Black celebs can't escape racism

Being black in America means the high probability you'll have to deal with some form of racism — even if you're LeBron James or Oprah Winfrey.

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00:00I'm a black man with a bunch of money and having a crib in Brentwood

00:05Having the word nigger spray-painted over my that's crazy

00:10That lets you know I ain't too far removed

00:24No matter how far

00:26Money or access or how you become in life as an african-american man?

00:33Female they will always try to figure out a way

00:36To let you know that you still beneath them

00:44It shows up for me differently it shows up

00:46I'm in a store and the person and doesn't obviously know that I

00:52Carry the black card and so they make an assessment based upon the way I look

01:08But here's the thing women of color on that spectrum we make far less than white women

01:15I

01:21Know matter how much money you have

01:25No matter how famous you are no matter how many people admire you

01:31You know being being black in America's

01:35It's tough

01:39The hearty job in America is being black

01:41Because it's the one thing you cannot run even as I became more famous and more

01:47Financially secure guess what I still was black