Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles furiously struck out at online critics accusing her daughter of lightening her skin in an Instagram video posted Tuesday.
Knowles, 69, was responding after some commenters on social media who complained that the 42-year-old superstar appeared to have lighter skin and also wore a platinum blond wig in a photo snapped from her appearance at the Renaissance concert film premiere.
Some had suggested that the hitmaker ‘was white now,’ while others complained that ‘she’s not a Black woman!’
‘I am sick and tired of people attacking her,’ Knowles wrote in a lengthy caption to the video in which she denied commenters’ concerns.
She also compared her daughters’ outfit to styles worn by Black entertainers going back at least as far as Etta James.
Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles, 69, furiously struck out at online critics accusing her daughter of lightening her skin in an Instagram video posted Tuesday
Knowles was responding after some commenters on social media who complained that the 42-year-old superstar appeared to have lighter skin and also wore a platinum blond wig in a photo snapped from her appearance at the Renaissance concert film premiere
‘Came across this today and decided to post it after seeing all of the stupid ignorant self, hating racist statements about her, lightening her skin, and wearing platinum hair wanting to be white,’ Knowles began her lengthy caption.
She explained that Beyoncé’s look was solely for her Renaissance documentary, ‘where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?’
‘How sad is it that some of her own people continue the stupid narrative with hate and jealousy,’ she seethed. ‘Duh, she wore silver hair to match her silver dress as a fashion statement clown. ALIEN Superstar duh!’
Knowles was also upset that Beyoncé’s hairstylist Neal Farinah to learn more about the Break My Soul singer’s alleged desire ‘to be white.’
‘Well that made my blood boil,’ she continued.
Although she was lashing out at someone she took to be a white person, she also castigated Black commenters on social media who had accused her daughter of trying to lighten her skin, calling them ‘bozos.’
‘Lying and faking and acting like you’re so ignorant that you don’t understand That black women have worn platinum hair since the Etta James days,’ she wrote. ‘I just went and looked at all the beautiful talented black celebrities who have worn platinum hair and it has been just about everyone of them at one time or another. Are they all trying to be white?’
Knowles added that she was ‘sick and tired of people attacking her.’
‘Every time she does something that she works her a** off for and is a statement of her work ethic, talent and resilience. Here you sad little haters come out the woodwork,’ she wrote.
She accused her daughters critics of perpetuating ‘Jealousy and racism, sexism, double standards,’ instead of ‘celebrating a sister or just ignoring if you don’t like her.’
‘I am sick of you losers,’ she concluded while noting that the usually tight-lipped Beyoncé might not appreciate her mother speaking out on her behalf.
‘I know that she is going to be pissed at me for doing this, but I am fed up!’ she added. ‘This girl minds her own business. She helps people whenever she can. She lifts up & promotes black women and underdogs at all times.’
She explained that Beyoncé’s look was solely for her Renaissance documentary, ‘where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?’
