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@christianscourt Listen! Naomi is the WTA, they can fight it all they want.

Whether or not she believes it, Naomi Osaka will ALWAYS be famous 🙂‍↕️ #MubadalaDCOpen

@christianscourt She’s so iconic for doing this

Naomi Osaka’s DC cookout/meet-and-greet was one for the books 🙂‍↕️ Stay tuned for more!

@CapeTown_Bru @News24 How did you hope this will end? 🤣

A senior journalist from @News24 appears to be suggesting that coloured people in Cape Town believe they are somehow better than black people. What is Ludidi actually saying here? Because that reads like a sweeping generalisation about an entire community. The comments are vile and disgusting.

@trruski_ You’re so handsome 😍

@5starsan All they needed to do, was do what you did before condemning the poor child. Research and knowledge helps outside of what you know.

I did a deep dive on Tyla to better understand her background, and after everything I watched , a lot of the reasons people dislike her just seem like bullshit to me.

@josephsts22 @SwhirlysWorld Lool

@SwhirlysWorld Damn

@SwhirlysWorld Omg! That was so hot! 🥵 couple I didn’t know I needed

@sankurienne The mere that black Americans are certain that Tyla is trying to buy into their market and therefore should do things according to their standards or expectations is CRAZY. 🤣🤣 I’m genuinely confused by this. As if they are the target market.

Sorry but the discourse around Tyla’s identity has exposed something that deserves to be called out: expecting Africans to understand themselves primarily through a Black American racial framework, while refusing to engage with African’s countries’ racial hierarchies and colonial histories, is a form of xenocentrism that has already become xenophobic in this case. At some point there has to be intellectual curiosity from BA. Black Americans are not the only Black people with histories of racialisation, colonialism or oppression. South Africa’s racial classifications for example emerged from a distinct colonial and apartheid system with its own categories, meanings and consequences. Those histories cannot simply be overwritten by an American understanding of race, simply because Tyla wants to market herself to the BA audience. It doesn’t work like that. Tyla did not invent South Africa’s racial hierarchy any more than Black Americans invented Jim Crow or the one-drop rule. Both are products of white supremacy, but they developed differently in different places. Expecting her to reject the identity that was historically imposed, negotiated and understood within her own country simply to satisfy an American racial framework is insane.