Mariah Carey says 9-year-old son Moroccan was bullied by a 'White supremacist': 'This is the world we live in'
Mariah Carey has been promoting her recently released book 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey' as well as her upcoming album 'The Rarities'. For the same, she appeared for a short virtual interview on 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' where she also shared her experience with racism as well as her son Moroccan's recent experience with bullying.
"Rocky just got bullied the other day by a white supremacist person that he thought was his friend," said the 50-year-old singer to host Cohen during an episode that aired on October 8. "It's, like, insane. So this is the world we live in."
The Grammy-winning artiste has been reading chapters from her memoir to Moroccan and his twin sister, Monroe, in order to "illustrate" her encounters with racism. "They can then have a greater understanding and ultimately, a greater reservoir with which to deal with the situation itself," the New Yorker explained to Cohen.
"[Being biracial] has been a struggle for me since I was aware that there was such a thing as race. The only reason I was aware so early on was because it became a subject of humiliation for me as a child," Carey added.
Carey also recalled a segment from a chapter called 'Coloring Outside The Line' from the memoir. "I drew a picture of my family because that was the assignment [in school] and got traumatized by the student teachers who thought I used the wrong crayon because I drew my father, [Alfred Carey], with a brown crayon and basically different experiences as a child where I brought my friend Becky to my parents’ house and her parents didn't know I was Black and she was going to go to a Black man's house."
"They'd only met my mother and the girl burst into tears because she was so freaked out and mind you my father was this gorgeous, tall man that looked like a movie star to me. To see that happen, it just changes your perspective on things and it twists it. I really feel like it’s been a lifelong battle, a struggle," she added.
In a recent interview she did with Vulture, Carey admitted that she had a tough time in the industry when she started out because people misunderstood her heritage. She was called a "White singer who has a Black vocal style" and was also called a "White Whitney Houston" back in the day.
"Believe you me, I'm not thrilled to be this skin tone all the time," she confessed and later queried, "How was I supposed to fit in? I was, like, the only one that’s this weird mutant, mutt — using an antiquated phrase that I'm not asking anyone else to ever use again, but I'm embracing it — mulatto girl. I'm not even embracing it. It’s a horrible way of defining somebody. It actually means 'mule'."