A popular country singer, who has a Black dad and a white mother, recently revealed that he didn’t even know that he was Black until folks started spewing the n-word during elementary school.
While speaking with a reporter from PEOPLE , Kane Brown, who earned Favorite Country Male Artist at the American Music Awards last month, said he lived as a white person until reality came knocking in the form of a racial slur.
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“I’m biracial,” Brown stated. “I didn’t know that until I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought I was full white, which honestly, I can’t even really say because I didn’t see colors.”
“I found out that I was biracial and I still wasn’t thinking anything of it, but then I started getting called the n-word,” Brown continued. “I didn’t even know what it meant. I learned what it meant, and that’s when it started affecting me. I got in fights over it when I was little.”
