Mel B Speaks Out On Racist Abuse She Has Suffered, Says She Was Once Asked To Leave A Designer Store While In The Spice Girls

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Mel B spoke about some of the racist abuse she’d endure while in the Spice Girls in an emotional open letter. The singer, who has a white British mother and a Black father from the Caribbean island of Nevis, told OK!

Magazine: “Even when I was a world-famous Spice Girl playing a concert for Prince Charles and Nelson Mandela in South Africa, I was asked by a shop assistant in a designer store to get out.” She added of the 1997 incident, according to the Daily Mail: “The other girls were outraged and started screaming at the assistant.

I wasn’t shocked, I was embarrassed. “I was angry and I was really sad that a lot of people in post-Mandela South Africa were still racist.” RELATED: John Boyega Blasts ‘Racist White People’ In Rant After