If she doesn't wanna be called black, she probably doesn't wanna be called "African". Coloured is a terrible term for a black/African person, no matter where its said.

The thing we do but it's not the same for you guys (African booty scratches, how African people are perceived that side, also vacationing here but not trying to assimilate to the culture 💀etc
......)

With this situation people were classifying her on the visual aspect in terms of American standards but...... she isn't from America and can't claim to be what she is not and folks are mad about that. Make that make sense

She is mixed but she never said she isnt black thats just op

White supremacy really has done a number on the black community man.

The Black American experience isn’t the singular defining experience of what all things “black” are.

She wants that audience, pretty sure she wants to crossover with all cultures. We're not gonna pretend like she doesn't want a black American audience behind her, every artist wants some type of American audience.

Wonder who that Travis Scott remix was for

Mexicans from Texas

Her song is a typical “SA” Amapiano song though. It’s Americans who are flocking to her sound.

The thread wasn't about the music it was about explaining who she is in terms of her coloured heritage and how people misunderstood when she talked about it and ppl decided to talk s***.

When did she talk about it i wanna see

I dont think she ever said she wasnt black if you prove me wrong tho you got it

I didn't I was focusing on the subject matter and in this case if the shoe fits, what am I supposed to say about that, especially when people were trying to correct them and tell they are wrong.

I was a big burna boy fan till i heard he said this about black American culture son a dub now

vocal.media/theSwamp/burna-boy-s-ignorant-ass-comments-about-black-americans-should-get-him-canceled-he-didn-t-even-care-when-told-he-was-wrong

Meanwhile this nigga wearing bebe belts and pelle jackets lmao

conversations like this are so hard because people want to ignore this on one side

others want to ignore the legitimacy of people choosing to identify with names / identities that encompass all of the history that makes them them.

you can’t ignore the reality of racism, but you also cannot force people to identify as black when at the end of the day, they simply are not all black.

same issue is kicking the latino community in the ass and honestly i don’t think there’s one right answer for how someone should or can identify

i like to be loud and proud of my puerto rican heritage, but at the end of the day, i navigate the world 100% as a black man. the history of puerto rico as a U.S colony means that most of us who are generations deep are completely assimilated. the elderly population of P.R is dying, many young people moving to the U.S, many gringos moving in…

the sad reality is that it’s imperative for puerto ricans, island born or not, to identify as puerto rican first, and not american black / white / indigenous, because very very few of us are 100% any one race.

Things don't have to mutually exclusive for them to be different 💀

Bro had black American niggas all over African giant lol. All you can do is laugh at these niggas.

I seen that Sony wants her bad, pretty sure they love her international sound but, if they want to make the biggest buck, their gonna take her to the US. Shes an artist first but, her image is gonna capture black people first, why does the consumer need to be educated on a phrase exclusive to South Africa, in America?

It doesn’t apply in this market, its just people wanting to be first on something. They can call her "coloured" in South Africa, in America, a "colored" has always been a sorta racial slur for a black person, why can't she educate herself on black culture in America?

Unless being "coloured" is entirely different.

A mainstream American artist

You are doubling down on a stereotype that african americans are dumb because AMERICANS didn't identify her as something deemed negative in their country.

You've made it pretty clear that you don't care about african americans culture while trying to force them to care about her being mixed

White people from South Africa call themselves African too all races here do because we, don't reach sis literally speaks Zulu and has some xhosa lineage her actively embracing it why would she be ashamed of that.

Post the thing where she talked about it

This is a wendys

Blame the single drop test.

Facts s*** crazy lmao