‘Not looking for it’: Marcia Hines says she didn’t experience racism growing up in Aus
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- American-born singer Marcia Hines says she did not experience racism after moving to Australia at just 16 years of age.
The singer sat with Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss various topics about her fame and success since moving to Australia, performing in Hair, and her role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.
“I have to say no,” she told Mr Kenny after he asked her about whether she had experienced racism growing up in Australia.
“But I’m not looking for it.
“People should get around the table and have a good old talk, black and white, good old talk.”
I'm 55 and have never known an Australia without Marcia Hines, she's an absolute legend. Good interview.
Yeah same Im 57 and she was always an Aussie staple just an amazing voice and legend....
Marcia Hines was not looking to be offended. She focused on her music and won legions of fans with her talent and the warmth of her personality. Works every time in Australia regardless of where your background.
She was lucky not to have experienced that, unfortunately not everyone is that lucky, I wasn’t treated well, I’m not black but from a different country and was treated really badly by many people, and it’s interesting because I’ve never had any American person do that to me, but she says America is more like that than Australia. Very interesting.
Marcia Hines is an absolute legend. I’ve grown old with her and I still remember her early appearances on Count Down. I have the deepest respect for this beautiful lady who shows nothing but grace and humility. I’m so glad Marcia chose Australia to call home. We have been blessed ❤
Amen:-)❤
She still looks great....and has common sense.
Yes. She is a lady in the true sense.
She’s an icon. Australians love her
I like her. Down to earth and classy.
I have always loved Marcia Hines, an amazing voice and an amazing woman. I believe we could all learn something from her. Thank you, Marcia, for all you have given and are still giving.💞
Marcia Hines is wonderful - my whole family loved her music in the 70s - 80s.
Australia has always loved Marcia.
Excellent interview with an amazing woman!
Marcia Hines is a National treasure. Such an amazing lady.
I met Marcia once fleetingly. She was very very pleasant. She was great in my childhood and today she is still great and an absolute inspiration. We should have more Marcia's in this world.
Same, she was very pleasant when she was on tour and came into the electrical store where I worked, to buy an electric frypan. The local Travelodge didn't offer much fare that was Jamaican she said, and she wanted to cook up something tasty. She was a nice, unpretentious person, and it seems, still is.
A great Australian
magnificent singer
magnificent person
magnificent australian
Gosh Marcia’s stunning! I’m not talking about her looks (although she certainly is), it’s her personality, her outlook, the sense of peace. A beautiful person. Her love of Australia is there for all to see & Australia loves her back ✌🏼
She was lucky not to experience racism, I’m from a different country and not black, but I experienced it a lot
As a kid growing up and listening to her sing was fantastic.
Marcia is fantastic.
💯
Fantastic voice personality and most of all humble wonderful lady 😇
A hell of a lot of Black people in America mustn't go to church these days. As for Marcia Hines ... since she came to Australia I've been a fan. I'm a sixty year old bloke, I listened to her when I was a young bloke, she was just another Aussie singer belting out the tunes of the times, the '70s.
Wow, what a women. They don't make them like this anymore.
This is why we love Marcia, she speaks sense. She is a true person who has come to this country and loves this country. And has wanted to blend in. Love her to bits.
She's great (as always)!
Right on Darryl n Ozzie. My childhood would not have been the same if Marcia wasn't in it. Simple as that. She made a huge impact on all of us who grew up in the 70's and 80's.
Beautiful interview!
Wow! What a beautiful woman Marcia is,, for those who may be confused that is an adult human female
Asked no one.
Marcia Hines has class and talent and lots of intelligence. So great to see her and she still has an amazing voice. 😊
Marcia is synonymous with the wonderful Australia of the 1970s.
Wow, her American Accent has mellowed. She really sounds more like an Aussie these days. It just amazes me how racist those who cry racism actually are. They basically assume that if someone is black they must have experienced racism. That is pretty racist.
An awesome interview with an Awesome Marcia Hines.
We did Jesus Christ Superstar my 10th grade year in high school, I can’t imagine a high school doing that show nowadays😔
Wonderful and enormously talented woman.
Very wise words from a wonderful entertainer and a wonderful lady.
She has the same attitude of my late Dad who came from
Burma. He said to love the ground that loves you back - he was true blue until we lost him at 96 💔
Love Marcia .
it's funny growing up during this period. i, my parents, friends, teachers, never thought of race like to we today. Marcia Hines was just another singer on television. if she was judged it was with record sales, not the colour of her skin. i think as a majority we where truly colour blind. yes times have changed, high-lighting Aboriginal troubles with assimilation, poverty, amongst many other things, but tackling it via the race card just opened a can of worms that instead of tackling the problem sensibly, we just seem to be fanning the flames instead. the radical left, or what ever you want to call them, will not be remembered for positive outcomes but for divisiveness. such a shame.
Same I was 10 in 77’ & fell in love with Marcia. I never thought about race, I just heard a beautiful voice & woman. I was telling my husband I saw a woman I wanted to emulate
Exactly and the agenda has made people see colour and try to separate & divide the people.
