2xxx ON Jan 12, 2010 03:13 AM Link Back
If you look at the psychology of your post you are basing everything on material gain.Owning an island,a french villa,a mansion in LA, a residence in NY.What are you trying to say?You also state that he (SEEMS) to be doing pretty good.There are a lot of people who can keep their business out of the press and away from the public eye.I,am sure he knows how to play the game.Just because you are ahead in the race at the moment does not mean you will make it to the finish line.Very few of those people make it to the finish in a good mental health state
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Jan 14, 2010 01:08 PM
REPLYING TO wkingsolomon77 ON Jan 12, 2010 05:39 PM Link Back
I didn't know this post was so serious to you. When I came in here I was under the impression that this board was strictly for entertainment purposes. But since you mention the 'psychology' of my post and how I seem to be basing everything on 'material posessions,' then flip the script for a minute and explain to me why he has to be 'playing a game?' Why is it that people assume that a person who 'seems', as you put it, to be doing well has to be putting up a front, especially those in Hollywood? The reason I posted what I did was because I don't see a lot of press for him unless it's for collecting an award or for a promo for a movie. I apologize if you took my post as an attempt to assume that he's perfectly sane, but in all fairness, who do you know who's completely sane in the world we live in? Everybody has issues, and those issues aren't just for those who happen to 'own an island.' Trust me, as well known as he is, I'm sure people all over are going out of their way to find some juicy bit of info on him, and if he is 'playing a game,' then I'm sure that he'll eventually slip up. I'm sure thatmany celebrities know how to 'play the game,' but that doesn't stop the press from prodding and poking until they can find whatever scandalous info they can. And there are just as many 'regular folks' who don't 'own an island' who never make it to the finish line in a good mental health state either.
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Jan 14, 2010 05:42 PM
REPLYING TO faith2xxx ON Jan 14, 2010 01:08 PM Link Back
Johnny Depp has beautiful dark eyes
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Jan 14, 2010 06:06 PM
REPLYING TO faith2xxx ON Jan 14, 2010 01:08 PM Link Back
Hollywood is one big game and to be in it you have to play the game.There are winners who appear to have won in a moment in time and then you have those who appear to have lost.In hollywood 89% of what you see and hear is not true.Many people pay the press to tun their head.Tiger Woods has been running around for years but we just heard about it now,why cause all it takes is for the wrong person to bring it to light.Over 78% of people in the world will keep their mouth shut if the payment is right.I never said this post is serious to me,it is for entertainment purposes.I find it strange how you measure a person doing well.Have you ever read the press about him in europe?Hollywood will not mess with him at this moment in time,cause he is a money maker,they will drop the dirt when the crowd gets thin and his movies are not making hollywood money.Then they will find another golden boy and paint him pure and clean and pimp him for awhile.
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Jan 17, 2010 06:24 AM
REPLYING TO punkycolour ON Jan 02, 2010 07:15 PM Link Back
are we all so damn bored that this actually matters?
Everyone in america pretty soon will be mixed with something if we are not already. so blacks and whites you can keep hating each other, but you kids kids kids will definitly be mixed with something. its 2010, when will the racism stop? life is too short to hate people for no reason. No one chooses to be black or white or any color, and no one should have to be judged or suffer for something they had absolutely no control over.
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Jan 17, 2010 06:27 AM
are we all so damn bored that this actually matters?
Everyone in america pretty soon will be mixed with something if we are not already. so blacks and whites you can keep hating each other, but your kids kids kids will definitly be mixed with something. its 2010, when will the racism stop? life is too short to hate people for no reason. No one chooses to be black or white or any color, and no one should have to be judged or suffer for something they had absolutely no control over.
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Jan 17, 2010 06:48 AM
REPLYING TO kingstoncarib ON Dec 26, 2009 12:58 AM Link Back
He isnt african back ground he is Indie knwon to the world as Gypsy so he is a balck Indie not african black get the story straight ,romanychel isnt african and niether is Johnny
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Jan 17, 2010 06:52 AM
REPLYING TO malcolmxena ON Jan 02, 2010 10:24 PM Link Back
He is part Romanychel or Gypsy as the world calls us, we say were are american Indian cause we are hated so much by the world in truth he is Indian from India not america that is were Gypsy blood started from not africa//
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Jan 17, 2010 09:33 AM
REPLYING TO shannlinwo ON Jan 04, 2010 11:03 AM Link Back
shannlinwo wrote:
WOW DEPP DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH BLACK IN HIM TO SAY EMBRACE IT ...HE'S MIXED AND HE CAN be of any and many races according to his skin texture and hue....also his features. As far as embracing his so called tiny ...I do mean... tiny blood of blackness.....we are black and don't always embrace ours. Why are blacks so confused and always trying to figure out who or what other races are mixed with African any way. Just be black...love it and stop acting nappy headed all the time. DEPP BLACKNESS SHO NOT IN HIS HAIR. Who cares whose mixed with our race.
WITH COLOR STRUCK COMMENTS LIKE THIS, BLKS LIKE YOU WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE TO TALK THE WAY YOU DO, (BACKWARD) AND REFUSE TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND LOVE WHAT YOU WERE BORN WITH.
( STOP ACTING NAPPY HEAD) YOU SAID TO HIM? AND SHO NOT IN HIS HAIR YOU SAID. WHAT DOES THAT SOUND LIKE YOU AS A BLK" INSANE, SELFHATEFUL, AND COLORSTRUCK. WHICH IS WHAT YOU PROBABLY ARE.
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Jan 17, 2010 10:20 AM
Africa is humanity's motherland.
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