Post by hillbillylover on Mar 22, 2005 22:13:09 GMT -4
I remember seeing a TV interview with her sister who implied that while Mariah never tried to "pass," her mother promoted the subterfuge on her behalf, especially when her children were growing up.
According to her sister, after the kids endured vicious racist slurs from white neighborhood kids, their mom decided to protect Mariah from the taunts. This would work their mother figured, because Mariah's hair and eye color made her look a bit more Caucasian than her siblings. Thus, after they moved to another neighborhood, their mother told people that Mariah was 100 percent Irish Catholic and that her siblings had a different father, of unspecified ethnicity, but one who certainly wasn't black.
The sister, who happened to look exactly like Mariah except with black hair and darker eyes, was understandably bitter that their mother gave in to racism by hiding her children's racial makeup as if it was shameful.
And you got the definite feeling that her sister also resented Mariah because she felt that she didn't go out of her way to correct people when they assumed she was 100 percent white. Perhaps the sister was envious that Mariah could "pass" and she couldn't.
It was definitely a effed up family dynamic and it was obvious that there are or were some very deep resentments and feelings of betrayal going on.
So perhaps some of the stories about Mariah's supposed denial of her black heritage, is a spillover from the mother's misguided lies. Mariah's initial reluctance to talk about it was no doubt interpreted by some as running away from her blackness, when she may actually have felt some guilt or pain at how their mother "segregated" her own children.
Yep. Mom sounds like a real sweetheart.
Btw, Mariah has definitely had at least one nose job. One of them at the very earliest stages of her career. I ran across one of my brother's very old copies of Musician magazine and it had photos of Mariah in it from when she was first breaking as a major star. The hair was still curly red like Nicole Kidman's used to be and the nose was definitely different. It was broader and flatter.
According to her sister, after the kids endured vicious racist slurs from white neighborhood kids, their mom decided to protect Mariah from the taunts. This would work their mother figured, because Mariah's hair and eye color made her look a bit more Caucasian than her siblings. Thus, after they moved to another neighborhood, their mother told people that Mariah was 100 percent Irish Catholic and that her siblings had a different father, of unspecified ethnicity, but one who certainly wasn't black.
The sister, who happened to look exactly like Mariah except with black hair and darker eyes, was understandably bitter that their mother gave in to racism by hiding her children's racial makeup as if it was shameful.
And you got the definite feeling that her sister also resented Mariah because she felt that she didn't go out of her way to correct people when they assumed she was 100 percent white. Perhaps the sister was envious that Mariah could "pass" and she couldn't.
It was definitely a effed up family dynamic and it was obvious that there are or were some very deep resentments and feelings of betrayal going on.
So perhaps some of the stories about Mariah's supposed denial of her black heritage, is a spillover from the mother's misguided lies. Mariah's initial reluctance to talk about it was no doubt interpreted by some as running away from her blackness, when she may actually have felt some guilt or pain at how their mother "segregated" her own children.
Yep. Mom sounds like a real sweetheart.
Btw, Mariah has definitely had at least one nose job. One of them at the very earliest stages of her career. I ran across one of my brother's very old copies of Musician magazine and it had photos of Mariah in it from when she was first breaking as a major star. The hair was still curly red like Nicole Kidman's used to be and the nose was definitely different. It was broader and flatter.
