{"id":50457,"date":"2016-12-07T01:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50457"},"modified":"2016-12-07T02:31:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:31:03","slug":"lionel-richies-daughter-sofia-says-people-say-racist-stuff-around-her-not-knowing-shes-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50457","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie\u2019s Daughter Sofia Says People Say Racist Stuff Around Her Not Knowing She\u2019s Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/blog\/the-grapevine\/lionel-richies-daughter-sofia-says-people-say-racist-stuff-around-her-not-knowing-shes-black\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lionel Richie\u2019s Daughter Sofia Says People Say Racist Stuff Around Her Not Knowing She\u2019s Black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Root<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yeshacallahan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yesha Callahan<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/blog\/the-grapevine\/lionel-richies-daughter-sofia-says-people-say-racist-stuff-around-her-not-knowing-shes-black\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/509701586.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=670\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Sofia Richie during <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Fashion_Week\" target=\"_blank\">New York Fashion Week<\/a> on Feb. 11, 2016<\/em><br \/>\nGustavo Caballero\/Getty Images<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The model spoke about the racism she\u2019s subjected to because people don\u2019t see her as a black woman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lionel_Richie\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Richie\u2019s<\/a> daughter Sofia has made a name for herself in the fashion industry, but that doesn\u2019t mean she isn\u2019t subjected to everyday racism. Especially when people forget that she\u2019s actually black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very light, so some people don\u2019t really know that I\u2019m black,\u201d Sofia Richie, 18, said in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50463\" target=\"_blank\">interview with <em>Complex<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been in situations where people will say something kind of racist, and I\u2019ll step in and they\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh, well, you\u2019re light.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s those statements that might cause her to go off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/blog\/the-grapevine\/lionel-richies-daughter-sofia-says-people-say-racist-stuff-around-her-not-knowing-shes-black\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Richie\u2019s Daughter Sofia Says People Say Racist Stuff Around Her Not Knowing She\u2019s Black The Root 2016-12-06 Yesha Callahan, Senior Editor Sofia Richie during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 11, 2016 Gustavo Caballero\/Getty Images The model spoke about the racism she\u2019s subjected to because people don\u2019t see her as a black woman. 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