Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock recalls first experiencing racism aged 9
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standard.co.ukLeigh-Anne Pinnock revealed she first experienced racism at the age of nine in a Channel 4 documentary.The Little Mix star, 28, was joined by her parents on The Talk, which aired on Tuesday evening and saw British celebrities open up about facing racism and discrimination.The singer recalled how a fellow pupil at her primary school said that she was from the “jungle,” leaving her “distraught.”“In primary school, a boy wrote on a bit of paper, ‘Name: Leigh-Anne.
Age: Nine. Nationality: Jungle,’” she said.“I saw it, and my heart just dropped. I knew it was racism. I was nine years old, I knew it was racism.
I was just distraught by it.” She added that she wished that she had been “more educated” as a child so that she could “prepare.
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