WATCH: Azealia Banks Defends Skin Bleaching, Rambles Nonsense & Compares It To Nose Job
In a bizarre and confusing video, Azealia Banks has responded to criticism over admitting to bleaching her skin. Banks attempts to broach, but never quite grasps topics of cultural appropriation and ‘whiteness’.
All in all, the video is a train wreck of random thoughts that has left a lot of people calling out the hypocrisy of the situation.
The artist is known for her outspoken opinions on black rights, black culture and racial appropriation, and begins a nearly half hour long video with the sentence:
“I just don’t think it’s important to discuss the cultural significance of skin bleaching anymore because just as African American people in this world, or black people, you assimilate.”
The whole video is perplexing, and has confused fans into wondering what Banks is doing or what she stands for.
The singer/rapper constantly plays down her actions as no big deal, rationalising what she is doing as just your regular run-of-the-mill beauty treatment.
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She compares lightening skin to black women wearing a weave or getting a nose job, and avoids contextualizing the cultural implications of skin bleaching on global ideals of beauty.
Whatever it is that she’s trying to get at, knowing Banks, we haven’t heard the last of her ramblings yet.