Earlier this week, Florida rapper Kodak Black ruffled many feathers when he decided to air out some inflammatory statements about Black women, specifically dark-skinned Black women, on Instagram Live.
During the broadcast, a fan asked if he would date Keke Palmer, to which he replied that she was “straight” but he “don’t really like Black girls like that. Of course, the 20-year-old’s comment sent social media up in flames as folks weren’t too keen of his criticism, especially since Kodak himself is of darker skin complexion.
After receiving The Breakfast Club’s Donkey of the Day by Charlemagne the God and feeling the backlash from fans and strangers alike, he tried to clarify his statement during a short interview with The Chaney TV. However, it didn’t go over well and he ended up just spewing even more BS. Approached about his fiery statement, Kodak stuck to his guns saying that it’s nothing more than a preference — similar to how some guys prefer a skinnier build over curvier ones.
“I’m an average dude cause I don’t see myself no better than him, no better than him, you know, or no less than him. So if he could say that he like skinny women… if he prefers skinny woman more than a more chubbier or more heavy set woman, he could say that and nobody won’t get mad at him,” Kodak said to the reporter. “I just said I don’t like women with my complexion. I like light skin women. I want you to be lighter than me. I love African American women, but I just don’t like my skin complexion. My complexion, we too gutter.”
After his interview began circulating around the internet, Amber Rose reposted it on her Instagram account and wrote a personal response to the rapper, including issues such as colorism and how it’s affected her as a light-skinned woman.
“This really makes me so sad. Being a ‘yellowbone’ mixed light-skinned woman, I know unfortunately that modeling jobs, boys, and opportunities came to me easier, but did not realize that until I got older,” she wrote. “Growing up in Philly I went to an all black school. I was the ‘white girl.’ The one that the boys DIDN’T like. The girl that wasn’t as cool as the brown skinned girls. Black was the thing to be!”
Rose went on to explain her mixed heritage, as her mother is black and her father is white, and how she felt bullied by the darker-skin girls because of her appearance. “I would lay out in the sun and try to get as dark as I could. I would look at all of the beautiful dark-skinned girls in my class and wish that I could wear bright color shirts like they did but it never quite looked as good on my complexion.”
When it came to “But the brown-skinned girls would pick on me, pull my hair and want to fight me for no reason? Why tho?! I loved them! I wanted to be them! Little did I know at such a young age society was teaching them to hate me,” she continued. “Society was telling these girls that they weren’t as beautiful as me because of their complexion. They were too strong and too outspoken. It was OK for men to have sex with them behind closed doors but not OK to have them on their arm.”
In addition to her younger years, Rose shared how she found herself constantly “battling racism and feminism,” due to the lack of dark-skinned women on the set of music videos, and in the strip club.
“Even when I was stripper maybe there were one or two brown skinned girls that would get hired because they didn’t want the club to be too ‘Black,’” she shared. “I can’t help that I was born with light skin but I am a woman before anything else! We need to stick together as women and educate society, educate men like this with black mothers! Not let men/people dictate what type of woman is in style or more beautiful.”
See Rose’s full post below.
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