Shemar Moore is the product of a white mother of Irish and French Canadian heritage and a Black father, according to Ebony. Living abroad during his formative years protected Moore from the stigma of being biracial prevalent in America, particularly in the ’70s when he was growing up. “Civil rights were a big thing and Martin Luther King had just been killed in ’68. There was a lot of unrest,” he told Ability Magazine in 2009.
That was one of the main motivators that led Moore’s mother to move them abroad. “My mother didn’t want to raise me in a racist environment any more than she had to. It was tough … So she was able to get us opportunity and she was able to get me out of that kind of racial unrest,” he explained. But when they returned in 1977, the situation wasn’t much different than when they left in 1970. “When my mother moved us back, it was a very difficult transition. I still remember the first time somebody called me n*****,” he told BET.
Kids teased him especially because he was raised by the white side of his family. “‘How come your mom is white, how can you be cousins with so-and-so,'” Moore recalled kids saying. The bullying got vicious. “That’s how I learned I was good at baseball, because kids would chase me after school, so I started picking up rocks and throwing them to fight back.”
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