Rita Ora accused of blackfishing

[Jordan Miller]

Rita Ora is under fire for "blackfishing" after the Internet begins discovering both of her parents are white Albanians. 

Le sigh.

A new Tweet about it received a lot of attention. Naturally, it opened the door for Rita to receive a lot of hate. 

In 2016, talk show host Wendy Williams told Ora, "I thought you were half-Black and half-white, or something like that."

Ora replied: "Everybody usually does. I might as well be. But no, I'm Albanian."

Does Rita wearing these kinds of hairstyles, dressing a certain way... is she trying to portray herself as a black woman? 

I'm a little hesitant to comment, but I feel like this backlash is a bit unwarranted. Thoughts? 

 

[CHAOTIC STYLE.]

Last time I checked she was a human being living her life and wearing all kinds of hair. What’s the problem? 

[Gayseus911]

Beyonce and Nicki Minaj should be cancelled for white fishing then, fake blonde hair and fake blue contacts,

 

[redacted statement]

I don't care. 

[ColdAsFire88]

We need to blame the real culprit: Jay-Z. Jay-Z discovered and signed this girl so he could make her the next Rihanna 

I didn’t know her roots but I thought she was half black tbh  but she isn’t...yeah this is bad. 

[Towelney]

I thought she was black 

[RadicalOptimism]

Just now, ColdAsFire88 said:

We need to blame the real culprit: Jay-Z. Jay-Z discovered and signed this girl so he could make her the next Rihanna 

I didn’t know her roots but I thought she was half black tbh  but she isn’t...yeah this is bad. 

Rita’s been cancelled since her music makes no waves unfortunately, but let’s cancel Jay-Z while we’re at it

[CHAOTIC STYLE.]

2 minutes ago, Gayseus911 said:

Beyonce and Nicki Minaj should be cancelled for white fishing then, fake blonde hair and fake blue contacts,

 

Beyonce has a pass on everything, duh, ‘cause she’s Beyonce! 

[OnlyBeyonce]

twitter idiots are serious?

[Jordan Miller]

3 minutes ago, CrazyButItFeelsAllright said:

Rita’s been cancelled since her music makes no waves unfortunately, but let’s cancel Jay-Z while we’re at it

Why Jay-Z 

[Towelney]

11 minutes ago, Style. said:

Last time I checked she was a human being living her life and wearing all kinds of hair. What’s the problem? 

Someone explained this better than I could, so I’m just going to quote them : 

”Also I would just like people to consider the fact that in the US hair styles that are traditionally associated with black people are often banned from schools and workplaces, considered unprofessional and dirty. That’s why it’s a problem. A white woman wears it for fashion while it is literally a part of black history and culture and if a black person showed up to school/work with their natural hair or a traditional style they would be asked to leave.

Until the playing field is levelled it will still be considered controversial.“

[Alestaos]

[SloppyToppyGoddess]

12 minutes ago, Gayseus911 said:

Beyonce and Nicki Minaj should be cancelled for white fishing then, fake blonde hair and fake blue contacts,

 

Beyonce has never though #BlackIsKing

[CHAOTIC STYLE.]

2 minutes ago, Towelney said:

Someone explained this better than I could, so I’m just going to quote them : 

”Also I would just like people to consider the fact that in the US hair styles that are traditionally associated with black people are often banned from schools and workplaces, considered unprofessional and dirty. That’s why it’s a problem. A white woman wears it for fashion while it is literally a part of black history and culture and if a black person showed up to school/work with their natural hair or a traditional style they would be asked to leave.

Until the playing field is levelled it will still be considered controversial.“

I get it and I respect that, however here we’re not at school and also, these artists aren’t children. Should we define the word art? I don’t know, I hope I don’t sound rude to anyone that’s why I’m going to stop here. 

[Haha-Hehe-Haha-Ho]

6 minutes ago, Neneleaks said:

Beyonce has never though #BlackIsKing

Rita knows what she's doing just like Beyonce knew what she was doing in these pepsi ads. Selling your image to different demographics is just part of doing business 

[VCTR]

I don’t know her.

[BabyBabyBay]

She's gross anyway, my mate worked for her and the stories I heard confirmed that she's definitely a trash human

Just bury her weak *** career already 

[OnlyBeyonce]

I hate double standars 

[TSmidnighTS]

I thought blackfish was that Shamu documentary.... or am I misunderstanding? 

[Britneylandia]

Who careeees?? Let people dress and have their hair done the way they want! It’s so stupid to say if you are not black you can’t do your hair like that, you can’t wear that thing... blah blah blah.

The same with other entities/cultures tbh.

Racism is horrible and it mustn’t be tolerated BUT the clothes and hair thing saying it’s cultural appropriation it’s just stupid. Calm your **** people lol.