Leigh-Anne Pinnock was warned she’d have to “work ten times harder” because she’s black on the set of Little Mix’s first-ever music video shoot.The 28-year-old chart-topping star shared an emotional video on Instagram in which she described the inequality she has experienced despite her fame.Recalling a time when the group first appeared on the music scene after winning The X Factor U.K.
in 2011, the singer said she was told by a music video director that she would endure more struggles than the rest of the group.
Something she came to realise was true. “There comes a point in every black human’s life, no matter how much money you have or what you have achieved, you realise racism does not exclude you,” she shared.
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