👑𝔸𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚 𝔾𝕚𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕖🇬🇭@akua_obeng42840
I'm about to go on another yap session but this is very important🤗.
Tyla is a coloured woman, but she & her fans need to understand that even though “coloured” isn’t the same as “colored,” it still brings up unwanted trauma for a lot of black Americans, that word is a racial slur over here with a lot of historical baggage attached to it, she should’ve respected that and just identified as biracial/multi-racial instead. She’s coloured in South Africa and multi-racial in the United States, if everybody could’ve just agreed on that, this whole conversation would’ve been over by now, nobody in America is realistically gonna call her “coloured” even if it’s technically different from the American “colored”, it just looks bad.
But like I said before, a lot of people don’t even care that much about the coloured thing, they’re mostly mad that a racially ambiguous woman wouldn’t claim black in the first place. This whole situation isn’t black and white at all, it’s complicated and has a lot of layers because there are several different reasons black Americans are upset with Tyla, just demonizing them for how they feel without any nuance or historical sensitivity is exactly why we can never have a real conversation about it.
At the same time, the xenophobia & lack of understanding toward Black Africans needs to be called out, a lot of black Americans are deliberately twisting what Africans are actually saying. Even though Africans and black Americans are both racially black, our histories are completely different when it comes to mixed people and the one-drop rule; Africans never had to deal with the one-drop rule in our all-black countries, we come from places where there was always a clear line between people who were unambiguously black and people who were just mixed with black.
Black Americans experienced the exact opposite, biracials have always been part of the black American population for centuries, since America isn’t a black country, it was easy for white America to just lump mixed people in with black Americans. White supremacists refused to let anyone with any black ancestry join whiteness & black Americans never had the institutional power to properly separate themselves from mixed people, biracials were always forced into black spaces; black Africans never went through that because mixed people in our countries have always been labeled for what they actually are (mixed, coloured, half-c*ste, etc). Expecting Africans to come to America and suddenly see mixed-people as black is highly unrealistic and will never happen, we understand that things run differently in America but lying to ourselves about mixed people being black is encouraging delusion & lies.
Those are my entire thoughts on the matter.
