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Eva Longoria, Welcome to Black History Month.

The wife of  San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker (see, it does have a sports angel) and my former baby-momma, Eva Longoria recently found out that she has a little black in her. (Well, besides doing it with Tony of course.)

According to Latina.com (Hellz yea!):

Of Mexican heritage and fiercely proud of it, Eva Longoria Parker always thought her ancestral makeup was mostly Mexican-Indian with a smattering of European blood.  But she discovered that the opposite is true, among other surprising revelations, when she agreed to participate in the four-part PBS series Faces of America, which debuts Feb.10.

As one of 12 celebrities of various backgrounds who agreed to have their DNA tested for the series, hosted by historian, author and Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Longoria Parker was “a little shaken” to learn that she’s actually 70% European, 27% Asian/indigenous, and 3% African.  “Most people don’t realize Mexico has a large slave population,” Gates told her, offering a possible explanation for the African percentage.

Gates was able to trace her lineage back to her ninth great-grandfather, who arrived in the New World in 1603, and revealed that her family owned 5000 acres of land in a place called Grulla, initially in New Spain, which became Mexico and then Texas. 

Now its time to worry a little more when there’s a police car behind you or if you feel like you’re being followed when you’re only just stopping at the corner store to get your Skittles on, right?