'Blue-Eyed' Journalist Joe Mozingo Has an African Last Name. And Relatives in the Klan. Max Read · 05/20/10 12:14AM Growing up, Joe Mozingo assumed his last name was Italian, or maybe French Basque. And then he met a distant relative named Sherrie Mazingo. Sherrie is black, and she had news: Their common ancestor was, too. How cool is that?