Beyoncé's father: If she were dark skinned, it would have affected her career

"In the music industry, there’s still segregation. There used to be the black division, race records. Programmers, especially at Pop radio, has this imagery of what beauty looks like. They wanted that imagery to be the same that’s singing those records", Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé father said while on SiriusXM's The Clay Cane Show. The former manager of Destiny's Child admitted his daughter likely benefited from her skin shade. "I think it would have affected her success," replied Knowles when asked how Beyoncé's career may have been different if she were dark skin. He continued - "If you look back, even like Whitney Houston, if you look at those photos, how they lightened her to make her look lighter complexion because there’s a perception in colorism - the lighter you are the smarter, the more economically... there's a perception all around the world about color, even with black folks, there’s a perception."