Biracial actress Taylor Russell, the actress best known for starring in the movie ‘Bones & All’ is going viral – and she’s facing the wrath of Black Twitter.
It’s all because of a comment that Taylor made in a recent interview. The biracial actress told the interviewer, ‘Black girls not accepting me because I’m too light-skinned to fit in with them’.
Taylor, who is Canadian, was born to a Black father and a white mother, and is considered biracial. According to online interviews, Taylor grew up mostly with her mother’s side (the White side) of the family.
She recalled that growing up she felt unaccepted by her peers due to the color of her skin. But not by White peers … only by the Black ones.
In an interview with TheGrio.com, she recalled that she dealt with “Black girls not accepting me because I’m too light-skinned to fit in with them.”
Taylor also told the interviewer that her parents struggled financially, and were constantly on the move, uprooting their lives sixteen different times to follow her father’s career. Despite this adversity, Russell mentioned how in her younger years “there was always an opportunity for reinvention, to create something new.”
Black Twitter is going CRAZY with Taylor’s statement. Look: