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Radio personality Ebro is under fire after an old video of him making a bigoted statement about singer Tinashe’s last name resurfaced on the internet. His remarks were racialized in two different ways. First, he said that she was too light to have such a ghetto name, and then he implied that her multisyllabic African name was ghetto.
The clip was from a 2013 interview that Ibrahim “Ebro” Darden and Peter Rosenberg from the Hot 97 radio program “Morning Show” conducted with the singer.
During her introduction, Ebro asks for her to say her last name, which is Kachingwe. When she answers his request, he blurts out, “Can we point out how light-skinned she is with the ghetto a-s name, though?”
Rosenberg, a Jewish man, in disbelief says, “It’s not a ghetto a-s name. She has an African name.”
Ebro then says, “Yeah, but sometimes these ghetto names are actually African.”
Rosenberg then says that he believes what’s most interesting is how light-skinned she is and that her name is “completely African.” After which, Tinashe reveals that she is bi-racial and that her father is from Zimbabwe and her mother is a Scandinavian white woman that grew up in Iowa.
The resurfacing of this interview had Ebro trending during the holiday and proved that nothing ever dies on the internet. Ebro, who in 2019 was appointed Apple Music’s Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B, took to his social media to address what he called a tasteless joke. He wrote, “Yea this was a terrible joke, we were using the name skit for people to learn her origins… love Tinashe thats my homey still.”
That did not seem to be enough for others offended by the joke.
Many went to Twitter to point out how disrespectful the joke was, but to assert that the influencer has had a long history of being “colorist.”
“So #Ebro associates…
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Source : yahoo
