Beyonce’s father, Mathew Knowles has said that his superstar daughter would not be as famous if she had darker skin. He told Ebony that the...
Beyonce’s father, Mathew Knowles has said that his
superstar daughter would not be as famous if she had darker skin. He told Ebony
that the biggest black female stars all had lighter skin.
'When it comes to Black females, who are the people who get
their music played on pop radio? Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki
Minaj, my kids [Beyonce and Solange],' he said.
He also revealed that when he first met Beyonce's mother,
his ex-wife of 31 years, he assumed she was white.
'I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that
she was White. Later I found out that she wasn’t, and she was actually very
much in-tune with her Blackness.'
He said that his preference for white or light-skinned
black women was embedded in his childhood in Gadsden, a small town near the
city of Birmingham, Alabama.
Said Knowles: 'When I was growing up, my mother used to
say, "Don’t ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house." In the
deep South in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, the shade of your Blackness was
considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.'
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