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DozieInc:
OP you forgot Michael Jackson.

lol. U sef know why wacko jacko situation became that way na ..

25. Slash

The lead guitarist of the American rock band Guns N’ Roses, who also founded the Velvet Revolver, was once placed at #65 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. Born Saul Hudson, Slash has a surprising ethnical background. His mother was an African-American costume designer with a prestigious clientele that included the late David Bowie.

24. Blake Griffin

The 6’10” (2.18m) american professional basketball player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers was born to an Afro-Haitian father who was a basketball center at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. His mother is white, which explains why it’s so difficult to guess Blake’s ethnical background.

On top of being a basketball player, Blake Griffin’s father Tommy Griffin (pictured left) second picture, owned a gym where Blake and his older brother Taylor started to play basketball. The two brothers were home-schooled by their mother (pictured right) until Blake was in the eight grade.

23. Ben Harper

While his hair might give you a hint that Ben Harper has African-American origins, you can’t really tell from his skin tone. The 46-year-old American singer and three times Grammy-Award winner has an African-American and Cherokee father, and a Jewish mother.

22. Jessica Szohr

This 31-year old actress became famous when appearing on TV shows CSI: Miami and Gossip Girl. She also played a role in the 2013 movie The Internship. Szohr, who started modeling at the age of 6, has an Hungarian father and a mother of African-American descent. This beautiful ethnic heritage landed her on the “100 Most Beautiful People in the World” published by People magazine in 2010.

21. Charli Baltimore

Born Tiffany Lane, this Grammy nominated rapper and model has a German dad and an African-American mother. She was involved in a romantic relationship with legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G. back in 1995, and through him, she became a rapper.

20. Kris Humphries

Standing at 6’9” (2.06m), basketball player Kris Humphries plays for the Atlanta Hawks. He’s more famous for dating and marrying Kim Kardashian on August 20, 2011, and getting divorced 2 months later! Well, guess what. Kris Humphries’s dad is an African-American man who used to be a football player at the University of Minnesota.

19. Rosario Dawson

People get really confused about this beautiful actress’s ethnicity. In fact, according to Google search stats, 30 000 people around the world ask about Rosario’s ethnicity every year! Well here is the truth. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is of Puerto Rican and Cuban ancestry. She’s a writer and singer. She was only 16 when Rosario was born. Rosario’s biological dad was of Irish and Native American ancestry. Him and Rosario’s mother never got married. Instead, Rosario’s mother married construction worker Greg Dawson when Rosario was one year old.

18. Daniel Sunjata

Best known for playing Franco Rivera in the FX television series Rescue Me, Daniel Sunjata has African-American, Irish and German’s ethnic heritage. The 44-year-old actor was adopted by a police dispatcher and a civil rights worker, and he was raised in Chicago.

17. Derek Jeter

The former baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in MLB for the Yankees has a Caucasian mother and an African-American father. His parents met while serving in Germany for the US Army. The 42-year-old athlete embraces diversity in his personal life. He has dated Mariay Carey, whose father is of African-American and Afro-Venezuelan descents, Vida Guerra, who is of Cuban origins, Indian actress Lara Dutta, Vanessa Lachey whose mother is from the Philippines, and Brazilian-American actress Jordana Brewster!

16. Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson, also known as “The Rock”, is an actor and a semi-retired professional wrestler. He doesn’t have a white American skin, so most of us may have already figured out that he’s not really all white, but we don’t know the whole story about his mix of blood, either. Johnson is the son of Ata and Rocky Johnson, which makes him half-black, half-Samoan.

15. Mariah Carey

With a net worth of $500 million, Carey is one of the best-selling singers of all time. She has sold more than 200 million records worldwide. For many people, her ethnicity remains a mystery. Mariah’s dad, Alfred Roy Carey, was of African American and Afro-Venezuelan descent. Her mother, Patricia has Irish origins. Patricia’s family didn’t approve of her partner. In fact, they decided to disown her. This deeply affected Carey as she grew up.

