Kodak Black found himself in extremely hot water with Black women last month when he made the insensitive and confounding comment online that he’s not really into Black girls. Since then, Black women and men across the web have been blasting Kodak over his distaste for Black women. Recently, Kodak tried to clean up his words by saying there are only certain types of Black women that he likes but Amber Rose recently weighed in on Kodak’s comments and explained how problematic they are for the Black community.
In a recent interview, Kodak explained his comments about not liking Black women and he ended up putting his foot in his mouth again as he explained that he doesn’t like dark-skinned Black girls because he doesn’t like his own skin color.
“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 [sic] or more heavy set woman, he could say that and nobody won’t get mad at him,” he said. “I just said I don’t like women with my complexion. I like light skin [sic] women. I want you to be lighter than me. I love African American women, but I just don’t like my skin complexion.”
Kodak then claimed that dark-skinnned people are rougher and tougher and more aggressive than lighter-skinned people and that light-skinned women are just easier to deal with.
“My complexion, we too gutta. Light skin [sic] women … they more sensitive,” he went on. “Nah, nah, they too tough. Light skin [sic] women, we can break ’em down more easy, you know what I’m saying?”
Well, like many folks, Rose was upset about Kodak’s comments and she went on Instagram and explained how colorism and racist social mindset that pits light-skinned and dark-skinned Black women against each other played a major role in her childhood and how Black women across the board view and treat each other.
“Smh 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. 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! ? But for me my mom was my only black parent, my dad was as white as snow and I came out just as light as him. 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…… 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. 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. As if light skinned girls were some type of trophy for a man, it was a social status smh. Insinuating that he had money or he just had a ‘bad b–ch.’ I wanted to be them and they wanted to be me. Getting older I found myself always battling racism and feminism, asking directors why isn’t there any dark skinned girls in the music videos I was featured in? Even when I was Stripper maybe there were 1 or 2 brown skinned girls that would get hired because they didn’t want the club to be too ‘Black’ ? 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. We are all smart and capable of being great! No matter where we come from or what complexion we are! If no one tells you you’re beautiful I’m here to tell you that you are! ? let’s change the stigma I love you all – Muva,” Rose wrote.
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