'It was devastating that this came from a place that was supposed to be a safe haven and a sisterhood.'
Normani is a superstar in her own right, but she didn't always feel that way. As one of the Rolling Stone's three cover stars, alongside SZA and Megan Thee Stallion, the singer opened up about dealing with both the coded and extremely overt racism she experienced back when she came up as part of Fifth Harmony.
As the only black woman in the group, Normani was constantly trolled online; the attacks varied from photoshopped images of her being lynched to blatant death threats. It was a traumatic start to her career, and worsened by the lack of support from the rest of Fifth Harmony. Normani was forthright, describing it as"them not knowing how to be there for me the way that I needed it because it wasn't their own experience, and because when they look at me they don't see me.
At one point, Normani's vocals were the only ones left off the album and left her feeling further pigeonholed as the group's token"dancer" and nothing more."I was devastated," she revealed.
Last December, former Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabello came under fire when her personal tumblr full of shared and written racist slurs and memes resurfaced. Cabello has maintained the account when she was around 14, and it adds another layer to the trauma Normani experience when she was part of Fifth Harmony. Although Cabello has since apologized and condemned the account as"uneducated and"ignorant," it obviously took Normani time to metabolize the news.
"I face senseless attacks daily, as does the rest of my community. This represents a day in the life for us. I have been tolerating discrimination far before I could even comprehend what exactly was happening. Direct and subliminal hatred has been geared towards me for many years solely because of the color of my skin," she continued."It would be dishonest if I said that this particular scenario didn't hurt me.
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