14. Gabrielle Reece

Gabrielle Reece is probably one of the sexiest and most beautiful women in the universe. Her perfectly-toned body is matched only with her excellent ability to spike volleyball. Even with millions of loyal fans, only a few know about her Trinidadian father.

13. Darnell Martin

Darnell is a TV and film director, writer, and producer. She made history way back in 1994 when she wrote the film “I Like it Like That”. However, only a few know that Darnell’s father was black. So technically, she was the first black American woman to hold a major film for Hollywood.

12. Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel is another sought after actor and filmmaker who is famous for his special role in “The Fast and the Furious”. With his white, light complexion and huge build, it is almost impossible for someone to recognize him as biracial.

Diesel’s mother has English, German and Scottish origins. However, Vin Diesel has never met with his biological father but his mother told him he also was connected to many different cultures. His stepfather is an African-American. He teaches acting and manages a theatre. Vin’s mother is an astrologer.

11. Carol Channing

Carol Channing is a singer, dancer, actress, and comedian. She is probably the complete package for a Broadway performer. She was nominated for and won various awards in her time, and everyone loved her. People had no idea that Carol was black, until she revealed that her father was of color.

10. Soledad O’Brien

Soledad O’Brien became one of the most favorite news correspondents of many of us. She has gained a lot of success in journalism – from being the news anchor of CNN and HBO to being the executive producer of the National Geographic Bee. Everyone has always thought that this down-to-earth news anchor was white, until she appeared on “Black in America”.

9. Troian Bellisario

Have you ever thought of Troian Bellisario, a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the TV show “Pretty Little Liars”, being biracial? A big “No way!” might be your cry, but this singer and actress is actually the daughter of the African-American actress and TV producer Deborah Pratt.

8. Jennifer Beals

This sexy actress, who has appeared in over 50 films, continues to allure, entice and sometimes thrill her fans in every role she plays. She has probably played almost every kind of role in TV shows and films, but most people still have no idea about her being biracial.

7. Cash Warren

Cash Warren (left), one of the luckiest men on Earth who married one of the prettiest women on Earth Jessica Alba, is the son of the black actor Michael Warren. Now you know. The woman who has one of the most beautiful faces in the world is married to a lucky biracial producer.

6. Maya Rudolph

Maya Rudolph is a biracial actress and comedian who is an infamous part of NBC’s television show “Saturday Night Live”. She has been part of several films like Idiocracy, Grown Ups, and Bridesmaids, but her fans have always seen her as solely white. The actress is actually the daughter of the black singer Minnie Ripperton and the white composer Richard Rudolph.

5. Pete Wentz

Pete Wentz, the bassist of the famous American band “Fall Out Boy”, has a cool Jamaican grandfather who also happens to have a General and a US Ambassador cousin. Yep, this cool rock star has a cool family tree too.

4. Rashida Jones

This sought after comedian from “The Office” and “Parks and recreation” actually has some chocolate in her blood. She is the daughter of the white American model Peggy Lipton and the famous black musician Quincy Jones.

3. Meghan Markle

We have known this interesting model and actress, who once held briefcase number 25 in the game show “Deal or No Deal”, as a part of the legal drama “Suits”. The star has a white father and an African-American mother.

2. Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Miller

Who would’ve thought that this “Prison Break” hottie right here has black in his blood? Wentworth’s mother is white, while his father is black. A lot of people wouldn’t believe that this guy is biracial, but his role in “the Human Stain” proves those people wrong.

1. Nicole Richie

Hollywood has always tried its best to keep things fair and balanced – like how they try to complement the color of black and white in the industry. Although it has indeed realized its plan to some extent, many biracial celebrities still seem to have a hard time because people perceive them as white – lock, stock and barrel. Believe it or not, these 25 celebrities are actually black.

