South African sportscaster, Minnie Dlamini finds herself in hot water after commenting about her new hairstyle.
The star shows off Bantu Knots new hair-do and gushed over it.
However, claiming that the hairstyle is ghetto got people across Africa continent dragging her.
Flaunting her new hairstyle, she said: “Just because it’s ghetto, doesn’t mean it’s not fabulous. Loving my #BantuKnots.”
A Nigerian media personality named Toni Tone said: “We feed into racism and hair discrimination when we say things like this. Absolutely nothing is ghetto about natural black hair styles – whether that’s Bantu knots, locs, braids, etc. We need to destroy this notion.”
We feed into racism and hair discrimination when we say things like this. Absolutely nothing is ghetto about natural black hair styles – whether that’s Bantu knots, locs, braids, etc. We need to destroy this notion. https://t.co/gnkUvT3vq8
— TONI TONE (@t0nit0ne) August 18, 2020
Reactions be like:
Ghetto ???…use waboqoka futh🤔 uthen ??? pic.twitter.com/cTgJ73pyVT
— Pikolomzi • Xhosa (@PEEKAY_Mab) August 18, 2020
Ghetto? Bantu knots ? What a wow.
— Silindile Ngcobo (@SlieNgcobo) August 18, 2020
What’s ghetto about Bantu knots? Tell us more pic.twitter.com/ZZQuAEQFld
— YouTube: Milisa Amor (@milisa_amor) August 18, 2020
Check the nose ring history, it’s been an African thing since since so even if she’s referring to the nose ring she’s still referring to black culture beyps
— B🐝🐳Y (@khanyithandobab) August 18, 2020