Well said and so accurate.
@botspaidbymsm6670 Yay a racist moron.
Well that doesn't match my livid experience, indigenous people who were routinely derided when I was growing up in the 70 and 80s, my most vivid memories being at the football when the Krakour brothers, Robbie Muir, Nicky Winmar, Michael Long were absolutely vilified by supporters and players alike.
And you know its still going in the 21st century, Adam Goodes, Herita Lumumba, Andrew Krakour etc
Got a better story for ya, in WW2 the Negro Americans were treated so well in Brisbane by the Australians, the white US servicemen got so annoyed they were banished them up north. I think we Australians always had viewed African Americans as cool and exotic.
Meanwhile, despite the willingness of indigenous Australian service men to serve in WW2, social discrimination was rampant, and amongst other things, they were not allowed to drink in pubs with whites.
Oh by the way, how else do you tackle the indigenous gap, other than via the race card, the whole thing is about race.
PS The amorphous woke mob, is a right wing talking point done to discredit any reform or policy, the right wing doesn't accept.
_Amazing Grace_ was written by former slave-trader John Newton who became a Christian. The song is about how amazing God's grace is that He would accept even someone like Newton. Newton went on to be one of the main people urging and helping politician William Wilberforce to get the British Parliament to abolish the slave trade and then abolish slavery itself.
Such a beautiful Human Being. God bless you Marcia.
Perfect example of what real talent is.
I dont go looking for it. Profound. And how relevant
Not really, that falls into the other category, if we don't mention racism it will just go away.
Marcia, is lovely, but not profound.
Marcia is an African American entertainer, who of course would never had the lived experience of an indigenous person.
And of course no one goes looking for it, but it did find her when she was cast as the black Mary Magdlene
This crap just confirms your own bias.
fail to make any sense of your reply," Dont go looking for it", the streets are full of racists looking for a fight, so BS to that. "Marcia is an African American entertainer" so what? "My Bias" have absolutel no idea where that insult came from.if you are suggesting bias against our indigenous, I will ask you these questions. How many indigenous Australians have you enterained in your home? how many have invited you to theirs,? how many campfires have you shared with them? I can answer yes to all three, how about you? however if actively opposing anti semitism is a bias, I wil put my hand and be proud to do so@@royboy4571
Just an amazing woman and artist ....Growing up with Marcia brings back so many memories....So much respect for her....Racism should always be left at the door ...Treat others the way you wish to be treated :)
Great advice, too bad it took Australia 200 years to accept that.
@@royboy4571 Its sad listening to Jacinta Price talk about aboriginal communities where women and children are treated so badly by their own men and its till happening today....There has always been bad and good in all cultures and historical times it comes down to the fall of man....Australia would have always been colonised no matter what...So I think Australia has done pretty well as a whole...When it comes to really helping Aboriginal communities I think there is an agenda not to do it deliberately so the powers that be can take over aka UN and other unelected bureaucrats...Much of the money directed at Aboriginal communities never get there its all stolen by corrupt politicians and organisations along the way
@@leevan2332
Look, I think Jacinta Price, was used by the conservatives to assist them in defeating a call to do better for indigeneous by getting an indigenous person to can it.
Its a typical playbook of the right, if you wanna convince that racial based policies are bad, get a person of that race to poo poo it.
I mean all JP did was to try and highlight, indigenous domestic abuse, which is fine,
what about just domestic abuse. There are plenty of white men out there abusing and killing their partners. Very disingenous.
But I think thats the problem, Australians think we did a pretty good job on the whole.
We didn't, I mean we first killed them with disease, then tried to wipe them out and then tried to breed them out, I mean read the the Architect of the White Australia policy, Alfred Deakin, who said
a continent reserved for Anglo-Saxons only”, which “necessitated ensuring the elimination of the Aboriginal population”.
As for your claim about corruption and money not getting there, I can't speak to that, because there is no empherical evidence to back that up.
But if you agree its being done wrong by either welll meaning or corrupt politicians,
doesn't it makes sense to get input from the indigenous people direct, hence the voice/
Marcia Hines is one of my favourite singers of all time anywhere in the world and I live in Vancouver Canada. Have always followed her career and as a club DJ I played Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees to packed dance floors🎉 And we share the same birthday. Bravissima! What an icon in the music industry.❤
A truly beautiful woman, inside and out. My parents were big fans which meant I became a fan, too. I still remember, in the seventies, asking my father "There's something different about her, what is it and why?" and he just said "She was born in America and she moved to Australia, so she talks differently to us." And that was it. No mention of the colour of her skin, just that she talks different. And 8 year old me said "Oh yeah, that makes sense."
It's only 6 months.... as Sponge Bob cartoons say: "One eternity laterrrr" still here.
She has been blessed with a lovely talent and has shared it with everyone.
God bless her.