56. 2007 BMW X6

Called “The stupidest car in the world” by Top Gear the BMW X6 is an odd design choice for BMW. Dubbed a sports activity vehicle by BMW, the X6 is a mixture of SUV and sports sedan. Sadly the X6 doesn’t perform either of those functions well. Looks-wise the X6 succeeds, with a mixture of SUV stance and sports sedan styling, performance-wise it’s another story. The tall driving position gives the X6 too high a center of gravity to be able to navigate corners like a sports car, while the off-road capabilities of the X6 don’t compare to a standard SUV. Over the years the X6 has found its stride, becoming better with each revision, but the first run X6 was a less than impressive merging of two worlds.

55. 2003 Citroën C3 Pluriel

The Citroën C3 Pluriel is a variant of the C3 supermini built by Citroën. While the regular version of the C3 is an efficient little car, the Pluriel variant was a disaster. The roof was removable to turn the vehicle into a convertible, but there was no room inside the car to store the roof pillars. In the event of a sudden rainstorm, the occupants were getting wet. There was a retracting fabric top that ran along the middle of the vehicle’s top, but it was prone to leaking and offered little shelter from the rain. If the roof design was built better, the Pluriel wouldn’t be on the list, but making a convertible that you can’t put the roof back on mid-trip is unforgivable.

54. 2002 BMW 7-Series

The 7-Series was and still is an awesome car. Fast, comfortable, great suspension and handling, and the standard great German engineering. What makes the 2002 7-Series one of the worst cars is the iDrive system. First introduced in 2002, the iDrive system was a goofy joystick/dial in the center console that controlled practically everything electronic in the car. Climate control, audio controls, navigation, interior lighting, the sound of the door chime, if there was a way to adjust something electronic in the car, the iDrive did it. The problem was the iDrive was a nightmare to control. Trying to navigate sub-menu after sub-menu to get to where you wanted to go was so aggravating there was a chance you would just give up and accept the car the way it was. Over the years BMW has made changes to the system to make it more user friendly, but the initially released system made the 7-Series a terrible car.

53. 2001 Jaguar X-type

The Jaguar X-Type was designed to compete with rear wheel drive compact vehicles. The problem is Jaguar, or more accurately Ford, didn’t want to spend the money to develop a new platform. Instead Ford used the Ford Contour platform to create the Jaguar X-Type. Ford upgraded the engine heads and added all-wheel drive in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience. The interior was spruced up with wood veneer and a healthy dose of leather, while the exterior was giving a chrome grille similar to other Jaguar vehicles. Sales in the first year were good, with a healthy 33,018 units sold, but it didn’t last. The X-type was ridiculed for being nothing more than a re-bodied Ford and not a “real” Jaguar. Sales eventually fell off and the X-Type was put to rest.

52. 2001 Pontiac Aztek

Another hideous vehicle, the Pontiac Aztec was almost universally disliked when it was unveiled at the Detroit auto show. The car was an awkward, bulky, plastic mess, that looked like nothing else on the road. Rather than embrace the unique look of the Aztek, most recoiled. Interviews with GM designers revealed that the original design for the Aztek had been fiddled with, altered, and had corners cut to reduce costs resulting in the mess that we have today. Oddly enough years after the Aztek had been removed from production, a resurgance in popularity and public interest happened, all thanks to its association with Breaking Bad. After watching lead character Walter White drive an Aztec, suddenly the car became cooler than it ever was when it was in production.

51. 1998 Fiat Multipla

If there was an award for weirdest looking car the Fiat Multipla would have won it. The high-beams were situated at the bottom of the A-pillars, the A-pillars themselves wrapped under the windshield and connected, resulting in an ugly bulge on the hood, the rear was bulky and odd shaped, and the whole mess sat on small wheels. The whole vehicle looked like a car that was bombarded repeatedly by radiation until it mutated. Mechanically, the Multipla was a decent car. The suspension handled whatever was thrown at it, the engine provided adequate power, and the interior was comfortable. If it wasn’t such a horrendous looking vehicle, the Multipla wouldn’t be on this list. I’m not sure what Fiat was thinking when they designed this mess.