In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Paris Jackson said: “[Michael] would look me in the eyes and he’d point his finger at me and he’d be like, ‘You’re Black. Be proud of your roots.’ 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.”

She also says that many people say she looks as if she is from Finland, and it causes her a lot of stress. Many other mixed-race children look similar to her, but not all of them have to face the same ridicule that she does.

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