Jatavia Johnson, known to most as JT of rap group City Girls, has come under fire for a past tweet promoting colorism.
In her tweet, JT set out to praise dark-skinned Black women — but not those who are “tooo” dark.
The 2018 tweet reads:
“I love pretty dark skin girls (emoji) not tooo [sic] crispy na! But the milky ways be the sh*t”
As the old tweet began to circulate, fans began calling her out.
How JT dark skin and calling other dark skin women crispy ? the colorism is real smh
— Maybe: Cass (@CassidiTAMIKO) December 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/dahddiej/status/1335457961012056065
https://twitter.com/MomentsWithMani/status/1335426165985644544
JT is acting weird as hell making a joke out of her colorism and overall problematic past it’s just not sitting right. self hatred isn’t the joke she thinks it is
— stan normani ? (@sweetenermani) December 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/sadun1corn/status/1335430009599758338
JT hopped on Twitter to address the backlash…sort of.
Oop my bad.
— JT (@ThegirlJT) December 6, 2020
Internalized colorism is real.
