Shemar’s First Love
Shemar Moore is clearly close with his mother, Marilyn, so I thought I’d find out a little more about their relationship. She sounds like a great mother, and her son obviously adores her.
Marilyn was a teacher. After she and Shemar’s father were divorced, they moved to Holland. Shemar’s mother only spoke Dutch to him so he didn’t learn English until he was five or six.
About his race, Shemar says:
The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn’t raise me as a black man. She didn’t raise me as a white guy. She raised me as Shemar Franklin Moore. She said; don’t worry about being black or being white. Just be you, and go tell your story.
Shemar also biked 100 miles to raise awareness and funds for the National MS Society. His mother, Marilyn, has the disease. He got his Criminal Minds buddies to help him out and plans to do the bike tour again.
Shemar’s mother also made sure her son took his education seriously. While in high school, Shemar was a star pitcher.
I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school. So I got drafted by Baltimore and Boston, so I thought I had a chance to play at Fenway Park. But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck. So you’re going to go to school, and you’re going to get that piece of paper, and then you’re going to do whatever you want to do.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:48 am
GREET TO HIS GREAT MOTHER!!!!I moved by this
“The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn’t raise me as a black man. She didn’t raise me as a white guy. She raised me as Shemar Franklin Moore. She said; don’t worry about being black or being white. Just be you, and go tell your story.” It reminds me a friend on interracialmatch.com,who is raised by his mother.He loves and respects his mother very much, because she teaches him the essence of life and love. Do you aware of this phenomenon that no matter who you are , where you are, we all use the same accent to call our great ‘MAMA’.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Absolutely - Mama is univeral for love and shelter. It’s nice to see someone so successful giving his mother the respect and admiration she deserves.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Ditto that. You can always tell how a person is by how he/she treats his/her mother. He sounds like a good guy and a good role model for his fans.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
PS WASN’T HE A CUTE BABY!!
October 16th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
You can support Shemar & the Criminal Minds cycling team by donating to the team to raise money for MS research. For more info visit http://www.msevents.com/criminalminds