Tina Knowles recalled the moment when she defended her son-in-law Jay-Z after a woman approached her and asked why she allowed her daughter to marry him.
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She discussed the moment during an episode of the new Discovery+ series “Profiled: The Black Man” when a flight attendant approached her and asked why she allowed Beyonce to marry Jay-Z due to his reputation as a “gangster rapper.” “I can remember getting on a plane and an older white woman saying, ‘Oh, your son[-in-law] is a gangster rapper, right? How did you let him marry your daughter?’ Knowles-Lawson recalled. In response, Knowles-Lawson told the woman that her son-in-law is a CEO of a record label among his other accomplishments.
“She apologized at the end, and she said, ‘I’m sorry. I just hear that.’ And I said, ‘Yes, you assume, but you really should go and do some research on it because, no, he’s a CEO of a record label.’ (At the time he was a CEO for Def Jam.) And I was like, ‘He’s a very good person. He gives, he helps people.'”
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The new series is produced by Knowles-Lawson and her friend Trell Thomas which addresses the negative stereotypes afflicted towards Black men and boys.
“I was like, OK, I’ve seen this. This is really heavy. Let me find something that celebrates us. And I searched all these platforms, and I couldn’t find anything. It was just frustrating for me. So, I said, ‘Well, if you don’t see it, create it.’ And so, he did.”
The series premieres on Feb, 12 on Discovery +.
SOURCE: PEOPLE