Post by swatcat on Aug 2, 2020 0:00:26 GMT
Quick change to Alexandra Burke - hopefully relevant as she talks about 'racism' in a different entertainment industry, music, but there's a good pic in the link, of Angus McDonald who we remember - hope he's doing OK after his cancer problems.
"What she revealed – about being told to bleach her skin and straighten her hair, and the pernicious racism that has often threatened to cripple her career – caused a rip tide throughout the media. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t easy
to hear. And it put her front and centre of the celebrity Black Lives Matter debate. I’d kept those feelings suppressed for so many years,’ she tells me via Zoom as she sits in the large, bright living room of her Hertfordshire home. ‘All I’d ever thought since I got into the industry was that I was so lucky to be given the chance to sing that I had to just suck it up and smile, and do what I was told."
Good Luck to Ms. Burke and Angus McD !