'My reality is constantly feeling like I have to work 10 times harder to mark my place in the group,' Leigh-Anne Pinnock says
In a powerful five-minute long video posted to Instagram, the British singer, 28, begins by sending her condolences to the family of— an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who died in police custody on May 25 after a white officer pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck — as well as all the families "who have lost someone due to police brutality and racism."You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
Pinnock goes on to share that both of her parents are mixed race and that both of her grandfathers moved to England and married white women "at a time when interracial relationships were extremely frowned upon." "I had the biggest awakening of my life," she says. "When we were filming 'Wings,' we worked with [black director and choreographer] Frank Gatson. He said to me, ‘You’re the black girl. You have to work 10 times harder.’ Never in my life has someone told me that I would need to work harder because of my race. Later on, what Frank Gatson said made sense."
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