September 1st 2023.
Tia Mowry is deeply appreciative of her mother, who she praises as a strong, Black woman. During an episode of The Cool Mom Podcast, the former Sister, Sister actress opened up about growing up biracial and how she identifies herself.
"As a mixed race woman, you sound like you identify more in one way or the other. Is that true or no?" host Lizzy Mattis asked. To this, Mowry replied: "Yeah. I identify myself as a Black woman." She went on to explain that her mother, Darlene, is a dark-skinned woman, and shared her admiration for her mother's strength against the challenges of her skin color.
"I feel like my mother is a strong woman," said Mowry. "I have seen and felt her struggles as being a Black woman. And so to me, I'm an – of course my dad is white – but I am an extension of my mother. So yes, I am mixed race, but it's how I identify myself. And I identify myself as a Black woman. That is how I've been viewed, how I've been seen."
In an Instagram post from 2020, Mowry posed with her mother and twin sister Tamera Mowry-Housley, getting candid with her followers about the privileges her father had as a white man compared to her mother. She shared various examples of the unfair experiences they were met with as a family, such as her mother being questioned when taking her seat in first class on flights during their Sister, Sister days, and another incident when her family was purchasing their first home and only her father was treated with respect.
Mowry is determined to see change in the world, and through her work she is actively helping to create it.
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