YouTube personality and singer Queen Naija has been under scrutiny as of late for the resurfacing of a few colorist comments she made. In a 2017 video, she describes her childhood bullies as "nappy-headed little girls." It's safe to say, Twitter was not feeling it in the slightest.

First off, I’m absolutely disgusted with Queen Naija’s colorist statements in her YouTube video. The fact that she used “black” “nappy headed” and “ugly” as synonyms is repulsive, but I’m not really surprised.

— ???????????????????? (@_thinklikejadie) May 1, 2018

When discussing colorism it’s always one sided. Everyone talks about the light skin woman who was bullied for being “pretty” but nobody talks about the dark skin woman who was bullied (and in a lot of cases still is) by light skin men, light skin women AND dark skin men. https://t.co/9ABtUJauAR

— — ???? (@PinkProof) May 1, 2018

Naija has been trying her best to explain herself and apologize. Her latest attempt came when she sat down for an interview with CivilTv, where she attempted to explain further what happened.

"I did a video with my ex-husband, and we [were] talking about bullying…and on that video I said, I always got bullied by like…black girls, and I mentioned “nappy-headed,” they used to pull my hair; things like that. And those were the only kind of girls I would get bullied by," she said in an attempt to justify why she would use the term.

She explains she's a black woman, too, despite being mixed, so she should have a right to the term "nappy-headed." The only reason, she infers, that people are mad is because she's light-skinned.

"Maybe it’s something I shouldn’t have said. But, I feel like I’m a black woman, too. I see black women speak on other black women all the time. They can call each other nappy-headed, this and that — but you won’t call them colorist because they’re [dark-skinned]."

While she scrambled to prove her goal is not to be a colorist (she said her goal is to "win some souls over for God"), Twitter pulled further receipts they want her to answer:

Yikes @queennaija is back at it with the colorist jokes… why she told this brownskin girl to take a bleach bath … woowww just because she caught Queen scratching her ???? pic.twitter.com/Dd6FSRgpNU

— MessyMonday (@MESSYMONDAY) August 10, 2018

Didn’t she JUST make a video saying she wasn’t colorist .. pic.twitter.com/7QOjCK4ISb

— liyah (@_Khaliyah_) August 10, 2018

Whether she intended to offend people, her actions shine a light on a more significant issue in the black community. Colorism is alive and well, and to abolish it, we must first address it.

Nappy Headed

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