Balmain Designer Traces His Roots To Find Out He’s African & Not Mixed With White
“She was Somalian and he was Ethiopian, which means I am African-African,” he said. “I’m black.” It’s discombobulating discovering, in your 30s, that the myths you told yourself your entire life, even if you knew you had made them up, were all wrong. I don’t want anyone to have pity for me. I want people to see this as a movie about a fighter who faced the world. There is a real crisis of identity today, it’s hard to be yourself. But maybe the people who see it will understand me more.”
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