*Keyshia Cole caught a lot of heat back in 2017 ahead of the annual Black Girls Rock! show, when she was asked what it meant to be a Black girl who rocks and the singer replied, “I’m Bi-racial but it’s okay…I’m Black, I’m Black…”
She attempted to brush off the backlash by claiming that she doesn’t know what she is mixed with.
“#BlackGirlsRock first off I feel ALLGIRLSROCK!! And by the way, I don’t not know what I’m mixed with, nor have I tried to find out,” she said on Twitter. “I was raised in Oakland. My mother is a black woman HOWEVER I do not know my father. Nor really car [sic] to know!”
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As reported by MadameNoire, Cole addressed the “I’m biracial” comment on her new talk show, One on One with Keyshia Cole. Her mom Frankie Lons was present because she was the one who told her daughter she was mixed-race.
Keyshia Cole: I have a really serious question because the only problem is right, she told me that I was mixed. You told me that right?
Frankie Lons: No, I said you were ‘other,’ and you are other.
Keyshia Cole: Okay, what’s ‘other’? Explain to the public because my fans are really upset. They think that when I repeated that, that I’m saying that I’m not Black, which is not the truth.
Frankie Lons: Black is a color first of all so don’t listen to that.
Keyshia Cole: Well can you explain so they can get off my back about it?
Frankie Lons: ‘Other’ means…your mother is one color and your daddy is another.
Keyshia Cole: I just want the general public of the people that has been my fans over the years to understand that this is not something that I got from myself and my own mind. This is something that was told to me and I wanted to express that.
Lons has always claimed that Cole’s father is an “Italian, Caucasian” man who died years ago. She claims he owned a restaurant called Pal Joeys in San Jose. But Cole claims that’s not true.
“Guys, as a young girl, I looked up Pal Joeys, I called 411, y’all remember that? I called 411 a bunch of times,” she said. “First she told me it was in Los Angeles, guys. I called Los Angeles and it was not one there.”
Lons said Cole’s father “was a guy that I used to date when I was a lady of leisure. I became attached because he tried, went to his grave trying to get me to stop doing prostitution.”
She added, “He said, ‘You don’t need to be out here. What are you doing?’ And then he used to come and get me,” Lon explained. “‘He said how much does your pimp want?’ And he would give me the money to take to him and he would keep me all night and talk to me. He cared. He really did.”
Lons later learned the man died of cirrhosis of the liver.
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