One more reason to love her.
Posted: 08/10/2015 02:38 PM EDT | Edited: 08/10/2015 02:40 PM EDT
This is an excerpt from Essence magazine's September 2015 cover story "Stepping Up" about American Ballet Theatre ballerina Misty Copeland. The article was written by Julee Wilson, senior fashion editor at The Huffington Post.
“…One of Copeland’s most endearing qualities, beyond dancing on her
toes and making it look easy, is the fact that she’s so unapologetically
Black. ‘It’s easy for someone who isn’t Black or other or who has
never experienced racism to dismiss what I’m saying…it’s easier for them
to say, ‘Why do you focus so much on that? You’re a beautiful dancer.’ But the reason I’m here and I have this voice is because I’m Black.’
Copeland tells me that she has never tried to pretend that ballet
doesn’t have a race problem. She recounts times fellow dancers told her
that some American Ballet Theatre (ABT) staff members were overheard
saying, ‘Misty stands out too much because of her skin color.’
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