Spice Woman Mel B mentioned she was left "shocked" after seeing that racism is "nonetheless there" when reflecting on her journey to the US.
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Spice Woman Mel B mentioned she was left “shocked” after seeing that racism is “nonetheless there” when reflecting on her journey to the US.
The “Spice Up Your Life” hitmaker, dubbed Scary Spice, joined forces with British comedians Ruby Wax and Emily Atack to movie a BBC documentary within the States.
The doc, titled “Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Highway Journey,” sees the trio observe within the footsteps of explorer Isabella Hen, who explored the US on a solo journey within the 1870s.
However when making it to Colorado, Mel B mentioned she was “shocked” on the lack of variety within the state, admitting it modified her “outlook in a number of methods.”
“So though Colorado is very large, the entire world is very large, however when it really comes all the way down to it the place individuals of coloration, whether or not it's combined or brown or some type of mixture of ethnicity, they type of have it even more durable, individuals of coloration,” she informed Metro.
“For me, I assumed that there wasn’t as a lot racism as there was say when my mother had me 47 years in the past, however it’s nonetheless there,” she added.
Filming the documentary within the US left Mel B “shocked” on the lack of variety she noticed.
The Spice Woman mentioned the journey “modified my outlook.”
The singer, who hails from northern England, mentioned the expertise “type of modified my outlook.”
“All through the entire present, I used to be saying, ‘Is there anyone brown or combined or Black on this city? Is there anyone?’ I at all times discover myself trying,” she added.
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