Racism: I was mocked for being black in the US – Davido

Obinwannem News Racism: I was mocked for being black in the US – Davido

Racism: I was mocked for being black in the US – Davido

David Adeleke, of one the most popular Nigerian Afropop musicians known as Davido has said he was mocked at Alabama in the United States of America for being a black person.

Davido made this known in an interview with Recording Academy, the organizer of Grammy Awards, where he voiced his experiences as a star and the issue of racism.

The singer said he was often the victim of racial jokes in the college dominated by whites due to his color.

In his words he said;
“It’s crazy, because I’m from both America and Africa, so I know how both sides think. I went to school in Alabama. I went to college at 15. I was very young. And Alabama was a predominantly white state,”.

“So being an African kid in a university where it’s 13% black people, it’s amazing. It’s not easy. I had to learn a lot of things when I was like, “Yo, why you look at me like that?” And not even just being black, being African. They used to ask me questions like, “Yo, how did you get to America?” I’m like, “What you mean? I came on a plane.” “Oh, y’all got airports?

“It’s crazy because like I said, I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, this was when I was 15, 16, so I’ve always understood like, yo, this is going to happen. You know what I’m saying? Sometimes just because of the color of your skin, you might not get a lot of honesty from somebody. You feel me? So it was just crazy.”

The ‘OBO’ crooner, however, said while attention has been majorly on racial attacks against blacks by whites, there is need also to look into inherent hatred among blacks.

“The other way I look at it, we are screaming Black Lives Matter, right? But we killing ourselves too. So the conversation is both sided, it goes both ways,”.

“Now every American wants to go to Africa. Everybody wants to know where they’re from. So it’s good to see the transition from not being appreciated, to being appreciated right now. Even with fashion. You got designers making African print fashion, so it’s not only music. The culture is being felt everywhere,” he concluded.

Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News

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