Big Brother’s Ashley Hollis Addresses Claim She’s Not Black

“I am 100 percent African American,” Mickey told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “I come from areas where I do experience a lot of racism. I’ve never had a leg up in certain opportunities. I think I am the only one that experienced that. I do believe that Ashley is African American as well, but we do come from different backgrounds.”

She continued, “When I say traditional Black girl, I mean the ones that people always stereotype.”

When someone says you’re not “traditionally black”, meanwhile you have two black parents 💀😂🙄 hmm.. #bigbrother #bb27

Mickey doubled down on her stance that following month, explaining that she believed she was “the only Black woman in the house that was being treated through a stereotypical lens.” 

“I felt like I was being asked a lot of questions about my hair being real or people insisting that my hair was not real because it was so long,” she shared in her Oct. 10 TikTok. “I was asked if I knew who my father was because I said I was raised in a single parent household. I was asked about food stamps, rap songs, do I know how to twerk on a handstand, so on and so forth.”  

And while she wanted to share insight into her experience on the show, Mickey noted that she didn’t intend to “invalidate or devalue anyone’s Blackness.” 

“Not to say that I was treated badly,” she continued, “but I did feel as though it was a lot of pressure on me to perform and live up to these stereotypes that people had me boxed in as.”

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