Speaking about her experience with racism when she was still a child, singer Mariah Carey revealed how discrimination affected her own kids. Joining Andy Cohen remotely on Watch What Happens Live, the singer opened up about an experience that her son Moroccan, 9, recently faced.
In the course of the WWHL after the show, the "Hero" singer took the wraps off her recently released memoir dubbed, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. Carey said she has been reading the book to her kids, sharing stories from her life, and helping them understand the world.
The GRAMMY winner said she was specifically reading chapters to her kids that are helping to explain her encounters with racism, and how they can develop the ability to understand better, and have a greater reservoir which they can use to deal with the situation itself. She went on to reveal that her son has already painfully experienced racism and racial prejudice.
"Rocky just got bullied the other day by a white supremacist person," she started explaining the incident talking about the person that her son thought was his friend. Describing the whole incident as "insane," Carey said she realized this is the world we live in.
Her memoir highlights numerous traumatic and formative experiences from her childhood. The "Butterfly" songstress noted that she has been dealing with prejudice and racism since she was aware that there was such a thing called "race."
Carey said the only reason why she was aware so early on is that it became a subject of humiliation for her as a kid. She went on recalling multiple times that her race played a crucial role in how she was treated when she was younger.
One such incident involves an agonizing argument when she was young with a group of girls she thought were her friends, but who adopted painful ways to bully her. Carey has detailed the bullying incidents in the book.
She also recalled how she let her daughter Monroe hear that chapter of the book, and was shocked by her reaction. After hearing how her mother was bullied as a child, the 9-year-old girl told her mom that those girls would be feeling really bad now, and wishing that they could be your friend.
In The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the singer reveals details about her violent childhood, high profile marriage, why she dislikes measuring time, and more. Aside from that, the book also details the singer's success and happiness today.
Mariah Carey Reveals Her Son Got Bullied By A White Supremacist
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