It wasn't a full video but she briefly touched on it in her 'Opening up - life update' drive with me
it was a very shoddy attempt at "addressing" it at the beginning of the video
Thank you, I was wondering where to find it. Let me go look now.
OKAY! A lot to unpack there. She took a HELL of a lot of time to get to the point. And when she did, she was very vague about everything! She never even said the word “black”. She really said “Im sick of the divide between...... cultures.” No, Mary. There will always be a difference amongst cultures because ‘culture’ is just ‘the ways of a specific group of people.’ We can’t all be one culture. What we can do is appreciate people’s differences.
She really sat there in a skin tone that’s not her own (but to be fair it’s orange so she’s copying Oompa Loompas at this point), with her long acrylic nails, and saying “period” with the hand gesture at the neck, saying she’s not “trying to be anyone else...”
Miss Mamas, THIS is where the problem is. It’s not that you CAN’T do these things (it’s cringe af to see, I’ll tell you that for free) but the fact that she can’t just own up and say “I AM INSPIRED BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY!”
Ughhhh if I, a black woman, put on that exact outfit, hairstyle, and nails, I would be called “ghetto”- INSTANTLY! Not up for debate.
But she does it and it’s “I’m not a
witch.. even though I may look like one. I know I look like the girl who might bully you in school. LoLz!” Do you see the problem here??? She’s perpetuating a stereotype but with the same breath saying “oh but I’m not the things people call me cuz I truly believe we’re all equal!” (It’s okay to say “racist” and “blackfishing” Jordz. We’d believe your defense more if you just acknowledged the charges.)
She just.... doesn’t get it. And she doesn’t want to.
To own up to it now is going to shake her at her core.