'Love & Hip Hop' Star Amara La Negra Claps Back At Trolls Saying She's In Blackface
Enough is enough -- Amara La Negra of Love & Hip Hop: Miami is Black and latina -- a concept internet trolls can not seem to wrap their heads around.
The Miami-born Dominican singer has been surrounded with drama lately all for embracing who she is -- a proud Afro-Latina.
People are literally coming for her blackness, claiming they're reluctant to believe the singer is a black woman. Some are even going as far as to accuse the singer of taking melanin injections. Are you serious? Ignorance is real, even in 2018, y'all.
On Monday, Jan. 1, Amara sat down with The Shade Room and addressed the racist rumors. When asked by host Angelica Nwandu about her thoughts on what people were saying, Amara vowed to “educate and inform people about Afro-Latinos” while on the reality show. But this isn't the first time Amara has had to defend her blackness.
ICYMI: During the Love & Hip Hop: Miami premiere, while talking with Amara about making music together, music producer Young Hollywood criticized the singer for not looking like other Latina entertainers. He told Amara she needed to "look a little bit more Beyoncé and a little less Macy Gray," before calling her "Nutella Queen."
Don't worry fam, Amara stood her ground in the midst of Young Hollywood's ignorance and did not back down. She went on to remind him that “not all Latinas look like J.Lo or Sofía Vergara or Shakira, so where are the women that look like myself?”
See the upsetting clip for yourself:
Unfortunately, it didn't stop there for Amara. She's still defending her melanin. In her determination to silence the haters, Amara posted a #TBT video clip to Instagram of herself in a pageant when she was younger. Although, to be real, SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. Period.
Amara poked fun at the hurtful rumors saying yes, she was born in a “Black Face Body!” The Dominican singer wrote on Instagram, “It's funny that I even have to go through this and show you baby pictures or videos to prove to blogs and people on social media that my skin color is not airbrushed or spray tanned nor do I take melanin shots to be black!”
It's 2018...and we still have to remind people that black skin comes in various ranges of shades and colors. No artist should spend more time explaining their hair or the color of their skin when the focus should be their art.
Hats off to Amara La Negra for not ONLY standing up for darker complexions with more confidence and sass than wonder woman herself, but for also sticking it to her haters. The singer signed a multi-album deal recently with Fast Life Entertainment Worldwide and BMG. Now that's #BlackGirlMagic! Do you Amara!
