Azealia Banks Posts Actual Apology For Last Week’s Twitter Meltdown

Robbie Daw | May 16, 2016 10:09 am

After going absolutely fucking nuclear last week on Twitter and hurling hateful, sometimes racial- and homophobic-tinged insults at no less than Hillary Clinton, Zayn Malik, Skai Jackson, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and MNEK — thus leading to the suspension of her account on the social media platform —  Azealia Banks posted a more calm set of words on Instagram about why she chose to engage Zayn, and about “white society” grinding down “the self esteem of black artists to the point where we are expected to be silent about such obvious transgressions.”

She does make a valid point in there somewhere, but later she posted another set of words on Instagram containing something she’d been dodging for days: An actual statement of apology for going about this whole thing in an awful manner.

Catch both of Banks’ Instagram posts below.

This is 100% true. Black folk are the first to discard their own especially when white media/society hangs one of us out for public crucifixion. From the minute I appeared on the scene I was told by black men in black media that I was ugly, skinny, had bad hair, was weird, made music for white people etc… And those messages penetrated the social consciousness of black America very quickly. I’ve been belittled, berated, stolen from, called crazy when making clear and true observations about the world we live in only to then have all of those things reveal themselves to be truths. I’m not blaming anyone or anything for any of my actions but I think it’s really important to for people outside of us (black folk) to understand the detrimental effects of whiteness and white supremacy/white cultural pervasiveness on black peoples MENTAL HEALTH as a whole and the MENTAL HEALTH of black individual herself. Zayn feeling as though he’s too good to acknowledge me, yet not too good to STEAL and copy my art is fucking HURTFUL. And it happens everywhere. People steal and copy my art ALL THE TIME and try to pretend as if they are somehow above me when they are the ones without their own creative ideas to begin with. Music industry politics which completely mimic racial social constructs allow people like Zayn to hide behind his popularity amongst white folk when he himself is aiding in the work of white supremacy. Cultural Erasure. Another instance of a “white” artist taking credit for the black artists hard work and passion. And truthfully, it’s pushing me over the fucking edge. White society grinds down the self esteem of black artists to the point where we are expected to be silent about such obvious transgressions.

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