Singer ask white audience member to move to the back and brown people to the front.

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Lido Pimienta, a Colombian-Canadian singer, asked white audience members to move to the back of the concert hall and people of color to move to the front during her Halifax Pop Explosion gig

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A white female volunteer who was reportedly there to photograph the show — along with several other white audience members — reacted to the singer’s desire to get “brown girls to the front” with what festival officials called “aggressive” and “overt racism,” Billboard said.

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•Allie O’Manique, who shares management with Pimienta, said the female photographer refused to move from her spot near the front of the stage, the National Post reported.

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•“We will not accept this behavior and neither should you,” a portion of the statement reads. “Be responsible for your friends — talk to them and support them as they move towards unpacking their racism. People of Color deserve safe spaces and it is your responsibility to help. It is also ours.”

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