Since confronting her parents about their racist attitudes when she was a teenager, Kimberly Wyatt has had no contact with them.
During a virtual interview for Power of Women TV’s She Speaks series, the Pussycat Dolls star said that she grew up in a “very racist family” in Missouri and only summoned the confidence to confront her violent father about his racist ideas when she was 14.
Why did Kimberly Wyatt call her parents racists?
The dancer confessed that not having a contact with her parents has been “heartbreaking,” “lonely,” and “nearly soul-destroying,” but she has come to terms with it since she “doesn’t want to carry that burden.”
She admitted that, despite the fact that racism has had a significant impact on her life, she doesn’t feel “worthy of the conversation” about the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement due to her white privilege, and she hopes that George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers will “wake everybody up into making something happen.”
