This weekend, one nook of the web felt like a battle of Muni Lengthy vs. Black girls.
Just lately, the “Hrs & Hrs” singer was on TikTok Stay, the place she was heard saying: “It’s solely ever Black girls that say they don’t like my persona trigger I’m being myself. I’m performing similar to your raggedy mama and your aunties with them ashy cankles. That is how they act, however one thing is fallacious with my persona…Have a look in a mirror hoe, you don’t such as you.”
Primarily based on the clip, it seems the singer-songwriter was responding to a selected person trolling her within the feedback of her stay. Nonetheless, social media customers had been significantly offended by Lengthy’s resolution to lump all Black girls into one class as an alternative of calling out the precise social media trolls/haters. Because the clip started to make its rounds on social media, so did the commentary. One creator, “By no means Cease with Shari,” caught Lengthy’s consideration:
“You higher watch what you say out right here, speaking about it’s solely Black girls that don’t like your persona. It may be as a result of it’s solely Black girls [who] know you. It’s solely Black girls that ever gave you a rattling likelihood. However that may be stopped. We are able to take that card again in case you’d prefer to see who actually helps you out right here,” the creator mentioned in her video. “Didn’t no person like ‘Hrs&Hrs’ and all these songs [until] we favored it. , I’m saying nobody favored your music until we favored it. And now, trigger you suppose you bought different individuals from various communities liking your music, you don’t actually wish to acknowledge who made your s**t scorching. You bumped your head, little woman. As a substitute of you speaking about Black girls, it is advisable be speaking in regards to the people who troll you as a result of Black girls additionally supported you.”
In a since-deleted TikTok video, Lengthy responded on to Shari commentary.
“I do know I look younger as a result of I drink water and thoughts my enterprise, however I’m 36 years previous. I’ll be 37 in September. I’ve been grown and taking good care of myself for a very long time. No person will discuss to me like that,” she mentioned, occurring to name out the creator’s remark about Lengthy not “coping with the trolls as a Black lady.”
“Is that our project to be robust Black girls and simply deal? I’m not doing that,” Lengthy added. “I’m not coping with nothing I don’t wish to cope with…and also you don’t should both. Cease letting these individuals deal with you want something.”
“Break the generational curse. Black girls it’s okay so that you can communicate your thoughts, so that you can take up area, so that you can assert your self, so that you can be type as an alternative of good, for you to not maintain taking the shirt off your again and giving it to the subsequent man…you ain’t mammy.”
Whereas Lengthy made a degree about Black girls’s proper to talk up, her argument shortly took a flip within the eyes of some audiences when she identified that her “largest demographic is Brazil and the Philippines…and it’s been that for the reason that starting, so…”
Lengthy’s video sparked additional discourse on social media as customers shared combined reactions to the star’s feedback.
“Yeah I discover nothing fallacious with this in any respect. She mentioned what she mentioned. If you take a look at the feedback, that’s actually all you see,” one person tweeted.
One other wrote: “Muni Lengthy making these feedback about black girls is mad disappointing as a fan of her. Idk it rubbed me the fallacious approach trigger what you imply by that?”
“Muni Lengthy saying that black girls are those that hate her is loopy……The one group who cares about you is BLACK WOMEN. No person else does,” one other person shared. “Think about disrespecting the individuals protecting you afloat and considerably related.”
Now this isn’t the primary time Lengthy has referred to as out the criticism that she receives from the Black neighborhood. In June 2022, the star tweeted:
Equally, whereas on TikTok Stay final night time, the star addressed the feedback whereas internet hosting “a funeral for her profession.”
“I used to be talking about someone particularly who got here on the chat and was being impolite to me,” she mentioned noting how social media trolls have a tendency to come back into her livestreams. “And or not it’s nothing however Black girls that do it, and I’m not taking that again. I positively didn’t say all Black girls although.”
