17 minutes ago, campelo said:

She is black. It's not a bunch of north-Americans that has not clue about race literacy 

She is mixed race, which "coloured" in South Africa refers to. She's getting bullied online by Americans because they're misunderstanding her use of the word "coloured" and they believe she's denying her black ancestry when she's not.

 

Tyla is around 25% black (sub-Saharan African) from her Zulu-Irish mother so that makes as black as Cassie and Halsey. If you consider all of them "black," that's your prerogative, but the African country she's from does not consider her just "black."

4 minutes ago, Inverted said:

She is mixed race, which "coloured" in South Africa refers to. She's getting bullied online by Americans because they're misunderstanding her use of the word "coloured" and they believe she's denying her black ancestry when she's not.

 

Tyla is around 25% black (sub-Saharan African) from her Zulu-Irish mother so that makes as black as Cassie and Halsey. If you consider all of them "black," that's your prerogative, but the African country she's from does not consider her just "black."

And the fact that this conversation has been raging for months and people have been trying to explain to the AAs why she's identifying that way, but they still ignore it and want her to go by their own identifier, with people saying she should have called herself black if she wants to appeal to the American market

 

The foolishness of American exceptionalism is not limited to the whites I guess

Edited June 14, 20242 yr by Khal

Of course it had to be the stupid Breakfast Club 

On 6/13/2024 at 3:51 PM, Paultea said:

all messy roads lead back to Charlamagne and the breakfast club 

Charlemagne the everlasting goddess

The part that gets me is people saying "she's being marketed to Black audiences, she should expect this", well…she does Amapiano/Afrobeats, it's not like she in cosplay to get some record sales… this IS her culture.
 

And in America, it happens to be that this genre is consumed by AA (presumably).  Like who else she supposed to be marketed to?  
 

It's not the "gotcha" moment people making out to be.
 

On top of people just being ignorant to the fact other places view race differently than America.  So annoying. 

both sides of this conversation are EXHAUSTING  

Anyone who thinks she would ever deny her race and background is ******* disgusting.

This is NOT going over well on social media, she actually made it worse