A celebrity that is not woke, how refreshing.. Marcia is a great Australian and a great role model.
She didn’t become woke bc she is Catholic.
Of course the awful amorphous woke mob, Chris Kenny has done his job once again.
What a lovely, gracious, funny, talented lady. That was a wonderful interview.
It seems that I haven't heard much about Marcia for decades but I have often thought. 70 yrs old now? Are you joking me? There is the definition of lady right there. So beautiful in all ways.
She’s a star
love Marcia !
Beautiful woman and approach to life.
So proud to have her as an Aussie; at 55 I can't imagine growing up without her 😍
I've loved her voice since I first heard her. I bought her album when I was 13 and still listen to it. All of her songs are classics.
Wow she hasn’t aged a day! Still beautiful, talented and classy.
I’m 57 she was my first crush as a kid , I still watch her clips from countdown, her daughter is just as talented.
Marcia still looks stunning.
I’ve always loved Marcia and still do. A beautiful soul and a fabulous singer.
Great interview Mr Kenny with Marcia, a great Australian.
A real woman, a real star,..... a real Australian.
Still our Queen of pop. Such a lovely lady. Proud she made Australia home.
God bless you Marcia, I found this interview very much in touch with who you really are.
Marcia was the standout voice in Jesus Christ Superstar when she performed at Festival theatre in Brisbane all those years ago.
I was there with 500 other kids and nobody noticed her race.
This lovely woman doesn't have an agenda, just the truth...
A great Aussie.
Thanks for coming and staying Marcia.
How refreshing! She even had the good judgement to not fall into the Sky News' 'anti-Semitism' trap.
Yeah I caught that, instead she mentioned mans inhumanity to man. Well played.
Of course Chris Kenny, could have then agreed and said, " Yes Hamas committed war crimes, but unfortunately Israel is now attempting a genocide"
She's wonderful ✌️❤️
What an amazing woman. Just lover her, and how she always says " You are very welcome".
Australia loved/loves Marcia.
Marcia and Kamahl, 2 huge, popular, music icons in our allegedly racist country. As a young bloke I thought Marcia Hines was so hot.
Always loved and respected Marcia. This interview confirmed my opinion.
Really great interview..
Religion doesn't always make someone a "better person", but I think Marcia is by nature a good soul whether she is God fearing or not.
Marcia is looking fantastic. A great interview, Chris.
Marcia...what a wonderful woman!!😀😀😀😀😀
I love Marsha , she is awesome , gorgeous as ever and still is . I love Demi as well and hope they're all doing well.
Such an icon. Such class.
A most beautiful woman in every way. ❤❤❤xxx
God Bless Everyone ❤
Thanks
Too young to appreciate her coming up but loved her since AUS idol in the early 2000s and just classy all around.
My memories are full of Marcia!
Fantastic lady ❤
The very fact that a black woman came into our society and succeeded to the level that Marcia did (50 years ago..) says a great deal about the level of so called racism this country supposedly had/has.. there will always be ignorant idiots who will never change, but she is an example of how enlightened we actually are as a society and it seems to me that the idea that we are now worse is just pathological denial from left wing fundamentalists who are desperate for a cause.. when you're not prepared to face the facts, scream racist!
Love Marcia ❤
Wow 🤩
Such a beautiful soul 🥰
Thank God. A decent normal beautiful woman. In these days of idiots being allowed to push their idiotic agendas seeong Marcia restores a bit of faith in our childrens future.
🇦🇺 A brilliant, wonderful person 🥰
A beautiful lady
it is a reflection of yourself. If you are a r acist and have identity issues; you reflect that onto others. Should anyone ever make a comment, as a confident person you rebut them and let them know what you are made of.
what a great australian.
Seen her at a local hang out sometimes didnt know who she was until some one told me lol
She was tina,turner of Australia
6:03 She loves a bit of bling.
Amen! Life was just the way it was meant to be with ups and downs!!
The perfect life doesn't exist, good with the bad is normal 🤫
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, my circle of friends included Croation, Italian, Irish, Greek, Anglo, Philippines. You know what, we never even considered it, we were just mates. My Dad was born in Amsterdam and got called a Clog Wog at school, but he laughed about it because he thought it was funny. My wife is Chinese and my circle of friends is still just broad as it was back in the day. Yeah, in school we often said some things that would not be tolerated today, but I guarantee that the endless harassment I copped just for having ginger hair was WAY beyond any racial shxt that I ever heard.
Really, what about kids being stolen from their family, I think that would trump your so called harassment.
@@royboy4571
Cry me a river, you condescending myopic fool.
Stolen? No, more like removed from their delinquent drunk parents.
"Right on Daryl and Ossie"
Kenny is desperately trying to win favor with conservatives after his ridiculous behavior during Labors Voice putsch.
Love her ❤
beautiful woman!
Legend
Wasn't she queen of pop in the 70s or 80s. Australia is not a racist country.
Nice
SEVENTY?!?!?! FMD.Her cosmetic surgeon is something else .😂.