im half black, half korean and this is genuinely disgusting, like blackfishing should be illegal

Being black is trendy now. Our skin, lips, body, and style are all being replicated in the media. Obviously the copying of ppl like Izzy goes deeper than a trend. This is just to say we’ve been dealing with ppl replicating our appearance and culture for decades by our oppressors and others it now it’s gone to the extreme. It’s become normal but it’s still kinda crazy to me that ppl are now trying to be us and go this far😭
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MLK did not die for this yo

as an indian i am EMBARRASSED for her..

as an Indian, she is embarrassing us😐

0:57 help not even a minute in and already a sponsor 😭

people on tiktok are WILD 😭 like faking their races, faking mental problems, what happened to being u being true # self love???

but anyways 🤬 love ur podcast always ben! your topics are the best (society is crumbling)

I am an Indian, but my skin is wayyy more fair than the rest of my family. There is nothing wrong with it. But the way people react to my fair skin is wrong. My family praised me for having fair skin and saying that I am a blessing. And people outside my family, asked if I was adopted. Its gone so far that people ask if Im Malaysian or Filipino or Arab. This made me really insecure and I would ask my parents everyday if I was adopted. When i moved to Australia, the heat really effected my skin and got a bit darker, my grandparents were quick to point it out, saying I was becoming less beautiful. Theres always been a hatred for having dark skin in India and people need to understand that having dark skin is completely fine and normal.

As an Indian I’m disgusted

As a dark-skinned black woman, I've witnessed the gentrification of various aspects of the black community, including fashion, music, and even physical features like lips, skin, and hair. This invasion of black spaces is a harsh reality.

The concept of "Blackwashing" is sickening because historically, everything about black people, from our bodies to our natural hair, was deemed "unattractive" and criminalized. We were forced to rely on each other for safety and community in a country that viewed us primarily as a source of labor. When black people created close-knit communities and expressed our independence through fashion, hair, makeup, accessories, and music- it became trendy because we generated significant profits in pop culture.

Blackness became a staple in pop culture, a marketable identity packaged by trends, brands, products, and mass consumerism. But it was only when being black became convenient that others wanted to embrace it and capitalism played a significant role. While the true essence of the black community was disregarded, reduced to something to be ridiculed and imitated for personal gain, america made more money off the backs of the black community.

They want everything associated with being black except the harsh reality of living as a black person in America. This obvliousy, affects way more than just the black-american population, a ton of cultured communites in america have been oppressed this way, and even though their culture is "marketable", them as a people, are still not "in".

This observation is not a new or trendy opinion, but rather my personal insight into what blackwashing truly means, and capitilism.

She pretended she was black bcuz there is so much colorism in india and she is much darker than her own family (as seen in pictures) so she just decided to "be black" online bcuz she most likely was bullied for her complexion. She also said she was black bcuz she said the nword MULTIPLE times and sterotyped black people saying on a video "how am I acting white? Sorry I dont have 8 inch nails and I'm ghetto" (she said that even though she LITERALLY made a video saying how shes whitewashed). So basically it was an excuse to be racist to black ppl since shes been bullied for her complexion and seen as a black person. 😬 Lastly, she just wanted clout... 💀

People saying “hair is hair” or “it’s just hair” are actually so weird and uneducated. It’s not just hair. Please look into it, I don’t have the patience to educate people anymore.

If no one’s gonna say it, I will, people who aren’t from African descent want to look like us, but don’t want to experience the racism and things we go through. It’s pathetic.(edit: guys i commented this a yr ago so all the stuff you’re replying under it is irrelevant to me at this point so it’s pointless to waste your time and energy commenting💕)

Indian culture is so beautiful. That’s the saddest part. Instead of being proud of her own beautiful culture she steals another. Man💔

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As a southern white woman i can say that the 'culture' or what mimics that sense of having common ground and being part of something bigger........is usually racism.

Im half black half white so idk if i have any say in this but i will say that it boils my blood when people do this because what they are doing is getting all of the "perks" of being black without having any knowlage of the culture and the struggles. (sorry i am bad at spelling)

So I’m Indian and now I feel so like disgusted by this but there is this  one Indian kid in my class and he has darker skin but I knew he was Indian because it was still recognizable and he said that he is not Indian because he doesn’t feel like it and claimed he was black and even said the n word

Hey I'm indian and I loved your video but I wanted to make sure you know that Indians have been through slavery, that's how they ended up in Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, and the UK. Colonialism did a lot of damage to India and Indians have experienced discrimination like segregation with signs like Dogs and Indians cant enter. But I am glad your experience has not been too bad!

As an Indian I feel like you oversimplified the struggles many Indians have went through 😭. I am North Indian which gives me a more lighter complexion and bc of that people assume I’m middle eastern or Hispanic. But when they find out I’m Indian, they start saying things like “oh but you don’t act Indian” “you don’t smell Indian”, not to mention the classic Punjab audio they start referencing. They made all these racist remarks towards me and sometimes people even change their behavior towards me upon finding out I’m Indian. I used to let people believe I was Hispanic so they wouldn’t hate me as much. I have finally decided to accept my beautiful culture and in that way I can sympathize with her as to why she is pretending to be something she isn’t. Not saying it’s right ofc but still