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THE KEKE WYATT EURCAST: Listen as she lashes out at Essence.com article; Singer also says she was misquoted and betrayed.
*Welcome to the official EURcast, a podcast version of the EUR brimming with extra urban entertainment juice and narrated by EUR editor, Cherie Saunders.
In this edition, singer Keke Wyatt is not happy with Essence.com following her Q&A that appeared last month to promote her new album and title track "Ghetto Rose."
The 25-year-old Indianapolis native vents her frustration with the article, and claims she was "badly misquoted" when the discussion turned toward her biracial background.
Many readers were offended by Wyatt's reference to black people as "they" and reference to her straight locks as "pretty hair."
The actual quote from the Essence.com article reads as follows:
"I hate how everyone thinks that Black people are beneath them, even Asians, Whites and ... Mexicans. No, I'm not all Black, but I definitely stand up for the Black people. They've had it rough, they can't help the fact that they're skin is dark, or that their nose is a lil' wider or that the curls in their hair might be tighter. I don't think that it's fair for people who look like me-the light skin, pointy nose and pretty hair-to think that dark-complected people are any less than them. Who am I? I'm not better than you. I breathe the same air and I bleed the same blood. Nobody is better than anybody else. We are all in this struggle called life. I think brown skin is beautiful because people like me have to lay out in the sun to try and look like you. My best friends are Black-I mean, Black-Black-and I think that's so beautiful. I think that's why I decided to make my children Black...I could have married a White dude and my kids probably would have looked completely White. That's not what I wanted. Now, they can go outside and get a for-real tan (laughs). I think Black is beautiful. I stand for the African-American people until the day I die."
Listen as Wyatt tells EUR's Lee Bailey that she was misquoted in the article. Additionally, the singer says the Essence writer/interviewer, Kenya Byrd, also betrayed her by using and misconstruing her "off-the-record" comments about her white mother's use of the N-word. By the way, you'll also hear Wyatt's new single, the title track to "Ghetto Rose," which we think is off the hook.
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