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Originally posted by Idontcareaboutyou
Isn't that kind of like erasing a part of her identity though ? I mean, Mariah is as much white as she is black, even moreso if you look at genetics.
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Keep in mind that when Mariah became famous, because of her voice and rightfully so, Black music - especially Hip Hop/R&B - was so big in the Pop charts in the USA. More so than now. There was lot of money to be made. She use that image elements of the Black Hip Hop Culture in her music/videos to her advantage and even claimed she consider her self a Black Woman on an interview. People just accept it, Black and Whites, and they just demanded more music from her and she just keep getting hit after hit and it didn't matter at the time if she was seen as Black or White to Latina. She had so much power in the music world.