I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.