Azealia Banks Defends Decision to Bleach Her Skin

*Self-hating rapper Azealia Banks has defended her skin bleaching regime. After spending the past year or so proudly owning her blackness, while at the same time crying about how the industry and black males specifically have dismissed and minimized her beauty and talent because of her previous dark complexion, she now believes there’s no difference between changing the color of her skin and having plastic surgery and wearing hair extensions.

In a video for Facebook live (see below), she said: “What’s the difference between getting a nose job and changing your skin colour?”

“Nobody was upset when I was wearing 30-inch weaves and tearing out my edges and doing all that type of s*** like that. You guys loved it.”

Shortly after the video was posted online, several fans called Azealia a hypocrite after the comments she’d made about “cultural appropriation” in the past. She has blasted Iggy Azalea for jacking elements from black culture in order to propel her career, and after Beyoncé dropped her visual album “Lemonade,” Banks accused Bey of trying to be the world’s most convincing white woman.

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Azealia went on to say how she didn’t think it was “important” to discuss why bleaching your skin is a “necessity” for African-Americans.

“I don’t really think it’s important to discuss the cultural importance of skin bleaching anymore because just as African-American people in this world, you assimilate. There are things that you accept not out of necessity, but things that become the norm because it’s just happening all of the time.”

The Brooklyn native had her Twitter account suspended after she launched a racist and homophobic rant on singer Zayn Malik, and after the backlash she posted, “I feel deeply misunderstood. I feel cheated, I feel stolen from. I feel though as I’ve made and am making such huge contributions to the times, as far as music and the national conversation go, only to be shoved into a corner and punished while I watch my ideas and insight get paraphrased and repackaged by everyone.”

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