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06-05-2020, 12:27 AM
https://www.eonline.com/news/1158313/dance-moms-stars-speak-out-against-abby-lee-miller-over-alleged-controversial-remarks
Adriana Smith, the mother of a Season 8 contestant Kamryn Smith, alleges Miller made a series of racist comments to her daughter, who is black. Another Dance Moms mother, Camille Bridges, tells E! she also believes her daughter was treated unfairly because she was black. "(Abby) tried to spin Camryn as being the poor one and there on scholarship. I shut that down immediately," Bridges said. "She loves appropriating our culture and never appreciating it. She did not give black choreographers on the show acknowledgment of their work. She continuously put Camryn in afros." E! also reports that former Dance Moms producer Kori Kingg confirmed Smith's allegations in a Facebook post. "Some would say I should be quiet about this. But THIS THIS!?! THIS broke me as I was working on show and pregnant with my own black daughter," Kingg wrote on Facebook. "In hind sight, I too should have left. I should have stood with my sister, Adriana Janae Smith and supported gorgeous baby Kam and left too."
Adriana Smith, the mother of a Season 8 contestant Kamryn Smith, alleges Miller made a series of racist comments to her daughter, who is black. Another Dance Moms mother, Camille Bridges, tells E! she also believes her daughter was treated unfairly because she was black. "(Abby) tried to spin Camryn as being the poor one and there on scholarship. I shut that down immediately," Bridges said. "She loves appropriating our culture and never appreciating it. She did not give black choreographers on the show acknowledgment of their work. She continuously put Camryn in afros." E! also reports that former Dance Moms producer Kori Kingg confirmed Smith's allegations in a Facebook post. "Some would say I should be quiet about this. But THIS THIS!?! THIS broke me as I was working on show and pregnant with my own black daughter," Kingg wrote on Facebook. "In hind sight, I too should have left. I should have stood with my sister, Adriana Janae Smith and supported gorgeous baby Kam and left too."