Sherri Shepherd recently appeared on The Breakfast Club to discuss her new show Trial & Error, her ex-husbands, maintaining her health as a diabetic and even delved into her 13-year-old son's tense relationship with black girls.
An important thing to note is her son has autism, which can of course, affect his socialization skills.
“I am going through this thing, he likes these girls and … there’s not that many little black girls in his school … ’cause he came in and he said, ‘Mommy, I like white girls’ … The little black girls get mean with him,” said Shepherd.
“Like, sometimes they don’t wanna speak. Sometimes they act crazy. And he’s like, ‘Why they act so crazy?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know,'" she continued. "So I keep trying to tell the little girls to be nicer so he can come towards you. But the other girls see him and they go, ‘Hey, Jeffery’ and they wanna feel his hair.”
Because wanting to feel his hair is nice?
Hosts Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee suggested Shepard have her son engage with positive black male figures and more peers who look like him.
Some folks on Twitter weren't feeling the way Shepherd responded to the conversation at all, while others thought it wasn't even that big of a deal.
I cannot believe Sherri Shepherd said that shit on #thebreakfastclub… As a black women I would never allow my black son to disrespect me and any other black women. Smh it pissed me off
— Glenda (@beautifulglenda) July 19, 2018
The way people were and are going after Sherri Shepherd’s 13 year old son because he likes the girls being nice to him rather than the ones being mean to him is vile. He’s 13 and autistic! Y’all are tripping!
— Michael Dex (@djsoap92) July 20, 2018
Maybe she could model the behaviors of being nice and kind so her son sees a different view of black women. Js ????
— Dr. Justice (@Justnasty4real) July 24, 2018
She should expose him to more black and brown girls. Don't let his limited experience (because he's young) determined any permanent thought processes. #MyTwoCents
— Kiwi Mystic (@SuperStarShar23) July 24, 2018
Others believed she should've done a better job explaining to her son just how problematic that sort of thinking is:
She'll need to work on him not combining "black girls" with "mean" bcuz there's good n bad in everyone..show him how to see the goodness in everyone no matter what color they are n explain to him there's a reason why ppl act the way they do, who knows, but not for us to judge ????
— Bre (@bre_793) July 24, 2018
What she should do is tell her son not all black girls are mean. Tell him there are some good black girls, and some bad ones cause the last thing she wants is for her son to grow up to be an ignorant man to assume all black women are mean and bad.
— Jasmine Harrison (@JasmineJay92) July 24, 2018
You can watch the full interview below!
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