On January 19, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen were about to hop on a plane at JFK Airport in New York City. However, the trip went sour when a paparazzi photographer asked Chrissy Teigen a question.
Paparazzi at JFK just asked me "if we evolved from monkeys, why is John Legend still around?" - and people wonder why celebs lose it in pics
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 19, 2017
Following the racist remark, Chrissy tweeted the incident. But John stayed quiet, until now.
"Black folks have had to deal with being called monkeys for a long time and dehumanisation has always been kind of a method of racism and subjugation of black people and that’s just part of American history – and it’s part of the present, apparently," he told Variety.
He continued, "We saw with the former president, Obama, whenever people wanted to discount him or discount his wife, they compared them to apes. And we’ve seen that frequently. I’m not hurt by someone saying that to me because I’m smarter, I’m stronger. I look down on that person that would say something like that. But it’s a shame that it still exists."
Watch the interview below.
.@JohnLegend opens up at #VarietyStudio about his recent racist airport encounter with wife @chrissyteigen: "It's a shame that still exists" http://pic.twitter.com/BhZGsUvJyJ
— Variety (@Variety) January 22, 2017
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