The ‘#Beautiful’ singer says during a press conference of ‘Lee
Daniels’ The Butler’ at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel that she has
experienced some incidents because of racism.
A scene of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” evokes a painful memory of a
racist incident which Mariah Carey experienced when she was a child. The
singer, whose parents are Irish American and African
American/Venezuelan, said during the movie’s press conference at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Monday, August 6, that she was spat on when she
sat in a school bus.
“That actually happened to me,” the 43-year-old singer told the
crowd, referring to a scene in the movie in which a black student was
spat on by a white woman. “I know people would be in shock and not
really want to believe or accept that, but it did. That right there,
that was almost the deepest thing to me in the movie because I know what
she went through – and it happened to be a bus as well. It was a school
bus,” she explained, as quoted by Yahoo! Movies.
Oprah Winfrey, who was also present at the event, chimed in, “Where
somebody spit on you?” Carey replied, “Yeah. In the face and in the same
way.”
Carey has spoken up about being a biracial kid several times. The
Hattie Pearl depicter once said that her mother Patricia’s family
disowned her because she married a man from different race in 1960.
She added during an appearance on Oprah’s show, “One of the first
memories I have is when I was in kindergarten or nursery school they
asked us to draw a picture of our family and so I was drawing everybody
and I got to my father and I started to make him brown.”
“And, they were like, the kindergarten teachers are often young, and
the two women were standing behind me giggling. And I turned around,
self-conscious, and asked, ‘Why are your laughing?’ And they said,
‘You’re doing that wrong. Why are you making your father the wrong
color?’ And I said, ‘No, that’s the color that he is.’ They made me feel
like something was wrong with me, that it was a bizarre freakish
thing,” the mother of two concluded.
-AceShowbiz.com
