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British beauty Leona Lewis blew up on the music scene with her hit “Bleeding Love,” but the talented babe has had her share of racist moments as a star. In 2009, the artist talked about when she and her Guyanese father went into an expensive shop in London and were asked to leave.
“I looked at her and asked, “Are you joking?” She said, ‘No, I want both of you to remove yourselves from my store.’ I asked her what she meant, and why, and she said, pointing to her dad, ‘I don’t like the look of him.’”
Leona said that moment in her life affected her deeply.
Photo by Jason Kempin“I couldn’t get the money here. I couldn’t get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. The first question you get is: Is it a black film? All of them agree, it is not going to do good.”
Todd Bridges said in a interview with Beliefnet, that in the 1980s when he was popular TV star, “the same LAPD police officers pulled me over on my way to work every day in my suburban neighborhood. For nothing else but to harrass me because I was black. They know I had a job, they saw me on TV everyday.”
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/09/...e-trumps-money