Before 2020,Mickey GuytontoldCNN,“I always felt like I was almost there.”
At the 2021 Grammy Award ceremony, she’s made history.
That’s because “Black Like Me” is intensely personal.
And she’d wanted to write it well before that.
The song wasn’t supposed to come out when it did, or like it did, at all.
Guyton ended up posting it to her Instagram, no fanfare attached, after she reached a breaking point.
“I saw Ahmaud [Arbery].
And then I saw Breonna [Taylor].
No permission, no nothing.
I just put it out there because people need to hear that.
This is about the bigger spectrum of things and about humanity.”
“It was a ‘God moment,’ it was a unity moment,” Guyton toldThe Boot.
Just, a lot of people don’t try."
