*Amber Rose clapped back at MSNBC host Joy Reid’s criticism of her speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.
Reid criticized Amber’s support of former President Trump, dismissing her as “racially ambiguous.”
“I don’t want to say she’s Black because she has said she’s not, so I don’t want to say this Black woman,” said Reid.
“This woman who is of whatever race that she has claimed, she’s said she’s not Black, but (the RNC) brought somebody whose whole career is based in Black culture,” she continued, USA Today reports.
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“She dated one of the most prominent African-American rappers in the business in the history of hip hop,” Reid continued. “So her whole culture came from Black culture even though she says she’s not a Black person herself. And the fact that she is now the person they’re using to try to recruit young people of color.”
Reid added, “And to say that this is the person who is the endorser of Donald Trump, who you should trust when she won’t even claim the culture that brought her to the table. I’m dubious that this will work. I don’t know anyone who takes their political cues from Amber Rose. But just in case you do, you might want to duplicate doing your own research because she might not have done it thoroughly.”
Rose responded to Joy in a now-deleted X/Twitter post.
“Hi @JoyAnnReid I’ve never said I wasn’t black I said I identify as biracial. I’m not going to invalid my white father to make you feel more comfortable. Stop being a race baiter ur president does enough race baiting for all of us,” Rose wrote Tuesday.
Amber appeared to delete the tweet after an X user posted a 2015 interview with Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning. During the discussion about her race, she stated, “I do not consider myself a Black woman. Absolutely not.”
“What do you consider yourself?” asked co-host Peter Rosenberg, Complex reports.
“Biracial,” Amber Rose answered. “My dad is half Irish, half Italian. I do the Italian festivals. I grew up eating very Italian food. I celebrate St. Patty’s Day…and then also my Cape Verdean side, which I don’t know that much about. I try to get up on that culture also, but I embrace everything that I am. I don’t feel like I’m more one thing than the other.”
“It’s just personally how I feel, It’s not for anybody else,” she added.
“I feel like when I’m around white people, I don’t feel as white,” the mother of two continued. “You know, I got a big ass, and lips, like my body is different…I was different than the white girls I hung out with.”
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“Who’s going to tell her? @joyannreid literally said what you said, that you are racially ambiguous and that she did not want to mislabel you as a Black woman because you previously stated you are not. All that energy for nothing,” comedian D. L. Hughley wrote in response to the race debate.
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