Jesy Nelson addresses blackfishing claims

[YUJIfushiguro 224]

she's is just living her life ffs. leave the poor girl alone

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

I'm not sure what people are seeing in these pictures. 

She looks very white European with a tan. Mediterranean white.

She reminds me of Sophia Loren. 

 

And she is dressed Urban like Karol G and J Balvin. They are also white. 

 

I personally know Argentinian women who tan super dark because they like to be tan not because they want to look black. 

[KORG 4,756]

What we've discovered here, I think, is Americans struggle to accept other cultures..  but we knew that already.

The Jersey Shore comparison was excellent. Very that, but more sportswear.

[Pennywise 34,710]

It's always interesting how people... turn out to be POC when they start losing arguments in which they sound racist, and that's all I will say on this I guess

[Blastertoyo 22,728]

4 minutes ago, Pennywise said:

It's always interesting how people... turn out to be POC when they start losing arguments in which they sound racist, and that's all I will say on this I guess

But even then, like a black female YouTube I watched recently had said, there’s no right for anyone to tell others how to react or that something is or isn’t offensive. Not even other POC can tell a fellow POC. 
 

there’s literally no such thing as a universal experience. Just because something is “normalized” for you, doesn’t give you the right to invalidate the way others feel about it.

In this case the consensus is literally that people thought she was mixed or black. She can’t help her features sure, but most of the features that made people believe she was mixed/ black are literally not her natural features.

[Gimme More 33,872]

2 hours ago, Pennywise said:

It's always interesting how people... turn out to be POC when they start losing arguments in which they sound racist, and that's all I will say on this I guess

Sorry I don’t go waving a flag saying I’m a POC, should I make people aware every time I post? I find this highly offensive, another example of I’m guessing a white person trying to say my opinion (a POC) is not valid.  This is very insensitive to claim I’d lie about that. Stay mad a POC spoke and it doesn’t fit your smear campaign. You’re the one trying to belittle POC’s opinions.

[KORG 4,756]

2 hours ago, Pennywise said:

It's always interesting how people... turn out to be POC when they start losing arguments in which they sound racist, and that's all I will say on this I guess

Tag them. Go for it.

[JaysAMess 27,838]

Stop it, stop fighting!

Spoiler

 

[Rebel 5,221]

Of course she knew what she was doing. Just like she knew what she was doing by describing her “bad boyz” fetish as men from “the hood”. 

[Suspiria 10,683]

14 hours ago, WheresMy911Alice said:

The problem is that often times, white people are praised for being "edgy" for having braids or dreads, whereas black people have experienced loss of employment and the like for wearing their natural hairstyle. 

This is just one example.

So the problem isn't that white people are wearing black hairstyles etc, it's that black people are being punished for it.

Of course that should never be the case in the first place, but I think that by allowing these styles to become more 'normalised' (for lack of a better word) by allowing more people to wear them, surely it would have the knock on effect of making them more accepted in the workplace for black people?

It's certainly an ideal or fair solution, but I think it's a realistic way of solving the problem.

[ItWasntLaauv 6,392]

She’s person who wants to look have a particular image just like any of us. She’s not doing blackface or committing hate crimes, there’s so many other things that people should be worrying about in my personal opinion.

[bambi96 1,504]

15 hours ago, ALGAYDO said:

sis, really? 

The first one, yes, but the rest? Not at all... Everyone in the UK looks like that with their bronzer! 

[DelusionalGaga 29,205]

The fact that people try to defend this with "this is normal in the UK".  Does that maybe mean that in your culture there's a larger problem of white girls appropriating black features to appear mixed and you're just failing to acknowledge it? 

[Joshie 650]

People love reaching for the stars. Honestly. 

[bambi96 1,504]

55 minutes ago, xlx said:

The fact that people try to defend this with "this is normal in the UK".  Does that maybe mean that in your culture there's a larger problem of white girls appropriating black features to appear mixed and you're just failing to acknowledge it? 

How is tan a black feature? Literally all over europe people are darker than she is with tan alone lmao