Royce White

Publish date: 2024-08-05

Birth Name: Royce Alexander White

Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. (evidently)

Date of Birth: April 10, 1991

Ethnicity: African-Amercian (around 75%), one eighth Mexican, as well as Norwegian and Welsh

Royce White is an American mixed martial artist, basketball player at the collegiate and professional levels, politician, and conspiracy theorist. A power forward, he played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Reno Bighorns, and the London Lightning. He was 2009 Minnesota Mr. Basketball, and twice a member of a Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) championship team. He is 6′8″.

Royce is the son of Rebecca White and Kevin Tucker. His father is African-American. Both of his maternal great-grandfathers were African-American, while one of his maternal great-grandmothers was Mexican, and the other was a white American, with Norwegian and Welsh ancestry. A picture of Royce with his mother can be seen here. Royce has four children. He is Catholic.

Royce’s paternal grandfather was Kevin Kemp Tucker (the son of Herman Kemp and Nonie Bernice Tucker). Herman was the son of Esse Kemp and Lula. Nonie was the daughter of Kate Edwards Hawkins.

Royce’s paternal grandmother was named Diann/Diane Alice.

Royce’s maternal grandfather was Frank Matthew White (the son of Louis Verde White and Fidela Catherine Rangel). Louis was black, and was the son of Louis V. White and Louise Moore/Young. Fidela was born in Mexico, the daughter of Francisco Rangel and Cresencia/Chrisencia Ortiz.

Royce’s maternal grandmother was Sandra Melita Pryor (the daughter of Milton Noble Pryor and Doris Cecelia Davis). Milton was black, and was the son of Milton N. Pryor and Hazel Mae Bannister. Doris was white, and was the daughter of Horace S. Davis and Elizabeth O., who was Norwegian.

Sources: Obituaries of Royce’s paternal grandparents, Kevin Kemp Tucker and Diann/Diane Alice Tucker – https://www.findagrave.com

Obituary record of Royce’s paternal great-grandfather, Herman Kemp – https://www.familysearch.org

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