{"id":16989,"date":"2014-11-25T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16989"},"modified":"2014-11-25T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:28:05","slug":"denying-black-hair-is-racist-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16989","title":{"rendered":"Denying black hair is racist, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Aubry made &#8220;completely and totally unacceptable&#8221; racial slurs against Halle Berry, a court has been told.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old actress, who dated the French-Canadian model between 2005 and 2010, has taken her former lover to court, claiming he straightened the naturally curly hair of their daughter Nahla &#8211; who was born in 2008 &#8211; and lightened it over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Halle also told MailOnline that Gabriel had used racially abusive language towards Halle &#8211; claiming he called her the N word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Halle kept asking and asking Gabriel about Nahla&#8217;s hair and he kept denying it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does this say to a six year old who&#8217;s half black? Her father is denying her identity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Halle then filed the court papers and Nahla&#8217;s curls came back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her testimony to the court, Halle said: &#8220;I strongly feel that Gabriel&#8217;s same underlying attitude is at the root in the changes, which only he could have been causing to our daughter&#8217;s hair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since splitting from Gabriel, Halle has married French film actor Olivier Martinez, with whom she has a son, Maceo.<\/p>\n<p>Source:BANG Showbiz and IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Aubry made &#8220;completely and totally unacceptable&#8221; racial slurs against Halle Berry, a court has been told. The 48-year-old actress, who dated the French-Canadian model between 2005 and 2010, has taken her former lover to court, claiming he straightened the naturally curly hair of their daughter Nahla &#8211; who was born in 2008 &#8211; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Denying black hair is racist, court hears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2441,3075,10611,10612,157],"class_list":["post-16989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-hair","tag-coloured","tag-halle-berry","tag-mulato","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16990,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16989\/revisions\/16990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}