Stephen responds to Love Is Blind backlash by posting results of DNA ancestry test

I won’t lie, I was taken for a beat when Stephen told Monica in the Love Is Blind pods that “for the most part, I identify as white.” What do you mean for the most part Stephen?! He then clarified that his dad is “three-fifths or half Black” and as a result, he’d been trying to learn more and immerse himself in Ghanaian and Nigerian cultures.

Whilst Monica thought it was a “cool experience”, Love Is Blind viewers were less than impressed with Stephen’s confession, commenting: “Stephen on Love Is Blind saying he Nigerian??? Pls.”

But Stephen has since defended the Love Is Blind backlash by posting the results of his sister’s DNA test, which indicates his family has 13 per cent Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

He wrote: “Here’s the math for everyone that is upset at me for finding interest in my families [sic] lineage that I never got to connect with and then trying to be respectful and research into it more…. or thinking I can’t do math,” he wrote beneath the chart. It ain’t much… like at all… but I actually am very proud of it all the same.”

He told People that whilst working in a bar he’d get African-Americans coming in and asking him if he was mixed race, explaining: “It’s interesting because I would bartend in this one area where I get a lot of people of African-American descent asking me if I was mixed. An interesting amount. So usually they could tell.

“And even I was like, I had get to a point where I was like, ‘I don’t know, maybe I am.’ When we found out, I was like, ‘Oh wow. So there are actually people out there that could see it before I could see it.’ So yeah, I thought that was interesting.”

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