“And I’d be like, ‘OK, he’s my dad, why would he lie to me?’. So I just believe what he told me. Cause’, to my knowledge, he’s never lied to me.”
Addressing her lighter skin tone, Paris said many people presume she’s white and is ‘from Finland or something’.
She would point out that other mixed-race people look like her, including Prison Break star Wentworth Miller, who was born to a Black father and white mother.
Following these comments, Paris has been subjected to a backlash – with talk show host Wendy Williams even describing her words as ‘cute’.
“I get that she considers herself Black and everything, but I’m just talking about the visual because you know… Black is not what you call yourself, it’s what the cops see when they got steel to your neck on the turnpike,” she said.
“It’s what they see. But that’s cute and good for her.”