Ariana Grande finally being called on her blackface/appropriation bullshyt

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Grande in Italian and in Spanish is pronounced the same way. She has southern Italian /Sicilian ancestry, where people tend to be olive- skinned. Where is the issue here?

"We need some attention"
- Latinx Blavity Septum Voltron

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

many hispanics are blacker than african americans.

'Black' =/ shade of skin so that is impossible. Their skin shade may be as dark or darker than many of us, but they'll NEVER be 'Black'.​

 

[RammerJammer]

i don’t wanna hate. i enjoy pop music. ariana has potential. i heard a cool song from her and all of a sudden i hear “we turnin up, we turnin up” like how u let woah vicky sound more authentic than u

ruined the whole shyt for me

Yeah idk where that shyt is coming from, I don’t know if she came up with it or her team but

 

[Citi Trends]

nas in this generation who can take intellectually complex issues like this and play the dozens with it on some “this is real hardcore kid rock and lip bizkit soft”

Didn’t Nas threaten to fight nikkas over gwenneth Paltrow saying the n word?

OP has good intentions I’m sure, but that’s pretty much how assume most people upset about this are.

Probably just got done retweeting some gay white man with a ghetto accent

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

No I don't. Pretty sure I've mentioned that before on this site. And I'm not emotional. Not sure why so many of you respond to women by calling them emotional. I'm not emotional but I'm definitely enjoying whats going on in this thread.

I call men emotional and assume most "women" on here are men.

 

[The Fade]

Latin music about to win for a bit

She knows she gonna need a bad bunny or j balvin feature in the future

 

[Luken]

This feels like a Battymon topic.....

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

Yeah idk where that shyt is coming from, I don’t know if she came up with it or her team but

Didn’t know she was doing allat. Tryna sound like she’s straight from Memphis

Still don’t care Id bite our style if I was white or brown too, as long as she gives black artists shine and doesn’t diss do her

 

[Rozay Oro]

fukk her regardless. She's annoying as shyt

 

[Slystallion]

People get outraged over the dumbest things lmao

Leave that poor girl alone she's been through a lot...suicide/terrorist attack

Be ez Twitter mob... It's like people wake up like pinky and the brain plotting thier next diabolical outrage of the week

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

i hate twitter activists...they get gassed up by bots and spend thousands of hours on shyt the vast majority of black people dont even care about.

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

Nah.
1. Italian woman uses darker makeup to give her the appearance of having darker skin.
2. She changed the pronunciation of her name to sound Hispanic.
3. She literally is walking around in 40s level (White actor playing Black character) Blackface.
4. Twitter brings it up again.

Yea you dont know what blackface is either.

 

[BlackJesus]

u do know grande is a spanish word, right?

and almost half of brazil is black. do u know how that compares to the amount of black ppl in america?


like i said before, look up blanqueamiento so u can understand the history of slavery and blackness in caribbean countries and also how connotation is used in psychology.


because of the moors and basic geography, ppl in spain and portugal are darker than most other europeans.

that’s why they never had a one drop rule like how they had in america. because if they did, nobody in this hemisphere would be white the way they are here.

Did I not say this? You smart-dumb nikkas are an epidemic.

No it's not. Maybe in Brazil but they they speak Portuguese.

Brazil is NOT a spanish speaking country. You said MORE blacks live in spanish speaking countries I said you were DEAD wrong. And you're still wrong. African Americans are the largest visible African diaspora group outside of Brazil.

Now you're going off on a pointless tangent about 'blanquemento' and some other fakkitry.

Then you tried to make it seem like people DONT ASSUME the mestizo phenotype when referring to hispanics. You think people are talking about dark skinned Afro-Dominicans when talking about Hispanics?

 

[OfTheCross]

Spoiler: Sources

<p>Watch "Breathin" and decide for yourself. </p>

 

[Yinny]

The male ones do adopt outdated black slang, hairstyles, music, vehicle mod styles, etc.
Their "blowouts" were cac versions of Curly box fades.
They bite us, and so do "latins" because they have a similar cultural root.
Italians speak a language based on Latin.
"Hispanics" speak a language based on Latin.
Both immigrant cultures, both hella catholic, both hella "macho", both hella racist to get their feet in the door, both with a history of Moorish dikk being run through their women (on the Spanish end that most Latino people embrace....judging by the % of Latin countries that claim to have a majority white population)...
PR, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, and many other "Latin" countries mysteriously have a majority "white" population on their census papers.
Concepts like blanquieamiento and mejorar la raza are FIRMLY EMBEDDED within "latin" culture as a whole...so why they mad?
Bad Bunny doesn't look like El General at all, but you won't hear shyt about how they bleached the alleged Genre known as Reggaeton.
HYON, bytches.

I’m not disagreeing with you but outside of guidos, who I still don’t conflate with Black, I’m not familiar. This thread is discussing a specific celebrity, and if there is a male Italian who is doing something similar then feel free to add on. I specifically mentioned the celeb cast of Jersey Shore as Italians who tan but bear consistent looks. Ariana in the op looks “Italian” on the Elle and other cover and what I would associate with Hispanic elsewhere. She also very weirdly lets people run and announce her last name as “Grand-eh” although she has spoken in an interview that it’s Grandy.

She’s no Kanye, but I think that’s also telling that she although she did that interview, she’s still announced as Grand-eh. I would expect a reasonable person to have their publicists reach out to the outlets by now.