Boris Kodjoe may be eternally fine, but his experiences as a visibly Black biracial child were anything but. In a sit-down on the Pivot podcast, the actor opened up about his difficult upbringing in Germany. Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty In response to a question about what his experience was like being raised by his white mother in a predominantly white country, Kodjoe gave a vulnerable and honest answer. "There's ignorance and misinformation and fear," he said. "Because that's really where it comes from.